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Show Details
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Van Morrison
05/02/09 (Sat)
Greek Theatre - Berkeley,
CA
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Set 1: Intro(VM on piano)/Northern Muse(Solid Ground), Troubadours, Stoned Me, Baby Please Don't Go, Magic Time, Have I Told You Lately, Wild Night, It's All In The Game/You Know What They're Writing About, Queen of the Slipstream, Moondance, And the Healing Has Begun, Common One
Set 2: Astral Weeks, Beside You, Slim Slow Slider, Sweet Thing, The Way Young Lovers Do, Cyprus Avenue, Ballerina, Madame George, Listen To The Lion, Mystic Eyes/Gloria
Comment: Astral Weeks Live
a very good show, with some outstanding highlights. Some notes about the band: Liam Bradley still missing in action as in London, but tonight Lady Bianca was as well. Sarah Jory, Pauline Lozano and Karen Hamill took over backup vocal duties, but Bianca was missed. Jay Berliner played in both sets. And the rain did not fall!, For me, the show did not wake up until about song 8 in the first set, when Van stretched out on Game, to "the river of no return", then the big, rolling groove of "make it real one more time", and finally a good bit of speaking in tongues Then, an excellent "Queen of the Slipstream", with Sarah Jory soloing on pedal steel guitar and David Hayes bopping about on bass. A missable Moondance, then great versions of Healing and the truncated Common One/Ancient Highway with a squealin' feelin' segment and a big "Soul in Wonder" finish., The Astral Weeks set was marred by a few snippy comments to band members like "you can come in anytime" and "do we have strings on this?". Slim Slow Slider had a few changed lyricis ("seems like you're dyin' and you seem to know it too") and a long piece about the doctor who put him on railway carriage charms "cuz it picks you up". Sweet thing had a faster-than-usual tempo and a chunky, chokey rhythm, and a nice long solo by Jay Berliner at the end. Ballerina was the highlight of this segment for me. Van moved around the stage with his guitar, strumming and encouraging the musicians as they soloed. In Madame George, we heard that the protagonist is at the train station where he has unknowingly been given something containing opium, hence "this is the train, is this a train?". The final songs, usually done as encores, were done immediately without a break., I think the consensus was that Van has done this show better, but it was still a strong show tonight. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
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AS
This show has an average rating of 4.92 out of 12 votes.
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