#Astral Weeks

[soundgrammar]

Bassist Richard Davis (April 15, 1930 – September 6, 2023)

#Richard Davis #Eric Dolphy #Andrew Hill #Van Morrison #Astral Weeks #Out to Lunch! #Point of Departure #musician #RIP

[pazzesco]

Baby Please Don’t Go | Them

Here Comes The Night | Them

Gloria | Them

Brown Eyed Girl

Astral Weeks AW

Sweet Thing AW

Cyprus Avenue AW

The Way Young Lovers Do AW

Madame George (Alt. Version) AW

Madame George (On Horseback) AW

Slim Slow Slider AW

And It Stoned Me

Moondance

Crazy Love

Caravan

Into The Mystic

These Dreams Of You

Everyone

Domino

Crazy Face

I'll Be Your Lover, Too

Virgo Clowns

Gypsy Queen

Wild Night

(Straight To Your Heart) Like A Cannon Ball

Tupelo Honey

You’re My Woman

I Wanna Roo You

Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile)

Saint Dominic’s Preview

Warm Love

Streets of Arklow

You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push the River

Bulbs

Comfort You

The Eternal Kansas City

Wavelenth

Bright Side Of The Road

And The Healing Has Begun

Dweller On The Threshold

Cleaning Windows

Queen Of The Slipstream

Give Me My Rapture

Did Ye Get Healed

Got To Go Back

In The Garden

Higher Than The World

Whenever God Shines His Light

Have I Told You Lately

Real Real Gone

Days Like This

Mystic Of The East

Pagan Heart

Lonely & Blue

Celtic New Year

Steal My Heart Away

Burning Ground

Saint James Infirmary

You Gotta Make It Through The World

Don’t Look Back (with John Lee Hooker)

Gloria _Live

So Quite In Here _Live

Help Me _Live

Warm Love _Live

Hey, Where Are You? _Live

Caravan _Live

These Dreams Of You _Live

Psychoactivelectricity's Jukeboxes

#jukeboxes #jukebox #van morrison jukebox #van morrison #moondance #them #astral weeks #enlightenment #st. dominic's preview #tupelo honey #john lee hooker #veedon fleece #wavelength #Into the Music #A Sense of Wonder #Poetic Champions Compose #live

[ace-of-bass]

I don't really know what Van Morrison was talking about in Astral Weeks but the vibes are impeccable

#music #van Morrison #astral weeks

[protoslacker]

The Way Young Lovers Do (1999 Remaster)

Van Morrison

Bassist Richard Davis has passed way. Among his many acheivements are his contributions to Van Morrison's second studio album, Astral Weeks. The excellent Wikipedia article about the album quotes the album's producer Lewis Merenstein saying:

If you listen to the album, every tune is led by Richard and everybody followed Richard and Van's voice. I knew if I brought Richard in, he would put the bottom on to support what Van wanted to do vocally, or acoustically.

It's a beautiful and groundbreaking album.

#music #richard davis #RIP #van morrison #astral weeks #Youtube

[chroniclesofnadia111]

While I cook breakfast 🖤

#van morrison #astral weeks #classic rock #classic folk rock #blue eyed soul #Spotify #music

[lisamarie-vee]

#van morrison #astral weeks #1960s #b&w #rock and roll hall of fame

[retromusicart]

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (Warner Bros., 1968) - Art direction by Ed Thrasher, cover and photograph by Joel Brodsky

Van really wised up here after that boring debut. For starters, better effort on the cover here.

Image courtesy of Discogs.

#cover art #album #album cover #album covers #albums #art #60s pop #60s rock #van morrison #astral weeks #60s #60s music #1968

[ryanhamiltonwalsh]

New photos of Van Morrison in Cambridge, MA 1968 emerge!

Every time I think there's no more discoveries related to Astral Weeks (the album and the book I wrote about it), something comes along to surprise me. This one is a doozy. Below you'll find four photos taken in 1968 featuring Van Morrison, bassist Tom Kielbania, and Janet Planet together, working on music on Green Street in Cambridge, MA. I cannot believe these exist. These were taken by and courtesy of Jim Bourne, the context of which I'll explain in a moment.

Jim Bourne's girlfriend lived on Massachusetts Ave on the 5th floor, and he snapped all of these photos from her place looking down. The trash-strewn patch of grass where they are located was an empty lot across the street from their Green St. apartment. The last photo shows Tom Kielbania sitting on the stoop in front of their place, which is the same exact house three members of the Van Morrison Conspiracy pointed out to me back in 2018. [CORRECTION: SEE BELOW] There is footage of Van Morrison in the 00's on Green St. pointing to a house farther down the street that was shown to me once under circumstances I cannot elaborate on, but I don't think he's correct. It's photographer Jim Bourne's memory that they lived there in that house seen in the photo, too. He also adds, "I parked my car in front of it one night, and the next morning the car was gone. I had it stolen twice (and attempted a third time) while I lived in Cambridge." If you've spent any time in this neighborhood today, you're probably shocked about all of the free floating garbage seen in these photos along with the tales of rampant car theft. These were different times. (Oh and btw, I zoomed in on all that newspaper trash just hoping one of em would be an issue of Avatar; results inconclusive)

Next, let's just take a moment to marvel that this is a photo of Janet Planet doing exactly what she described to me during our interviews for the book.

I think we're looking at a photo of this very process, even including the legendary binder full of songs! Now, maybe you're saying, "How do you even know that's Janet in these photos? You can't even see her face!" Well good news, I asked her today and she confirmed it. "It's definitely us - I remember the blouse I'm wearing very well. It belonged to my mom...this is a fabulous find...Those were the Astral Weeks songs we were working on. I'm gobsmacked over here!"

She continued, "I've always wondered if there were all sorts of people who photographed us here and there and just have the photos somewhere. There are so few from that time." She called the existence of these photos "absolutely miraculous." I agree.

The big takeaways here for me are:

These photos both help confirm the address of where they lived AND muddy the waters. 602-604 is what all the band members believed was the house when we visited in person in 2018, but this photo shows Tom sitting on the steps of 608-610 next door. They look similar, for sure. Sigh. So, we know it's one of these two houses, but this doesn't fully resolve the mystery as I thought it did at first. See below for a current photo of both houses, side by side.

This clearly demonstrates the accuracy of Janet Planet's comments to me about her involvement in the song writing process of Astral Weeks and the other songs he composed while he was living in Boston.

Van just busted out that sax whenever he felt like it.

Jim Bourne also noted, "Mel [Lyman] was very much a presence at WGBH, where I worked." You can contact Jim Bourne, the photographer, here.

#Van Morrison #Astral Weeks #Cambridge #Massachusetts #Boston #Janet Planet #1968

[riylcast]

Episode 580: Vashti Bunyan, Howard Fishman and Ryan Walsh

A special edition of the podcast this week, as we joined by three musicians who have released books.

Howard Fishman’s To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse is available now from Dutton. The book explores the life of converse, who remained largely unknown until her music was reissued in 2009 with the compilation, How Sad, How Lovely.

Vashi Bunyan’s music had its own renaissance around the turn of the millennium, when her album, Just Another Diamond Day was discovered by a new generation of musicians. Her memoir, Wayward: Just Another Life to Live is available now on White Rabbit.

Ryan Walsh is the founder and front man of Boston-based indie band, Hallelujah the Hills. In 2018, Penguin released his Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968, which explores the creation of Van Morrison’s seminal album.

#connie converse #vashti bunyan #van morrison #astral weeks #howard fishman #ryan walsh

[americanperfekt]

Sugar baby with the champagne eyes

#Youtube #van morrison #astral weeks

[filosofablogger]

♫ Caravan ♫

This one was suggested by Pete when he mentioned doing a weeklong series of Van Morrison songs.  I’ve run out of ones I was familiar with, so I’m walking blindfolded through the fields of Morrison’s prolific works! According to SongFacts … “Caravan” is a song full of gypsies, travel, and community. It’s a song about the open road and music, a general celebration of freedom, but Morrison actually…

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#Astral Weeks #Janet Planet #Nick Hornby #Rock and Roll Hall of Fame #Van Morrison

[soundgrammar]

Bassist Richard Davis (April 15, 1930 – September 6, 2023)

#Richard Davis #jazz #Eric Dolphy #Andrew Hill #Astral Weeks

[hisinfernalmajesty666]

If I ventured in the slipstream

Between the viaducts of your dream

Where immobile steel rims crack

And the ditch in the back roads stop

Could you find me?

Would you kiss-a my eyes?

#van morrison #astral weeks #folk rock #music #spotify

[saturdaysky]

a little morning pick-me-up

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A morning on the way to Baldur's Gate. The party booked themselves into an inn and enjoyed real beds, hot baths, and privacy for the first time since the Nautiloid.

Gale and Mayhew shared a room, of course. They were filled with the relief of surviving the shadows and the glow of finally getting together, so their private room was probably a blessing for the whole party, honestly.

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This was some ascended anatomy practice! Referenced some great stock from @null-entity.

#some people speed run the galemance but i played it as the world's longest slow burn #act 1 was fuuull of uneven feelings and perceived unrequited feelings and slow-building respect #mayhew was immediately down bad & suffering after the weave scene. Plus Gale's lukewarm reaction to flirting felt like people-pleasing #gale slowly emerged from his depression hole much later and only then caught real feelings - but the orb put paid to acting on them #so in my game they simply had a very loaded laden-with-unspoken-feelings friendship until near the end of act 2 #they got like one (1) week of happiness before the horrors of act 3 hit. starting with Mayhew getting unwillingly astral tadpole'd #it's tragic and i love it #also: chubby gale. tumblr do you see my vision #mayhew sees my vision #please also appreciate mayhew's bed head and the too-big-for-gnomes dishware. i chuckled about those #my art #mayhew #gale dekarios #gnome tav #gale x tav #bg3 #baldur's gate 3

[radiofauxshow]

Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 21 (June 19, 2022): Country Crossover Hits

Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 21 (June 19, 2022): Country Crossover Hits

This Week’s Theme: Country Crossover Hits It has been a while since I have put together a fully-formed Faux Show, but this week sees the return to the research and thematic elements that led me to start doing this blog in the first place. The shows will start to be weekly again, and will cover topics that demand research and discussion, starting with this week’s theme of Country Music crossover…

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#3 Chunks of Funk #andrew hill #Astral Weeks #Bass #Elvin Jones #I want my MTV #Jazz #Madison Wisconsin Institute for Healing Racism #Out To Lunch #Richard Davis #Rosco Gordon #Unsung Heroes Of Rock And Roll

[synthwayve]

Testing a brush

#my art #doodles #micolash host of the nightmare #lady maria of the astral clocktower #bloodborne #bloodborne fanart #some loose stuff to prepare for the arduous week ahead #the Kos enjoyers #(or some say kosm)