Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is from his seminal first album called Astral Weeks, which was cut in very strange circumstances, with a pickup band of jazz greats - bassist Richard Davis, drummer Connie Kay and guitarist Jay Berliner - none of whom had ever played with Morrison prior to this session. The strings were added in later by the record producer. The whole album was cut in a couple of days, and the stars seem to have been right, because the result was an album turned out as a masterpiece, totally unlike any other ever made before or since, and comfortably makes most critics lists of "The Best Rock Albums". Van suddenly, out of nowhere, had a concert of the whole album at the Hollywood Bowl a few years ago, with Davis and Berliner in tow - Connie Kay (long time drummer of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet) had died by then, which is the version I had posted. The whole album is really a duet between Morrison and Davis, at its heart. Today, with 100% recency bias, he is being pilloried mightily for his strident anti Covid vaccine stance, but in my mind, that does not dim the resplendent glory of his music. After all, has anybody stopped listening to Wagner, a raving anti semetic? Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 6:26 AM Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote: > Wow. Thanks for the link. Van Morrison has really grown since is > "Brown Eyed Girl" days. I rediscovered him one rainy day about 8 years > ago while we were driving along the Oregon coast and a radio station > played "Philosopher's Stone". It fit perfectly with our trip and have > bought a few albums of his more recent work, but I was not familiar with > this song. Thanks again for the wonderful link. > > Aram > > On 2/22/2022 6:55 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > Nicely seen. > > As an additional bit of enjoyment on Ballerina's Day: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfaaaDX_Uh0 > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 8:21 AM Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG < > > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > > >> I got out to the front yard after a freezing rain. > >> > >> < > >> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Winter/20220222_MR_IceHolly_DSF7039.jpg.html > >> Happy Ballerina Day (2/22/22) ;^) > >> > >> -- > >> Alan > >> > >> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > >> (Retired) > >> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 > >> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 > >> amagayneroshak at gmail.com > >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> > >> > >> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > >> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > -- > Aram Langhans > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > & Unemployed photographer > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson > >