Subject:      Re: Van Morrison - Days like this
From:         rcj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Craig Jamieson)
Date:         1995/08/17
Newsgroups:   rec.music.dylan

Patricia Jungwirth (tricia.j@AARDVARK.APANA.ORG.AU) wrote:
: Ciaoriley wrote 16 August
: > once saw a video of Van & Bob singing together - somewhere overlooking
: >the coast

: This great video treat is called 'One Irish Rover' made by Channel 4 in
: the UK (I think?). Also features John Lee Hooker, performing & raving
: with Van by the Big Muddy - he keeps harking back to 'old Bobby Dylan'
: when he first met him in the 60's, making Van a bit grumpy as they're
: s'posed to be talking about Van not Bob! The songs Bob & Van sing are
: 'One Irish Rover', 'Crazy Love' and 'Foreign Window', all Van tunes. Van
: comments that when writing 'Foreign window' he was thinking about Byron &
: other hounded artist/travellers, but realised when singing it that it was
: also about Dylan -
: 'I saw you from a foreign window,
:  You were bearing down the suffering road,
:  Carrying your defects, sleeping on a pallet on the floor,
:  In the palace of the Lord'
: The footage is shot on a hillside in Greece, in bright sunshine. We
: watched this again recently at a friend's place with a giant video
: screen, looked fabulous. One thing struck me - the sunshine was very
: bright, Van had his back to the sun, wearing dark shades. Dylan was
: looking at Van (trying to remember the words!), so he was facing the sun,
: squinting heavily without shades. A very 'naked' performance. Was it 1989?

EDLIS badly needs information on  the Louisiana, Denmark and Ronnie Scott's
dates and places for the first two please??? 

Ronnie Scott's is still going strong, we went on there the other night
after Ravi Shankar's 75th Birthday thing, and a meal. London is a mighty
busy and lively place 'til 04:00 in the morning, easy to forget that
as you grow old and gray... [meaning me, Ravi Shankar is neither old,
nor gray :-)]


Van Morrison Meets Bob Dylan & John Lee Hooker [27 June 1989] 
Living Legends, LLRCD 181, [?1993]
[Italy]
Matrix: LLR CD 181
Total Running Time: 67:01

1.  Crazy Love  (George Ivan  Morrison) [Van  Morrison -  vocals,
acoustic guitar, Bob Dylan - vocals, acoustic guitar] [1]
    2.  Baby Please Don't Go (Big Joe Williams)
    [John Lee Hooker - vocals, electric guitar, foot-tapping,
    Van Morrison - harmonica]
    3.  Wednesday Evening Blues (John Lee Hooker)
    [John Lee Hooker - vocals, electric guitar, foot-tapping,
    Van Morrison - harmonica]
    4.  Vanlose Stairway (George Ivan Morrison) [Van Morrison -
    vocals, + the Danish Radio Big Band]
    5.  I Will  Be There  (George Ivan  Morrison) [Van Morrison -
    vocals, + the Danish Radio Big Band]
6.  Foreign Window  [Saw You  From a Foreign Window] (George Ivan
Morrison) [Van  Morrison -  vocals, acoustic  guitar, Bob Dylan -
harmonica] [2]
7.  One Irish  Rover  (George  Ivan  Morrison)  [Van  Morrison  -
vocals, acoustic guitar, Bob Dylan - vocals, acoustic guitar] [3]
    8.  Raglan Road (Traditional, words: Patrick Kavanagh) [Van
    Morrison - vocals, drums + the Chieftains at Ronnie Scott's]
    9.  Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker) [John Lee Hooker -
    vocals, foot-tapping, Van Morrison - vocals, electric guitar]

    10. Enlightenment (George Ivan Morrison)
    11. So Complicated (George Ivan Morrison)
    12. The Star Of County Down (Traditional)
    13. Just Like A Woman [Van Morrison - vocals, electric
    guitar, with band in 1971]
    14. Caledonia Soul Music (George Ivan Morrison)

(1, 6-7)  Philopappos  (Hill of  the Muses),  Athinai, Greece, 27
June 1989. [1010] [complete]
    (2-3, 9)  Louisiana.
    (4-5)  ?Copenhagen, Denmark.
    (8)  Ronnie Scott's, London, England.

Tracks 1-9  were broadcast  by BBC2  TV  16  March  1991  in  the
programme "One Irish Rover - Van Morrison in performance".

io20816@maine.maine.edu (Kevin Foss):
"This [tracks  1-9] is  probably just  a dub  of part  of the Van
Morrison TV  special "One Irish Rover" -- originally broadcast on
BBC 2's Arena,  replayed a  couple of  years ago  on A&E  in  the
states. Anyways,  Dylan and  Van appear in the video and do three
songs, Crazy  Love (1),  Foreign Window  (6), and One Irish Rover
(7). Van plays guitar and sings on all tracks, Dylan plays guitar
and sings  on Crazy  Love and  Irish Rover,  on Foreign Window he
plays harp.  Dylan, to  be bluntly  honest, is  pathetic on  this
recording. He  is obviously  unfamiliar with the words, and looks
like he  was dragged  out of bed. On a CD cut, you might be hard-
pressed to  even realize Dylan is on some of the tracks, he is so
apathetic when singing! His musicianship isn't too bad though...
However, it might be worth it to get the video version so you can
have Van  musing about  the implications as far as Foreign Window
being about  Bob [and  John Lee  Hooker reminiscing  very briefly
about Gerde's Folk City and Bob Dylan in New York City]. Also the
scenery is great, in the songs involving Dylan you see Van on the
left and  Bob to  the right  with the  Acropolis in  the distance
between the two.

Oh, and the reason for pinning this CD with One Irish Rover is of
course that  John Lee  Hooker is  the other  featured legend that
plays with Van in the video."

Watching the  video, it  is more  as if Bob Dylan is watching Van
Morrison perform,  and is doodling along a little while doing so,
thinking no  one would  ever bother to use this. Dylan is wearing
his "beginner  learning some  songs from an experienced musician"
mask...

If you  want Dylan  but not  Van  Morrison  then  all  the  Dylan
performances are  found on  Alias :  The Sideman Story Vol. 3 [T-
354].



Subject:      Re: Van Does Bob
From:         Christian Zeiser 
Date:         1995/12/20
Newsgroups:   rec.music.dylan

At 13:13 Uhr 19.12.1995, max wrote:

>Was listening to an old Van Morrison boot today and came across a live
>version of "Just Like A Woman".  Very powerful, heartfelt version.  He
>sings some, uh, interesting lyric changes:  "Your long time curse hurts/but
>whats worse/is this queer in here/i can't remain in here..." and "when we
>meet again/introduced as friends/please don't let on that you knew me
>when/I was weird/and you were weird too..."
>Have any of ya'll heard this?

Oh yes, I have. It's great. It's on a boot called "Van Morrison meets Bob
Dylan and John Lee Hooker" (Living Legend Records/Multi Coloured Music).
JLAW was recorded in 1971. I definitely *love* the way Van sings that line
"... I can't remain in here / ain't it clear / that I just can't fit / i
believe i believe i believe i believe i believe i believe i believe i
believe i believe it's time for us to quit..."

------------------------------------------
Where the rivers freeze and summer ends...

Christian Zeiser
Hamburg, Germany

christian.zeiser@hamburg.netsurf.de



Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 12:32:30 -0600
From: David Chance 
Subject: Van Morrison meets Bob Dylan boot

Alan Fraser  wrote in response to:
On Wed, 24 Dec 1997 05:23:14 -0600, Donna Wimberley
 wrote:
>Does anyone out there know anything about an album of Van Morrison which
>contains 3 songs done with Dylan titled "Van Morrison with Bob Dylan,
>John Lee Hooler, The Chieftains, The Danish Radio Band"?

I've never heard of this album, which is almost certainly a bootleg.
However, a strong possibility is that these are the 3 tracks from the
BBC TV Arena programme on Van Morrison called One Irish Rover. The
songs were One Irish Rover, Foreign Window and Crazy Love. Van and Bob
were filmed on the top of the Acropolis in Athens on 27 June, 1989,
although the programme was not broadcast until 1991.

===========================

To which I respond:
        ...this is indeed a bootleg and is now impossible to find...
full details on it can be found on the Van Morrison Home Page at:

http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/discography/meetsbob.html



From: motie2@aol.com (Motie2)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
Subject: Re: Van Morrison meets Bob Dylan boot
Date: 29 Dec 1997 03:54:15 GMT

I have this CD. Excellent sound quality. Some Bob stuff; some other lovely
stuff too.
Gordy