VAN MORRISON - "RAVE ON JOHN DONNE/RAVE ON PT. 2" (reaction)
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2021
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He could recite a telephone directory and I would still be listening, cuz he got SOUL.
I'm seeing him live in 2 weeks in the Netherlands. I actually shed tears when I got the tickets. Thanks so much for appreciating this song. I see you two are the real deal ❤
While I really liked Van the Man in his early years, a good friend turned me on to this live record in the mid 1980’s and it totally blew my mind. Since then I feel like discovering his music has been an incredible journey into the depths of spirituality and pure raw Celtic Soul with an extra helping of American Blues. Van is perhaps the greatest living musician in the extended pop genre.
Van is a poet who is also happens to be a musician.
Always has the best backing band.
Thanks ... Been a fan for 50 years.
Van really is the man! Such an intense presence
PeWee Ellis on flute and sax. He was in James Brown's band. John Donne is a 17th Century poet. There's also a mention of Yeats 19th and 20th century Irish poet. These poets along with William Blake among others have a influence on his music. Along with many blues and jazz artists. When I hear Van chewing a phrase, he reminds me of John Lee Hooker. Going to his concerts can be like a spiritual religious experience.
Was at this concert , my wife took me for my birthday, had a little drink in the crown bar b4. Great night. Had by all .only one van .
Celtic soul at it's finest from Van the man !! Cleaning Windows, Dweller On the Threshold, and Vanlose Stairway are a few more killer tracks from that same live album!
His phrasing is just at another level and the band is always tight. Top notch.
Well said. His phrasing is so uniquely Van
Nice organ work by John Allair, but the song really kicks into gear around 4:24 when the drums take off. Sounds like two drummers here, Van Hooke and Tom Donlinger...great stuff.
You have never heard a better song in your life...
I don't have a favourite song by Van Morrison but this is close followed by And The Healing Has Begun.
HIJ HEEFT ER ZOVEEL
Van the man! Never heard this before.Wow love it. Great reaction!
Thanks Cindy! Van really is the man!
A celebration of poets/writers. ;)
"Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools
Rave on, down through the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on down through time and space down through the corridors
Rave on words on printed page
Rave on, you left us infinity
And well pressed pages torn to fade
Drive on with wild abandon
Uptempo, frenzied heels
Rave on, Walt Whitman, nose down in wet grass
Rave on fill the senses
On nature's bright green shady path
Rave on Omar Khayyam, Rave on Kahlil Gibran
Oh, what sweet wine we drinketh
The celebration will be held
We will partake the wine and break the Holy bread
Rave on let a man come out of Ireland
Rave on on Mr. Yeats
Rave on down through the Holy Rosey Cross
Rave on down through theosophy, and the Golden Dawn
Rave on through the writing of A Vision
Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on
Rave on John Donne, rave on thy Holy fool
Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools
Rave on, down though the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on words on printed page"
Man how could I forget
In The Garden..that's a must
Yessss!!!
Van always seems to connect with his home town audience.
If Van doesn't connect with an audience.........its the audience's fault
I’ve been looking forward to your reaction to this, since I saw that it was coming up. Nobody else does what Van does. Thanks to your patron, for this one!
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed!
You mentioned channeling his inner Jim Morrison. Interestingly, when Them played the Whisky A Go Go in 1966 the Doors were the house band - on their last night the Doors joined Them to close out their set with "Gloria". Too bad it wasn't recorded. As John Densmore
(the Doors drummer) has been quoted, there were two drummers, two keyboards, two of everything - even two Morrisons.
We've actually heard about that! Legendary. If only there was record
Give a listen to the "Healing Game", "When the Healing Has Begun", from the 1979 album "Into The Music"
"Sense of Wonder", "Saint Domonic's Preview". These are but a few of Van's masterpieces..💓
Thanks!
Yes, his Northern Irish accent is vastly different from his singing voice. And yeah, he slurs his voice at times: manipulates words & sounds like like the warlock he is. For my money, he is the greatest.
Van the Man
You can say that again!
I have to give mad credit to your Patreons for their musical taste and to you two for trusting them. It's a little risky allowing yourselves to be lead away from the radio-friendly top 40 comfort zone but I think the rewards are obvious. You guys are getting the real insiders tour and it's a fun revisit for the rest of us.
Hell yeah! Thanks Michael! You and the rest of our Patrons have never steered us wrong!
The rewards are definitely obvious to us because we get to hear things we never would have otherwise! As far as we're concerned, everything else is just a bonus :)
The words to this are just on another Level if you get to understand the references in this song then you'd be quite a well read and smart person. Most of this will just go over the heads of most people.
Rave on words on printed page .
Van played the sax on this himself!
Legend
Then why does pee wee ellis get credited by vanat the end? Or did they both play parts?
@@abidakiani3030 Pee Wee Ellis played flute on this particular track, although a renowned saxophonist ❤
@@tonysmith6464 KLOPT!!😎😎
Please check out his cover of the Doc Pomus tune Lonely Avenue from the Too Long in Exile album. You won’t be sorry.
Van on sax.
What?
try Coney Island ('crack' is witty banter) and Madame George
Thanks Brock!
“Wouldn’t it be great if it was like this all the time.”
Van Morrison on alto sax.
Wow, thanks for the info Damien!
@@SightAfterDark You need it.
The sax was played by Van...
Unreal!
The flute is played by Pee Wee Ellis, who was James Brown band leader
Amazing! You gotta be great to work with those two!
On hyndford street / Autumn song - Van Morrison
Thanks!
Definitely two different vibes…I enjoyed the live version, but since I first heard the studio version I prefer it.
Just the opposite, for me. I heard the live version first and prefer it. Not unusual, I guess. Either way, it’s a great an unique song/poem.
Very interesting how the emotional connection to the first time we hear a song attaches to our brain…also I think the studio version is on “Inarticulate Speech of the Heart”, which is an epic album for me, very spiritual and meditative.
We'll have to check out the studio version then! Thanks Donald!
@@donaldjackson1490 It gets even stronger when you associate a song with a life event. There are some songs that quite literally transport me.
Just to understand the evolution, you'd probably enjoy checking out Van as a teenage R&B savant singing for the Them in the mid-60s -- You could tell even then that he was always going to be something special. ua-cam.com/video/AhYTb5J2rNc/v-deo.html
It's crazy because we knew this song but never realized this was him! What a prolific career. Shoutout to him and his brown eyed girl ;)
@@SightAfterDark Another great one... allegedly (song facts) written as brown-skinned girl, he changed it for radio.
The best political revolution we can muster in our time is a guy in a Viking costume taking selfie’s after being invited into the White House in a supposed coup.
Nope - its about the metaphysical poet John Donne. Rave on, as in an induced sense of craziness, the ecstatic creative/spiritual sense of the word....not the dopey drug:)
Thanks Dermot!
Yaa , j martyn sunshines better on the otter side yeah
if I had 100 Van Morrison songs on my jukebox I don't think this song would make the cut... and I do love Van... got blighty potatoes in my DNA too... but we moved to that new world.
let's just be blunt real for a minute... Van Morrison can be downright rude... like he's got way better things to do... than to have to have fun, just for your benefit while he's playing too.
he's not exactly masterful at the repartee with the audience stuff... he can get pretty slurry with his phrasing at times too.... glad he gave up the booze.. still a perfectionist tho.
I forgive him everything because his music is that good but I'd never wanna work with the maestro... I'll post a funny article that gives an idea what it's like to play with The Man.
“The call came at short notice, rehearsals were rushed and he had little time to become au fait with The Man’s way of directing the band with hand signals. Come the first gig, everything went well until Van started them on ‘Summertime in England,’ a long-time highlight of the show and one where, if moved, he takes it WAY DOWN and plays with the dynamics of silence. [Irish drummer] Dave [Early] on his drum-riser is looking down on Van’s back. The latter with a chopping movement signals the horns to drop out. Dave, with his eyes peeled, adjusts his stickwork. Another cryptic hand movement and now we’re down to bass, Van’s warbling and Dave, who has switched to brushes. The audience are rapt. There’s the odd yelp and audible sigh. Another sign from Van: palm down as if gently bouncing a balloon. The bass has slowed to an intermittent pulse, Dave is now whispering with the brushes. Van has hitched his Zen caravan to THE MOMENT. Dave is bug-eyed, sweating. Van reaches his right hand behind his back to signal to him. The hand is upturned, claw-like and clenching open and closed. 'What the!’ thinks Dave, 'if I take it down any more it won’t be there at all.’ SUDDENLY another handchop and the brass are back in and the band are in full flight down the final straight. Chatting with Van after the gig, Early mentions that he couldn’t quite understand the 'clenched claw’ signal. 'Oh that,’ says Van, repeating the gesture. 'That means I have you by the balls!’”
Lol wow sounds like quite a guy
The genius is always misunderstood...
Genius’s play by different rules
There is no Zappa song that makes you feel like this...
Canadian and I have never heard a single song by Justin Bieber, Bieber is an entertainer and Morrison is a artist. Give a listen to Zappa's Dianh-Moe Humm, 🙂.