Everyday it's a new surprise. Will my video work? Will my sound work? Today I get video but no sound. oh yay. I like the opening photograph on my computer screen. Looks like Tahiti. I might travel to Kona in October to watch the big Ironman competition. Where it all began. Group of Navy Seals trying to determine who was the most fit. Interesting to see the hurricanes develop and move in on Hawaii. Remember hurricane Iniki back in 1992? It totally devastated the island of Kauai. I hope these hurricanes deliver much needed rain and little devastation. 1-2 punch yowza.
All the cover bands got tired of playing Brown Eyed Girl and Wild Nights a few years ago, and so the Mystic tune became the go to when the drunk at the bar wanted a Van Morrison tune.
Of course, nothing is going to stop that last drunk at the bar from demanding Brown Eyed Girl at 2 a.m. when the band is packing up.
Most requested, most overplayed bar tune of all time. Around the 2,000th time you play the tune, fatigued sets in and you start searching for a way to play the tune that is half parody and half for real.
One of my all time favorite songs. I can't explain why, but it just makes me feel really good whenever I hear it. I know a lot of other people have the same reaction to it. It's one of those magical songs that a few lucky artists manage pull out of the ether every once in a while.
Another song of Van's I love is "Washing Windows" - a working man's soothing medicine.
IIRC, there's a fairly amusing moment during "The Last Waltz" where Van Morrison is performing and Robbie Robertson wants to horn in and do the center stage, back-to-back, rock star pose for the camera and Van Morrison's reaction is all get-the-fuck-away-from-me.
Indeed. One day there's chat between gig weekends, and the next day one of those in the chat drops dead. Gone. Justlikethat. (Private next, there is the stuff that is private; 'nuff said.) Then, next, the first "show must go on," the memorial service, and the second "show must go on."
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Wild nights.
Everyday it's a new surprise. Will my video work? Will my sound work? Today I get video but no sound. oh yay.
I like the opening photograph on my computer screen. Looks like Tahiti.
I might travel to Kona in October to watch the big Ironman competition. Where it all began. Group of Navy Seals trying to determine who was the most fit.
Interesting to see the hurricanes develop and move in on Hawaii.
Remember hurricane Iniki back in 1992? It totally devastated the island of Kauai. I hope these hurricanes deliver much needed rain and little devastation. 1-2 punch yowza.
Great tune.
All the cover bands got tired of playing Brown Eyed Girl and Wild Nights a few years ago, and so the Mystic tune became the go to when the drunk at the bar wanted a Van Morrison tune.
Of course, nothing is going to stop that last drunk at the bar from demanding Brown Eyed Girl at 2 a.m. when the band is packing up.
Most requested, most overplayed bar tune of all time. Around the 2,000th time you play the tune, fatigued sets in and you start searching for a way to play the tune that is half parody and half for real.
Nothing gets the party started like "T.B. Sheets."
One of my all time favorite songs. I can't explain why, but it just makes me feel really good whenever I hear it. I know a lot of other people have the same reaction to it. It's one of those magical songs that a few lucky artists manage pull out of the ether every once in a while.
Another song of Van's I love is "Washing Windows" - a working man's soothing medicine.
Once you lay down that perfect base line the rest just falls on top perfectly in place almost by divine intervention.
IIRC, there's a fairly amusing moment during "The Last Waltz" where Van Morrison is performing and Robbie Robertson wants to horn in and do the center stage, back-to-back, rock star pose for the camera and Van Morrison's reaction is all get-the-fuck-away-from-me.
Van Morrison is such a spaz onstage.
His physical presentation on stage is a total negative that only detracts from his music.
It's indicative of the power of his music that he is not brought down by this.
First shot looks like Bora Bora?
I saw Van in concert about 5 years ago. He was quite composed on stage. Good concert.
My computer is on it's way to Florida. Im on limited phone connections.
Indeed. One day there's chat between gig weekends, and the next day one of those in the chat drops dead. Gone. Justlikethat. (Private next, there is the stuff that is private; 'nuff said.) Then, next, the first "show must go on," the memorial service, and the second "show must go on."
"Into the Mystic," absolutely.
I like that Van Morrison was still performing this a quarter century-so later. Sense of threads in life and respect for that notion: demonstrated.
Man, I've spent a lifetime with musicians and giggers (born and bred to it) without--it is true!--being a musician myself.
Shouting Thomas, you sure are of a type, and don't I know it.
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