| Identifier | 9137734 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
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Performance
| Van Morrison 1973-07-24 Rainbow Theater, London, England | |
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| Set 1 | Warm Love
Take your Hands Out Of My Pocket Here Comes The Night I Just Want To Make Love To You Brown Eyed Girl Moonshine Whiskey Moondance Help Me Domino Caravan Cyprus Avenue Wild Night |
| Set 2 | Tracks from this concert on CD only: I Paid The Price Saint Dominic's Preview Gloria [cut, Dave Fanning talking over] |
| Set 3 | |
| Comment | LineUp :
Van Morrison : Vocals John Platania - guitar Jeff Labes - keyboards Jack Schroer - saxophones Bill Atwood - trumpet David Hayes - bass Dahaud Shaar - drums Terry Adams - cello Nancy Ellis - viola Tom Halpin - violin Tim Kovatch - violin Nathan Rubin - violin The Rainbow Theatre show was first broadcasted by the BBC2 as part of the Old Grey Whistle Test on the 27 may 1974. It was aired simultaneously on stereo FM radio and on mono TV. This was one of the earliest stereo radio broadcasts, and the first simultaneous TV/radio broadcast of a "rock" concert. It was repeated on the 9 oct 1980 on BBC2 as well. ALL the previous copies that are in circulation (known as "Over The Rainbow" and "Under The Rainbow") are from the 1980 rebroadcast. "Over the Rainbow" is a bad quality stereo recording (according to the Hayward website : [Over the Rainbow] sounds as though it could've been taken straight from a notoriously bad-sounding LP). "Under the Rainbow" is better, but it's mono. What's more, they are very incomplete. "Warm Love" was only aired on the initial BBC 1974 broadcast and dropped after that from future broadcasts. "Wild Night", "I Paid the price", "Saint Dominic's Preview" and "Gloria" have never been broadcasted on BBC but only on a 1980 Dutch broadcast (WN) or on a 1974 Irish broadcast by RTE (IPTP, SDP, G). Hence, those 5 tracks seldom (or never) circulated before. Same issues with the videos/DVDs previously circulating : they all come from the 1980 repeat, have a medium to very bad image and sound quality, and all are mono. SAW did a fantastic work in researching and finding good recordings of both the original 1974 video and stereo radio broadcasts. The rare "lost" tracks were unearthed from Harm's archives. Their sound quality is much lower than the other sources, that's why they are given as "bonus". The challenge was then to remaster the sound from old audio tape sources (first generation from stereo off-air, but recorded onto low grade cassettes as most people did at the time) and to synchronise it to the video that originaly had a bad mono sound. Of course, the audio tape had a dramaticaly bad pitch and a very irregular speed, so it had to be adjusted every 30 seconds. I now know what purgatory looks like. The incomplete "Wild Night" video that came separated was then merged to the BBC source, without cutting the end of the song as it originaly was. |