Van Morrison – in concert from Fillmore West on April 26, 1970 and broadcast live by KSAN-FM, San Francisco.
Anyone who remembers this phase in the career of Van Morrison will agree his Moondance period was probably the one which got more families started than anything aside from maybe Al Green. It was considered the essential “date night” album ever since.
His was the background music to a lot of midnight confessions in the early 70s. It was a whole different Van Morrison than the one who gave us Gloria only a few years earlier. Mellow, soulful and sensuous was this new phase of a rich career – and it was a wildly popular one, setting the direction he would take for decades later.
This concert comes right at the time Moondance was released and the majority of songs are from that album. Moondance was an immediate critical and commercial success. It helped establish Morrison as a major artist in popular music, while several of its songs became staples on FM radio in the early 1970s. Among the most acclaimed records in pop/rock history, Moondance frequently ranks in professional listings of the greatest albums.
To get an idea of what the fuss was all about in 1970, press Play and dive into this one. Depends on where you’re having lunch and who you might be having it with, it might have the same effect it had in April of 1970. You just never know.
