Van Morrison - Fridays Child - 1971

 

Friday's Child
(bootleg CD)

No label info or release date.

CD1:

1. Into The Mystic (6:33)
2. I've Been Working (6:21)
3. Friday's Child (6:36)
4. Hound Dog (2:33)
5. Ballerina (9:16)
6. Tupelo Honey (6:39)
7. Wild Night (4:44)
8. Just Like A Woman (8:34)
9. Moonshine Whiskey (8:06)
10. Dead Or Alive (5:25)
11. These Dreams Of You (3:30)
12. Domino (6:11)
    Total time: (74:36)

CD2:

1. Call Me Up In Dream Land (3:43)
2. Blue Money (4:46)
3. Bring It On Home (4:29)
4. Buena Sora (sic) Senorita (3:46)
5. I've Been Working (3:47)
6. Caravan (6:43) (not listed on liner)
7. Gloria (3:15)
8. Flamingos Fly (6:20)
9. Cypress (sic) Avenue (10:52)
10. One More Time (3:08)
11. If You & I Could Be As One (3:06)
12. Gloria (3:37)
13. Hey Girl (5:03)
14. Sad Eyes (2:44)
15. Mystic Eyes (3:08)
16. Interview (1:35)
    Total time: (70:11)

Disc one all tracks, and disc two tracks 1-4 recorded live at the Pacific High Studios, San Francisco, September 5, 1971. Disc two tracks 5-8 from Rock City TV (1978). Disc two tracks 9-14 from Deventer, Holland 1967.

Liner notes:
One of the most desirable Van Morrison concerts to collectors is the live in studio performance from Pacific High Records in late 1971. Besides a representative selection of his first three solo ablums, the concert featured a number of performances not to be found anywhere else. Van delved deep into his blues background for the swinging "Dear Or Alive", and the plaintive "Friday's Child" as well as the elvis cover that started it all: "You Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog". Particularly amusing is the way this faithful homage starts with the introduction starts with the introduction of Doris Day's "Que Sera"! The highlight of this set has to be the drop-dead beautiful version of Bob Dylan's "Just Like A Woman" which wrings out the gut-wrenching intensity the song has always implied. Capped off with the blues standard "Bring It On home To Me" and the Italian ditty "Buena Sora", this concert was one for the ages.

Rounding out the package are a 1978 appearance most notable for the gorgeous performance of "Flamingos Fly", a version much different and better than the studio take he would release five years later. This one of a kind version was worth the prove of admission. Finally we present the earliest preserved performance of Van on his own after the breakup of Them.

Notes from Brian Heffler:
This is obviously made by the same people as The Lion Roars. I am assuming that because they use exactly the same fonts in their cover, and provide liner note reviews like Lion Roars. It's a very clean set of the 11/71 Pacific Heights shows, some excellent tracks from Rock City TV (including "Caravan", which is not listed on the liner notes) and some of Van's earliest post-Them performances (the sound of the latter is not great, but what can you expect for '67?) from Deventer, Holland. The last track is an interview about Van and the music biz + entering a monastery.

Notes from dcat:

Upon close examination, the 5 songs noted as "Rock City TV 1973" above, appear to be from "Don Kirschner's Rock Concert" (noted by collectors only as "April 1973" with no further known details as to venue/location). My tape copy of Kirschner's runs faster than Rock City, and the Rock City speed sounds more correct. My tape of Kirschner's runs about 15 minutes and excludes the first and last song included on Rock City.