Legacy Recordings Acquires Catalog of Music Legend Van Morrison

I am in, Van. You had me at... Pre-order now

 

Seems these sets have been put together by Archive producer extraordinaire, Andrew Sandoval. He just posted this on his facebook page:
"I've been workin'.... on this set for the past several months and I am very excited for folks to see the tracklist and especially to hear the fantastic live performances - all heretofore unissued recordings".

 

I'm really excited about this set now. Just need a Veedon Fleece vinyl re-issue and I'll be in heaven!

 

The stateside one is announced, so I see no reason for there not to be a European Sony Legacy issue, at around 25€.

 

My mistake, read your post too quickly. Thought we were still discussing TLTSN. Apologies.

 

Maybe the 99-minute running time refers to the DVD only? Or they've decided to keep each CD "LP-length" (35 minutes or so).

 

British Board of Film Classification

VAN MORRISON - IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP NOW LIVE AT THE RAINBOW JULY 73

TYPE OF MEDIA Video
APPROVED RUNNING TIME 50m 4s
RELEASE DATES 10/06/2016
BBFCINSIGHT mild sex references, smoking
GENRE(S) Performance
DIRECTOR(S) Not known
CAST INCLUDES Van Morrison
CUT This work was passed uncut.

 

Amazon's vinyl "volume one" has 2 records (actually tracks are listed on "discs" when clearly they mean sides)
and all the same songs are listed as from the original released album ( 92 minutes )
..... so if more are coming, the rest of those volumes will be unreleased material.

http://www.amazon.com/Its-Too-Late-Stop-Now/dp/B01EMP3X20

 

50 Mins??? Where's the rest of the concert? His concerts would have been at least 90 mins long wouldn't they? Surely the whole thing was filmed??. And with Andrew Sandoval at the helm i'm very surprised as his upcoming Monkees Bluray has some amazing finds on it. This is obviously just the broadcast version. I hope this is taken from the master and not some 3rd gen dub!. They always find a way to lessen the impact. Guess Van's people didn't want to go the extra mile for the fans. Shame.

 

Just saw Van last night in Alpharetta (great show) and am thrilled that this volume 2,3,4 & dvd are being released. I hope a tracklist pops up soon.

I wish the dvd was longer but I'll take anything I can get.

 

I think I have the televised show which will presumably be the dvd contents. Perhaps it was shortened to fit a tv schedule.
I haven't watched it in ages but I remember hearing snatches of dialogue in it that are also on the record.

I bought it as a boot years ago with an accompanying cd which proceeded o split when I tried to take it out of the dvd casing. Think it was related music from the same concert sequence but I never got to hear it.

 

Well, there is definitely one extra filmed track that wasn't on the original BBC broadcast. For some reason 'Wild Night' was shown on some clip show in the Netherlands in the 80s and hasn't been seen since. It was added as a bonus track on the boot DVD after the 'complete' BBC show.

 

As was noted on the other thread, someone asked Andrew Sandoval on Facebook about the listed "99 minutes" length and he said that 2 of the 3 audio discs are nearly 80 minutes apiece, and each of the 3 discs contains 15 tracks of music.

 

This thread made me get out my LP copy of It's Too Late to Stop Now. I had not listened to it in ages. I forgot about the trifold nature of the album cover. I felt a bit like I was unfolding a map when I went to pull out a LP. And, I forgot just how Van-centric the photos are across the three sides of the album cover. The band gets about 1/2 of one of six possible squares for photos.

My old LPs sounded pretty tired (I bought it in the 80s). I will certainly enjoy having this on CD. I wonder if we will get some more photos of the band!

 

Track listing from Spincds.com

Disc: 1
VOLUME II (Recorded live at The Troubadour, Los Angeles, May 23, 1973)

1. Come Running
2. These Dreams of You
3. The Way Young Lovers Do
4. Snow in San Anselmo
5. I Just Want to Make Love to You
6. Bring It on Home to Me
7. Purple Heather
8. Hey, Good Lookin'
9. Bein' Green
10. Brown Eyed Girl
11. Listen to the Lion
12. Hard Nose the Highway
13. Moondance
14. Cyprus Avenue
15. Caravan

Disc: 2

VOLUME III (Recorded live at the Santa Monica Civic, California, June 29. 1973)

1. I've Been Working
2. There There Child
3. No Way
4. Since I Fell for You
5. Wild Night
6. I Paid the Price
7. Domino
8. Gloria
9. Buona Sera
10. Moonshine Whiskey
11. Ain't Nothing You Can Do
12. Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket
13. Sweet Thing
14. Into the Mystic
15. I Believe to My Soul

Disc: 3
VOLUME IV (Recorded live at The Rainbow, London, July 23 & 24, 1973)

1. Listen to the Lion
2. I Paid the Price
3. Bein' Green
4. Since I Fell for You
5. Into the Mystic
6. Everyone
7. I Believe to My Soul
8. Sweet Thing
9. I Just Want to Make Love to You
10. Wild Children
11. Here Comes the Night
12. Buona Sera
13. Domino
14. Caravan
15. Cyprus Avenue

Disc: 4
(Recorded live at The Rainbow, London, July 24, 1973)

1. Here Comes the Night
2. I Just Want to Make Love to You
3. Brown Eyed Girl
4. Moonshine Whiskey
5. Moondance
6. Help Me
7. Domino
8. Caravan
9. Cyprus Avenue

 

Scored a great condition Uk Warner's original vinyl at a boot sale for £ 10 today, gatefold sleeve etc. Well pleased. Completes my set of the early classics on vinyl.

 

Popmarket kept mine on back order so I cancelled my order and got them somewhere else. Did anybody who ordered from Popmarket ever receive these?

 

Expanded Hard Nose and St. Dominic's Preview up next I hope!!
Wondering if Hard Nose cd1 will be expanded as well - I kind of hope so!

 

10 Pounds at a BOOT SALE? Sheesh...

 

I'm with you 0n that - especially for Preview - in my case - don't ask me how becuase I don't know - my CD case is empty on that so I would love to have another copy and not pay crazy OOP prices.

 

You will get a good bargain then for the expanded Preview!

 

At least hoping for Hard Nose to be back in print soon, even if it's not an Expanded edition. I've got all the others from this period, but can never seem to find Hard Nose under $30.

 

It would seem those Warners issues would be near impossible to aquire,given the Iron Fist Mo Osten has! They'd would have to do the Impossible to get those!

 

Wonder if His BANG! Contract Fulfillment Recordings will finally see Stateside issue?

 

As I feel it was,"Hard Nose the Highway" was the most Underrated and Least Appreciated Morrison Lp,as its popularity was weaker than most of His Previous issues.