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Live at the Grand Opera House - Belfast | 
 enlarge | Artist: Van Morrison
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 95532
Format: Live, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731453754423
EAN: 0731453754423
ASIN: B000009DDK
Release Date: July 14, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Introduction: Into the Mystic/Inarticulate Speech of the Heart | | • | Dweller on the Threshold | | • | It's All in the Game/You Know What They're Writing About - Van Morrison, Dawes, Charles | | • | She Gives Me Religion | | • | Haunts of Ancient Peace | | • | Full Force Gale | | • | Beautiful Vision | | • | Vanlose Stairway | | • | Rave on John Donne/Rave On, Pt. 2 | | • | Northern Muse (Solid Ground) | | • | Cleaning Windows |
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| Customer Reviews:
 A soulful performance December 28, 2005
Mark T (St Louis, MO)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
He changes up some favorites and blows the doors off some others. Van plays sax like he sings--all growls and mumbles and suddenly soaring highs. And the words "wee wee wee" have never held so much soul. Pee Wee Ellis and Mark Isham make Van's most eclectic and versatile horn section ever and the rest of band is tight. Good recording quality. Great remastering. Highly recommended.
Good, not great, vocal performance by Van, unfortunately, the band rushes the tempos of some of Van's best songs September 25, 2005
Eric Andreasen (Northern California)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The titles says it all, almost. The material on this CD is my personal favorite: "Beautiful Vision" (his masterpiece) and the "Into the Music" time period are well represented. However, the tempos almost all sound rushed (I feel like getting a pitch adjuster and slowing down the songs a half step), except some of the slower pieces still sound very good ("She Gives Me Religion", "Haunts of Ancient Peace", are standouts). All in all a good Van CD, which is better than most musicians best efforts. If the tempos were more relaxed, it would rank among his greatest work. As it is, it is the only other place I can get more of the wonderful "Beatiful Vision" material, which is by far my favorite Van music. 4 stars, I am usually a tough grader, and Van Morrison is way beyond what the average musician produces, yet the rushed sound of the performance and the lack of any real musical "stretching out" prevent this from ranking as an all-time classic recording.
Rave On, Van! June 15, 2005
Ryan Black (Las Palmas, GC Spain)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am amazed that the reviews for this album are so low! Perhaps they are not ready for this album yet, that is what happened to me.
I listened to this a couple of times 10,15 years ago and forgot about it. Recently, I found it in the back of a trunk and decided to listen to it again. It blew my mind. For me, Van is at his best live and Pee Wee Ellis is top notch on this album.
This album blows away all of the studio recordings of these songs which in comparison sound stiffled and artificial now that I have heard the real deal. If you like the track list, I don't know how you wouldn't like this album; this spiritual journey. Rave On, Van!
 "See the man with the stage fright..." December 20, 2003
The Sanity Inspector (USA)
14 out of 20 found this review helpful
No, Van doesn't cover the old song by The Band, but on this live date his legendary nervousness onstage is constantly making itself felt. It sounds like he can barely keep from bolting offstage during the spoken part of "Rave On, John Donne", especially when he muffs his lines. "Oh what swine" instead of "Oh what sweet wine", but the friendly crowd didn't burst into laughter. In fact, in another part, they strike up a round of encouraging applause, as he's struggling to get a saxophone solo under control.So that's the "warts", the "and all" is a good representation of where Van was in the mid-Eighties: free-form celtic mysticism in a supper-club soul-jazz setting. I don't mean that to be flip; Van had more "yarrgh" than ever, and he gets his vision across convincingly. Highlights include "Full Force Gale", with a slightly changed melody from the _Into The Music_ studio version, and with more kick, too. "Dweller On The Threshold" is really special, if too short. The mood pieces, including "Vanlose Stairway" and "Haunts of Ancient Peace" are sometimes undercut by Van's skittishness, but they too succeed. So this is a milepost, a souvenir of where he was back then. There's nothing really raw on here, like "Cypress Avenue" on _It's Too Late To Stop Now_, let alone "Caravan" on _The Last Waltz_--his peak on legal live recordings, btw. But "Cleaning Windows" is a good, bouncing r&b number, a smart uptempo song to end this heavily into the mystic set. He almost sounds comfortable by the end.
 rave on john donne February 3, 2003
ray b. (worcester, mass)
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
rave on you holy fool good live cd van
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