armchair cultural observation since 1995

Quotation: Van Morrison in Hollywood

“You could tell Van knew this counted. He wasn’t smiling, but he was delivering. The way a long in the tooth attorney digs deep to fight one more unjust murder accusation. All the chops were on display. Without saying look at me, you could see forty years of history. A real act, who reunited us with what once was, and stunningly still is. If you want to know what infected us, if you want to get it, you should have been there last night.”

-Bob Lefsetz, writing about Van Morrison’s performance of Astral Weeks in its entirety at a concert Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl. Sadly, the venue was only half-full. The full review of the show will be archived later this week here.

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