Owing to popular demand, Morrison will also perform four more live Astral Weeks gigs, at Madison Square Garden and the newly renovated Beacon Theatre, beginning February 27. Now, as evidence that those Bowl shows really did happen and weren't his enthusiastic fans' collective delusion, he's released the CD Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (in stores this week), with a DVD concert film soon to follow. Included Charles Mingus guitarist Jay Berliner, who played on the Show,' performing Astral Weeks in its entirety, with a band that
All the more remarkably, he was, for the first time in hisįive-decade career, doing what could be loosely termed an 'oldies Time, and whatever other ballasts turn some veteran performers into wanĬaricatures of themselves better suited to halls of fame than halls of Mercurial, 63-year-old Irish singer-songwriter seemed to transcend age, Indeed, frequently over the course of those two nights, the famously The second night of a brief November stint at the Hollywood Bowl. The end of the title track from his 1968 album, Astral Weeks, during 'I believe I've transcended,' Van Morrison repeatedly incanted toward
