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Bang Masters – Van MorrisonFebruary 21st, 1991  or  iTunes Price: $9.99 Genre: Pop Released: Feb 21, 1991 Customer Ratings (8 Ratings)
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View More By Van Morrison Our ReviewAfter departing from his R&B group Them, Van Morrison worked with producer Bert Berns’ Bang label, recording the classic “Brown Eyed Girl” alongside a series of hard-nosed R&B based tunes that were, according to Morrison, more his producer’s ideas than his. An album, Blowin’ Your Mind, was issued from the sessions and various other collections appeared in subsequent years featuring that material with other outtakes. This release collects all those recordings (though, annoyingly, it does leave off the originally issued take of “He Ain’t Give You None”), including an alternate version of “Brown Eyed Girl” that’s of special interest. Early versions of “Beside You” and “Madame George,” two centerpieces from his next album Astral Weeks, are here in much altered and bluesier form. The percolating tension of the nearly ten-minute “T.B. Sheets” is incredibly taut and one of Morrison’s definitive performances. A couple of tunes are lighter fare than Morrison’s usual brooding self (“Ro Ro Rosey,” “Chick-a-Boom”). But the ferocity with which he delivers “Joe Harper Saturday Morning” and “Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)” suggest Morrison had found some way to express his frustration with this less than ideal professional situation.. Customer ReviewsThis is the best compilation of the 1967 NY sessions... (3 stars)These sessions have been released in about 11-12 different packages over the last 40 years. No wonder Van keeps singing about being ripped-off. He is referring to more than just the Shadows Of Knight version of "Gloria", which got airplay over his Them version in the 1960's (except in L.A. where the DJs played the original Them version and ignored the second class cover version). All that being said... This is the most cost-eff BOOM! Chick-a... BOOM! (5 stars) It's a 'sessions' collection, but it flows together perfectly. "Chick-A-Boom" and "Ro Ro Rosey" are really fun. The bluesy "TB Sheets" and "The Back Room" are off the hook. I prefer the original version of "Madama George" found here to the ASTRAL WEEKS version. This collection is intimate and rockin'. It's a no BS production; it's rawness is it's strength. One of the great highlights: the dia BiographyBorn: August 31, 1945 in Belfast, Northern IrelandGenre: Rock Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon. Subject only to the whims of his own muse, his recordings cover extraordinary stylistic ground yet retain a consistency and purity virtually unmatched among his contemporaries, connected...
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