Van Morrison - Pacific High Studios, San Francisco, CA, 9-5-1971

I said there are three great Van Morrison full concert recordings from 1970 to 1971, and I'm going to post them all here before I start posting my compilations of his best live songs from other shows around that era. Here's the third of those three shows.

The first show was kind of a live version of the "Moondance" album. The second show was notable for having lots of cover versions and other rarities, such as acoustic versions. This show doesn't really stand out in any particular way. It dates from less than a month from the second show (at the Lion's Share in San Anselmo, California), so it's not surprising that the song selection isn't that different. However, the performance is excellent and the sound quality is too, so the show is a must-have because there are so few concert recordings this good from this early in his career. Also, at one hour and 35 minutes it's a long show, 20 minutes longer than the Lion's Share one.

It was recorded in Pacific High Studios, a recording studio in San Francisco, in front of a small audience. That studio was used by the Grateful Dead to record "Workingman's Dead" in 1970, and Morrison used it around this time to record "St. Dominic's Preview." Local radio station KSAN used it to record live shows and play them over the radio, which is how this got bootlegged. So the sound quality is about as good as a live album from 1971 could possibly get.

01 Into the Mystic (Van Morrison)
02 I've Been Working (Van Morrison)
03 Friday's Child (Van Morrison)
04 Que Sera Sera [Whatever Will Be, Will Be] - Hound Dog (Van Morrison)
05 Ballerina (Van Morrison)
06 Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison)
07 Wild Night (Van Morrison)
08 Just like a Woman (Van Morrison)
09 Moonshine Whiskey (Van Morrison)
10 Dead or Alive (Van Morrison)
11 You're My Woman (Van Morrison)
12 These Dreams of You (Van Morrison)
13 Domino (Van Morrison)
14 Call Me Up in Dreamland (Van Morrison)
15 Blue Money (Van Morrison)
16 Bring It on Home to Me (Van Morrison)
17 Buona Sera (Van Morrison)

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I used the cover of a popular bootleg for this concert, called "The Inner Mystic." I changed the text.