THAT'S LIFE
Euro Boots 89-2 2CD
(1) [Van Morrison] (Warsaw, Poland); May 25, 2001 (line)
(2) "One Irish Rover," BBC-TV (Athens, Greece); June 27, 1989
(3) Panathanaikos Stadio (Athens, Greece); June 28, 1989
(4) Point Depot (Dublin, Eire); February 6, 1993
(5) Point Depot (Dublin, Eire); April 11, 1995
(6) Madison Square Garden (New York, NY); January 18, 1998
(7) Madison Square Garden (New York, NY); January 21, 1998
(8) NEC Arena (Birmingham, UK); June 24, 1998
Tracklist: [Van Morrison] Days Like This, All Saints Day, Back On Top, That's Life,
Cleaning Windows, Tore Down A La Rimbaud, Dead Or Alive, Bright Side Of The
Road, Hang On, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, Falling Rain, One Irish Rover,
Don't Worry About A Thing, Philosopher's Stone, It Once Was My Life, Why
Must I Always Explain, Precious Time, Star Of The County Down, Northern
Muse (Solid Ground), In The Afternoon
(2) Foreign Window, One Irish Rover (Van Morrison w/Bob Dylan)
(3) Crazy Love, And It Stoned Me (Van Morrison w/Bob Dylan)
(4) It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Van Morrison w/Bob Dylan et al)
(5) Real Real Gone (w/Van Morrison); I Shall Be Released, Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (w/Morrison and Elvis Costello)
(6) More And More (Van Morrison w/Bob Dylan)
(7) Blue Suede Shoes (Van Morrison w/Bob Dylan)
(8) Knockin' On Heaven's Door (w/Van Morrison)
NOTE: Van Morrison set with extensive Morrison/Dylan filler. Despite its apparently attractive contents,
this set is not recommended, perhaps actively undesireable. The principal content, taken from an FM broadcast of Morrison's
Warsaw concert, has not only been mismastered, and is in distorted sound, but was also mastered from a DAO set of CDRs. The Dylan filler, while
perhaps not so poorly recorded, likely circulates in superior quality,
CDG/VM: Great packaging and artwork, but boy, what have they done to the music?
Van and his band sound like they are on heavy tranquillizers -- terrible to listen to!
The sound is not at all as splendid as that of the treed recording, and the audio mastering
appears to be done by dummies. No one needs this disaster, unless you want to use the fine
cardboard box to store your CDRs of the same show.
