I’ve seen nothing to convince me that young Van wasn’t the greatest

I'm in an old musty smelling farmhouse out in the Ohio Countryside with Vintage Van Morrison playing loud and the windows open wide...and All Is Good In My World......Cheers Everyone

I was at this concert. Tickets cost $5.50. Best $5.50 I ever spent.

Cyprus Avenue - a one man play in eight minutes

My dog used to have great reactions to this song. I’d play this while he was in the room he’d start howling like it was dark and a full moon. I’d turn it up louder he’d howl louder and start scratching at the door. He seemed to be enjoying it so l turned it up louder and he loved it so much that he chewed the corner of the couch to shreds and pissed on the pot plants. He died last week and l played this at his pretend funeral and l swear l could hear a dogs howl in the breeze.

I’m just recovering from a triple heart bypass it’s 1:30 in the morning and I feel blessed just to be listening to this great man

Astral weeks is one of the best albums ever.

Astral weeks is a life changing album.

Only a man with Van's strength and honesty could have lived Van's life

I've played this 200 times...

The man dropped the mic and walked off stage as the music was still playing. That's how I want to die.

ASTRAL WEEKS is a GREAT album!.....It personifies the word...album! Its quite likely as good as any album ever recorded. 53 years later....nothing has changed. A momentous work. Bravo Van Morrison!!!!

The beautiful thing about Van The Man is that more often than not, the live versions of his songs almost outdo the studio versions. “And you were standing there....” Gives me chills every time.

Rave on Van. No one can fill your shoes! I’m a super fan. 💚🍀🎶

People need to know he has always been this good. Its from the gut.

This performance was 6 weeks before I was born. I wonder if maybe my mama heard music like this in passing as she was waiting for me and it seeped into my heart because this era still fills me with joy like no other. May be the best time for music.

A musical genius for over five decades......

I've seen this deep soulful man, three times, I've had and lost endless CD from my cars , robbed by enlightened women. Takes me to a blissful place everytime . Bless you all we are all buzzing the same calm spiritual frequency, bless up all you good souls out there

One of the all time great vocalists.

I don't think i've ever seen a clip of van not giving 100% of himself onstage. What an enduring, soulful talent.

Van was living in Woodstock when my bf, who knew Jack Schroer the sax player, invited the band to live with us in San Anselmo, Ca. They not only showed up but Jack and his wife, back-up singer Ellen, and the bass player John Klingberg did move in and my bf became Van's roadie. Great times, great memories. I have to say, Van was quite an interesting character.

A musical genius for over five decades

Beautiful beautiful song. The usual ⭐️ performance from The Man. He looks sweet here.

wow, that is what singing and emotion is about...and the band!

I was there at that concert. Loved the Fillmore . Used to go there all the time. Watching Van sing brings goosebumps. He also did The Mystic, which is my favorite song.

A tortured saint stalking the stage and screaming out his soulful lyrics about being wasted on the avenue of trees,it cuts straight through your body and connects directly to your soul.

His voice was truly amazing in the 70/80's.

What a man Van . He’s a genius.

I'M ABSOLUTELY OVERWHELMED! SUCH BRILLIANCE! SUCH ARTISTIC SENSUALITY!

Pure soul as only Van knows how to whisper it...

Van has THE SOUL ENERGY that most artists will never glimpse. I would love to know his story of spiritual enlightenment, because it was followed by the most underrated artist of all time

Sweet Jesus, just seeing this for the first time. Will be here for at least 8 mins a day for the foreseeable future.

Soul rhythm blues rock n roll is there anything this man hasn’t got

One of the greatest soul singers ever.

Some lucky few are born to do one thing.

He has a gift from GOD!!!!

Walking off stage like that for 50 years. Amazing.

WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From a mad keen 73yo Aussie fan. What a musical genius,Van is.

Legendary performance.

"Cyprus Avenue" celebrated at the Fillmore East, on the Lower East Side; excuse me, The East Village. I must be somewhere in the Twilight Zone. The Fillmore East was a top R&R Club in NYC, staging the "Best of the Best", and Van Morrison was no exception. I can only thank KZfaq for presenting this Treasure Chest of Music, and Performers for those familiar with these Artists, and Clubs, and those that are too young who would love to take a peek of what the past had to offer... ~~CR~~

This album saved me

Just one Word. Fantastic!

I hereby ordain this song, this performance the greatest prolonged moment of human existence.

So very proud to be associated with this song. My great-uncle and family lived in No. 17 Cyprus Ave, according to the 1911 census.

The tongue gets tied line is delivered so well

This is phenomenal!!! Unrehearsed and extremely memorizing to watch. He's doing all the stuff he began doing while he was in THEM, this time frame had to be his most energetic. So full of soul!!

All I know is all I know. When Van sounds this good (which is a lot), it gets me high. Sometimes The Waterboys get me there too. Fisherman's Blues. Too many to list. Big love to The Live Adventures of The Waterboys at Glastonbury, 1986, Side 2 -- The Pan Within and all the other gorgeous songs on Side 2. Joy to my ears. I can't get enough.

I was at this show 3rd row to the right side..

Most of Van's song are more about sound and style than lyrics. He is one of the few that can carry this off. He is a singular performer.

I cannot get enough of that at 7:00. My favorite part of every live performance of "Cypress Avenue."

So Glad that he is still with us! And performing! He is my ALL time favorite! He has been with me my Whole Life! And I Thank Him!!

Watching Van all the working time es fantastic

This is my alltime fav Van song. Lyrics so evocative, bluesy moody. They simply transcend whatever is happening in your day, take you right out of time (hey, it’s “Astral Weeks”, right?). This Fillmore East Live version is also so special, so high energy . Van---from his own description “extremely wasted AND TRYING TO GET BACK TO YOU!!!” LOL---pulls out all the stops, turns the song inside out , making it sound at the end like rave up gospel. Ending exhortation (I won’t spoil it) makes me laugh with pure delight. A call to all to be each our own over the top original best self.

For anyone who was there, let me hear how powerful this show must have been !

Wowee this is gold. ‘I’m extremely wasted’. Haha, yes, Van, ya sure were.

I walked up Cyprus Avenue last week, some lovely houses, can see why Van would have liked it when he lived in Orangefield!

In a way the luckiest people in the world are those of us who where young when this music was new and its now part of our souls to take us on the journey..

Personally, I think this is even better than the album version. Van's so fricking soulful here for a white boy from Ireland. And the band too, just amazingly soulful! My god, it's a tight performance isn't it.

Energy, passion. It’s too late to stop now

I've probably played this track a hundred times from my own collection. But to hear it AND see it performed here is stirring. It's amazing.

God, he is so good.

The vibe that starts growing at 6:00 is phenomenal. It's like you can hear Van powering up from it, that is magnificent live music.

honestly it's very hard to beat some of Van's live performances...i don't think there is anything that beats this.

I grew up listening to this album and it always reminds me of my mum who died in 2013 and has memories of summer days in the garden. I remember finding out it came out in 1965 and was surprised as the songs on it are timeless. Great music.

Such a powerful performer

No words words don’t do things like this justice

Yep that's Him in all His " Mistic Revelation " ... The only other time a performance moved me like this was sitting up front at a Ray Charles Concert ... When it was over I told my Friends I didn't want to move ... But the Song And this Performance Wow this was the Moment I Fell in Love with Van ❤️... I'd be " October's Fool " for Him ... " It's too late to Stop now -

Shivers down the spine........ Thanks Van The Man You and your music are loved and revered. ❤💚🎶

What a masterpiece ...epitomes of classical musical structures wieved into it . Just amazing .

Was lucky enough to see him live again this August near to me here in the Uk 👏👏 his voice and his saxophonist playing is as good as ever . His attitude will never change 👏👏👏👏👏. Love him 😘🇬🇧

Van had no equals his music will always touch your sole.

what a sense of blues timing, of stage presence, despite his rejection of the star system..he is a natural, he can't help it

And I'm caught one more time Up on Cyprus Avenue And I'm caught one more time Up on Cyprus Avenue And I'm conquered in a car seat Not a thing that I can do I may go crazy Before that mansion on the hill I may go crazy Before that mansion on the hill But my heart keeps beating faster And my feet can't keep still And all the little girls rhyme something On the way back home from school And all the little girls rhyme something On the way back home from school And the leaves fall one by one by one by one Call the autumn time a fool Yeah baby my tongue gets tied Every every every time I try to speak My tongue gets tied Every time I try to speak And my inside shakes just like a leaf on a tree I think I'll go on by the river with my cherry cherry wine I believe I'll go walking by the railroad with my cherry cherry wine If I pass the rumbling station where the lonesome engine drivers pine And wait a minute, yonder comes my lady Rainbow ribbons in her hair Yonder comes my lady Rainbow ribbons in her hair Six white horses and a carriage She's returning from the fair Baby, baby, baby And if I'm caught one more time Up on Cyprus Avenue And if I'm caught one more time Up on Cyprus Avenue And I'm conquered in a car seat And I'm looking straight at you Way up on, way up on, way up on.... The avenue of trees Keep walking down In the wind and the rain, darling You keep walking down when the sun shone through the trees Nobody, no, no, no, nobody stops me from loving you baby So young and bold, fourteen years old Baby, baby, baby... Ooooh-ee

This man has soul!

Been a 'Van Fan' for a long, lohg time, since the "Domino" days, and His Band and the Street Chior. Could listen to him all day and never get tired. There is no one like him, he Rocks!

this man , after five years of not hearing his songs..this one is such a TRIIIP !!

Magnificent version

Best audio I've heard from such an early show

An incredible performance.

God I love u van what a voice from an Irish lass love n adoration

Brilliant.

1970s: the time was ready for truths. Over were the days of peace and love. Soul and heart was being served by a very small community of artists and started to take our hearts. The 70s was an awakening. As far as music was concerned, the period between 1968-1977 was the most prolific, creative and needed. We were looking for content, not loudness, personal thought, not general expression, someone who would speak to our soul, not to the public. Van was a small voice (back then)..that grew. Thanx Van

Love the dramatic, James Brown inspired, performance every time! Can listen to van from this period over and over, for years, and always amazed.

This is like going to church for me. Many thanks, Music Vault.

Van was in his prime back during this period. Cyprus Avenue is one of my favorite Van songs along with "Into the mystic" and "The story of Them". Astral Weeks is my favorite Van Morrison album from 1968 the year I was born. He has the soul in his vocals like one of my favorite singers Otis Redding. Van's talent and music are amazing. It is sad many people in this world will only know him for "Brown eyed girl" Van has so many better songs on his albums and in his career in the music business. The best part of Van is he writes, sings, and plays several instruments.

An amazing song!

Force of nature, brings us deep into the stories he weaves with outstanding soul and artistry.

There is only one Van Morrison. Incredible voice, uses it like an instrument. And his lyrics...such a big part of my teenage years!

LISTEN,DAMMIT. THE LAST WALTZ. The movie about THE BAND! VA N BURNED THE STAGE! NEVER SAW ANYTHING SO MASTERFUL.

I must’ve played Astral Weeks a thousand times in the first few months after I discovered it. My girlfriend threatened to smash the disc. That relationship didn’t last needless to say.

Van made me want to write and sing like this...what a fantastic version!!! Thank you for this....Love You Van! You are THE MAN of words and voice and passion and grace...one of the GREATEST!!! "In all your mystic revelation Baby..."

I saw Van once at my college in Conn. He played a song, walked off and never returned. I was pissed because I was such a big fan. He is an amazing artist and I still listen to his stuff a lot.

He looks and sounds Sooo good here!! Love watching this.

Great. Simply great.

WOW

From( 9/23/70 ) this date till I draw my last breath I will say I Love Van Morrison!!!!! XOXOXO

Van the man.

First time in a long time inspired by a song and performance!

from my first vinyl...so vivid...so urgent..so poetic..so. enchanting...so hitting..home...thissss ticklin guitar..

Love Van then and now ❤️