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The Mountain Is Calling
(bootleg CD)

Label: FLU-016

1. Rough God Goes Riding
2. Foreign Window
3. Tore Down A La Rimbaud
4. Vanlose Stairway
5. Fool For Your
6. Sometimes We Cry
7. It Once Was My Life
8. I'm Not Feeling It Anymore (fade-out)
9. This Weight (fade-in)
10. Who Can I Turn To
11. In The Belly
12. Tupelo Honey / Why Must I Always Explain
13. Satisfied
14. The Healing Game
    Total time: (71:17)

Recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, Auditorium Stravinski, July 19, 1997 ("The Gala Night"). See note below.

Musicians:
Van Morrison: vocals, guitar, harmonica
Georgie Fame: vocals, organ
Ronnie Johnson: guitar
Geoff Dunn: drums
Nicky Scott: bass
Robin Aspland: piano
Pee Wee Ellis: soprano saxophone
Leo Green: saxophone
Matt Holland: trumpet
Brian Kennedy: vocals

Notes by André T.:
This disc is a deception in several ways. The bootleggers simply have taken the treed 2-CD version (Spring In My Heart) of this performance (they even haven't changed the fade-out / fade-in at the end of disc 1 / start of disc 2), cut the last track (the "See Me Through" Medley) and, probably by sloppily producing, introduced several flaws that are not on the originally treed version. They even have mislabelled the date of the performance that took place July 19, 1997, and not July 7. If you indeed wish to enjoy the best of this amazing and most enjoyable concert, you should look for the treed 2-CDR-version and leave this disc on the shelf.

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