Though this anecdote may have grown in the telling, it illustrates the adolescent Van Morrison's otherness. He's upstairs in his room writing poetry.' 'Yer man can't play,' he told the other band members. Van's mother, Violet, answered, and after a few seconds of banter Walsh returned to the minibus alone. Once, before a gig in Derry, the band's minibus pulled up outside his house on Hyndford Street, east Belfast and lead singer Alfie Walsh knocked on the door. Damaged Tape - 2009/2006 - The Erotic Couch/Cannib.In the early Sixties the young George Ivan Morrison briefly played saxophone in a Belfast showband called the Olympics.Alan Watts - 1967 - The Sound of Hinduism.That said, you won't quite get the psychedelic freak out by way of Kenneth Anger that the cover suggests. Dennis Olivieri's disc can be quite amusing should you have an affinity for jazz-rock and don't mind a few copied Van Morrison moves. This isn't the most wacked out thing that we've come across at the Psychedelic Garage, but there are a few oddball moments to be found. Olivieri doesn't really have that level of songwriting chops. Olivieri seems to be trying to channel Astral Weeks period Van Morrison as much as he can on 'Lady Fair' and the title track, while he comes across as drunker-than-hell on the closing 'Yesterday Wan Nuthin' Like Today.' I guess it's supposed to close the album in a similar manner to the Stones 'Something Happened to Me Yesterday' on Between the Buttons, but Mr.

It's tremeloed organ is enticing, although the production does seem oddly muffled in this one. After a few minimalist tracks like 'Mama's Funeral Song' and 'Walk Rite Out,' 'I Cry in the Morning' gives us an eerie psych ballad. Although 'Opportunity' has a jaunty, jazzy beat, Olivieri seems to be going on about something significantly more depressing. The first couple tracks serve up some jazz rockers that chug along nicely. This doesn't always add up to musical nirvana, but there are a few winners lurking about as well as a couple tunes that will leave your jaw hanging bemusedly. Olivieri's voice does tend to be somewhat warbling, but he keeps it under control just enough that it usually works in a 4am bar sort of way. There are components of bad trip lyrics, jazz rock, blue eyed soul, and a touch of psych rock wafting around the grooves of this record. It certainly is an odd party that Dennis Olivieri has invited us to.

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