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''It's Too Late to Stop Now'' is a 1974 live
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by Northern Irish singer-songwriter
Van Morrison Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards. As a teenager in t ...
. It features performances that were recorded in concerts at the Troubadour in
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, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, and
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in
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, during Morrison's three-month tour with his eleven-piece band, the Caledonia Soul Orchestra, from May to July 1973. Frequently named as one of the best
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s ever, ''It's Too Late to Stop Now'' was recorded during what has often been said to be the singer's greatest phase as a live performer. Volumes II, III and IV of the album were released as a box-set in 2016, also including a DVD.


Tour and performances

Noted for being a mercurial and temperamental live performer, during this short period of time in 1973, Morrison went on one of his most diligent tours in years. With his eleven-piece band,
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, which included a horn and string section, he has often been said to have been at his live performing peak.Hage, ''The Words and Music of Van Morrison'', p. 71 The tour was a dynamical musical journey for both Van Morrison and the band. "He wasn't looking to repeat himself. He wanted to create a new show every night." said Jef Labes Van was changing his phrasing with each performance and would be directing the band with hand gestures onstage. "We could take the songs anywhere Van wanted to take them" said guitarist Platania "Every performance of each song was different". The alternate recordings of songs on the various volumes from the 2016 box-set prove his point. Morrison said about touring during this period:
"I am getting more into performing. It's incredible. When I played
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in the fall something just happened. All of a sudden I felt like 'you're back into performing' and it just happened like that...A lot of times in the past I've done gigs and it was rough to get through them. But now the combination seems to be right and it's been clicking a lot."
Evidence of his newly invigorated joy in performing was on display during the ending of the over-ten-minute-long dynamic performance of "
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". When an audience member shouts out, "Turn it on!", Morrison good-naturedly replies, "It's turned on already." At the very end he finished the concert with a final heartfelt, "It's too late to stop now!" giving the album its title (this line first appeared on the song "
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"). The concert performances were described by Erik Hage as "sequences of a young soul lion whipping the crowd into a frenzy and then stopping on a dime—teasing out anticipation, rushing, receding, and coaxing every drop out of his band." Guitarist
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says "He had a funeral for a lot of his old songs on stage. With Caledonia, he really got off on performing. There was definitely joy getting onstage at that point. That was a wonderful time for everybody. It was really like a family. Ordinarily, with rock 'n' rollers, jazzers and classical musicians in the band, you'd think it was a three-headed serpent but everybody got along famously." The performances on the live album were from tapes made at the beginning of the tour in
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and also in
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. Marco Bario, who attended the opening night concert at The Troubadour, said in ''
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'': "he was exceptional. The mood was right, the audience was receptive, and the music left no comparisons to be made. It was the finest opening night performance by a consummate musician that I have ever witnessed." The London concerts were the first time he had appeared in that city since performing with
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, six years earlier.Yorke, ''Into the Music'', p. 116 The two concerts at the
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in London were referred to as "the rock event of the year" by critics according to
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in his biography. The 24 July 1973 London Rainbow concert was the first
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broadcast simultaneously on BBC 2 television and Radio 2 stereo so that viewers with strategically sited loudspeakers could enjoy "stereo TV". The broadcast took place on 27 May 1974.


Music

The album mixes songs that inspired Morrison's own musical development, together with some of his own compositions, and allied to a backing band and orchestra (
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), The album performances were reviewed by Myles Palmer of the ''Times'' as demolishing "all barriers between the soul, blues, jazz and rock genres". The songs chosen went back to his days with
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with versions of " Gloria" and "
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". His first solo hit "
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" was performed but not included on the album until the reissue in 2008. M. Mark called the album "an intelligent selection of songs that draws on six of Morrison's records and five of the musicians he learned from." These musicians were
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("Ain't Nothing You Can Do"),
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("I Believe to My Soul"),
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(" Bring It On Home to Me"), two songs by
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(" Help Me" and "Take Your Hands Out of My Pocket") and a cover of a
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song, " I Just Want to Make Love to You", which was popularized by
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. Additional musical influences are revealed by the 2016 box set;
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("Hey, Good lookin'") and
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("Since I fell for you"). The box also includes a new song at the time of the tour and not released on any other album; "I Paid The Price", which was about his marriage that was breaking up.


Production

''It's Too Late to Stop Now'' is thought to be one of the first live albums to have string players. The album was recorded (as noted in the album's
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) at two
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performances at The Troubadour in
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(24–27 May 1973) and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (29 June 1973), and a
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show at
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in (23–24 July 1973). Unlike most live rock albums, there was no studio overdubbing allowed by Morrison. "People cut live albums and they take it to the studio and play with it for about a year, but this one's just as it happened." said Morrison. Morrison strictly adhered to his concept of authenticity in presenting the live performance. "It's common practice to go back and fix things, but not with Van," bass player David Hayes said, "I think that's what makes it one of the best ever." Morrison's musical perfectionism prevented him from including the popular song "Moondance" in the original album due to one wrong guitar note. In 2016, a live recording of the song would be released as part of Volume II.


Release and reception

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''s Mike Jurkovic, when ''It's Too Late to Stop Now'' was first released in 1974, "everyone—and I do mean everyone—tripped over themselves to hail the two-LP set as one of the greatest live renderings of the rock era." Reviewing the album in ''
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hailed it as Morrison's best since ''
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'' (1970) while writing, "Songs that wore poorly or were just lame in the first place have more force and tightness here than in their studio versions". Ken Emerson was somewhat less impressed in ''
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'': "On ''It's Too Late'' Morrison's voice is in fine form, but much else is not...The other musicians, most of whom have played with Morrison many times before, never detract, but Morrison could be better served....But the power of Morrison's vocals overcomes these drawbacks." At the end of 1974, ''It's Too Late to Stop Now'' was voted the 20th best album of the year in the
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, an annual poll of American critics, published by ''
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''.
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, and Christgau ranked it 2nd, 6th, and 18th, respectively, in their ballots for the poll. Three months after the concerts for the ''Too Late to Stop Now'' tour, Morrison had disbanded
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and went on a vacation tour of
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for three weeks that resulted in the album ''
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''. In a retrospective review, Jason Ankenny from
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regarded the album as "an engaging, warm portrait of the man at the peak of his powers", while Morrison biographer John Collis called it "one of the most impressive of all attempts to squeeze the stage excitement of a rock performer on to vinyl." Fellow biographer
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said that "Morrison was in the midst of what was arguably his greatest phase as a performer." Chris Jones of the
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wrote: "In a live setting all the hyperbole about Morrison's blend of genres into one Celtic, mystic vision makes perfect sense. This is soul music in a very real sense." Hal Horowitz with ''American Songwriter'', on reviewing the 2008 remasters of some of Morrison's albums, said, "The classic is 1974’s double live ''It’s Too Late''…, rightfully on anyone’s shortlist of finest concert albums. Van typically blows hot and cold on stage, but when he ignites on the oldies and choice blues covers here, few can touch him for pure blue-eyed soul passion." ''It's Too Late to Stop Now'' has been on lists of greatest live albums of all time. A remastered version of the album was released on 29 January 2008 containing a live take of "
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" not included on the original release. This version was then not included on the 2016 reissue and is not currently available; a recording of the song from a different night was included on Volume II of the 2016 issues. On 10 June 2016, a box set containing the three complete Los Angeles (23 May 1973), Santa Monica (29 May 1973), and London (23/24 July 1973) shows, along with a DVD of the BBC footage from the 24 July show, was released as '' ..It's Too Late to Stop Now Vol. II, III, IV & DVD''.


Track listing


Original 1974 double LP

The compact disc version places sides one and two on disc one, with sides three and four, and the bonus track at the end of disc two.


Personnel

*
Van Morrison Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards. As a teenager in t ...
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* Nathan Rubin – first violin * Tom Halpin or Tim Kovatch – violin * Nancy Ellis –
viola The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...
* Teresa Adams –
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* Bill Atwood
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* Jack Schroer –
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and
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, backing vocals *
Jef Labes Jef Labes is an American keyboardist and musician. He is best known from his work with Van Morrison and Bonnie Raitt. Jef Labes has also arranged for string and woodwind instruments on numerous albums. Career Labes started his recording career ...
piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
, organ *
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, backing vocals * David Hayes
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, backing vocals * Dahaud Shaar (David Shaw) –
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, backing vocals


Production personnel

* Van Morrison,
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* Van Morrison, Jef Labes (strings), Jack Schroer (horns) –
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*
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, Myles Wiener, Biff Dawes, Jack Crymes, Gabby Garcia, Chris Chigaridas, Bill Broms, Bob Harper –
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Recording locations

* The Troubadour,
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,
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* Santa Monica Civic Auditorium,
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, California *
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,
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,
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Charts


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


Notes


References

* Collis, John (1996). ''Inarticulate Speech of the Heart'', Little Brown and Company, * Hage, Erik (2009). ''The Words and Music of Van Morrison'', Praeger Publishers, * Heylin, Clinton (2003). ''Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography'', Chicago Review Press * Hinton, Brian (2000). ''Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison'', Sanctuary, * Rogan, Johnny (2006). '' Van Morrison: No Surrender'', London:Vintage Books * Yorke, Ritchie (1975). ''Into The Music'', London:Charisma Books,


External links


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