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Lester Bangs on Astral Weeks: http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~murray/astral.html

Wolfgang's Vault has long been home to some of the finest live concert audio recordings of the past 40 plus years, and a couple of weeks back the site finally brought online a large part of its massive video collection as well. The sudden availability of hundreds of hours of free streaming concert video from the Bill Graham archive is fantastic news for music fans everywhere, and we've only had time to digest a tiny part of it, including Van Morrison's "Cyprus Avenue", and the Allman Brothers' "Whipping Post" (both recorded at the Fillmore East in September 1970). As mentioned in the show, you should really check out Lester Bangs' excellent musings on Astral Weeks. The first full-length show that really caught our eye was the Who's final performance on their Tommy tour, recorded on the Tanglewood stage in July of 1970, and only seen in bits and pieces until now.

Links to full-length performances:

http://www.rockpeaks.com/video/m/Morrison-Van/Fillmore-East-1970/Cyprus-Avenue

http://www.rockpeaks.com/video/a/Allman-Brothers/Fillmore-East-1970/Whipping-Post

http://www.rockpeaks.com/video/w/Who/Tanglewood-1970/Overture

http://www.rockpeaks.com/video/w/Who/Tanglewood-1970/Sparks