Simply singing the lyrics as written and playing the music as it is on the album would bring a different interpretation in itself. Van Morrison has the luxury of looking back at the compositions and the lyrics from the perspective of a 63-year-old man. My fascination is with the interpretation of these groundbreaking songs over the forty years. In 2008, Van Morrison played for two nights at the Hollywood Bowl (November 7 and 8), working with a orchestral string section, and performed the entire Astral Weeks album. By 2008, Kubrick had passed away and he did not have the ability to remake his film with the knowledge he had gained in the past forty years. The 40-year-old, Kubrick, used science fiction to symbolically discuss our humanity and our relationships with technology, Nature, and God. Sounds and images (especially classical music) are used in telling a story in ways that were also groundbreaking at the time. Also considered one of the most important films of all-time, 2001 also draws upon almost a stream of consciousness visual storytelling. The same year, 1968, Stanley Kubrick released his most important work, 2001: A Space Odyssey. These amazing lyrics were written and sung by a very talented 23-year-old. The songs did not necessarily tell a coherent story as much as all revolve symbolically around love and the relationship of our desires to greater ideals of heaven. The combination of pop, jazz, and blues influences of the music held my rapt attention. I found the stream of consciousness feel of the lyrics drew me in. I first encountered the album in my late teens as a budding fiction writer. Van Morrison's 1968 release, Astral Weeks has made just about every list of Top Albums Of All-Time that I've seen. It's that fact that brought me to Van Morrison's Astral Weeks: Live At The Hollywood Bowl.
But when a director makes a great film, he doesn't get a chance to remake it forty years later. The ones that tell stories that transcend the screen – that stick with you for years. The ones that put their stamp on their films.
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