donovan reissues

[jefferoo]

who saw they rereleased: sunshine superman, mellow yellow, hurdy gurdy man and barabajagal on cd with a buttload of bonus tracks?
I certainly did.
this is the best thing to happen to me in a while.

[pierrecoghill]

wow i just looked at them on amazon, that is really awesome! i like how barabajagal has twice as many songs now! this is very exciting, i need some money now, haha:D

[call me hi]

he was playing for free last night in st paul, but unfortunately i couldn't make it. pretty bummed about that.

[vacantmoon]

man i've been dying for him to tour the South - i can't find anything that lists 2005 dates for him.. anybody know of a link/site w/ dates?

i just picked up those reissues and they're great :P

[thinkingthinking]

I saw him live when I was, like 16 (that's 19 years ago now!), and I got an autographed picture! I don't know where it is now...

[jefferoo]

www.donovan.ie

that is all I know of.
I saw him last summer at joes pub in the greenwich village
it was to die for.
I got him to autograph my open road lp.
he's a nice man.

[vacantmoon]

thanks for the link :)

when you saw him last summer jefferoo do you remember roughly what kind of setlist he was doing - i'd love to know!

[jefferoo]

I think he did sunshine superman, season of the witch, riki tiki tavi, universal soldier, colors, wear your love like heaven, a bunch of stuff of beat cafe (which isn't that bad) he did some psychedelic dance thing where he played the flute, and a few others.
his backup band was a jazz quartet, I believe. It sounded amazing, actually.
Between songs, he told stories from his life that almost linked the songs together.
It was incredible.
candy john carr was playing bongos, too.
oh
and he played mellow yellow.

[Edited on 7-2-2005 by jefferoo]

[vacantmoon]

cool thanks man. i think beat cafe is pretty great myself. one or two of the songs are from the 60s that he hadn't put on any other albums before. it's his best record since the early-mid 70s i'd say.

[jefferoo]

I saw donovan again a couple nights ago at the long island summer stage in oyster bay.
it was phenomenal.
here is his setlist... let me know if I got the titles wrong or missed any (i was a teeny bit late showing up):
catch the wind
ballad of geraldine
josie
sunny goodge st
little tin soldier
universal soldier
colors
sunshine superman
barabajagal
season of the witch
lalena
beat cafe
lovers love
mexico
guenivere
young girl blues
jennifer juniper
local boy chops wood
wear your love like heaven
there is a mountain
hurdy gurdy man
mellow yellow (encore)
atlantis (encore)

[vacantmoon]

AWESOME :D