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"Saint Dominic's Preview" is the title song on the 1972 sixth album of Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. Gary Mallaber (from the ''Moondance'' album) plays drums on this song and Morrison's then wife, Janet Planet, is one of the back-up vocalists. The horns were arranged by Tom Salisbury, pianist on the song. Salisbury came up with the intro too. Doug Messenger, who played guitar, suggested the Hammond organ that comes in as Morrison intones, "...across the street from Cathedral Notre Dame." John McFee, of group Clover, added the pedal steel, to bring instrumental Americana into the recording. ==Recording and composition== It was recorded during one of the ''Saint Dominic's Preview'' recording sessions that took place in the Wally Heider and Pacific High Studios in San Francisco and the Church in San Anselmo, California in late winter-early spring 1972.〔Heylin, ''Can You Feel the Silence?'', p. 520〕 St. Dominic's, the song, was recorded exclusively at Wally Heider's. It is said to contain Morrison's most Dylanesque lyrics. The words form images but not a complete story as they are mixed with a variety of subjects such as cleaning windows, Edith Piaf's soul, Yeats and Hank Williams. Touching on the Belfast situation at that time (The Troubles), there are references to "orange" boxes, "flags and emblems" and people determined "not to feel anyone else's pain." Perhaps referring to his personal life and successful career at this time in his life are the lines: :''All the restaurant tables are completely covered :''And the record company has paid out for the wine :''You got ev'rything in the world you ever wanted :''And right about now your face should wear a smile Morrison has said the song came to him in a stream of consciousness and that he later picked up a newspaper and read an announcement of a mass that was being held in a St. Dominic's church in San Francisco for peace in Belfast.〔Rogan. ''No Surrender'', p. 274〕 As he told John Grissim:〔 I'd been working on this song about the scene going down in Belfast. And I wasn't sure what I was writing but the central image seemed to be this church called St Dominic's where people were gathering to pray or hear a mass for peace in Northern Ireland. A few weeks later I was playing at a gig in Reno, Nevada. I picked up a newspaper, and there in front of me was an announcement about a mass for peace in Belfast to be said the next day at St Dominic's Church in San Francisco. Totally blew me out. Like I'd never even heard of a St Dominic's Church. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saint Dominic's Preview (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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