Fast Forward a Few Decades
It took over three decades for it to finally achieve gold in 2001. Fast forward seven years and Densmore got a call, on November 6, 2008, from “Van’s people.” They wanted to know if Densmore could play Gloria with Van Morrison and his band at the Hollywood Bowl.
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The plan was for Van to perform some of his oldies but goodies up to intermission, and then Astral Weeks would play in the second half. Densmore’s response was “Hell yes!” After all, he had already played that song with him all those years ago at the Whiskey a Go-Go. The drummer then went to the rehearsal at the Bowl.