[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trhrN39li1M[/youtube] This version unfortunately omits Mavis’ comment just after the end of the song -”beautiful!”  And that it was and is.

Thanks to Scott at Powerline for this post celebrating Van Morrison’s 61st birthday and tipping me off to a video on YouTube of Van Morrison singing "Caravan" with The Band during their "Last Waltz".  He makes the following observation about this particular performance: Van’s performance with the Band is memorably documented on film in Martin [...]

But, not because music consumers are "stealing" music.  Instead, the Internet and peer-to-peer filesharing disruptively enable musicians to become real business entrepreneurs by creating and maintaining their own distribution channel to their loyal, dedicated and" fanatical" customer base.  Tim Oren explains why this is so.