Who Was It?

Who was the guy playing the Martin guitar?

It was Van Morrison. He is a legendary Grammy Award-winning Irish singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician for more than four decades. He plays a variety of instruments, including the guitar, harmonica, keyboards, drums, and saxophone. Featuring his characteristic growl — a unique mix of throaty folk, blues, Irish, scat, and Celtic influences — Morrison is widely considered one of the most unusual and influential vocalists in the history of rock and roll. Critic Greil Marcus has gone so far as to say that "no white man sings like Van Morrison." (from Wikipedia)

Over the years, Van "the Man" has been INCREDIBLY influencial on modern music. Here he is performing with Robbie Robertson and the Band on their classic concert film The Last Waltz. If you watch it, make sure you turn your volume up a little louder and watch it all the way to the end. He does not really get into the song until about half way through!