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Poll Question: Real Time vs. Vital
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    Posted: May 13 2007 at 19:11
I'm a fan of the seventies bootlegs, but I also love Vital.  I haven't got Real Time yet.  

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Points: 2099 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2007 at 18:18
Yeah, the VDGG Bootlegs I have listened to sound like your standing thirty feet away from the stage and a coat is over you head. 
 
You heard hammill's vocal fury but cannot understand what he's saying. 
 
I have rendition of "La Rossa" which makes the studio version sound like a warm up run-though. 
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Points: 40 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2007 at 13:29
Sound quality is poor on Vital.... but I'm not sure that's THE critical consideration for live albums.   Are they not recreating the less than perfect listening conditions at any gig?
 
I can think of abysmal King Crimson (Earthbound), Gentle Giant (Live in Rome), and String Driven thing (live on the road)  but these live albums are almost a different genre - and I quite like their muddied and uneven sound
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Points: 1453 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2007 at 11:08
Therefore this poll is unfair for Vital - I should also add that it was very badly recorded (on used tape, on borrowed recording gear). Real Time had a better time.
yet you still have time!
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Points: 3497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2007 at 05:59
On the other hand, these two albums are quite difficult to compare.
 
Real Time is a Van der Graaf Generator album -- it has a classical Van der Graaf Generator line-up as well as it contains a classical VdGG repertoire.
 
Vital, in fact, is a Van der Graaf album, performing numbers from both Van der Graaf and Van der Graaf Generator albums, plus Peter Hammill solo track from the Van der Graaf period.
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Points: 3497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2007 at 05:12
Firdt of all, I'm not azquainted with any VdGG 70s bootleg.
 
You might put Maida Vale live recording in the poll, by the way.
 
Vital is an excellent album.
 
And I don't own Real Time yet. But I was in the concert, so I know the material, I heard it. And I definitely like Real Time more than Vital.
 
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Points: 2099 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 10 2007 at 23:41
What do you guys think?
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