Van der graaf generator live
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Topic: Van der graaf generator live
Posted By: Foxprog
Subject: Van der graaf generator live
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 10:42
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I just bought tickets to Vdgg concert! I'm really eager to see what Hammill, Banton and Evans can do live :) Anybody seen they live in this century? |
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 10:55
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Friede and I saw them live 2005 in Leverkusen, which is very close to
Cologne (where we live). still with David Jackson. the show was recorded
for the German TV-program "Rockpalast". it can be found on youtube -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 00:00
| Reminds me that I'm going to the gig in Bath coming up in April. It will also be my first time VDGG experience. Can't wait! |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 00:09
| I am also waiting their first concert in Finland in May really much!! But I still believe Yes will be better, but who knows? |
Posted By: aprusso
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 00:51
| Going to Berlin in April. Long haul.... |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 06:56
| Probably going to go to the Manchester show in May. First time for me too. I wonder what the set list will be. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 07:30
I have a ticket for their show in Genova early April. Have seen them once in London in the Royal Festival Hall. Looking a bit around it seems this was in 2005, although it doesn't feel that long ago. Incredible, they as well as me will be 15 years older this time! Even in 2005 they said something like "we have recently only met at former roadies' funerals and we need to do a tour now because later there may not be a chance anymore"...  Pretty vital still though! |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 07:38
hey, we were at the RFH too in 2005; I forgot to mention it in the other post. it was May 6th; their first public concert in 27 years
------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Lewian wrote:Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 07:40
I also believe we once were at the same Peter Hammill gig in Bochum.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 08:05
not I; I never saw him live in Bochum. but probably Friede; she saw him in Bochum several times. there is one solo concert of him she keeps telling me about. he had already given 5 encores, and the roadies had already completely emptied the stage. but the audience still wanted more, so he finally came back, went to the front of the stage and sang "Again" without instrument or microphone. it must have been a magical moment; I envy her for that experience. it happened before I came to Germany ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 08:29
| I saw them twice. Both times at Nearfest. I also saw PH solo once. All good shows. The first time at NF they played with Steve Hillage coming on before them and I thought Steve Hillage was better. However, they played again a few years later and were better imo(not better than Steve because he wasn't on the bill the second time but better than their first appearance). |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 08:34
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saw Hammill solo 3 or 4 times (1 with stu gordon), pretty good each time. The Mighty Graaf once in 2009, they were excellent...a mindblowing 'Still Life'. ------------- |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 10:36
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Anyone actually see them in the old days...? 1970-77......just curious. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 10:48
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I saw them at the NMCM in 2013. However, I was well pissed so I don't remember much...... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Duddick
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 14:19
| I saw them in November 77 at Hull University when they were going out as just plain Van Der Graaf. Great gig - very intense. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 14:44
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Was this the gig..? ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Duddick
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 14:48
| It was! |
Posted By: Duddick
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 14:48
| it was! |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 15:57
Yeah, I mixed the two of you up, sorry. And I was at that gig indeed. Indeed it was one of the best I've seen. Must have been around 1991.
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: January 22 2020 at 16:45
got my ticket for Dresden  flying from Kyiv, UA therehttps://www.setlist.fm/stats/van-der-graaf-generator-bd6b52e.html" rel="nofollow - Judging from post-Jackson setlists , they play a lot of 2008 and 2011 (not a huge fan of these) and just a handful of "classic" tracks - mostly Pawn Hearts (not a fan again... err should I even attend the show?  ) and some Godbluff/Still Life ones too (finally something I love!). They haven't been touring in support of Do Not Disturb so maybe some of the most recent songs will be featured, too.I wish they'd play "Darkness 11/11" but probably won't happen without sax 
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 23 2020 at 12:40
I lived in Dortmund when I went to that concert, so it can't have been later than 1989, the year I moved to Cologne. My guess is it was 1988. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Pretty vital still though!
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 24 2020 at 07:04
I actually moved to Dortmund in 1990 and from there went to Bochum to see that concert, so you're right, it can't be the same concert, although I read a description of yours and thought, that must have been it. Maybe he did it more than once like this, however to be honest I don't remember all the details so maybe I could've known that it wasn't the same.
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Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: January 25 2020 at 11:30
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Five times, sadly all of them without Jaxon. Bydgoszcz and Kraków 2007, Prague 2009 and 2011, Dresden 2013 and last year Hammill solo in Warszawa and Kraków All of them were amazing, how they did manage to sound so mighty with just three-person lineup. And Hammill captivating us with just piano/guitar. All of you going to see VDGG live, prepare to be blown out. ------------- yet you still have time! |
Posted By: claudio_araya
Date Posted: February 06 2020 at 12:57
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Nunca he visto en vivo VdGG, espero verlos en mi peregrinaje hacia UK, seria Birmingham-Bath y London, espero salga todo bien... solo he visto a PHammill acį en Chile-SouthAmerica en 1999, y esa noche termino su show y nos quedamos un puńado esperando lo inesperado, y luego de retirar equipos y bajar las luces salio y canto acapella "Vision"... fue sublime...
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 07 2020 at 01:19
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Damn lucky, OP! I'm on a VDGG kick as of late (H to HE through Godbluff; what else do you need? Lol). ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |