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Yeah...i am baffled that everyone likes it so much. To me , it doesn't come close to touching Silent Corner and The Empty Stage or Chameleon In the Shadow of The Night. I, obviously being a HUGE fan of Hammill/Vdgg have listened to that lp over and over trying to GET it. I do not hate it, but I just feel it was a weaker effort on Hammill's part is all.

Hmm. Well, that's the first time I've heard that from a Hammill fan.  I love Chameleon and Silent Corner, but In Camera has fantastic material too! "Faint-Heart & The Sermon", "The Comet, The Course, The Tail", "Ferret And Featherbird", "Gog", "No More The Sub-Mariner"... just brilliant stuff. My top 3 Hammills are Over, Silent Corner and In Camera.

How do you guys feel about later period PH? I quite like Fireships, The Noise and This.

beterdedthnred4 wrote: I disagree that 72-74 were lost years.  Peter Hammill was putting out VDGG albums under his own name the whole time.  I especially like Over

Only "Over" is from 1976.

beterdedthnred4 wrote: I disagree that 72-74 were lost years.  Peter Hammill was putting out VDGG albums under his own name the whole time.  I especially like Over

Hammill did some excellent stuff in 73-74...no doubt...as far as 72 went I think he just basically sat on his ass that year. Chameleon in the Shadow of Night and Silent Corner and the Empty Stage are fantastic SOLO lps. Aside from a few tunes, most do not have that VdGG sound whatsoever. I never thought much of In Camera.

PS: Over was in 77' and sounds nothing like a VdGG lp.

BebieM wrote: gdub411 wrote: When you consider where VdGG were compared to the other greats it seems to me that they were WAY ahead of the game IMO. It makes me sad of the fact of those 3 years that were lost...72-74....ah....if if's and buts were candy and nuts......sigh. Yeah, i thought that too .... the only album of comparable "progresiveness" at that time was ITCOTCK (and In the Wake of Poseidon)

Trespass (1970) was pretty proggy too.

A lot of the Canterbury bands were prog as well around 1969-1970 in their own canterbury way.

NetsNJFan wrote: nousommedusolei wrote: Yes, it sort of made me angry when I bought it, expecting a 23+ minute song and then finding out that that it's about 8 minutes. Still a great song, though. Hooray for Fripp! hooray for Banton/Jackson/Evans/Smith! Excellent track on and equally excellent album.  possibly my favorite of 1970.

When you consider where VdGG were compared to the other greats it seems to me that they were WAY ahead of the game IMO. It makes me sad of the fact of those 3 years that were lost...72-74....ah....if if's and buts were candy and nuts......sigh.