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    Posted: January 17 2007 at 02:14
Some news about the long time expected CD:
 
The live recording of the VdGG Reunion concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 2005 is going to be released at the start of March.
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Points: 15535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2007 at 02:15
Yay! Now if only I had the money...
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Hooray! Clap

About time too.

As expected, it seems they'll be on 2 discs.  Having heard this concert in its full form (with no gaps or anything), I must say it'll be the live release of the year!  Actually, it'll be the album of the year!
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Yes, it'll be a double CD. The concert lasted for some 2 hours and 14 minutes, i.e. 134 min., which makes each CD to be fulled by some 67 min. of music, 14 pieces.
 
And, undoubtedly, it'll be the release of the year.
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Great news.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2007 at 02:30
It was the release of the year bootleg-wise, in 2005! LOL

I shall definitely be getting a copy, although it'll be on Hammill's Fie! label, which means it may not be as easy to get hold of.  I'll be able to get a copy though, I'm sure.

What are peoples' thoughts on Singularity, by the way?  I rather like it.  I need further listens, but the final track is wonderful and rather innovative.

And of course, the threesome... will it work?  How will the band play the classics without Jaxon?

I have some thoughts on this, but I want yours!
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Haven't bought Singularity yet...Unhappy

As for the new VdGG trio -- for some reasons, I think they won't play classic VdGG pieces at all.
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They will play classic pieces.

Hammill says in his Newsletter: We will certainly be playing new material as well as old and the prospects are most exciting, even if there's a degree of trepidation involved. Further shows and recording should follow later in the year.

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Points: 3497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2007 at 02:44
Well, are Aerosol... pieces and "Gog" count as "classic"?Wink
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2007 at 02:47
To me, yes, but Gog/Magog (In Bromine Chambers) is a Hammill song.

I love TAGM and think it's highly underrated as an album.  Some of the best live VdGG tracks are their later versions of TAGM tracks when Jaxon was onboard.

I just believe tracks that Jackson co-wrote will be avoided, due to the spat between Hammill and Jackson.

I don't believe they're even on speaking terms, but of course, I have no idea, but if the rumours are true, then it's a sad state of affairs. Disapprove
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Points: 3497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2007 at 02:53
Seriously, now, it's going to be quite exciting to hear their classics without Jackson. I won't hear them at the concerts, so, tell me how it was after that (in case you'll be at those concerts, of course).
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2007 at 02:55
I don't know if I'm going to see them yet, I would like to, but it's all a matter of finding someone to go with.

If I go, it'll be the Barbican show.

Well I have to say I'm not as excited as you are at the prospect of no Jaxon, unless they do TAGM material.

I can't imagine Killer without Jackson for starters. Ermm
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OK, "exciting", maybe, isn't a right word. "Interesting" rather.
 
However, I, like most other people, can hardly imagine them without Jackson, to be honest.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2007 at 03:06
Indeed.  I love TAGM as an album, but as soon as Jackson came in, they became even more amazing.

Having said that, some of Hammill's solo albums without Jackson guesting, are wonderful.  Do remember the Vital concert... that had no Banton and that worked (just about).

I'm not sure if the VdG line-up did the classics normally though... Jackson only came in for that one concert after all.
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Well, since when Mr Hammill and VDGG have been playing studio material note by note??
 
And may I quote the infamous Spinal Tap movie: I've got two hands, no problem (the keyboardist part)?
 
And I am of course going to obtain the double CD, but still my local online prog music store has not released Singularity! Mad as a Hatter I am!!
yet you still have time!
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What does the setlist looks like
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Points: 163 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2007 at 14:37
See http://www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/vdgg_rfh060505.htm for all you wanted to know about the RFH gig.

    

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Certainly an intersting track list...not exactly my favorite VDGG songs, but I'm sure they were done with perfection. And of course there are some favs in Killer, Man Erg, EBE, Wondering, etc...

 
Can't wait til March. Certainly in the top three of my most anticipated albums of '07. Hug
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Points: 15535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2007 at 15:04
Originally posted by bucka001 bucka001 wrote:

"VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR release "REAL TIME" a live double album on FIE! Records on Monday 5th March.

On 6th May 2005 Van der Graaf Generator staged their reunion concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The event had sold out within days of its announcement and over twenty five different nationalities were represented among the ticket holders, none of whom believed that they would ever see Banton, Evans, Jackson and Hammill perform again as VdGG. After all, the last time they had done so had been twenty nine years previously. Expectations and stakes were high.

"Collective breath was held as they advanced on stage. What would they play? How would it sound? Would it be worth risking the reputation of the past with these present efforts?

"With suprises as well as old favourities, new songs as well as recovered classics, the event was, in the end, a triumph for critics and public alike.

"This double CD contains every note from first to last in real time as a true document of a unique occasion. This is very exciting stuff indeed."




I thought I would repost this from the "new" thread into the original thread about this topic.
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Points: 3928 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2007 at 16:47
What a set list!! Obviously they were never going to do 'Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers' but pretty much every other fave of mine was played. 2007 is shaping up to be a GREAT year for prog.
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