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    Posted: June 28 2005 at 17:10
I missed this band (vdGG) first time around (seventies), and just today got my first CD of them in the mail. I am speechless. I can't remember when I had such a strong reaction to a CD I listened to for the first time. Magnificent music. 
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Welcome to the wonderful world of VDGG.  They've just released remasters of Godbluff and Still Life, two of my other favorites of theirs.  Can't wait till they arrive.
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Points: 521 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2005 at 17:30

Hooked after the very first spin! Welcome to the gang!

 
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Points: 1230 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2005 at 20:03
Yep, i cant describe the fist time i listened to plague of lighthouse keepers, i was in absolute awe. Congrats, and welcome to the mind of Peter Hammill.
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I'm in a real VDGG mood at the moment myself ... I just sent in reviews on the five albums from Least We Can Do until Still Life ...

H To He's my personal favourite and Refugees (on Least We Can Do) is my favourite song ... but Pawn Hearts is pretty damn awesome too ...

As great as the music is though ... I have to say that prolonged listening to some of the material can tap into a rather depressing place ... at least for me ... I haven't been able to get House With No Door out of my head the last two days ...

As for Hammill solo ... be careful ... I've got six albums, and that's just the tip of the iceberg ...
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Points: 166183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2005 at 23:26
It is really great stuff. At least you got to experience it.  Go for the rest young man! (ok so that was horrible and many of you probably wont get it, but its bad so i can understand why)
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The remastered Still Life could be a real treat, based on what PH has said on his website:

               on "Still Life" a truly scary version of "Gog" from Bangor in '75
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Originally posted by Trotsky Trotsky wrote:

As great as the music is though ... I have to say that prolonged listening to some of the material can tap into a rather depressing place ... at least for me ... I haven't been able to get House With No Door out of my head the last two days ...

"House With No Door" is definitely NOT a song to listen to when being in a suicidal mood!!! Makes you want to jump out of the nearest window then, and one can only hope you live on ground floor. It is a great song though, but this warning should be uttered.

We have the full oeuvre of Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator at home, and we are going to buy the digital remasters of the VdGG and early Hammill albums. Some 60+ records, in a lot of different styles, yet there is something typically "Hammillish" about each of them. And it is not only his voice, since some of his output is instrumental only. Perhaps it is just his doing whatever he feels like. He doesn't always make it easy for his fans; it took me a lot of time to appreciate an album like "And Close As This", for example, although I am a real Hammill afficonado. On the other end of his spectrum are albums like "Loops and Reels" or "Spur of the Moment" (together with Guy Evans), which are equally difficult to access, but for completely different reasons. He is one of the most daring musicians of the world. (I lately read he did some concerts with the Kronos Quartet; I would certainly have liked to have heard one of those).



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Points: 42 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 29 2005 at 07:21
Dragon Phoenix, do you have tickets to the show next month in Amsterdam?
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Nope.... no time.
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