Van der Graaf Generator

Тот самый минитур, я сразу узнала антураж. ))

Милан, 18 ноября 2024

Молодцы итальянцы, что написали об этом.. как раз думала, неужели никто ничего так и не напишет.. можно подумать, Хэммилл каждый месяц куда - то с концертами мотается..

Dorie Jackson - Stupid Says Run

https://talkingelephantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stupid-says-run...ut_mobile_menubar=true

Dorie is already well known for her work as backing vocalist with Chris Difford, Francis Dunnery, William Topley, Marti Pellow and as one of the joint lead singers for prog rock band Kaprekar’s Constant. She has
also been steadily developing her own solo career creating a demand to hear more of her in her own right.
...

It was especially important to Dorie that her father, David, added his unique touch to the music. One of the most important figures of 1970’s progressive rock, David weaves flute, horns and whistles throughout the
album.
...

Папа Дэвид появляется в нескольких песнях, безусловно украшая альбом.

Netflix снимает документальный фильм о Питере Хэммилле. Премьера 2 ноября ( прямо под день рождения)

https://sportzhuz.com.ng/2025/02/03/netflix-has-announced-the-upcoming-release-of-a-com...

Missed this yesterday, but it was the 51st Anniversary (Feb 21st, 1974) of the recording for Captain Banana (Banton/Jackson/Evans). Great tune, info below!

Captain Banana - 1974
(Banton) (Static Music Ltd)

Hugh Banton : Organs, Piano, Bass Gtr
David Jackson : Saxes
Guy Evans : Drums

Recorded at Chalk Farm Studios, London. 21st February 1974
Recording engineer : Neil Richmond
Tape operator : Sue Lowe

Hugh Banton:
In 1974 Van der Graaf Generator was, as it turned out, half way through a sabbatical that would last until our reformation in the autumn of that year, soon followed by the release of the album Godbluff in 1975. We band members were never far from each others’ company however; the previous summer of ‘73 had seen the recording of ‘The Long Hello’, and the four of us had recently played together again for tracks on Peter Hammill’s ‘The Silent Corner ..’.

Captain Banana is one of several instrumentals I devised during this period. Writing this kind of thing has always been one of my sporadic musical sidelines and which has, on more than one occasion, very nearly led me down a parallel career path.

By the end of ‘73 I was living away from London, but it seems I had managed to persuade VdGG’s record label Charisma to finance one or two professional recording sessions, accompanied by my former bandmates Guy & David, to see where this might lead.

Chalk Farm Studios was located in a former Victorian townhouse at 1a Belmont Street, just across the road from London’s Roundhouse. Owned and put together by sound-recording maestro Vic Keary, who a decade earlier had engineered Acker Bilk’s ‘Stranger on the Shore’, a no. 1 instrumental hit on both sides of the Atlantic. By the mid-70s Chalk Farm had become the studio of choice within the burgeoning London Reggae scene; many of the UK’s biggest Reggae hits were recorded there. You could say it had an atmosphere.

A few days after recording Captain Banana I got an invite that led to me joining the innovative multi-keyboard band Seventh Wave, who were based at the studio, and that brought me back up to London. I joined a flat-share with Neil and Sue who I’d met at the session.

I’m still occasionally in touch with Neil, he continued with a successful career as a record producer. Sue Lowe (who incidentally the following month at Chalk Farm solo engineered the track for Ken Boothe’s no. 1 Reggae hit ‘Everything I Own’) well, a year later she became Sue Banton – our Golden Wedding is coming up in 2025!

Nothing ever became of this particular Banton-Jackson-Evans endeavour, and Captain Banana has never been previously released. I figured this 50th anniversary might be the fitting moment.

Hugh Banton, 1 Feb 2024.
credits
released February 1, 2024
license

https://hughbanton.bandcamp.com/track/captain-banana...ulQk9EaQ_aem_Udcbd-xy0j6tBLudBCzDXw

На Ютубе нету. :/

Ranking the Van der Graaf Generator Studio Albums


Какая весёлая и экспрессивная подача, мне очень понравилось. Хотя мой личный ranking и не совпадает с мнением автора..👍
Pawn Hearts пора переслушать, видимо.

Pawn Hearts

Man- Erg


и следом Lighthouse - контрольный в голову для тех, кто умудрился выжить после ^


Да...ну и альбомище. Неудивительно, что он часто мелькает в любимых, а в рейтингах всегда на высоких местах.
❤️

2Fragile:

>Pawn Hearts
>Да...ну и альбомище. Неудивительно, что он часто
>мелькает в любимых, а в рейтингах всегда на высоких местах.

Тоже переслушаю как-нибудь. Для меня было шоком, когда Джонни Роттен признался в любви к этой группе. На этом фоне его пинкфлойдовская майка выглядит совершенно по-другому.

2Old Bluesman:

>пинкфлойдовская майка

Вот лучше бы он ВдГГ-шную майку и надел, под такие признания.

Переслушайте, конечно... альбом очень сильный. Я, пока слушала поздние, успела подзабыть, что там было на ранних.. наследие ведь большое у группы, к счастью. Переоткрывала Pawn Hearts заново, можно сказать.
Необузданная мощь гения Хэммилла.. как можно было такое записать, ведь молодые совсем были..

Prog UK April 2025.

Какие тут у вас темы хорошие! Я делал про них 4 эфира у дяди Володи. Был на 2х московских концертах VDGG и двух московских сольниках PH. Но это не особо круто... Есть люди, которые по Италиям ездят регулярно и даже лично общаются)

2mike_zoso:

>Есть люди, которые по Италиям ездят регулярно
>и даже лично общаются)

Приводите их сюда. А то тема хорошая, а пообщаться в ней не с кем ( почти)..

Rare, recently found 1976 Van der Graaf Generator live footage hailed as "extraordinary" by Peter Hammill

Very rare and previously unseen footage of Van der Graaf Generator performing in Toronto in 1976 has been released via YouTube and which you can watch below.


"Here's something fairly extraordinary," VdGG's Peter Hammill wrote on his BlueSky page having seen the footage. "Recently found 8mm footage has been married up with audio and it's now possible to see/hear 12 mins of VdGG at Massey Hall Toronto '76."

The footage was filmed at Toronot's Massey Hall on October 15, 1976 by 18-year-old Michael Boyce, and features the only known live concert footage of VdGG during their legendary World Record tour of 1976. VdGG biographer Jim Christopulos was the catalyst in bringing the film to a wider audience.

"I've been secretly working on this one for a while," Christopulos, also drummer with Chicago blues band Howard & the White Boys, wrote on Facebook. "Finally done!"

Hammill's former manager Gail Colson also expressed her delight, stating, "Peter sent this to me a couple of hours ago. Goodness, you have been busy, well done. All the best, Gail."

https://www.loudersound.com/news/rare-recently-found-1976-van-der-graaf-generator-live-...

2Corvin:

>Very rare and previously unseen footage

Gog.
Не совсем понимаю эту вещь, но здорово, что нашли и отреставрировали видео.

David "Jaxon" Jackson - 78!👍

Gentlemen Prefer Blues

Melody Maker 29 October 1977