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Points: 10377 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 29 2005 at 17:35

Originally posted by NetsNJFan NetsNJFan wrote:

anyone know if there is a VdGG live album with the song PILGRIMS (from Still Life).  I am obsessed with that song, by far my favorite VdGG song.

Not an official one. It was also not on the track list on the reunion concert (of which there are rumors it will be published as double CD). The track list of the reunion concert was:

Undercover Man
Scorched Earth
Refugees
Every Bloody Emperor (of the new album)
Lemmings
(In the) Black Room
Nutter Alert (also from new album)
Darkness (11/11)
Masks
Childlike Faith in Childhood's End
The Sleepwalkers
Man-erg
Killer
Wondering

Killer and Wondering were the encores.


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Points: 3047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 29 2005 at 17:50
I love Refugees.

Thanks for the response BaldJean.
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Originally posted by penguindf12 penguindf12 wrote:

Dang. They aren't planning to tour in America, I guess?....I guess they probably won't, they never toured here, even in their prime.

I heard somewhere that the remaster of "Vital" is coming out soon. Does anyone know more about this?

And still, is there in existence a live full version of "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"?

 

VDGG only played 1 American show (in NYC 1976 I think), and a couple in Canada that year.

They actually NEVER played "Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" live, but they did do it for a Belgian TV show (available on the "Godbluff Live" DVD), they actually had to film it in sections and piece it together.



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Points: 831 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 29 2005 at 23:01

....why'd they do that? Not play their grand masterpiece live...ever?!

They ought to revive it sometime, maybe for the next tour...
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So how is the sound quality of  the "Vital" and "Maida Vale" albums? I'm listening to two mp3 downloads from the Van Der Graaf Generator website, and the quality is pitiful. How is the sound quality in relation to these tracks? (Killer, live 1976, and Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever, live 1978) I want to know so I can decide whether it's worth it to buy these live albums or not.

Here's the link to the mp3 page:

http://www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/mp3.htm

And here's the individual downloads:

http://www.wollaston-northants.co.uk/vdgg/killer.mp3

http://www.wollaston-northants.org.uk/vdgg/catseye.mp3
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Originally posted by penguindf12 penguindf12 wrote:

Special effects...you mean like onstage antics and special effects? Man, I can only imagine what a band like them would do onstage in their prime....I'm scared even now....

I own the DVD...the special efects are these lamo candles lit all over the room to give it a proggy atmosphere. Peter Hammill never gets up from his piano and they do no antics on stage.
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Points: 4215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2005 at 20:38
I'd really like to see the show they are doing in Athens, Greece at the Lycabettus Theatre on 21st July.  Because Steven Wilson's Blackfield and Porcupine Tree will be playing with them.
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Points: 10377 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2005 at 20:45
Originally posted by penguindf12 penguindf12 wrote:

So how is the sound quality of  the "Vital" and "Maida Vale" albums? I'm listening to two mp3 downloads from the Van Der Graaf Generator website, and the quality is pitiful. How is the sound quality in relation to these tracks? (Killer, live 1976, and Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever, live 1978) I want to know so I can decide whether it's worth it to buy these live albums or not.

No wonder, both of the tracks you downloaded are bootlegs. "Vital" doesn't have the best sound quality, but the music is fantastic. "Maida Vale" is not that good (though I don't mean to say it is bad, but "Vital" is so fantastic that it pales in comparison), but it has a very good sound quality. I recommend to wait until Virgin reissues the re-mastered version at the end of this year (hopefully as a double CD; "Vital" had only been available as double CD in a Japanese version so far; the European version was one CD only and lacked two tracks).

Track list of "Maida Vale" is:

Darkness (11/11)
Man-Erg
Scorched Earth
The Sleepwalkers
Still Life
La Rossa
When She Comes
Masks

The album is about 72 minutes long.



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Points: 54 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2005 at 21:02
Guys, if they don't play the US of A, spend less time on this site, work overtime, save money and holidays and come over to Europe and see them while and where you can. I was at the Royal Festival Hall Gig and it's the closest you can get to weeping like a spoilt brat, who, after years of begging finally gets what he/she wants. Yes, it was that good, as a matter of fact, it was truelly fantastic. Don't miss out!!!
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Re sax check here and look for the sax players comment:

http://www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/vital.htm
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