Description: All about Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator
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Buy it here . Watch Interference Patterns and Man-Erg on YouTube. Judge Smith has a new album out called "The Trick of the Lock". You can buy it Here . PH on Twitter: Time to announce that Cherry Red have now taken over the Fie! PH catalogue and will be (re-)releasing stuff later in the year. This is undoubtedly a positive step and I’m sure they’re going to do a much better job with The Work than I’m now capable of doing. Onward! Steve Pilkington 's new book Van der Graaf Generator in the 1970s is available
This was not intended as a comprehensive PH/VdGG site but is rapidly becoming one. It started out as a personal journey through some very enjoyable times with my friends from the early to mid/late seventies but I have now incorporated much material donated from other sources to fill in gaps. There is material from 1967, when the band first formed, and onwards to 1978, when they finally split for what appeared to be the last time. If you are a Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator fan then you may well f
Early Pictures (1968 to 1969) The original band had actually split up by the time I got into the music and in fact the first album that I heard was "68-71", a compilation. The disappointment of not being able to see the band live in 1972 was tempered by the fact that Peter Hammill was by then a solo artist and performing around Europe, albeit sporadically. Often Dave Jackson , Hugh Banton or Guy Evans would support him, but long gone were Nick Pearne , Chris Judge Smith , Keith Ellis and Nic Potter .