Label: Strange Fruit
Category: Music
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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 605563005723
EAN: 0605563005723
ASIN: B0000088UE
Release Date: 1999-12-02
Maida Vale: The Radio One Sessions
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Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator
Label: Strange Fruit Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Live Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 605563005723 EAN: 0605563005723 ASIN: B0000088UE Release Date: 1999-12-02 |
Maida Vale: The Radio One Sessions
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Van Der Graaf Generator were One of the Most Well Respected Prog Rock Band of the Seventies.Customer Reviews:
VdGG almost live!.......2001-03-01
In the 70s, the BBC was constrianed by musician's union regulations that stipulated a certain proportion of live music in its broadcasts each week. If a non-singles band wanted to reach a wide audience, they had to rely on a combination of ceaseless touring and creating 'live' versions for late-night BBC radio programmes. Typically the version you heard on the radio had been recorded in the BBC studio sometime in the previous few days, possibly even with overdubs. Hence the Gentle Giant OUT OF THE WOODS album -- also very good -- and this VdGG CD.
Some of the songs sound uncannily similar to the original studio version -- particularly the mid-period material from the excellent GODBLUFF and STILL LIFE albums. It's as though the band finished the original recordings for Charisma one day, and went down to the BBC studios the next day to re-record them for radio transmission. Effectively what you have here are alternative studio versions, rather than true live material.
But it is all outstanding stuff, and a wonderful antidote to the only other official VdGG live album, the somewhat off-centre VITAL. As Hammill says in his sleevenotes, this was the classic line-up: himself, Banton, Evans and Jackson. As per most other VdGG albums, it should go down a storm in Italy.
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