Van der Graaf Generator - 1975-08-30 - London, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

"Second Coming"

New Victoria Theatre

Source: Audience Recording

Lineage:

d1t2-d2t4 - "Fragments Out Of Time" tape collection > Cdr (unknown transfer capture) > EAC > Goldwave (speed corrected) > shn > wav > flac

d1t1/d2t5-d2t6 - "One More Heaven Completely Gained" CDr > EAC > Goldwave (EQ by calayx1) > shn > wav > flac

CD1

01 - The Undercover Man

02 - (In The) Black Room

03 - Arrow

04 - Faint-Heart And The Sermon

05 - Lemmings

CD2

01 - La Rossa

02 - A Louse Is Not A Home

03 - Scorched Earth

04 - Man-Erg

05 - The Sleepwalkers

06 - Pilgrims (fades out at end)

Van der Graaf Generator - 2005-07-08 - London, UK (DVDfull aud-shot)

(DVDfull aud-shot)

Shepherds Bush Empire

Year of release: 2005

Genre: Progressive Rock

Quality: CamRip

Format: DVD Video

Video codec: MPEG2

Audio codec: AC3

Video: MPEG2 Video 704x576 (4:3) 25.00fps 9586Kbps

Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 256Kbps

Peter Hammill

David Jackson

Hugh Banton

Guy Evans

01 - Darkness

02 - Undercover Man

03 - Scorched Earth

04 - Every Bloody Emperor

05 - Lemmings

06 - La Rossa

07 - Childlike Faith in Childhood's End

08 - Killer

09 - The Sleepwalkers

10 - Nutter Alert

11 - Man-erg

12 - Refugee

13 - Theme One

Duration : 2 h 8 min

About the release:

A wonderful concert of an outstanding team in full force. The bootleg was filmed with the 1st camera from the audience (the camera is mounted on a tripod), but the picture and sound are very high quality, as for a bootleg.

 

Van Der Graaf Generator - 2012-06-23 - Sellersville, PA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Sellersville Theater, West Temple St.,

lineage
Giant Squid Omni's> Edirol R-09> 16 bit WAV> Mac 10.4.11> Audacity> xACT> FLAC

01 Interference Patterns - Your Time Starts Now
02 Flight (Peter Hammill song)
03 Lemmings
04 Lifetime - Bunsho
05 The Sleepwalkers
06 Over The Hill
08 Encore Break
09 Nutter Alert

Van der Graaf Generator - 1975-05-24 - Grenoble, FR (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Uncirculated ! but probably for completists only...

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR

GRENOBLE, France

Palais des Sports

24 may 1975

Recorded by The French Gentleman.

aud > reel-to-reel (mono, 1st gen) > wav > flac

Peter Hammill (voc, g, k)

Hugh Banton (b, k)

David Jackson (sax, fl)

Guy Evans (dr)

01 The undercover man (7:50) >

02 Scorched earth (11:43)

03 Forsaken gardens (7:54)

04 (In the) Black room (11:28)

05 Lemmings (6:05)

06 La Rossa (8:36)

07 Arrow (10:47)

08 Urban (7:08)

09 Darkness (11-11) (7:17)

10 A louse is not a home (12:59)

11 Faint-heart and the sermon (9:02)

12 The sleepwalkers (9:57)

Total : 1h51

NB: Speed problems in tracks 6 and 12.

Van Der Graaf Generator - 1971-05-23 - Bern, CH (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Festhalle

Recorded by; "Judge Free"

Recorded on; AGFA Fe Master Cassettes>Phillips Deck(Mono)>second generation EL3302

Recording provided by; "William Tell"

Peter Hammill - Guitar/Piano/Keyboard & Vocals (1967-1978, 2005-Present)

Hugh Banton - Organ/Bass Pedals & Bass Guitar (1968-1976, 2005-Present)

Guy Evans - Drums (1968-1978, 2005-Present)

David Jackson - Saxophone & Flute (1970-1977, 1978, 2005)

01. Candle#

02. Sunshine(False Start)#

03. Sunshine#

04. ?? #

05. Afterwards

06. Aquarian

07. Darkness

08. Lost

09. Killer(Cuts Off)

10. After The Flood

11. Octopus

12. Theme One

#These songs feature Peter Hammill alone on acoustic guitar playing songs from his upcomming solo release while the soundman tries to "get it together".

Van Der Graaf Generator - 2011-04-07 - Milan, IT (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Milano, Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi 
April 7, 2011 

Lineage: 
CA-14 (omnis) > CA-9100 > Edirol R-09 > HD (via USB) > Sony SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave (FLAC plugin - level 6) 

Peter Hammill - vocals, keyboards, guitars 
Guy Evans - drums 
Hugh Banton - keyboards, pedals 

01.Interference Patterns 
02.Mr Sands 
03.Your Time Starts Now 
04.Lemmings 
05.Lifetime 
06.Bunsho 
07.Meurglys III 
08.All Over The Place 
09.Over The Hill 
10.(We Are) Not Here 
11.Childlike Faith in Childhood's End 
12.Still Life 

TT 115:33 

No Van Der Graaf whatsoever in France, so once again I had to see them in my hometown. And what a show! We had excellent seats, right in front of the stage so we could perfectly see the whole show. This venue brings me back to some 24 years ago when I saw Hammill on solo at the Conservatorio. This time the venue was packed and the environment quite enthusiastic. Soundwise the recording is very good. The setlist brought little surprises: most of the tracks were from the last two albums with a couple of oldies in the final zone. Great show anyway!

Van der Graaf Generator - 2011-03-28 - Cambridge, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Lineage:

Zoom H2 > SD card > Goldwave tweaks > CDR

A Disputandum production

CD1

01 - Interference Patterns

02 - Mr Sands

03 - Your Time Starts Now

04 - All That Before

05 - Lifetime

06 - Bunsho

07 - Meurglys III

CD2

01 - All Over The Place

02 - Over The Hill

03 - (We Are) Not Here

04 - Man-Erg

encores:

05 - The Sleepwalkers

A great show in a small intimate vanue, appreciative audience who kept quiet for the most part recorded from a central position.

Van Der Graaf Generator - 2005-11-05 - Leverkusen, DE (2xDVDfull pro-shot)

(2xDVDfull pro-shot)

WDR Rockpalast

Date: 5. November 2005
City: Leverkusen, Germany
Location: Forum (as part of a Jazz-Festival)

Broadcast date complete concert: 19. August 2007
Broadcast date edited concert (on disc 2): 16. January 2006
Lineage: Astra 19.2E satellite: WDR German TV ('WDR Test A' for the complete version) -> Technotrend dvb-s2 pci card -> ts transport stream -> pvastrumento 2.10.17 -> mpeg2schnitt -> DVD authoring

This is a lossless dvb-s recording. What you get is EXACTLY what was broadcasted over Astra 19.2E satellite. DON'T BE FOOLED by the filesize of a re-encoded standalone DVD-recorder!

TV Format: PAL (720x576) 25 fps
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 widescreen
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 & mpeg stereo (edited version on disc 2 only mpeg stereo)
Bitrate video: complete concert about 7,7 mbps - edited version about 3,633 mpbs
Bitrate audio: DD 2.0 track 448 kbps - mpeg stereo track 192 kbps

DVDs include artwork, menus and are fully indexed.

Tracks:
Complete Concert (104:25 Mins.):

Peter Hammill: vocals, guitar, keyboards
David Jackson, saxophones, flute
Hugh Banton: organ, bass
Guy Evans: drums

DVD1:
01 - The Undercover Man
02 - Scorched Earth
03 - Every Bloody Emperor
04 - Lemmings
05 - Darkness
06 - Childlike Faith In Childhood's End
07 - The Sleepwalkers
08 - Nutter Alert

DVD2:
01 - Man-Erg
02 - Killer
03 - Wondering

Concert Short Version (58:59 Mins.):
04 - Darkness
05 - Interview
06 - The Sleepwalkers
07 - Every Bloody Emperor
08 - Interview
09 - Man-Erg
10 - Killer
11 - Lemmings


As the location is only 3 miles away from my home, I went to this show after I have been thrilled by the re-union show I went to in Amsterdam a few months earlier. As I knew that this day of the Leverkusener Jazzfestival was presented by "Rockpalast", I expected that the show would be recorded for a later broadcast.

I think I don't have to spend much time on the music. This show is a perfect concert (both musically and technical in the sense of picture and sound quality) of the 2005 VDGG reunion line-up. This is a must have not only if you're a VDGG fan. There was the speak of releasing this show officially a while ago, but it seems that these plans are cancelled.

An edited version of this concert (about 59 minutes) was broadcast on WDR, 16. January 2006. It had 6 tracks, plus 2 portions of an interview with Peter Hammill. You'll find this version on Disc 2.

Finally, on 19. August 2007, the complete show was broadcasted on WDR. In the meantime there's a 'WDR Test A' station on Astra 19.2E, which carries exactly the WDR program, but has a Dolby Digital audio track in 448 kbps and most of the time a much much higher bitrate. The result is a perfect picture and a bitrate over 7 mbps. So without doubt, this DVD provides the best SD quality of this show that you can find.

I included the mpeg stereo audio stream as well (you can choose audio in the menu), there's also a second mpeg audio stream included (not reachable through menu), while I don't know how and if it differs to the other ones - there was space for it left on the DVD anyway ;-).

The first aired edited version of the concert is included in this torrent (on Disc 2) mainly for the interview portions. But also -because of the high bitrate of the complete broadcast- I had to split the complete show onto two DVDs and there was place for the edited broadcast on Disc 2. You see that I'm kind of a completist ;-). Sorry for those of you with a slow connection.

Van der Graaf Generator - 1971-09-23 - London, UK (FM/FLAC)

(FM brodcast FLAC)

BBC In Concert
(broadcast 5 October 1971)

Source: The first 3 tracks are taken from an original radio show LP even if they may have been recorded onto tape first, as suggested by the sound quality features, so the lineage could be: original radio show LP>tape>cd. The last 2 tracks come clearly from an off-radio broadcast recording and are obviously not as good as the first 3 but stll very good.
Lineage: 1-3 'VdGG On The Air' (shn files) ; 4-5 Pilgrimage 13 (remastered by calayx1)
Editing Information:
- Original source of P13 tracks was 'Radio & TV/1968-1977' CDr
- Goldwave 5.10 pop/click function to remove some clicks.
- Boosted volume in both channels (more so in LH) on tracks 1-3 to bring volume up to levels on 4-5 and patched in applause at the end of Man-Erg
- Removed silence at end of OTA tracks with cross-fades

01. Man-Erg
02. W
03. Killer
04. Theme One
05. Dambusters March

Van Der Graaf Generator & Peter Hammill - 1970-1986 - Pilgrimage (STU/FLAC)

(Studio FLAC)

Volume One (1970-1972)
01. Whatever Would Robert Have Said?
    (Bremen Beat Club, April 5, 1970)
02. W
03. Killer
    (BBC Live Session September 23, 1971)
04. White Hammer
05. Darkness 11/11
    (Brescia, May 21, 1972)
06. After The Flood
    (Basel, May 6, 1972)
07. Lost
08. Octupus Part I
09. Theme One
10. Octupus Part II
    (Brescia, May 21, 1972)
11. Refugees
    (Florence, February 14, 1972)

Volume Two (1972-1975)
01. German Overalls
    (BBC John Peel Session November 6, 1973)
02. I Once Wrote Some Poems
    (Delemont, December 29, 1973)
03. The Emperor In His War-Room
    (BBC John Peel Session August 19, 1974)
04. Tapeworm
    (Padova, December 11, 1973)
05. Slender Threads
    (Genova, December 14, 1973)
06. What It's Worth
    (Marquee Club, London, November 10, 1972)
07. Wilhelmina
    (Liverpool, February 19, 1974)
08. Rubicon
09. (No More) The Submariner
10. Autumn
11. Forsaken GArdens
    (Wigmore Hall, London, September 7, 1974)
12. Gog
    (Birmingham, OCtober 10, 1975)
13. In The Black Room
    (New Victoria Theatre, London, August 30, 1975)

Volume Three (1975)
01. Arrow
02. Faintheart And The Sermon
03. Lemmings
04. La Rossa
05. A House Is Not A Home
06. Scorched Earth
07. Man-Erg
    (New Victoria Theatre, London, August 30, 1975)

Volume Four (1976)
01. Betrayed
02. Meurglys III, The SOngwriters Guild
03. This Is Me Dreaming
    (New Theatre, Oxford, March 23, 1976)
04. Pilgrims
05. Childlike Faith In Childhood's End
    (Roundhouse, London April 19, 1976)
06. Wondering
    (Amsterdam, October 19, 1983)
07. When She COmes
    (Beacon, NYC October 18, 1976)
08. Undercover Man
09. Masks
    (Quebec, October 7, 1976)
10. The Sleepwalkers
    (Rheims, December 8, 1976)

Volume Five (1977)
01. Pioneers Over C
    (Victoria Palace, London, October 16, 1977)
02. Cat's Eyes / Yellow Fever (Running)
03. The Sphinx In The Face
04. Chemical World
05. The Habit Of A Broken Heart
    (Hull, November 3, 1977)
06. Ship Of Fools
07. The Siren SOng
    (Victoria Palace, London, October 16, 1977)
08. Lizard Play
09. Crying Wolf
    (Plymouth, November 9, 1977)
10. Lost And Found
    (Oslo, March 9, 1977)
11. Door
    (Hull, November 3, 1977)

Volume Six (1978-1980)
01. Solitude
    (Troubadour, L.A. February 2, 1978 - Early)
02. The Wave
03. (On Tuesdays She Used To Do) Yoga
    (Troubadour, L.A. February 2, 1978 - Late)
04. Palinurus
    (Troubadour, L.A. February 3, 1978 - Late)
05. The Second Hand
    (Roxy, L.A. March 13, 1979)
06. Modern
    (Bookies 870 CLub, Detroit, February 24, 1979)
07. Mediaevil
    (BBC Session, September 12, 1979)
08. Porton Down
    (BBC Session, September 24, 1979)
09. House With No Door
10. Easy To Slip Away
11. Been Alone So Long
    (All Souls, Kansas City, February 16, 1978)
12. Nadir's Big Chance
    (Bookies 870 CLub, Detroit, February 24, 1979)
13. Afterwards
14. In The End
    (Troubadour, L.A. February 4, 1978)
15. Energy Vampires
16. Condor
17. Faculty X
    (All Souls, Kansas City, February 16, 1978)
18. Tintagel
    (BBC TV Play Away 1980)

Volume Seven (1981-1983)
01. My Room
02. The Cut
03. This Side Of The Looking Glass
04. Sitting Targets
05. Mr. X / Faculty X
    (All Souls, Kansas City, August 28, 1981)
06. Not For Keith
    (Bottom Line, NYC, August 24, 1981 - Late)
07. A Ritual Mask
    (WOMAD, Shepton Mallet, July 18, 1982)
08. Fogwalking
    (Royal COurt, Liverpool, April 14, 1983)
09. My Experience
10. Paradox Drive
    (Athens, October 15, 1982)
11. The Spirit
    (Groningen, October 30, 1982)
12. Modern
13. Patient
14. Film Noir
15. The Great Experiment
    (Munich, November 4, 1982)

Volume Eight (1983-1985)
01. Jeunesse Doree
    (Markthalle, Hamburg, April 26, 1983)
02. Seven Wonders
    (Batschkapp, Frankfurt, May 8, 1983)
03. Empress Clothes
04. The MOebius Loop
    (Colston Hall, Bristol, March 28, 1983)
05. Glue
06. Accidents
    (The Sugarhouse, Lancaster, April 12, 1983)
07. Now More Than Ever
08. Traintime
09. Central Hotel
    (Music Halle, Wurzburg, May 5, 1983)
10. Out Of My Book
11. The Comet, The Course, The Tail
    (Bloomsbury Theater, London, July 27, 1984)
12. Just Good Friends
13. Don't Tell Me
    (mannheim, March 14, 1985)
14. Time For A Change
15. Patient
16. Last Frame
    (Vredenburg, Utrecht, March 19, 1985)
17. Mirror Images
    (Chestnut Cabaret, Philadelphia, April 24, 1985)
18. Again
    (Wolfgang's, San Francisco, April 28, 1985)

Volume Nine (1985-1986)
01. Four Pails
    (Berlin, November 26, 1986)
02. Vision
03. Now Lover
04. The Mousetrap
05. After The Show
    (Roxy, L.A. July 14, 1986 - Early)
06. The Lie
07. Flight
    (Chestnut Cabaret, Philadelphia, April 24, 1985)
08. Nadir's Little Chance
    (Wolfgang's, San Francisco, July 16, 1986)
09. Confidence
10. Sign
11. Ophelia
    (Karlsruhe University, November 29, 1986)
12. Too Many Of My Yesterdays
    (Vienna, November 20, 1986)

Volume Ten (1986)
01. Silver
    (Vienna, November 20, 1986)
02. All Said And Done
03. Time Heads
04. The Future Now
05. Happy Hour
06. Shell
    (Roxy, L.A. July 14, 1986 - Late)
07. Labour Of Love
    (Roxy, L.A. July 14, 1986 - Early)
08. Still Life
    (Roxy, L.A. July 14, 1986 - Late)
09. The Birds
    (Vienna, November 20, 1986)
10. Skin
    (Bloomsbury Theatre, London, November 7, 1986)
11. Other Old Circles
12. Losing Faith In WOrds
13. Stranger Still
14. Sleep Now
    (Markthalle, Hamburg, November 23, 1986)
15. The Lady Sleeps
    (Bottom Line, NYC, July 21, 1986)

Volume Eleven (1970 - 1974)
01. Killer
02. Whatever Would Robert Have Said
03. Squid 1 / Squid 2 / Octupus
    (BBC In Concert, August 2, 1970)
04. An Epidemic Of Father Christmases
    (BBC John Peel Session, December 14, 1971)
05. Aquarian
    (Brescia, May 21, 1972)
06. Red Shift
    (BBC John Peel Session, February 18, 1974)
07. Faint-Heart And The Sermon
    (BBC John Peel Session, August 19, 1974)
08. A House Is Not A Home
    (Wigmore Hall, London, September 7, 1974
09. (In The) Black Room
    (Capital Radio Session, September 14, 1974)

Volume Twelve (1975 - 1976)
01. Forsaken Gardens
    (Victoria Palace, London, July 27, 1975)
02. The Undercover Man
03. The Sleepwalkers
04. Pilgrims
    (Victoria Palace, London, August 30, 1975)
05. Wondering
06. A Place To Survive
    (Utrecht, September 24, 1976)
07. Arrow
08. Killer
    (Beacon Theater, NYC, October 18, 1976)
09. Darkness
    (Rheims, December 8, 1976)

Volume Thirteen (1968 - 1977)
01. Octupus
    (BBC Session, November 18, 1968)
02. Theme One
03. Dambusters March
    (BBC In Concert, September 23, 1971)
04. Boat Of A Million Years
    (Zoffingen, November 18, 1973)
05. Pompeii
06. Shingle Song
    (Commonwealth Institute, London, November 27, 1974)
07. My Room
    (Oslo, March 9, 1977)
08. A Place To Survive
09. Meurglys III
    (Volkshaus, Zurich, November 28, 1976)
10. Urban
    (Oslo, March 9, 1977)

Volume Fourteen (1977 - 1978)
01. Rock And Role
02. Arrow
    (Oslo, March 9, 1977)
03. Door
    (Hull, November 3, 1977)
04. The Habit Of The Broken Heart
    (Troubadour, L.A. February 2, 1978 - Late)
05. Betrayed
    (Troubadour, L.A. February 3, 1978 - Late)
06. Mirror Images
07. Out Of My Book
    (Troubadour, L.A. February 4, 1978)
08. Lizard Play
    (All Souls, Kansas City, February 16, 1978)
09. Sci-Finance
10. Nadir's Big Chance
    (Marquee, London, June 4, 1978)
11. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers / The Sleepwalkers
12. Easy To Slip Away
13. Refuges
    (Cinema Outremont, Montreal, June 9, 1978)

Volume Fifteen (1979 - 1983)
01. Time Heads
02. The Birds
03. Last Frame
    (Bookies 870 Club, Detroit, February 24, 1979)
04. Autumn
05. Afterwards
    (All Souls, Kansas City, March 4, 1979)
06. The Second Hand
    (Bataclan, Paris, January 28, 1980)
07. Hesitation
    (Groningen, November 22, 1980)
08. The Spirit
    (The Bottom Line, NYC, August 24, 1981 - Late)
09. In Slow Time
    (BBC 1982)
10. Don't Tell Me
    (Spinea, September 10, 1983)
11. Happy Hour
    (Music Halle, Wurzburg, May 5, 1983)
12. Losing Faith In WOrds
13. Man-Erg
    (Turin, July 19, 1980)
14. If I Could
15. Mediaevil
    (Amsterdam, February 6, 1980)

Volume Sixteen (1983 - 1986)
01. The Jargon King
    (Arbon, September 2, 1983)
02. Ophelia
03. The Comet, The Course, The Tail
    (Kolinsburg, Stockholm, September 29, 1983)
04. Modern
05. The Mousetrap
    (Mannheim, March 14, 1985)
06. The Future Now
    (Vredenburg, Utrecht, March 19, 1985)
07. This Book
    (London, December 12, 1984)
08. The Siren Song
    (Amsterdam, April 8, 1984)
09. Vision
    (London, July 27, 1984)
10. My Room
    (Philadelphia, April 24, 1985)
11. Been Alone So Long
12. Porton Down
13. Four Pails
    (Los Angeles, July 14, 1986)
14. Stranger Still
15. After The Show
    (Vienna, November 20, 1986)

Original Notes:
Back in 1988 the Pawn Hearts Society put together two sets of tapes "Fragments Out Of Time" and "In Still Life". Between them there are live recordings of over 130 songs, at least one version of almost every song that Hammill or Van der Graaf Generator ever played live between 1970 and 1986. In total, there were twelve tapes, roughly 18 hours of music. Only one song was duplicated on the eight Fragments tapes; In Still Life had alternate versions together with a few songs that were missed off Fragments due to lack of space.
(A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers was deliberatly left off the tapes as the only version that exists is the well known TV performance.)

The performances are arranged chronologically, as much as possible by grouping of period of performance. Songs that were rarely performed tend to show up in the period in which they first appeared on vinyl. As you would expect the sound quality varies, I would grade most of the tracks as B/B+ with some slightly better, and some - mainly the early Hammill solo performances - generally not quite as good: their main deficiency being some slight tape hiss.

I received a cd-r copy of these tapes (#95/100) a few years ago. I have removed tracks that have been officially released on The Box and Margin+ and slightly re-ordered the running order to maintain the period chronology once the tracks were on 80 minute discs instead of 90 minute tapes. Where space permitted I've
added additional tracks from the appropriate period. Some of these are alternative versions but others are ones that were simply not included on the original tapes: these were identified in a review in the Pilgrims fanzine having read the article I went out of my way to trade for copies of the shows where the missing songs were performed. I have not replaced any tracks with newer versions of the same show (e.g., the Basel 72 tracks are the ones I originally received rather than the calayx1 remaster).

There were some speed problems on the discs when I received them, which I attempted to correct through a combination of listening and comparing the running times listed on the tape artwork, although the latter couldn't always be relied upon. The first 12 volumes were torrented on STG in late 2003/early 2004 by someone who received an audio copy of the discs from me. This flushed out a few more speed problems which I have - hopefully -fixed.  For this version I have made a few more corrections, using other versions of songs as a comparison.

In all there will be sixteen discs to this set - the first ten cover the Fragments tapes and the remaining six In Still Life; these come from the original shn files I circulated which I have now converted. The tape artwork includes comments as well as the original track listing. (included in a separate rar file)

Thanks go to all the tapers over the years, the pawn hearts society, the original  seeder and anyone else involved in producing or upgrading this set.

Van der Graaf Generator - 2009-07-29 - Guastalla, Reggio Emilia, IT(DVDfull aud-shot)

(DVDfull aud-shot)

CREDIT TO

VALERIO for the upload and

Riccardo Lolli for filming

01 - Interference Patterns

02 - Every bloody emperor

03 - Scorched Earth

04 - Lemmings

05 - Lifetime

06 - All that Before

07 - Meuglys Ill

08 - Childlike faith in childhood's end

09 - The Sleepwalkers

10 - Over the hill

11 - man-erg

12 - Still Life