Peter Hammill - "The Lie" - brilliant live and solo version (1978)

[Jimysalad]

Makes me want to forget making pancakes and play the piano...

[professoricon]

@Jimysalad

Music is forever.

Pancakes don't last so long.

[MiszczBetonmen]

Great

[professoricon]

Peter Hammill has now released his new solo album titled "Thin Air" on 8th June (2009).

[kipptumor]

What? VDGG is on tour NOW?!

[professoricon]

They are in Japan at the end of May and North America June/July. Currently they perform as a three-piece with PH, Guy Evans and Hugh Banton. David Jackson left in 2007. They released a new album in 2005 (Real Time) as a four-piece with DJ, and a new album in 2008 (Trisector) as a three-piece.

[professoricon]

Check out the PH website at sofasound-dot-com

[kipptumor]

Nothing tops the way he sings the line "after confession" on the original version from the silent corner - I always thought of this album as my own secret discovery. It is so odd to log onto youtube and see so many people who were just as taken by Hammill's work. i discovered him in 82 I think, and I remember listening to this song often in my dorm room at the Kansas City Art Institute in 83-84. I couldn't believe that Van der Graff had a reunion tour in 2005 - I would have gone. Amazing!

[professoricon]

I first saw him live just a few weeks after the release of Silent Corner, and got my album autographed. I saw the VDGG reunion tour at the Royal Festival Hall (06-May-2005), then again in Leicester two months later (09-July-2005),  then again in Manchester on 13-Nov-2005 (see my live video footage on YouTube).

[professoricon]

From the PH Website: The VdGG N. American 2009 tour currently looks like: 19-June Nearfest, Bethlehem, PA 21: Nokia Theatre NYC, NY 24: Falls Church, VA (DC) State Theatre 25:  Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom 26: Chicago, IL The Abbey 27: Milwaukee, WI Shank Hall 29: Buffalo, NY The Tralf Music Hall 30: Pittsburgh, PA Rex Theatre 1st July Annapolis, MD Ram's Head On Stage 4th TBC 8th Ottawa, Blues Fest 9th TBC 10th TBC

[professoricon]

To book tour tickets at Ticketmaster you may need the password "Trisector".

[hammoul56]

Merci, tout simplement sublime.

[professoricon]

I cannot believe that this only has a rating of 3 stars. This version is totally sublime.

[professoricon]

By the way, for Bernini's St Theresa, check out 'Ecstasy of St Theresa' on wikipedia.

[hiperboreowp]

Ausgezeichnet...Gruss Gott

[professoricon]

Ich liebe dieses

[progrupicola]

Than you, very much Professoricon.

Skeleton of songs is superb¡¡¡

[professoricon]

Even the artwork is superb (see 00.48).

[telemacherT2]

I'd embrace you if I only new yur naaaaaaaame

[professoricon]

You took me , gave me reasons ...

[keithbaum]

The silent corner haunts my shadow prayers...