This page has become a bit long, so I have decided to
split the Hammill shows from the Van Der Graaf shows.
Also, here are a few notes on the shows listed here:
All CDs unless otherwise noted!
CDrs means non-bootleg CDs (privately mastered by fans).
CaSe productions (our productions) are always in bold letters.
Split shows (where 2 shows are on 3 CD sets) can always be traded individually or spliced with other shows if their length is about the same.
The shows are unsorted, and they appear on first-come-first-written basis.
I have started to add MP3 samples of some of the shows, so here are some clarifications in regard to these MP3's:
I hate MP3s. They create an effect that usually kill the sound. These
samples are for quality reference only. They appear as a hypertext song
name in a certain show. Due to lack of space Geocities are giving me i
encode in the lowest frequency/bitrate that will cause the least amount
of damage to the sound. I also keep the samples very short - usually 30
seconds.
I admit i am only encoding shows that i like, which are obviously those
of better quality, which are obviously CaSe produced CDrs. ;)
Enjoy!
Van Der Graaf Generator / Van Der Graaf Recordings (1969-1977):
| Title | Quality | Tracklist | Comments |
| Visionerg | 9+ | Darkness / Vision / Theme one / Manerg /
Refugees / After the flood / Afterwards |
Live BBC '69-'71 |
| The lost live tapes | 8+ | Theme one / A Plague of Lighthouse keepers / Manerg / W / Killers | Belgian TV / BBC |
| One more heaven gained | 8 | Arrow / Faint Heart and the sermon / A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers / larossa / Louse is not a home / Scorched earth / manerg | New Victoria Theatre, 30/8/75 |
| The Killer Lives | St : 10-, Live: 7+ | Disc 1: White hammer / Darkness / Lemmings
/ Manerg / W / Killer / Lost
Disc 2: Octopus part 1 - Theme one – Octopus part 2 / Aquarian / Afterwards / Orthemthian st. part 1 / Orthemthian st. part 2 / Running back / into again / aerosol gray machine / Black Smoke Yon / Aquarian / Necromancer / Octopus |
Live In Bresia, may 21, 1972
Tracks 3-12 from cd 2, are from their first album 'the aerosol gray machine'. 2CDs |
| Satan, God and Nemo | 7+ | Disc 1: When she comes / Masks / Larossa
/ Still life
Disc 2: Meurglys3 - Gog - The Sleepwalkers |
Live in toronto '76
2CDs |
| Live in Basel 1972 | 7 | The Killer / After the flood / Lemmings / W / Theme One | None |
| The Band of Millions of Years Featuring the Undercover Man | Var | Squid I - Unreleased track
Refugees - BBC 25/5/70 An Epidemic of Father Xmas - BBC 3/4/70 Theme One - live, Milano 8/2/72 Commercial At last - Interview 14/3/79 which is the source for the insert before refugees Still Life - Live Paris 28/1/80 Flight - PH Reading at Amsterdam Poetry Festival 18/10/83 Again - PH Live Brussels 24/3/85 |
LP |
| Fellow Travelers | 9+/8- | Man-Erg/W/Killer/Rubycon[sic]/A house[sic] is not a home / Red Shift/People you were going to / Firebrand | BBCs + Singles |
| Bless the baby born today | 9++ | Man-Erg / Darkness / La Rossa / Still Life | BBCs (same as maida vale!) |
| Wordly Man and Strangers - a day in the life of van der graaf generator | 9-- | A louse is not a home / Faint heart and the sermon / in the black room / Arrow / forsaken gardens / lemmeings / la rossa/ pilgrims / sleepwalkers / undercover man / scorched earth / man erg / man erg (afternoon show) | 2CDs, SOUNDBOARD, Stereo, 9.8.1975
Great performances. Contains severe volume changes, constant buzz and annoying high-frequency sound that will be felt a few hours after listening... |
| Van Der Graaf Generator - Palasport Rome 1/12/1975 | 9-- (clear sound, but audience. some distortion on the loud parts) | Undercover man / The Black Room / Arrow / Faint Heart / La Rossa / Lemmings | Great show, great performance!
Undercover man is cut after about 6 minutes. Faint heart is cut after almost 7 minutes. Total running time - 62minutes |
| Van Der Graaf Generator - 9-9-75 Bracknell Sports Center | 8 | Undercover Man / Scorched Earth / Black Room / Faint Heart / Lemmings / La Rossa / Arrow | Total running time - almost 74 minutes. Rest of the show is available on Salzburg 92 |
|
8- | Disc1: Scorched Earth / Faint Heart and The
Sermon / Arrow / A Louse is not a home / La Rossa
Disc2: Lemmings / Gog / The Sleepwalkers / Man-Erg |
2CDrs |
|
7+ | Darkness / Lost / man-erg / lemmings / Killer / Theme One / Octopus | CDr |
| Pilgrims | 9-- | The Undercover Man/Scorched Earth/Arrow/In
The Black Room/Pilgrims/Still Life/La
Rossa/Childlike Faith in Childhood's End/Gog (cut)/The Sleepwalkers (cut) |
Remastered from the 2LP set 'pilgrims'.
2CDs |
| Van Der Graaf Live in Hull University 3/11/77 | 10-- | Crying Wolf / Lizard Play / Chemical World / Habit of the borken heart / Ship of fools / Medley / Cats Eye / Sphynx in the face / Last Frame / Door (inc.) | 1CD, 73mins, EXCELLENT show and quality for the time, a real must! |
| Van Der Graaf Generator - Live in Volkhouse Zurich 27.11.76 | 9+ | Disc 1 -
When She Comes / A Place to survive / Lemmings / Still Life Disc 2 - Meurglis III / Sleepwalkers / Childlike faith in childhoods end |
2CDs, great quality for the time. |
| Van Der Graaf -
Live in Berlin Kant Kino , March 20 1977 + Van Der Graaf Generator - Live in Rasa, Utrecht, September 24, 1976 |
Kant Kino-8
Rasa Utrecht - 7 |
Disc 1 -
Disc 2-
Disc 3-
|
3CDs, |
| Van Der Graaf Generator - Live in Drury
Lane, London
+ Live in Birmingham May 8 1976 |
Drury-8++
Birmingham- 7+ |
Disc 1 -
Disc 2 - Disc 3 - Birmingham-
|
3CDs,
Birmingham has all kinds of goofups, especially in Scorched Earth where the first 3 minutes are instrumental version... |
| Van Der Graaf Generator - Live in Southampton, 11.9.76 + Hammill with K-Group live in Bochum 2.11.82 | vdgg - 9+
K-group - 8+ |
VDGG - When she comes / Wondering / Childlike
Faith in Childhood's End / Meurglis
III / Gog / Sleepwalkers / Masks / La Rossa / Stil Life / Darkness
K-Group - |
3 CDs
Great quality, and great performace, specially on Meurglis III. Only show i have from this tour with darkness on it. |
| Van Der Graaf - Live 5.10.77 +
K-Group Live in Saarbucken 7/5/83 |
VDG - 9+
K-Group - 8++ |
N/A | 3CDs
VDG - From radio broadcast, great quality. |
| Worldy Men and Strangers : A day in the life of VDGG | 9+ | A louse is not a home / Faint heart and the sermon / in the black room / Arrow / forsaken gardens / lemmeings / la rossa/ pilgrims / sleepwalkers / undercover man / scorched earth / man erg / man erg (afternoon show) | Volume changes fixed, buzz reduced / removed, high-frequency sound removed (without affecting the sound), tracks re-devided correctly. |
| Van Der Graaf Generator-
Live in Quebec 7/10/76 |
7 (First songs are 8) | Disc1:
Undercover Man / When She Comes / Masks / Arrow / Childlike Faith in Childhood’s End / Still Life Disc2:
|
Disc 1- 59 Mins
Disc 2- 70 Mins |
Van Der Graaf Generator – Live in London 27.7.75 |
7++ | Disc 1: Undercover Man / Scorched Earth /
Man-erg / Forsaken Gardens / Black Room / Lemmings
Disc 2: (will be added soon ) |
Average quality. Nice show.
2CDs. |
Van Der Graaf Generator – Live in Basel Gundeldinger Casino 1/10/75 |
8+ | Disc1: Undercover Man / Black Room / Arrow
/ La Rossa / Lemmings
Disc 2: A louse is not a home / Forsaken Gardens / Scorched Earth / Sleepwalkers / Man-erg / Pilgrims |
2CDs |
Van Der Graaf Generator live at Woolwich Thames Polytechnic 31/10/75 |
9+ | Disc 1: Undercover Man / Scorched Earth /
Arrow / Faint-heart
and the Sermon / La Rossa / lemmings
Disc 2: Pilgrims / Gog / Sleepwalkers / Man-erg / Black Room |
Great sound! I do believe this is a soundboard
recording, and it is in stereo.
2CDs |
Van Der Graaf Generator – Live in London 8/12/76 |
9 | Disc 1: Undercover Man / Masks / Arrow /
Still life / Wondering / La Rossa
Disc 2: Childlike Faith in Childhood’s End / When she comes / Meurglis III / Gog / Sleepwalkers |
Good sound quality only marred by slight
swirl in the high frequencies of the cymbals.
2CDs set with a nice setlist and performance makes this one a recommended show. |
| Poppy Fields of France-
in Parc des Expositions, Colmar, France May 27 , 1975 |
8-- | The Undercover Man / Scorched Earth / Man-Erg
/ Forsaken Gardens / Black Room / Lemmings
Disc2: La Rossa / Arrow / A Louse is not a home / Faint-Heart and the Sermon / Gog / The Sleepwalkers |
2CDrs, audience recording, sound is a bit "blown up" but i guess the guys that did this didnt have much to work with in the first place.. |
Peter Hammill Recordings (1972-1999)
| Title | Quality | Setlist | Comments |
| Skeletons of songs | 9 | Disc 1: House with no door / Time heels /
This side of the looking glass / My Room / Easy to slip away / Still life
/ Lizard play / Time for a change / been alone so long / Modern / If I
could / Last frame
Disc 2: The comet, the course, the tail / the lie / the mouse trap / in the end / medlay : A plague of lighthouse keepers, the sleepwalkres / Manerg / Refugees |
Recoreded at all souls, unitarian church.
kansas city, missoury on Feb. 16, 1978
2CDs |
| Stations of a Lonesome Trip | 10- | My room / Just good friends / curtains / i will find you / something about isabel's dance / ophelia / last frame / patient / sein favourit / stranger hill / the future now / general hotel | Live in europe 1992
73:53mins! |
| TheMarginal Vox | 8+ | Disc 1: The Wave / Just good friends / Time to burn / The Comet / Ophelia / Modern / Last Frame / Some things about ysabel's dance / Patient / Our oyster / a way out / The future now / Traintime / cat's eye / sign / again | 2 CDs, October 18th, 1990, with Stuart Gordon and Nic Potter. |
| Music Box | 8++ | The Future Now / Loosing faith in words / Stranger still / My experience / The sphynx in the face / Flight /The spirit | Essen 81 |
| Tides | 10- | My room / Too many of my yesterdays / Just good friends / Mirror Images / Shell / The plays the thing / Time to burn / Four pails / Still life / Stranger still / After the show | The pirated half official CD.
Excellent audience recording |
| Voices | 9- | Solitude / time for a change / The Birds / Out of my book / Slender threads / german overalls / don't tell me / the future now / labour of love | Opening act for Genesis's famous montreal
show, dated Apr 21st, 1974.
Taken from a radio broadcast. Tracks 7-9 - Sweden, oct. 2nd, 1983 |
| Soliloquy | 8++ | Don't tell me, the future now, stranger still, the comet, if i could, modern / happy hour / the second hand / the sphinx in the face | 29.9.1983, stockholm. |
| ...If you haven't got it yet, David
Peter Hammill's Van Der Graaf Generator (PH/DJ/SG/ME) |
10- | CD1:
Easy to slip away / The Siren song / The unconscious life / Autumn / Comfortable / Shingle song / I will find you CD2: Planet Coventry / Primo on the parapet / A headlong stretch / Your tall ship / Traintime / A way out |
Excellent quality, stereo, digitally recorded.
2CDrs Source- Geneva 11.11.94 |
| Peter Hammill - Live in "Suzan Dallal",
Tel-Aviv, Israel. 11/5/96
(Afternoon show) |
9-/3rd gen | Disc 1:Don't Tell Me/Just Good Friends/Curtains/Earthbound/
Unconscious Life/The Comet/I Will Find You/Shingle song/Time For A Change/Patient/
Disc 2:Easy To /Slip Away/The Lie/Stranger Still/Your tall Ships/The Future Now Bonus tracks: BBC 11/74: Rubicon / A louse is not a home / red shift |
2 CDrs. Also available is the original tape
which was used to master these CDrs.
World premiere of Earthbound! |
| Peter Hammill + Van Der Graaf Generator - Bologna 28/5/73 | 7/low gen, unknown | Complete Chameleon + Refugees / Theme One | |
| Skeletons of songs - hiss removed | 10-- | Disc 1: House with no door / Time heels /
This side of the looking glass / My Room / Easy to slip away / Still life
/ Lizard play / Time for a change / been alone so long / Modern / If I
could / Last frame
Disc 2: The comet, the course, the tail / the lie / the mouse trap / in the end / medlay : A plague of lighthouse keepers, the sleepwalkres / Manerg / Refugees |
Hiss removcd, same as Skeletons of Songs, but only without the high amount of hiss. SQ was not damaged by the hiss removal. |
| Peter Hammill &
Graham Smith Bookies Club 870, Detroit, Feb. 24th, 1979 |
9- | Disc1:My Room / The Heals, Faculty X / Again
/ The Birds / Modern
Disc2: The Comet.. /If I could / Last Frame / Nadir's Big Chance / Medley |
2CDs |
| Peter Hammill & David Jackson Live in Kolnoa Dan, Tel Aviv, Israel - 23/8/83 / K. Group Live in Kolnoa Dan, Tel Aviv, Israel - 16/8/84 | 10- / 9+ | PH / DJ : Disc 1: My Room / Time Heals
/ Future Now / Just good Friends / Modern / Ophelia / Patient / Last frame
/ Mirror Images / Labour of love.
Disc 2: Medley (Plague of Lighthouse keepers / Sleepwalkers) / Still Life / Refugees K.Group: Losing faith in words / Just good friends / Stranger still / Jargon king / Empresses cloths / The second hand Disc 3: Sign / Cought in the mouse trap / My Experience / Modern / Sitting Targets / Central Hotel / Patient / FLIGHT. |
3 CDs. Total running time - 180 minutes. |
| Peter Hammill in El Mocombo, Toronto - 7-17-86 | 8+ | Disc 1: My Room / Vision / Caught in the
Mousetrap / After the show / Shell / Just good friends / The Comet, The
Course, The Tail / Out of my book / Last Frame / Skin
Disc 2: Time for a change / Happy hour / Patient / Future now / Porton Down / Stranger Still / Stil life. |
2 CDs, Good stereo, 110mins |
| Peter Hammill in Frankfurt 11/5/88 | 9-- | Disc 1: Too many of my yesterdays / Other
old cliches / Just good friends
/ The plays the thing / Caught in the moustrap / Thru the looking glass / The Comet The Course The Tail / Sign / Last Frame / Been alone so long Disc 2: Patient / White hammer (snipet) / Time to burn / Shell / Stranger still / After the show / Four Pails / Refugees / Still Life |
2CDs, good audience recording. 110mins. |
| Peter Hammill In Salzburg 92 | 9- / 9 | Disc 1: Curtains / JGF / His best girl /
USHER Suite / If i could / Given time / Time for a change / Sign / Modern
Disc 2: Losing faith in words / A way out / Traintime / Stranger Still / Chicago Bonuses- PH/DJ Radio 73- Time for a change / German overalls / Easy to slip away / In the end VDGG-Bracknel Sport Center 9.9.75 - Man erg / Gog |
2CDs-
Disc 1- 73:55 min Disc 2- 70:32 min |
|
8+ | Disc 1- My Room / JGF / Curtains / Shell
/ A better time / The Comet, the course, the tail / Comfortable / Shingle
song / Last frame
Disc 2 - If I could / Patient / Tenderness / Faculty X / A way out / Stranger still / Still life / Modern |
2 CDrs |
| Peter Hammill-
Live in Hamburg Marketalle 14/5/88 |
8++ | Too many of my yesterdays / Other old cliches / JGF / Vision / The plays the thing / The comet, the course, the tail / Ophelia / Time for a change / Patient / Time to burn / Shell / Stranger Still / After the show / Four Pails | 1CD, 73.30 Mins! |
| Peter Hammill-
Live in Kleine Komedie Amsterdam 3/6/88 + Live In Graz 90- PH/NP/SG |
9-/9 | Dont Tell Me / My Room / This side of the
looking glass / Time to burn / Other Old Cliches / The Comet, The Course,
The Tail / Mirror Images / Shell / Medley: After the show/ (Caught in)
The moustrap
Disc2:
Graz:
|
Nice show, Stereo Audience recording, Graz is SBD |
| I dont know anymore songs-
PH live in the Melkweg, Amsterdam, 1980 |
10--/9+ | From Radio:
Afterwards / If I could / Mediaevil Full Show: Again / Afterwards / If I could / The second hand / Out of my book / The Birds / Modern / Time for a change / Last Frame / Mediaevil |
Excellent quality/show, completely on guitar.
Radio / SBD |
| Peter Hammill - Live in Holdsworth Hall manchester, Sept. 21st, 1973 | 7- | The Lie / House with no door / Forsaken Gardens / Slender Threads / I once wrote some poems / out of my book / solitude / the Birds / Modern / What it's worth / Seasy to slip away / Refugees / In the end | |
| Peter Hammill - Pomorska Bydgosczc Filharmonica 14.10.95 | 8 | 2CDs | |
| PH / NP / SG - Eindhoven Effenaar 24.10.90 | 9+ | 2CDs | |
| PH / NP / SG / ME - Tilburg-Norderlight 5.5.93 | 9 | 2CDs | |
| K Group - The secret astroid Munchen jungle, teatre der Jayend 4.12.82 | 9- | 1CD, Almost 73Mins long. | |
| Peter Hammill / Stuart Gordon- Milan 8.5.99 | 10-- | 2CDs, Sensitive microphone ( a bit too sensitive
at times).
* I will trade this only for 99 shows |
|
|
10--
(Bonuses are 9--) |
Disc 1-
Time Heals / Autumn / Afterwardsd / My Room / The Comet / If I Could / Second Hand / Energy Vampires Disc 2- Still Life / Refugees Bonus Tracks- Kansas 79-Autumn/Afterwards/Condor/ Faculty X/Energy Vampires Bataclan- Second Hand BBC79 with DJ- Porton Down |
2CDrs
Great quality, better than Skeletons of songs. |
|
6+ | 2CDrs - Sounds like a very distorted Soundboard recording | |
| PH / NP / SG Live at the Bottom Line NY 6/3/90 | 9+ | Disc 1-
The Wave / Too many of my yesterdays / Time to burn / Shell / Happy Hour / If I Could / Skin / Something about Isabels Dance / Hemlock / Four Pails / Stranger Still Disc 2- A Way Out / Afterwards Bonus tracks- Radio Interview in Sofa Sound, Swedish Radio 85 Pt1 + Pt2 |
2CDs, Audience recording with very clear
sound.
Quality of bonus is 10 |
| Peter Hammill/Stuart Gordon/David Jackson live in Bath Fringe 6/6/90 | n/a | N/A | 2CDs, more information will follow |
| Peter Hammill - Live at the Troubadour, LA, Feb 4th, 1978 | 8- | N/A | 2CDs - Same show as Nameless and Untitled, but the complete show, in better quality, from a different source. |
| Peter Hammill - Live at Wigmore Hall, L, 7/9/1974 | 7+ | Modern / Rubicon / The Comet... / Again / German Overalls / House with no door / Vision / Forsaken Gardens / Black Room / The Lie / The Submariner / Easy to slip away / Autumn / A louse is not a home / Faint Heart and the Sermon / In The End / Refugees | 2CDs - A full hammill show (a but over 2 hours) with some very nice renditions of songs. Lots of goofups too. All in al - recommended, if only for the setlist! |
|
Var | Too long - contact for details | 4CDrs containing most (?) of hammill's radio performances. Contains some very interesting tracks. |
| Peter Hammill - live in NYC, bottom line 22/4/85 - 2nd show | 9- | My Room / Time Heals / The Mousetrap / Stranger Still / If I Could / Out of my Book / Been alone so long / Modern / The Comet / Labour of Love / Flight / The Lie / Again | 1½ CDs.
Good quality. Again is done with vocals only - no piano, and is great! Combined with the Frankfurt show |
| Peter Hammill – Live in Hamburg Markethalle 23/11/86 |
|
N/A | N/A – Not yet processed. |
| Peter Hammill – Live in Shaanbreek, Brussels 24.3.85 |
|
N/A | N/A – not yet processed but the tape sounds good as it is. |
| Peter Hammill - Live in Frankfurt, Batschkapp 13/3/85 | 9++/10- | N/A | 1½ CDs.
Amazing quality - Probably taken from a radio show and hasn't gone through many generations. |
Videos (VDGG/Hammill from all eras):
| Title | Quality | Length | Comments | Video Snippet |
| Van Der Graaf - Rock of the '70s | EX- | 30 mins | The famous Belgian TV show ,from 1971. Although the snippet is in B&W, my copy is in color! | |
| Rockplast, Hamburg 1981 | SUP- | 120 mins | 1st generation! | N/A |
| Peter Hammill, VPRO '98 | SUP- | 25 mins | 1st generation! | N/A |
| Peter Hammill live Prague '98 | SUP- | 120 mins | 2nd generation | N/A |
| 77 Austria TV Soundcheck | VG+ | 15 mins | N/A | |
| Peter Hammill live in Kolnoa Dan, Israel 14-8-84 | VG-- | 120 mins | N/A | |
| Peter Hammill, w/SG/NP: 9/3/90 Chestnut Cabaret Philadelphia | VG++ | 145 mins | N/A | |
| Van Der Graaf Generator - Belgian TV "Whole Album Live " - Live inFrance 1975 | EX+ | About 50mins | Low generation, whole Godbluff album, live, highly recommended | |
| Van Der Graaf Generator - Beat Club 1970 | EX | 4 mins | Short rendition of Whatever Robert Have Said | |
| Van Der Graaf Generator - Wondering Promo | F-- | 10mins | Worse video i have ever seen, so i'd like to get a better copy of it. | |
| PH/GS - French TV 1978 | VG | 12mins | ||
| PH/SG/DJ/ME - Bari 21.11.94 | EX- | 60mins | ||
| PH/SG/NP - San Fransisco 15/3/90 | VG+ | 112mins | ||
| PH - Brussels 12/86 | VG-- | 60mins | ||
| PH- Spanish TV (Painting by numbers promo) | VG | 4mins | ||
| PH- Stuttgart 30/11/86 | VG-- | 31mins | ||
| A Black Box Film / Riverside British TV 22/2/82 | VG+ | 3mins | "In Slow Time" Ballet Clip with PH singing/dancing (!) |
Video Snippet was taken from this site. thanks!
LP'S LIST:
After the show (ph)
Band of millions of years.. (ph&vdgg) (Available new lp for trade)
Farewell my lovely (ph)
Fellow travelers (ph&vdgg)
Modern (ph,gs)
On location (ph)
Ophelia (ph)
Pilgrims (vdgg)
Time for a change (ph)
Too many of my yesterdays (ph)