Live at the Paradiso 14:04:07 [Import]

Van Der Graaf Generator (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Voiceprint UK
• ASIN: B002ER3PBS
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #276,229 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Still kicking ass in prog, April 15, 2010

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Ignaciocue (Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Paradiso 14:04:07 (Audio CD)

Like something really alternative?

Guy Evans' work is magnificent. Every drummer should listen this jazz drummer that plays rock.

I miss the sax, definitely, but except for a few songs, the organ, drums, guitar trio makes it work big compensating with humungous chops and feeling.
This cd has more strength than the previous live Real time. The musicianship, hammills voice and words, and the musical content are still monumental for me. These 3 play huge. Hugh Banton plays his ass off too... one of the most underrated keyboardist in rock!

Now, for a drastic sonically alucinating Van der graaf, listen to their studio albums, specially the incredible Pawn hearts

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1.0 out of 5 stars This is the end of a legendary band and there are more problems than meets the ear!, January 18, 2011

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daniel therien - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Paradiso 14:04:07 (Audio CD)

This is the end of Van der graff,

The voice is gone, Hammill is cheating a lot, no more breath either,no more high notes, no more clean sustain no more memory ( reading the lyrics is very pathetic for the spontaneity...man it's even ridiculous!) everything coming from him seems to falli apart... Of course Banton is good, great fantastic whatever and the drum too...but but it's becoming very pathetic ... If they could merely pull it off on the live Real Time (because Jaxon was there) and had 1 fantastic cut on Present : Nutter Alert and one really good ( Every bloody emperor) the rest was way under their fantastic production of the 70's... Trisector was totally boring, minimalist ( you can be minimalist and interesting but no way they did that) and missing sparks, surprises, innovating musicians ( like on Vital and Pleasure dome)... By the way how come over the years everybody has been eliminated around Peter Hammill? : Nic Potter, david Jaxon, Charles Dickie, Graham Smith, Stuart Gordon, Manny Elias, David Lord John Ellis and more surprisingly Hammil can't find ONE new interesting Musicians...Is there a problem of ego with him or alcohol or whatever? Or is it that they just want to split the money between the 3 of them?

I prefer the way Fripp is aging even if the New King Crimson of the 80'S, 90's and 2000's is totally boring.. the man has a generosity , a spiritual and a lost of ego that are vey fascinating . On another side Hammil hasn't evoluate much? specially lyrically: same dark existentialism coming from the 50's, same obsessions treated sometimes differently, around and around we go: ( So Apparently He's got all the pattern of a deep alcoholic, and the nose that goes with it)....Could that reflect on his interaction with his musicians ?! (Or why would he always hide the reasons that everybody is deserting around him?) Oh yes it's private, band privacy, cheap drama for me! Jaxon seems to be really pissed off at Hammill same as Nic Potter! Shure it's none of our business ! ( i know he is not selling his soul only the cd's) but when the music suffers from it... We wish not necessarly to know and in fact the answer is not interesting, it is the question that is! It is the non-answer that is 2! it tells a lot in the end! That brings us to THE question : why there is not one single new musicians around Hammill since X MY HEART!? Why are his solos albums (since This) are so boring except for one cut or 2 (if we'r lucky) per album!? How come a guy that makes a heart attack (like Hammill) can come out with a boring album on the subject like Thin air ?
When he was singning : No more ego now...i wonder were those wishes gone...when he said he would never reform VDGG and go forward i wonder where that is gone? The reformation should have been a flash!( one studio one live that's it, unless you reinvent yourself totally, of course they didn't) Nothing more pathetic than old singer, specially old Rock and Roll singner....

At Last Does Hammill have come up with problems of integrity? and just hiding to himself the cheating?
Can you really go for years being a rock and roll signer? with integrity? and if so isnt it pathetric that Cirkus?
Can't he see his lost the voice, the mystery, the burning soul?
Can't he see it seems very fake?
Of course No if he got lost in the bottle!
Maybe he is only in it for the money?