Van Der Graaf Generator - Theme One (Belgium 1972)

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

That Bloody Wicked Drummer Can Certainly Play With His Eyes Closed...

[@tommyrawlings3046]

Guy Evans one of the best ever!

[@dootraanougat]

Yes! the drummer man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Jlipnicki]

Still playing.

[@almead66]

Guy Evans? Duuude.

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

He's A Bloody Monster On Drums...

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

And When He Peers Into The Camera...😀😀

[@andyrob3259]

The house band of Buggernation Street.

[@heavymetal1963]

they were formed in manchester in 1969,reformed in 2005 and are still going.Tommy Vance played this song every week on the friday night rockshow on BBC 1.been in my head ever since i just love it

[@rikk1546]

Formed 1967, debut album 1969.

[@dandoohan7223]

One of the all time great prog bangers 🤘

[@darksideofpermanentwaves4159]

One of the best bands of all time

[@giulianomombelli3081]

Number one album in Italy 1971

[@SGL1963]

Bloody Hell, this version is so hard to find but I've found it at last! Excellent piece of prog history - everyone should watch this....

[@newforestpixie5297]

Our 30 yr old musician son bless him struggles with the sound of one instrument - the saxophone & being that I would torment him out of bed with Lemmings when his 14 yr old version wouldn’t get out of bed & he happens to be back at the old house today , I’ll show him this example of saxophone dexterity . Tommy Vance introduced their version of this magnificent tune to my generation as a segway track during his weekly rock show during the darkness of gloomy 1980 & would often get asked just what was it called & who was it by. Fabulous ❤️🏴👍

[@petealdridge821]

Blimey this brings back some memories. 10pm til midnight on a Friday night, with Tommy Vance on Radio One. Incredible musicianship. Was lucky enough to see Jax live guesting with Fish a few years back, just for one song, but a real treat. And as for the drummer. Wow!

[@stefanogaggioli-iv7db]

Eccezionali,favolosi.non ne rinascono

[@therestlesslegs8379]

Van der Graf Generator!!!!!!!! Theme one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo great, I lost the DVD with that Video, now I found it, thanks to BassLudeman and KZbin.

[@ignacioperandresnieto6195]

Gladureciveredthetreasuremetooo

[@docroxchannel]

2023.. Total music..in Italy,Area!

[@francatasinazzo8418]

Bellissima era la sigla di apertura alla discoteca NORDEST 🤩🤩bellissimi anni 😢

[@dolomitus]

I'll keep coming back for more of the same! 🙌

[@herrjonsson]

Excellent band! Absolutely great!

[@coemptor]

My god, the sheer energy!

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

Especially That Bloody Monster On Drums...

[@NikLuar]

Prog Rocks Masterpiece!!!

[@ruivog]

Love this. Classic music of the XXs.

[@ignacioperandresnieto6195]

Loveit

[@RBrop]

This is too awesome! Let me clarify, the fact that KZbin keeps putting old VanDer Graaf Generator stuff in my subs - THAT is TOO AWESOME! I don't understand it, BUT I LOVE IT! Keep it coming! Beyond that, YES the music is awesome!

[@davidbryden7904]

Same here, and the fact that the algorithm knows what we like, it just strikes me a bit "bg brotherish"!! Great tune 👌

[@andyrob3259]

I think more people have listened to this because of Buggernation St than one the music when it originally came out.

[@chrisrebar2381]

Yep, drove me nuts for weeks trying to think what it was

[@markharland3118]

Music from the dawn of time - awesome!

[@DVRC]

Yesterday in my city there was a concert of the italian prog group _Osanna_ , featuring Gianni Leone (from _Il Balletto di Bronzo_ ) and David Jackson. It was magic to see and listen Jackson play Theme One, so my wish somehow got fullfilled, since Van der Graaf Generator came in my city many years ago.

[@SamuraiAkechi]

Osanna is great, I fell in love with the music after Milano Calibro 9

[@RazSux]

Anyone else here after watching Buggernation Street?

[@fizzbinuk2814]

Yes, all thumbs ups provided by Len Fairclough.

[@JohnDRobinsonelectronicdrums]

just finished watching them all..comedy gold

[@MonkeySocs]

I’ll never forget Blanche getting a double bumming!

[@andyrob3259]

Yup been looking for it. It’s the house band at the Rovers Return.

[@jackalexander209]

Yup!

[@JOSEMANUELSEIJASFERNANDE-md2rh]

Todo mi recuerdo con este tema para un genio irrepetible: Tommy Vance, Friday Rock Show,.

[@marceloramos4386]

Minha banda preferida...com td respeito as outras bandas de proguessivo....mais em se tratando de vdgg..a coiza e diferente...maravilha sonora para a alma e crescimento espiritual....gratidao

[@DylanWhite-k5j]

Guy Evans bringing the heat!.

[@lemming9984]

A great pity the organ is lost in the mix for most of the time. Great track.

[@GANTHA68]

Wonderfull... Yaahhhh... 🖤❤️👊🏻🌹

[@InterferencePatterns]

Actually in 1967, when it was still a student band at Manchester University, although that was, of course, a completely different band then!

[@serpente-legno]

Grandi!!!!!!! 2021

[@fredfuller2281]

this BBC Theme 0ne rocks like no other MoI!!

[@jeronimoronimo2654]

drummer - fire

[@VIX_Noelopan]

Superb tune and playing, indeed. But I'd also like to know what these tube amps in the rack behind them were.

[@crimsonrush]

Buggernation Street brought me here.

[@MrWayout74]

Lost Buggernation Street 4: Alf - a Romeo. Watched it yet?

[@crimsonrush]

@@MrWayout74 Yes. :D

[@andyrob3259]

@@MrWayout74 hehe great. But it’s used throughout the series as background music.

[@leonsilva27]

this is where the bass shows its importance. this wonderful live song was crippled. the studio song has bass and is perfect with it. Where was Peter Hammill in that work ? he could, as a great multi-instrumentalist, have played the bass

[@artemisios]

Rumor has that he was late at the recording session, so they recorded Theme One without him.

[@TheLastOilMan]

Thanks ,great track stollen by Martin and his BBC backers

[@pdstokes8]

George Martin actually wrote this track as the theme tune for Radio One. VDGG then picked it up and recorded their version. Still, it's a brilliant tune and VDGG sort on introduced me the prog rock.

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

The Title Is Quite Fitting...It Certainly Sounds Like It Could Be The Theme To Something...Perhaps A Horror Suspense Film Of That Time...

[@karllux-d6g]

Greatness! ...but where's Hammill?

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

Out Having Lunch... Whilst The Rest Of Band Plays~Since Its And Instrumental With No Vocals...😀😀Hes On A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers Tho...

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

Only Complaint I Have Of This Track Is It Should Rather More Have Been At 8+ Minutes Long...

[@charlesalfredpayton]

@SGL1963... I agree!!

[@hugoferreyra2809]

🤘🤘🤘

[@earthman13666]

👊😎🤟

[@tonypate9174]

Why oh why do get Oh Mrs walker , Hello Kenneth still a BLANKING little BLANK ? Yes thank you Mrs Walker any Betty hot pots left ...Barlow vibes to this ?

[@CorneliusGerathy]

22163 Lonie Centers

[@rikk1546]

VdGG minus PH = The Long Hello.

[@stanistevens]

Geddy Lee on sax, Marc Bolan on keyboards, Kurt Cobain on drums.

[@ricardososa278]

Falto tu abuela!

[@alexeyulko]

Great musicianship, but what an absolutely awfully distasteful and priminite tune!

[@mikereiss4216]

Don't blame VDGG for that. It's a cover track so blame George Martin who wrote it.

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

I. And Ur A Bloody Idiot...It's An Absolutely Splendid Wicked Track...Both George Martin[Which I Didn't Know Till Today]And This Cover By Van Der Graff Generator...ONLY Thing That's Awful & Distasteful[Among A Legion Of Other Descriptive Terms I Could Us]Is U AND Ur Rubbish Bin Comment!...Go Play It Justin Bieber Records An Shut It..NO ONE Is To Blame The Pair Of U! II. George Martin Wrote And Absolutely Splendid Tune & Van Der Graff Generator Covered It Splendid...And I Don't Give A Bloody Hell About Ur Right To Ur Opinion...Which As Far As I'm Concerned Is Equivalent To Toilet And/Or Septic Tank Backing Up...

[@CorradoMartone]

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