Peter Hammill 1973 - German Overalls, RockEnStock

[@InterferencePatterns]

Reminds me of what David Jackson said of his first meeting with Peter... "He just came into the room and sat down and played. I had never heard anything like it in my life. I had seen performers, I had seen artists, I had been to festivals, I'd seen The Who smashing up equipment, and all sorts of people were playing mega-gigs... and here was this guy sitting in our furniture-less big front room in Canfield Gardens, singing with more intensity than any of those people put together..."

[@AlbertoVO5]

InterferencePatterns Enter K!

[@kidflersh7807]

Where is this quote from? Source?

[@vadimzaytsev2660]

@@kidflersh7807 probably VdGG: The Book. There's also a big interview with Jackson you can find online, but I believe this was from The Book.

[@Twirlip2]

​@@vadimzaytsev2660 If I may be pedantic: you're right, it's from Jim Christopulos and Phil Smart, _Van der Graaf Generator: The Book_ ("Phil and Jim", www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk, 2005), pages 53-55. (Page 54 is entirely filled by a group photograph.) The original source is an interview published in _Soundbite_. (For all I know, there may be more than one publication with that title.)

[@Twirlip2]

@@vadimzaytsev2660 By the way, according to page 117 of _The Book_, the song "German Overalls" was written shortly after VdGG's May 1971 tour of Germany, which is described at some length in Chapter Eight: "Out of Control, Out of Control". Actually _during_ the tour, Peter wrote "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" (in an ice cream van).

[@maxinemckenzie5765]

The Hendrix of the Voice sure enough. 🎼🎵🎭🎤🎶🖼🎸💥✒🎯🗣🎶

[@nichelodeonband]

A genius at his best. Great vocalist, great composer, great lyricist.

[@tristianlevi]

Oh my god wow!!!!!!!!!! I never would’ve dreamed this existed back in the nineties Thank you god for you tube!!!!

[@rayconroy]

The strength of Peter still bewitches me 35 years since I got "into" VDGG...truly brilliant.

[@maxinemckenzie5765]

"Chameleon..." was a big favourite of mine...but then "In Camera"s a Masterpiece too... Fuck it! everything He brought out... His Solo performances are as powerful as His Vdgg shows ~ just different. Emotions presented as Altered States of Consciousness. Genuinely a Genius. A Unique Talent.The "Pawn Hearts" Album has to be Experienced on Acid... if you think you're hard enough!

[@dantolino1093]

This ranks among the best PH performances ever recorded. At his absolute prime.

[@AlbertoVO5]

dan tolino AGREED! And it's such crisp and frontal footage. Great to see the chord work!

[@eyraudpa]

A wonder !!

[@Drewbott1]

My first Hammill solo about 1982. My favourite as a consequence.

[@Perbuatan1883]

undoubtely, ...it is impressive to see, unlike the studio version that had many background instruments (but arranged in a so unique way, as he did on much of his solos albums of early seventies) how he deals with his only guitar and how the vocal performance is slightly changes to the studio version A truly inspired artist !!

[@InterferencePatterns]

Quite the rarity! Fantastic! The performance is top notch!

[@Warloo100]

Absolutely fantastic!

[@laurentdelaigne5659]

superbe, hallucinant !

[@AlbertoVO5]

Exquisite play on words of the title. I always imagine it was concocted in the tour van in Germany.

[@Gnomaxx]

Quelle chanson... Peter au top de son art.

[@bucka001]

From a French TV show called Rock En Stock. He also did an intense version of In The End on piano for this broadcast. Great!!! Other performers on this episode were Long Dancer (w/Dave Stewart of Eurythmics looking all hippied out) and The Doobie Brothers. VdGG were on French TV in '72 (circulating amongst collectors) and March '71 (we can only hope that one will circulate some day!)

[@dudleylitz7369]

thanks, cousin!

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

... yes, indeed. His voice is in it's prime here.

[@pascaljeanne6520]

pure class and the artist ! listen to this record ! for rené !

[@coparush]

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@andxmenx]

GENIUS ! thanks to share ! Fxxx amazing !

[@amdrodrig1]

Perfect!

[@nubesenlapelela]

This is amazing. I was hoping I could figure out some of the chords from this, but whatever. Beautiful song, great performance.

[@andrewbott2196]

Dan Tolino, the P.A. is the public address system (speakers) being taken down post VDGG gig in Koln. It speaks of the post gig come down in it's imagery. Nothing to do with chemistry, although acid is mentioned earlier in the song.

[@megaspongebob6]

what a precise and good answer

[@Wormeatennightapple]

Thank you very much for this unexpected gem¡

[@nurserycrymesdarkart]

WONDERFUL!!! Thank you for uploading this!

[@octaviofuzzface]

Excellent and thanks for sharing!!

[@mchafen]

WOW !!!

[@sandrewsten]

Fucking brilliant,

[@tristianlevi]

Ph you are thee greatest

[@stefaniapartini5825]

Credo che PH sia stato fonte di ispirazione per più di un artista,tra cui Stan Ridgway...

[@michevicus2987]

Direi anche Johnny Rotten, David Bowie e David Thomas dei Pere Ubu.

[@raulmontanari4387]

Anche il primo Alan Sorrenti.

[@oswaldomonsivais6894]

sublime!

[@christinapeter1001]

I was 16, now 66....;❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@croiners4166]

Wow!

[@Zzyyxxyyxx]

Awesome!

[@as400techman]

It must be good, my wife hates it. She was even more surprised when I told her I have the album.

[@MariaDiazskn]

Most women do. No idea why.

[@coparush]

best song about VDGG after the "Pawn Hearts " Era

[@christinapeter1001]

❤

[@сергейсторожко-й6ж]

Legend

[@fabrikk60]

The song is basically about VdGG touring Germany in 1971, running completely out of money, and in the painful process of breaking up from sheer discouragement. Has any other artist ever performed something so starkly autobiographical about their career travails?

[@zombywoof92]

Excellent find! Where's "In the End"?

[@dragisaantic6568]

🎉

[@ladyfantasy71]

is it ? All I know is that Paul Brett Sage, who are on there too, (wrongly labled as Badfinger), had split up by '73 ! But like you say maybe the shoot was earlier than the broadcast...

[@AlbertoVO5]

There’s no audio

[@coparush]

were children and we grope in the dark

[@MS-rg6ku]

My favorite line

[@MS-rg6ku]

That line shook me to my core the first time i heard it

[@andreabarberini4485]

"I try to hold my breath as the P.A. comes down" (2:45)...What does "P.A." means?

[@dantolino1093]

+Andrea Barberini It's actually PH. In chemistry, pH (/piːˈeɪtʃ/) is a numeric scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution.

[@StevenHargraves]

P.A. = Public Address - Basically the speakers for the microphones at a concert.

[@stefaniapartini5825]

Penso che Stan Ridgway si sia ispirato molto a lui...

[@ladyfantasy71]

it's from '72, NOT '73 !

[@DrAnthraxxx]

anybody has tabs?

[@MrLamontagne]

WOW!!