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Posted: **Sat Nov 27, 2010 12:33 am**

On the subject of the great Peter Hammill, here are some truly fantastic performances from the sixty year old.

A Way Out (An amazing performance. Note how he begins assertively in full declamatory mode and, as the song progresses to its inexorable conclusion, the voice softens to a anguished whisper. One of his greatest and most emotional performances.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fptrz5CzHjw

Yout Tall Ship (One of his more "commercial" sounding songs but one he absolutely believes in and here he delivers an impassioned vocal performance. "Our rites of passage make us strong" - amen to that):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl7Bd2JtKRo

The immortal The Lie (played on a fantastic-sounding piano which is so important for this song. "Ice-cold statue, rapture divine. The wound of love, the lie.")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpH53tBY ... re=related

Time to burn (written to mark the passing of a friend, Tony Stratton-Smith, and manager of Van der Graaf Generator. Simple, heartfelt, direct and very personal.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdNcRMEB ... re=related

A Better Time (One of the greatest of his latterday songs. "As soon as the countdown begins, our time is not our own."):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgHdXtk8pEc

Time Heals (A masterpiece, pure and simple. A great performance like this just cuts right through your heart. "The steps we take all leave footprints."):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLQfzMsBi1E

Last Frame (Angry, bitter resentment encapsulated in a wonderfully unhinged performance of the great Van der Graaf song. "There you are. Your eyes laced in secret pleasure."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy7SzqMGhk4

I do believe the man is getting better as the years go by.

Posted: **Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:42 am**

Posted: **Sat Nov 27, 2010 6:04 pm**

Some timeless Can :

Absolutely amazing to see Damo Suzuki in full flight (sometimes he reminds me of Jim Morrison - and there is a touch of an alternative Doors about Can especially with Irmin Schmidt's organ-playing) and there's the insanely funky grooves laid down by guitarist Michel Karoli and the great Jaki Liebezeit on drums.

Paperhouse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76CeJBbJs8

Bring me Coffee or Tea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilk-2tXz ... re=related

Halleluwah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De1T8LR_ ... re=related (wonderful live atmosphere on this one - audience sounds a bit combative but Can play on deep in their own world)

Spoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3buYpfYRlaA&feature=fvw

Vitamin C (just an excerpt but still priceless):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsV7t-yX ... re=related

I'm Too Liese:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjSM1THK ... re=related

Sing Swan Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVAKoCJC ... re=related

Mother Sky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyKKahQ ... re=related

Deadlock (great Suzuki vocal here - what a frontman):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olIrNodU ... re=related

What a great, great band whose music just gets better with every passing year.

Posted: **Sat Nov 27, 2010 7:47 pm**

Paul, I just can't keep up with you!! Really, really looking forward to watching all the videos you've posted. Thank you as now I'll have something to occupy me as I lie on my confounded sick bed :-)) Drat it, the battery's just died on me :-(

Posted: **Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:29 pm**

cybot wrote:Paul, I just can't keep up with you!! Really, really looking forward to watching all the videos you've posted. Thank you as now I'll have something to occupy me as I lie on my confounded sick bed :-)) Drat it, the battery's just died on me :-(

Get well soon!!

Posted: **Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:07 am**

fergus wrote:
cybot wrote:Paul, I just can't keep up with you!! Really, really looking forward to watching all the videos you've posted. Thank you as now I'll have something to occupy me as I lie on my confounded sick bed :-)) Drat it, the battery's just died on me :-(
Get well soon!!

I second that!!!!!

Posted: **Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:59 am**

Get well soon, Dermot. Rest and recuperation and lots and lots of great music is what you need.

Posted: **Sun Nov 28, 2010 1:32 am**

Thanks for the kind words lads :-) Watching the legendary Damo on stage would bring a smile to anyone's face! The cigerette dangling nonchalantly from Michael's lips is a classic image too...
Just so glad I saw him on the Can solo tour here in Dublin a few months before he succumbed to lung cancer...

Just checked the date of Michael's death - would you believe he died at the age of 53 on the 20th of November 2001?!?!?! Weird or what?

Posted: **Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:41 am**

So sad, the early passing of Michael Karoli. What was the show like, Dermot?

Posted: **Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:41 am**

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