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Title: Van Der Graaf Generator - Live in Paris 18/3/72
Description: A recently discovered footage of Van Der Graaf playing in the Bataclan theatre. It was filmed for a show called Pop Deux.
This is an excerpt from Lost. I took the liberty of doing some remastering on the sound.
Title: Van Der Graaf Generator - The Sleepwalkers - Live 29/3/2008
Description: Van Der Graaf Generator - The Sleepwalkers - Live @ Rosignano (LI) 29/3/2008
Sorry for the video quality, but I had to film it without using the display to avoid disturbing other spectators.
Lyrics:
At night, this mindless army, ranks unbroken by dissent,
is moved into action and their pace does not relent.
In step, with great precision, these dancers of the night
advance against the darkness - how implacable their might!
Eyes undulled by moon, their arms and legs akimbo,
they walk and live, hoping soon to surface from this limbo.
Their minds, anticipating the dawn of the day,
shall never know what's waiting mere insight away
- too far, too soon.
Senses dimmed in semi-sentience, only wheeling through this plane,
only seeing fragmented images, prematurely curtailed by the brain,
but breathing, living, knowing in some measure at least
the soul which roots the matter of both Beauty and the Beast.
From what tooth or claw does murder spring,
from what flesh and blood does passion?
Both cut through the air with the pendulum's swing
in deadly but delicate fashion.
And every range of feeling is there in the dream
and every logic's reeling in the force of the scream;
the senses sting.
And though I may be dreaming and reality stalls
I only know the meaning of sight and that's all
and that's nothing.
The columns of the night advance,
infectiously, their cryptic dance
gathers converts to the fold -
in time the whole raw world will pace these same steps
on into the same bitter end.
Somnolent muster - now the dancing dead
forsake the shelter of their secure beds,
awaken to a slumber whose depths they dread,
as if the ground they tread would give way
beneath the solemn weight of their conception.
I'd search the hidden corners of all this world,
make reason of the sensory whorl
if I only had time,
but soon the dream is ended.
Tonight, before you lay down to the sweetness of your sleep
do you question your surrender to the drop from Lover's Leap
or does the anaesthetic darkness take hold on its very own?
Does your body rise in service with not one dissenting groan?
These waking dreams of life and death
in the mirror are twisted and buckled;
lashes flicker, a catch of breath,
skin whitening at the knuckles.
The army of sleepwalkers shake their limbs and are loose
and though I am a talker, I can phrase no excuse
not to rise again.
In the chorus of the night-time I belong
and I, like you, must dance to that moonlight song
and in the end I, too, must pay the cost of this life.
If all is lost none is known
and how could we lose what we've never owned?
Oh, I'd search out every knowledge that I could find,
unravel all the mysteries of mind,
if I only had time,
if I only had time,
but soon my time is ended.
Title: Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff - 02 - Scorched Earth
Description: please ignore the watermark (the scrolling grey text at the top)!
Scorched Earth, track two from Van Der Graff Generator's 1975 album Godbluff (their best album IMHO), written by Peter Hamill & David Jackson.
Stereo sound - thanks to all the all the youtubers that posted helpful info, cheers. These are my first ever video posts, be gentle!
Title: Van Der Graaf Generator - Live at the RFH - Killer
Description: This is a snippet from a DVD that i edited of the historical Van Der Graaf Generator reunion concert from May 6th, 2005. It was edited from 7 different video footages, all shot from the audience.
The entire DVD (full show, over two hours) is shared via Torrents for a long time now.
For this version, i removed the 'not for sale' title that exists on the DVD.
Sorry for the low bitrate.
Title: Van Der Graaf Generator - Theme one
Description: arare vandergraaf Generator clip
fantastic music!!!!
Title: "Necromancer" by Van Der Graaf Generator
Description: Van Der Graaf Generator playing one of my top ten favourite VDGG songs: "Necromancer". This is the studio version from the album "The Aerosol Grey Machine". There is another version on the album "The Box", recorded live at the BBC radio session Top Gear on 18th November 1968, a radio show mostly hosted by John Peel, which I shall upload separately.
I compiled the video myself utilising footage mostly downloaded from YouTube, with some of my own added effects and filters.
Please check out my other videos.
Comments are most welcome.
Title: van der graaf generator - undercover man
Description: "godbluff" live in 1975
Title: Van Der Graaf Generator - Refugees live at Liverpool
Description: Filmed the encore of the VDGG (VDGG Trio) in Liverpool with a (good) stills camera. Since the encore was a one-off, and a great one, i'm posting it here.
IF ANYONE HAS MORE FOOTAGE FROM THIS SHOW, PLEASE LET ME KNOW
Title: van der graaf generator - plague of lighthouse keepers pt.1
Description: 1971 belgian tv live
i re-uploaded this vid, in a high quality & full version.
if you want to see it, go to
http://dory.mncast.com/mncHMovie.swf?movieID=10010271720070506220018
Title: Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life (live in Moscow 2008)
Description: The end of the splendid gig!
Title: Van der Graaf Generator - Lemmings *Live*
Description: Queen Elizabeth Hall, April 3rd.
Sorry for quality and lack of... actual video footage =Z
Also, sorry about missing the last 3 minutes.
Title: Van Der Graaf Generator - Meurglys III,the Songwriters Guild
Description: Van Der Graaf Generator - Meurglys III, the Songwriter's Guild - Live @ Rosignano (LI) 29/3/2008
Sorry for the video quality, but I had to film it without using the display to avoid disturbing other spectators.
Lyrics:
These days I mainly just talk to plants and dogs,
all human contact seems painful, risky, odd,
so I stay acting god in my own universe
where I trade cigarettes in return for songs.
The deal's made harder the longer I go on:
I find me gone from all but secret languages.
If only I could phrase satisfactory words
in conversation, to make my passion heard,
if only....
Meurglys III, he's my friend,
the only one that I can trust
to let it be without pretence,
there's no-one else.
It's killing me, but in the end
there's no-one else I know is true,
there's none in all the masks of men,
there's nothing else
but my guitar...
I suppose he'll have to do.
Talking in tongues is easy when you know how,
quite pleasing, but still nothing works out right.
Pressurised lungs, heart bleeding, you'd better slow down
and show that you can make it through the night.
However dark it seems, the present is just the present,
beyond it no further darkness lies concealed
and through these desperate dreams,
this longing for friends and comfort,
you know that in the end all will be revealed.
When no more plants or dogs or rooms are there to hear you,
and no-one is left near you, then you'll see:
in the end there's only you and Meurglys III,
and this is just what you chose to be.
(Fool!)
Though I know all this is just escape,
I run because I don't know where the prison lies.
In songs like this I can bear the weight;
I'm running still,
I shall until,
one day, I hope that I'll arrive.
Title: Van Der Graaf Generator - house with no door
Description: art slide show
Title: Van Der Graaf Generator - The Siren Song
Description: Song taken form VDGG 1977's album "the quiet zone to pleasure dome"
Title: Van Der Graaf 1978 - Lizard Play
Description: As someone requested - here's another piece of that 1978 footage.