VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR Least We Can Do 1st UK Press Pink Scroll Prog + Poster
  £   81
  $   107

 


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Nov 3, 2013 Sold Date
Oct 27, 2013 Start Date
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Van Der Graaf Generator

Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each  Other

Very Rare Original UK LP released  on Charisma Records in 1970. 1st UK pressing on the Pink Scroll Label, come in a  gatefold sleeve. This is the withdrawn original release as it does not have a G  in the matrix. Later pressings had a G in the matrix. Complete with double sided  Poster Insert.

Matrix No's

Side One - CAS+1007+A2

Side Two - CAS+1007+B2

Peter Hammill has always had an  abiding interest, it seems, in the blurred boundary between the mystical and the  scientific, and between the rational and magical mind; this is certainly evident  on the debut Van Der Graaf Generator album, even though Hammill had yet to  really begin focusing himself on what it was that was driving him (despite the  fact that the band's very name referenced a device that resembles a bastard mix  of scientific apparatus and shamanic totem). The Least We Can Do brings those  concerns to the fore with ferocity, with time out for a couple of more personal  pieces ("Refugees" and "Out of Our Book"). Hammill's lyrics, delivered with all  the passion and intent he can muster, reference mysticism, numerology,  astrology, various religious pantheons, the Malleus Maleficarum (leading Hammill  to conclude, a bit too hopefully, that magic needs to be gray to be balanced),  Robert van deGraaf himself (in "Whatever Would Robert Have Said?"), the future  of humanity, and surviving ecological catastrophe. This being the start of the  1970s, the hopeful notes are drowned out by the tidal wave of fear, sadness, and  despair, despite which, the music does tend to be rather uplifting, thanks to  the undercurrent of barely restrained majesty VDGG tended to have (possibly  thanks to Hugh Banton, who had been rather used to communicating with God via  church and cathedral organs; he brought that expertise to a position more  normally occupied by determined B3 thumpers engaged in battle with show-horse  guitarists).
 

 

TRACKS ARE :-

Side One

1 Darkness (11/11) 7:11
2 Refugees 6:13
3 White Hammer 8:08

Side Two

1 Whatever Would Robert Have Said ?  5:50
2 Out Of My Book 3:58
3 After The Flood 11:34

 

  • Released on Charisma Records in 1970

  • Catalogue Number CAS 1007

  • Record is in Ex + condition (few  very light surface marks from the inner sleeve)

  • Sleeve is in Vg + condition (some  rubbing and shelf wear and the residue of a sticker on the front which has also  caused two sticker tears, see photo)

  • Poster is in Vg condition (the  corners are damaged after been pinned to a wall many times throughout the 70's)

 

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