DAVID JACKSON, GUY EVANS, HUGH BANTON & FRIENDS - Long Hello - EU United Artists Press - LISTEN - VERY RARE

This is classic Van der Graaf Generator from 1973, but... without vocalist Peter Hammill! Reissued on vinyl for the first time in the original, vinyl cover! The material was not released in Great Britain until 1976 - in a horrible white sleeve with the brown logo of The Long Hello, but two years earlier it came out in Italy (in a fairy-tale cover - on United Artists) under the original banner of "three surnames and friends" and with the title 'The Long Hello'... The album was made in 1973 - right after Hammill suspended VDGG's activity, while the other musicians still wanted to work together. Stylistically it is a chunk of charming, instrumental progressive rock decidedly in the vein of the somewhat calmer, but still 'psychedelically twisted' moods of early VDGG - with flute, saxophone, processed keyboards and acoustic guitar. The record also features two then-members of Rare Bird, including bassist Nic Potter - known to fans from the second and third Van Der Graaf Generator records! Excellent, clean sound on clean, hiss-free vinyl! Beautiful, laminated sleeve. Highly recommended!