JACKSON, BANTON, EVANS AND FRIENDS (VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR) - Long Hello +1 - SWE Flawed Gems Remastered & Expanded - LISTEN - VERY RARE

This is classic Van der Graaf Generator from 1973, but... without vocalist Peter Hammill! On CD for the first time since 1993 (now in a much better sound version) and 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 2 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! In addition a track from an unfinished session for a VDGG LP from 1973 that was never made is included. A MUST!