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Peter Hammill in professional music circles is often considered a genius,but because of his writing style many music listeners can't get to grips with his finely tuned records. Personally I like the liquid style as you never quite know where the music is leading you. What do I think 🤔
The man is a genius ❤️
The Progzilla Radio progressive rock show special on Peter broadcast on 16th November is well worth a listen 😊🎶
#PeterHammill #VanDerGraafGenerator #NowPlaying
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Brian Lavelle Nov 28

Next up on my (music) reading pile: ‘Rock and Role: The Visionary Songs of Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator’ by Joe Banks.

I enjoyed Banks’s book about Hawkwind, so I’m looking forward to digging into this one. I was interested to read in one of PH’s recent newsletters that he’d not been interviewed for the book - it’s unclear whether that was Hammill’s decision or the author’s…

#PeterHammill #VanDerGraafGenerator #JoeBanks

Dazi Bao Nov 5

RE: https://mast.lat/@Dazibao/115494445664205857

Bue, va otro temazo de Hammill en vivo, "Refugees".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcqj54VTIMY

#PeterHammill #Rock

Dazi Bao Nov 5

Pasaron las 00 h GMT, en Londres ya es 5 de noviembre, por lo tanto Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill está cumpliendo 77 años. Albricias.

Hace un mes y pocos días estuvo por Edimburgo, Manchester y Londres, dando algunos de esos recitales en los que canta solo, con piano y con guitarra. Hay varios videos dando vuelta. Busquen, no los va a defraudar.

Dejo nomás una canción de muestra, "Stranger still", en vivo en Edimburgo.

Peter Hammill, en plenitud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfBqCpbfZbk

#PeterHammill #Rock

Peter Hammill - Stranger Still - Queen's Hall - Edinburgh - 29 September 2025

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Àlex Ander Oct 12

It's TIME for another #MusicPoll and this TIME it's about prog-rock songs that use the word "TIME" for title. Sorry, no Pink Floyd on the list since it was too easy and obvious of a choice #songs #ProgRock #time #DreamTheater #GentleGiant #genesis #PeterHammill
#TempusFugit

Dream Theater - Take the Time

14.3%

Genesis - Time Table

57.1%

Gentle Giant - Time to Kill

28.6%

Peter Hammill - Time Heals

Poll ended at Oct 16 at 10:12am.

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Stoneface Vimes Oct 6

@Geri did you catch the interview on Stewart Maconie's Freak Zone last night? Peter Hammill on his 71-85 box set. If you have half an hour spare...
It's on BBC sounds.
#PeterHammill

Aaro Koskinen Oct 4

"From The Trees" (2017) by #PeterHammill.

That raw B&W sleeve with punk style graffiti suggests towards his raw early 1980s band style, even 1970s "Nadir". But the colorful back cover and the inner sleeve makes clear this "a calm" chill out album.

Indeed musically I would place this next to "Fireships" (one of my fave "calm" albums of his). Maybe you can also hear some "Fool's Mate" stuff here, but aged like a wine.

#Music #CD #ProgRock #SingerSongwriter #RecordCollecting

Patrick Hadfield Sep 29

Back from seeing Peter Hammill in concert. I first saw him play with VdGG over fifty years ago; I saw him solo over thirty years ago, too.

It was very good tonight, though his songs can be a bit bleak - and he played my favourite of his songs first, so it was downhill from there!

That was My Room. Here's what it would have sounded like at that gig in 1992...

#PeterHammill #Edinburgh

https://youtu.be/Z_l59dL4eMo?feature=shared

Peter Hammill - My Room

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Brian Lavelle has moved Sep 29

And it was such a wonderful, intensely emotional show. He began with the Van der Graaf Generator song ‘My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)’, one of my favourites, and ended with ‘A Vision’.

#PeterHammill #VanDerGraafGenerator