Peter Hammill - "Refugees" - beautiful live solo skeleton version (1978) video free download
We began to notice that we could be free ...
Peter Hammill (audio only) plays the Van Der Graaf Generator favourite "Refugees", from the unofficial live and solo album "Skeletons of Songs", accompanied by my own video compilation. Recorded live at the All Souls Unitarian Church in Kansas City (USA) in February 1978, Hammill explains that all songs when first written exist in their 'skeleton' form, and when playing live and solo none of the orchestration and overdubbing added later are included. Live and solo is by far my favourite way of listening to Peter Hammill, and this album is amongst my top ten all-time favourite albums without question. I have uploaded some of my other favourite tracks from this album.
I compiled the video montage 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.
Comments
10 years ago
crazymary64
let the tears flow unchallenged for this wonder10 years ago
telecran7
So far away...from my youth! Time they are a changin'..!??10 years ago
Márcia Mello
Refugees10 years ago
Jean Kuldieu
May the sky never stop !12 years ago
Godscarmachine
@LondonDada Exactly, it surprises me how Peter Hammill and Van Der Graaf Generator have slipped under the radar for so long.12 years ago
blackesteyes1962
I wouldn't mind getting buried with this. What a song, perhaps the best ever written. IMHO, it is.13 years ago
professoricon
@edenic Brilliant comment.13 years ago
ZobaK1
yes, it still is briliant...13 years ago
BlackestEyes1963
A fantastic singer and composer. I will be there when he and his VanDerGraaf Mates will play at my hometown, come March 30th. And anyone who doesn't understand the beauty of this song should have his ears CUT OFF.13 years ago
LondonDada
Totally under-rated and partially unrecognized song-writing genius.13 years ago
Hammill
@anniegog quite difficult if zappa still sleeping14 years ago
erixoff
Thanx. I have the Time Vaults CD actually :-) Good day14 years ago
prosoloist
@erixoff TIME VAULTS version...Van der Graaf Generator - (In the) Black Room (1972)14 years ago
prosoloist
@erixoff Van der Graaf Generator - (In the) Black Room (1972) is now up. Haven't seen the studio version yet14 years ago
erixoff
@anniegog It's strange, my favorite song is "The black room" and I can't see here on YouTube :-(14 years ago
Thomas Barrett
my favourite vocalist of all time. we can only wonder at a hammil/zappa colabiration14 years ago
postesg
hey hammill!! when he said he bought it in 1973 its not impossible because the song is from the least we can do is wave to each other which was recorded and released in 1970,some fan you are!14 years ago
Hammill
1973? that's impossible, the concert was in 1978...15 years ago
elintrafalario
Great, I love PH an VDGG. Thank's for the post.15 years ago
