VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR IN THE 70S

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Steve Pilkington SONICBOND PUBLISHING Perceptive dip into uncalm waters. Van der Graaf Generator In The 70s is an accomplished accompaniment to this most discrete, dense band. Steve Pilkington has a great depth of knowledge, clearly acquired across many years: he’s ready and willing to share this at some length. For example, the book has one of the best précises this writer has encountered of the knotty and fractured story of how the group formed. Anyone who has followed their on-off-on again career will be aware that VDGG were not commercially successful (charts are rarely ‘troubled’) and at times blighted by circumstance. Pilkington’s desire to underline this tends to grate at points. “Typically Van der Graaf”, “Van der Graaf demonstrated they were not like other bands”, “This being Van der Graaf…

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