David Jackson (ex-Van Der Graaf Generator) - Guastalla: Live Tonewall & Soundbeam [2002]
A November night in Guastalla for an Event organised by the Peter Hammill / Van der Graaf Generator Study Group: the solo concert by David Jackson, once saxophone player in Van der Graaf Generator. A late afternoon arrival, the discovery of the musician during the soundcheck, a dinner with friends - and then, Music.
Just minutes before the show we discover there are two video cameras available, and we attempt the unthinkable: a document which doesn't fall in the category of the usual and boring bootleg captured from a hidden corner, with noises and tremblings included. To decide what to do and how we only have 15 minutes: not exactly the necessary time to invent a project.
But this picture doesn't take David into account: alone, he takes the stage like a giant for two exhausting hours of music, passion, smiles, tragedy. After a couple of weeks, in the silence of Sonica Studios, we make the point on the images with Emilio Maestri and we realise that maybe it can happen. So fifty hours of editing, syncing, experiments and second thoughts follow, in the search for the cuts able to render the atmosphere and emotion of the event at best. David sees the result at the right time and is quite impressed: to the point that he immediately asks us to release it." Includes a couple of VDGG tracks, donchaknow!
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