Peter Hammill speaking in 1992 in Germany. This is taken from the DVD 'In The Passionkirche' live in Berlin 1992. Please check out my other videos. Comments are welcomed.
Thanks for this. I'm an ex-pat and feel dismay for the state of ol' Blighty in which so many of my family and friends still live- I know PH is a rare bird, but his outlook warms me right through. We need to hear more of these views in the current Euro/Anglo public discourse. Go Pete!
serves him right for being so fucking weird. I know whereof I speak as a former huge fan of his. he became irrelevant to me over twenty-years ago. I have never heard him speak and must say it is a very pleasant surprise to see him so affable and forthright. I never knew he was so charming. You can see his determination to communicate coming through his mild insecurity and timidity. I have gained enormous admiration and respect for him through this video. thanks for the upload
"yeah right Pete" "sometimes i just get smashed all day" Thanks for that lyric , i laughed so hard, boy i needed that, Then ofcourse , "how could you let it happen" still not got over that.
@MeurglysIV He mentioned "Nadir" a name he gave himself, i.e."Nadir's Big Chance" and "K' a nickname someone gave him, i.e. "Enter K", I like your other comment below. Good question. I think he is accustomed to living with doubt. He writes about emotion but never seems to lose his head.
@tiadoran It could have been as simple as some people reading the one word "godbluff" that put them off. People are strange in that regard. I see VDGG as my private band nobody else around here ever heard of, except for those psych heads that turned me onto them.
Interesante entrevista de1992 con Peter Hammill, vocalista de Van der Graaf Generator, que muestra a una buena y honesta persona con la que se puede estar de acuerdo en muchos temas.
I always got the opposite impression. His lyrics often sound critical of evil acts and his singing style makes it sound as though he's preaching or even performing an exorcism. I've wondered whether it was the religious passion of his work that people had kneejerk reactions to.
@@dodibenabba1378 Well the two are very much compatible. If you experience the divine as transcendent, then it transcends intellectual knowing - so agnosticism is pretty much the only intellectual stance that makes sense.