Vinyl Album - Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other - Charisma

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Van Der Graaf Generator
Title:	The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other
Label:	Charisma
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	CAS 1007
Date:	Jan 1970
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	14 Own, 3 Want
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Van Der Graaf Generator	Darkness (11/11)	Hammill	8.0 Rate
A2	Van Der Graaf Generator	Refugees	Hammill	7.0 Rate
A3	Van Der Graaf Generator	White Hammer	Hammill	8.0 Rate
B1	Van Der Graaf Generator	Whatever Would Robert Have Said	Hammill	7.0 Rate
B2	Van Der Graaf Generator	Out Of My Book	Hammill, Jackson	7.0 Rate
B3	Van Der Graaf Generator	After The Flood	Hammill	8.0 Rate

Notes

Gatefold sleeve.
Original copies on the magenta "Scroll" label, later copies on the "Pink Hatter" label.
Early editions also included a fold out poster/lyric sheet.

There was a first issue of this with a mix by Shel Talmy which was quickly withdrawn. This has the matrix CAS+1007+A2 / B2

The remixed issue it was replaced with has the matrix CAS+1007+A+G / B+G

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The Record Press 14th Sep 2021		There may be an earlier version to the Shel Talmy mix - unsubstantiated rumour suggests that copies of John Anthony's original mix exist with no matrix on side 1 run-off. Whether these exist or not as full copies (and not just as white label test pressings), the original cut (done at HMV) had some top end problems so Tony Stratton Smith asked Shel Talmy to sort it out (without telling Anthony or the band). What Talmy did, instead of simply re-cutting the LP with de-esser on stun was to remix all bar two tracks and this was pressed and pushed out to retail, still without the band knowing. When the band found out they were (with justification) very unhappy with the new mix so Anthony was asked to recut the original mix, which was done at Trident. It is possible that Anthony did some further fiddling with the mix, because the two tracks that Talmy did not remix, 'Whatever Would Robert Have Said' and 'Out Of My Book' exhibit distinct audio differences between the two pressings, though perhaps that is down to the different mastering cuts, which could easily be the case - if comparing B&C-era pressings with copies recut and pressed by Phonogram, the latter sounds a lot less 'immediate' (e.g. you have to keep turning 'White Hammer' up on Phonogram pressings, whilst it hits right between the eyes on the +A+G pressing). (Until getting in contact with Denis Blackham - "Bilbo" or "DB" in the run-off - for help with one of my discographies, I'd had no idea that the actual cut could make such drastic differences to the sound of the same master tape, but this is evidently the case!)



robozuc 14th Sep 2014		Added inside cover.



Billy Two 14th Aug 2014		I'm trying to work out if the early "wide spine" copies of this were originally meant to be light blue, or whether I just have a couple of sun bleached spines. Anyone else got a wide spine edition they can compare with ?

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