ARTHUR BROWN
Stadio Flaminio, Rome, Italy
27 May 1973

Liberated bootleg CD: CRUEL, CRAZY, WONDERFUL WORLD!

Lineage: Silver CD > EAC > Wav > TLH > Flac

Quality: B++


1 Prelude Jam (22:05) (with David Jackson on sax)
2 Prelude Nightmare (15:12)
3 Improvisation (13:03)

It is difficult to say who is playing on these individual jams.......

Included are:
- Bootleg cover scans
- Ad from Italian magazine "Ciao 2001" (Although the gig was promoted as
Van der Graaf Generator, it was actually Peter Hammill backed by Banton, Jackson and Evans)

Following is an excerpt from porcellinus' notes for his upload of the Hammill show:
In 1973 Peter Hammill was actually touring Italy as a solo artist most of the time, but there were two 'package' shows that were billed and sold as the only VdGG reunion gigs. So this was somewhat 'easier' to identify, in being a show with three separate moments: Peter Hammill solo, then joined by David Jackson, and finally by Hugh Banton and Guy Evans. It was part of a triple bill 'happening' which took place in Bologna and in Rome in May 1973, with Arthur Brown and Camel sharing the stage with them. Some of the experts I asked to appeared skeptical at the beginning, having heard different stories about the Rome show that convinced them VdGG actually did not play 'as such'. But then all the pieces of the puzzle came together and we all agreed upon the date and venue.
The story is quite messed up, but apparently there were two major problems. First, there was not enough power for both sound and lights: thus the musicians decided to play without any lights in an impromptu jam session which featured members from all of the bands. A testimony of this jam is the Italian Arthur Brown bootleg 'Cruel, Crazy, Wonderful World!' (though the date on that cd mistakes 1972 for 1973).

The PH/VdGG show is still available here:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=459531

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Uploaded to DIME by propylaen in February 2014.

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