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Sure thing. Peter Hammill´s voice is often describe as a vocal version of Jimi playing guitar

sounds like he would be worth cheaking out if he sounds that good

Argh, I made a reply and IE crashed on me....

Here´s the short version (which is actually for the better for in the original version I went on and on and on and... you get the picture).
Some like his voice, some don´t and there´s really no argument either way. Does coffee taste good? It´s personal.
Among his fans are Fish (who put to album sleeves in the artwork for Fugazi), Johhny Rotten, Bruce Dickinson, David Bowie, Marc Almond, Radiohead etc. He is a musicians´ musician.

Albums you might try by Van Der Graaf Generator:
Pawn Hearts (organized chaos)
Godbluff (more structured)
Vital (live album, the full force)

Solo:
The Margin (live with a full band)
Veracious (Hammill on piano and guitar, Stuart Gordon on electronic voilin)

Four of the songs on Veracious were from a concert I went to w00t!! !!

You may like it or you may not.

PS you can check him out on YouTube, lots of material and he doesn´t mind it being out there. The sound quality often is below par but you take what you get . Search for ´Peter Hammill´ or ´Van Der Graaf Generator´.

just had a listen to some of his stuf on youtube like you said the is sub par i'm not to pushed him though he's not my cup of tea (if you know what i mean)

I very much understand it. As I said, you may like it or you may not.
If it is your kind of music, it´s great, if it´s not, there´s nothing to see there
And there´s enough good music to make everybody happy.

I met them back in grad school at UVa. Some guys I know are in the band The Samples and they used to play with them a lot. I had backstage passes when they opened for DMB and got to meet them.

A few months later, while delivering pizzas for Papa Johns in Charlottesville, I ran into Carter again. I delivered two pizzas to his Mom's house. Then, a few weeks after that, I delivered a couple of pizzas to his house in a gated community. He tipped me 100% both times. Really nice guy.

Oh yeah:

R.E.M.
The Samples
Beastie Boys
U2

The Flaming Lips

it seams that dmb are in the lead in this forum so far. not what i was expecting however i will say i just happy it didn't turn out to a dj or rapper as i can'tstand them.
p.s' any moterhead or machine head fans here?

those are two of my favourites too

also got a thing for eastern european folk music with balls for example: farmer's market, gogol bordello and the appropriately named dr asperger's klezmer tonic have all been bands that i have particularly enjoyed lately.

not familiar with Peter Hammill, will definately give him a listen (after hiding all the razor blades - if your comparison with 'laughing lenny' holds up).

intersting some else who likes soulfly but what abot sepeltura or nialbomb

i've liked sepultura a long time. i only heard about nailbomb last year, go on tell me that you were lucky enough to see them live (i might have to hate you!)

no i havn't but mabye next time (assuming you mean soulfly)

i meant the nail bomb actually. soulfly have toured lots and i've seen them a few times now. they are very good live and i'm sure you'll get to see them \m/