Below is the feedback that the webmaster of the World Record, the Van der Graaf Generator Tribute Site, got from people who read these pages since February 1999. For signing up this Guestbook, please fill in the appropriate form.

Visitors' Comments   Rian de Heer, the Netherlands. Great site. I'll contribute if I have any news. November 14, 1999   Peter van Wingerden, Geervliet, the Netherlands. A real trip down memory lane, this. I like it a lot. : November 14, 1999   Stephanie Caporale, Newburgh , NY, USA. I have listed to PH and VDGG since 76, saw VDGG in 76 in NYC, great concert!! After that saw PH solo many times in NYC, and met him. Drifted away for a time and recently started to listen again. A very talented man. Thanks for the site, I am really getting into it. November 4, 1999   Phil Fitzsimons, Enfield, Middlesex, England. Old fan since the release of Still Life. Amazed to see that cheerful chirpy Peter Hamill still has such a loyal world wide following.Peter is certainly one of the foremost artists Britain has produced. Accidently finding the site has provoked me to wipe the dust off the albums, but as I'm pushing 40 ,Pete dreading "Pushing Thirty" won't have the same feeling! October 18, 1999   Ben Marcune, New Jersey, USA. Been a VDGG/Hammill fan since the 70's. This music is timeless. It's just so freakin amazing that someone can put out 40 albums without being redundant. Each new album evolves from the previous one and then ventures into unexplored territory. How can a musical genius such as Peter Hammill go so unreconized by the world? Will be seeing Peter in Philly this November. Can't wait. October 16, 1999   Emilio Maestri, Guastalla (RE), Italy. This site could not be better. Only Peter could change it. It is essential to keep together the fans (true friends) of this unforgettable way to communicate extraordinary emotions and music. Please, hold on! September 29, 1999   Sylvie Gauvin, Charlesbourg, Québec, Canada. VDGG is the band of the Century ! This site is an excellent tribute to the band and to Peter Hammill. I appreciated the gallery a lot. Good job ! Thank's. September 23, 1999   Glenn Liljeblad, Tustin, California, USA. Love the site. I first heard VDGG upon the release of "Godbluff", and honestly, I didn't care for it...until I listened to it again. Now, about 25 years later, it's probably one of my favorites. I have an ever growing appreciation for the works of Hammill and crew. Absolutely top notch songwriting and musicianship! September 12, 1999   Guillermo Ferrer Ortega, Col. Del Valle, México. Van der Graaf Generator and King Crimson are my favourite bands. I had the luck of see King Crimson in México City. I would like to see Peter Hammill in México someday. If Peter Hammill can read this, I must tell him that he has already many fans in México and Chopolandia. A mexican brother (Ignacio) feels sorry because Van der Graaf hasn't the place that deserves. I think it's better so, than have a very doubtful place created by the marketing, like some overrated bands like Pink Floyd, Genesis, U2 and others. August 25, 1999   James Solimano, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Certainly the best place for a VDGG fan to visit. Of course, a section where all of us could exchange VDGG mp3's wouldn't be a bad idea. Congratulations ! August 25, 1999   R. Greg Summers, Shawnee Mission, KS, USA. I met Peter Hammill in concert in Kansas City, Feb. 1978. I had painted a portrait of Peter and was lucky enough to present it to him on stage. HIs music is very powerful and moving, and feel lucky to have been so honored. "I've got everyone of your records, man! Doesn't it mean that I own you"? August 16, 1999   Ignacio Cuevas, Mexico, Mexico. First, I got the addiction to VDGG; bought ans sovoured all of their albums. Then, I had to go on and bought every single Hammill CD I could get ahold of. Hammill is a genius and I strongly recommend diving into all this master's work. Every CD has something different, beautiful and deep. Peter, if you ever get to read We all are very grateful... keep on making music. August 15, 1999   Fernando Antonio Farías Rocha, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Es una muy grata sorpresa encontrar esta pagina en la red, es realmente una muy buena pagina, muy bien informada. La verdad hace bastante tiempo que no escuchaba a los Van Der Graaff Generator, y la razon de volver a escucharlos es muy simple e importante, ya que hoy a las 21:30 hrs en el Teatro Providencia, aca en Santiago de Chile, nos honra con su presencia en el escenario el Sr. Peter Hamill, hecho casi inusitado para los seguidores de la buena música y que por lo demas pasara a ser una fecha clave para todos nosotros. August 13, 1999   John Cotterell, Sorrento, WA, Australia. Just blown out that I find VdGG shit. Thank you www, been only dude I know to listen & buy PH & VdGG stuff. August 10, 1999   Gastón Martín, Boulogne Sur Mer, Argentina. This is, definitively, the BEST page I found about Van Der Graaf Generator. I'm 21 year old, this band is new for me, and you really helped me to determine how will I get VdGG discography. Excuse my english, I'm from Argentina (Here we speak Spanish). Thanks. Really. August 6, 1999   Armando Villar, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Excelent page!!!! No faltare a los 2 recitales el 14 y el 15 de Agosto para escuchar y ver al mas grande compositor y musico del rock mundial. Un gran abrazo, un incondicional HAMMILIANO. August 5, 1999   Belias Ioannis, Athens, Greece. What can you say about P.Hammill. We listen to your records since 1974 (time passes so fast) and we still have the same feelings and emotions as then when we discovered you. Thank you, Peter, for you have given to us all these years. Maybe now it's time to organise a world meeting and invite you to play for us under a Greek starless night in a Greek island. We are open in any suggestion to organise this unique"Peter Hammill's Festival". July 16, 1999   Greg Palusa, Trieste, Italy. Many compliments for your Website. I am visiting it since Feb98. It is the Best Website on the VDGG, which, of course, I like very much (also Hammill's Lyrics) . I prefer the 1969-1976 period, in my opinion the most creative and interesting. I believe VDGG are one of the Best Groups in the History of Rock and in the History of Music. They deserve to be known more. Your Website is very complete, and we can find there a lot of information on VDGG. It is an excellent meeting point for all who love VDGG. July 7, 1999   Jean-Michel RAveau, Saumur, France. Excellent site, probably the best! Thanks a lot and hold on! July 6, 1999   Gustavo Fajardo Rojas, La Serena, Chile. Estoy bien satisfecho por las páginas publicadas de uno de los mejores grupos sinfónicos que he escuchado. Soy un fiel amante de sus melodías, cambios e intrumentalizacíón acompañado de una lirica alucinante. It's a perfect world of VdGG, your pages and comments. June 19, 1999   Pasi Siukonen, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This page is great! June 13, 1999   Marcello, Verona, Italia. In the CD "Generators" is mentioned a concert of VDGG in Verona the 6/3/1972. Probably it's wrong, because that date was a Monday. The Sunday before I was At the "dancing" "LEM" to hear what became my favourite group ever. I search for sites of VDGG in Alta Vista and Yahoo for years. I came here via a site named "Il Giardino del Mago". It's wanderful. No words to describe my enthousiasm. And...so many fan all around the world!!! Long live to VDGG music!!! June 2, 1999   Sebastiano Sanna, Napoli, Italy. Excuse my bad english!!! VDGG - The best band!!! Site - Great!!! May 23, 1999   Lucas van den Berg, The Netherlands. Perfect site. I've been looking for a VDGG/Hammill site for some time (used to be on an ASCII newsgroup-list years ago) and this is definitely it. While I have (nearly) all Hammills & VDGG's (been at it for some twenty-four years now), sometimes it's hard to find lyrics. Your site helps, also with the links section etc. Thanks, I appreciate your efforts. May 7, 1999   Tim Chadwick, Allentown, PA,USA. Living in the states, I get no news ever of PH tours. His music is non existent in our CD stores. I would appreciate being informed or at least steer me in the direction that I can get tour info. I have never seen PH and would go pretty far to see him. Own ever piece of music I can get my hands on of his. Been a fan since '74. Thanks May 2, 1999   Carsten Arnholm, Heggedal, Norway. I have been listening to PH and VDGG since around 1977, and it seems I never get tired... especially not of the 70's material (I am now rescuing my LP collection by copying it to CD for my continued personal enjoyment). I have never seen PH or VDGG live. For many years, I thought PH was a forgotten artist that only a handful cared for, but thanks to the internet and sites like this I know I was very, very wrong ... April 27, 1999   Fernando Walter, Brasilia, Brasil. The VDGG boys (and their music) certainly deserve a site like this. A Very good job! April 24, 1999   Tomasz Barczyk, Swarzedz, Poland. Great page. Thanks for publishing the lyrics. April 19, 1999   Kuba Zamorski, Cracow, Poland. I was born five years after the VDGG's split, but their music sounds to me extremely fresh and powerful. I think that Hammill's voice and lyrics connected with great creativity and really "progressive" musicianship of the band created something that cannot be compared with any of the other rock artists. Thanks a lot for this page! April 16, 1999   Rui Margarido, Portugal. Não esperava encontrar uma página sobre este grupo. Foi um desafio para um teste de um motor de pesquisa. Espero que não desapareça! April 13, 1999   Peter Brannigan, Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough, UK. Since I only 'discovered' VdGG about 6 months ago at a record fair, I find that I really like their music very much indeed, so much so that I have been buying records whenever I can and CDs to satisfy my need for more !! This web page is so valuable in that for a collector, it shows me what is out there, but also gives valuable background information about Peter's solo material as well. Keep up the good work and please let me know if you know of a preferable source for material. April 12, 1999   Giulio Laddago, Alessandria, Italia. It was 1972 when I heard for the first time REFUGEES while raining. Then, time after time, rain after rain, their music has always in my mind, helping me in troubled times and rolling my dreams. Only a big THANK for the emotion runs You gave (and give) me. P.S. I did not believed to find a site like this: CONGRATULATIONS! P.P.S. Is it possible to find video (PAL) of VDGG somewhere? Please, tell me so!! March 31, 1999   Kerri Hunter, Australia. I'm a recently converted Van Der Graaf Generator fan, having been put onto their music by a friend {Who said "I'm not sure if you'll like this"}. My favourite tracks are La Rossa, Lemmings, Arrow and Pioneers over "C". I am also a King Crimson and British prog rock enthusiast. What can I say! The best progressive rock music I have heard and what stunning lyrics! Please, if anyone has any video footage, I would love to purchase some. March 28, 1999   Allan Merry, Ardrossan, Scotland. I have been a fan since early 70s with nights listening to H to He and Pawn hearts. I unfortunately never saw them in concert but I feel they are one of the undiscovered "Greats" - loved the site - will visit again soon March 27, 1999   Gerrit Lemmens, Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, UK. Brilliant VDGG site. Best that I have found. Does anyone know anything about a film soundtrack made for an obscure film in the early seventies. I saw the film once, can't recall the title, and didn't realise that VDGG had made the soundtrack till the credits! As far as I can recall the music was entirely instumental. March 25, 1999   Derryl Edward Parsons, Eugene, Oregon U.S.A. VdGG really helped me deal with my own visionary experiance. Darkness is my favorite song and opened the door for the expression of my own sensibility as I am also a poet of similar consciousness. Hammill inspired me to be myself inspite of the rest of my generation going insipidly mellow. So I plumbed the depths of my own vision even though it was different from the West Coast G. Dead sensibility I was surrounded by. The depth of emotion Hammill expressed made me feel I was not alone in the cosmic night that falls upon our future, that the darkness was full of stars and vision beyond the solar day. Soon I will present my work to the public. Hammill's tenacity helped me on to persevere in my own stone watchtower of perspective. Commercial music leaves me cold. There was a time I thought I was the only one who loved this stuff with everyone being so conservative. The Web has opened my eyes to a whole new world. It really feels like the New Age is happening and that the Singularity is near. May we sail boldly into the Eschaton! Thank you.......... March 23, 1999   Alejandra García Aráoz, La Plata, Argentina. By this moment... just thanks. In other time I'll make other comment. March 23, 1999   Ignacio Cuevas, Mexico City, Mexico. On these last years i have been buying the best of classic rock, an Van der Graff sure is a fresh and marvelous group. Every time i listen to their master records i feel sorry how such a great band didn't make it as they deserved. A message to all of its members: thank you! March 20, 1999   Charlotte Hendry, Castle Cary, Somerset, UK. The best PH/VdGG site I've encountered in my surfing so far: very informative and entertaining. Am I the only female in the recent guestbook entries?! March 16, 1999   Francesco Volpe, Rome Italy. Quick, complete, very interesting!!! March 13, 1999   Andre Garant, Montreal, Canada. Good site. Plague of Lighthouse Keepers kills me. March 11, 1999   Paulo Delgado, Amadora, Portugal. Grande página, ..força homem...continua!!! March 10, 1999   Philip Duerden, London, UK. I was chatting to one of my customers a year or so ago and he turned out to be Hugh Banton! March 2, 1999   Alexei Zakharov, Novosibirsk, Russia. The last time I've been very impressed by the album 'Enter K'. Since English is not a native language for me I don't understand the lyrics quite well. I thought I could find the lyrics of this album here, but I was wrong. In fact listening to this music I open it again and again. February 26, 1999   Alexei Sazonov, Moscow, Russia. Very smart and a nice site. The only one question: Ammmm....why the name is the World Record? - IMHO this is the poorest VDGG album. February 26, 1999   Rotem Malenky, Israel. A great site about a great band! Man, your music can really get me through some rough times, that never heal (but I still bear the wheel). Peterman, why don't you come and visit Israel again? I guess you noticed the love and respect everyone here feels for you. You, good music listeners around the world! Gather at midnights on rooftops and mountaintops and houl to the moon naked and bairfoot until it isn't fun anymore! See you there. February 26, 1999   Axel Tröger, München, Germany. Why can´t i find anything about the VdGG-album titled "Generators", a compilation of six songs from three concerts, recorded in ´71 and ´72??????????? Can you please help me further?! Thank you, anyway. February 21, 1999   Richard Arcand, Montreal, Canada. Even if I'm only 17, and wasn't alive when the group was born... Altough I wish i sometime was... I'm a hardcore fan of VDGG. Any chance they'd come by Montreal for a show in 1999??? February 10, 1999   John Vidiadakis, Athens, Greece. Well, this is a really GREAT page!!! Really cool and informative, congratulations! I had the luck to see Peter live here in Athens about one month ago, and I am still astonished form his performance, his voice (the older he grows the better he sings, it seems, but he was always perfect anyway) and his ability to tranport and express so strong feelings through his art. I only own "The least...", "H to He..." and "Vital", but the other releases won't be late! Stay refugees... p.s.: my page is at http://listen.to/progmetal, it's about progressive metal, all visits welcome, thanx February 1, 1999