The Long Hello Explained

The Long Hello
Type:studio
Artist:David Jackson
Hugh Banton, Guy Evans
and Nic Potter
Cover:The Long Hello.jpg
Released:1974
Recorded:August 1973
Studio:Foel Studios, Cefn Coch, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Genre:Progressive rock
Length:44:17
Label:United Artists
Producer:Guy Evans
Next Title:The Long Hello Volume Two
Next Year:1981

The Long Hello is a studio instrumental album by David Jackson, Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and Nic Potter recorded in August 1973 and released in Italy in 1974 (and Britain and Europe in 1976). All had been members of Van der Graaf Generator, but the band had split up in August 1972 (reformed in 1975).

In 1981 Potter and Evans released a follow-up to this album, The Long Hello Volume Two. There also is a Long Hello Volume Three (by Jackson and Evans, 1982) and Long Hello Volume Four (by Jackson, Evans and Life of Riley, 1983). The album Gentlemen Prefer Blues (by Jackson, Banton and Evans, 1985) is sometimes regarded as a sort of "Long Hello Volume Five."

It was engineered by Banton and was mixed at the Chalk Farm Studio, Chalk Farm, London.

Track listing

  1. "The Theme from (Plunge)" (David Jackson) – 5:31
  2. "The O Flat Session" (Pietro Messina) – 5:32
  3. "Morris to Cape Roth" (David Jackson) – 6:33
  4. "Brain Seizure" (Hugh Banton) – 4:01
  5. "Fairhazel Gardens" (David Jackson, Pietro Messina) – 7:56
  6. "Looking at You" (David Jackson) – 6:16
  7. "I've Lost My Cat" (David Jackson) – 8:28

Personnel

Release history

YearTypeLabelCatalog #Country
1974LPUnited ArtistsUAL 24033Italy
1976LP(no Label, self issued)LTH-100-A1UK
1976LPButt RecordsNOTT 002UK
1977LPPhilips9286 854France
1993CDZomart RecordsZOMCD004UK

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