Eight months later, the concept was realised in this recording." For some time, I had been searching for a theme for a large scale composition, so positive in character were the shastras that I could visualise there and then, four interlocking pieces of music being structured around them. It described the four part shastric scriptures which cover all aspects of religion and social life as well as fields like medicine and music, art and architecture. Leafing through Paramhansa Yoganada's 'Autobiography Of A Yogi' I got caught up in the lengthy footnote on page 83. Jon Anderson writes on the original album: "We were in Tokyo on tour, and I had a few minutes to myself in the hotel room before the evening's concert. The added portion is an instrumental section at the beginning before the chanting. Mark Powell who wrote the liner notes goes on to add: "The final results of all this editing and complex mixing were nothing short of stunning and 'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers' is rightly cited as one of the band's most fully realised works, both musically and technically." But it shows how keen we were to push boundaries and experiment, even if we sometimes failed to achieve what we had hoped for." After all that effort we only used a small section of the cacophony near the line 'maelstrom of my memory' and it hardly seemed worthwhile. When we heard it played back it just sounded like total chaos, unsurprisingly. "At one point we went into the studio and recorded a different Van Der Graaf tune in mono on each separate track of the 16-track tape until we'd achieved the effect of having 16 different Van Der Graaf Generator's playing simultaneously. The following is taken from the liner notes that come with the 2005 remastered cd (comments by David Jackson on the track "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"): Robert Fripp from King Crimson also appears on this album. The other members of the band were Hugh Banton (organs, piano, mellotron, bass guitar), Guy Evans (percussion), and David Jackson (Saxophones). The lead singer was Peter Hammill (also played piano). Van Der Graaf Generator was one of the most "progressive" of all the progressive rock bands of the 70s.
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