{"id":3185,"date":"2014-03-13T21:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T21:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2014-03-14T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T10:01:46","slug":"the-least-we-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2014\/03\/13\/the-least-we-can-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The least we can do&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140313-215016.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140313-215016.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"20140313-215016.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI recently found a pristine copy of a great record from Van Der Graaf Generator: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Least_We_Can_Do_Is_Wave_to_Each_Other\">&#8221; the least we can do is wave to each other&#8221;<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t have a copy, I urge you to explore VDGG&#8217;s repertoire. Impressive stuff. I was a big fan on my early days of playing saxophone. I was blown away by Jackson, but it was Peter Hammill&#8217;s lyrics and music that grabbed all my attention. Still today it does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140313-215351.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140313-215351.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"20140313-215351.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And so I did have the great opportunity recently to say hi and exchange some words with Peter when he presented his latest work with Gary Lucas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently found a pristine copy of a great record from Van Der Graaf Generator: &#8221; the least we can do is wave to each other&#8221;. If you don&#8217;t have a copy, I urge you to explore VDGG&#8217;s repertoire. Impressive stuff. I was a big fan on my early days of playing saxophone. I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2014\/03\/13\/the-least-we-can-do\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The least we can do&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[233],"tags":[564,565,567,566],"class_list":["post-3185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-peter-hammill","tag-the-least-we-can-do-is-to-wave-each-other","tag-van-der-graaf-generator","tag-vdgg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2r2tK-Pn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}