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Nic Potter
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| "So in a football style transfer, Evans returned to VdGG, and brought bassist Nic Potter with him. Nic Potter had joined Misunderstood at the age of 16 on the same day as Evans, and when that band fell apart it seemed a shame to split the rhythm section so Potter went through the 'jamming in someone's flat' style audition, and VdGG were back a four piece." - from The Box, Nic Potter joins VdGG in September 1969. |
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Potter appears on The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other |
Click on image for early Van der Graaf pictures with Nic Potter |
Van der Graaf Generator in 1970 (Pilgrims archive picture) |
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| "But it was in August 1970 that Nic Potter, when the record was only halfway through (H to He, Who Am The Only One), made up his mind to leave... David Jackson, talking about Nic would later say he was a natural talent driven by instinct and capable of working out instant bass lines out of material that the other players had already been rehearsing over and over"
- Mju:zik magazine February 98, Nic Potter leaves VdGG in August 1970. |
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| Nic subsequently worked as a session musician, working with one of his heroes, Jeff Beck. He also appears on a 1970 album by Colin Scot, Magna Carta's 1971 album, "Songs From Wasties Orchard", Chuck Berry's "London Sessions" (1972) and "Somebody's Watching" by Rare Bird (1973). | |
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Nic re-joins in January 1977:
"Nic Potter says that in 1977 he dreamt about Peter Hammill 'phoning him up and asking him to join VdGG again. Nic didn't believe in premonition, but when next morning Hammill actually called him for a rehearsal, his opinion on certain latent faculties within our brain must have changed." |
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| "We did a lot of jamming, and it worked very well. The four piece was a very powerful unit, close to the edge even, and I was developing some different bass sounds then." - Nic Potter in The Box. |
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Nic Potter seen above with Peter Hammill at The Roundhouse in February 1977, Van der Graaf's first gig. See also the Formation of Van der Graaf and Van der Graaf Pictures pages.
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| The Long Hello promo pics. | |
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| "Following the demise of Van der Graaf, Nic, with Graham Smith, joined Peter Hammill on a Canadian tour. This took place in December 1978 and further information and pictures can be found on the Canada Tours page.
Nic subsequently returned to being a session musician, touring in the USA with, and appearing on The Tigers album "Savage Music" in 1980, before joining Peter Hammill in the K Group in 1981, as "Mozart".
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| Nic seen above with Peter Hammill and Stuart Gordon in the early Nineties. | |
