The Long Hello

The Long Hello
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Studio album by David Jackson Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and Nic Potter
Released	1974
Recorded	August 1973 at Foel Studios, Cefn Coch, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	44:17
Label	United Artists
Producer	Guy Evans
David Jackson Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and Nic Potter chronology
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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). It was engineered by Hugh Banton, and it was mixed at the Chalk Farm Studio, London.

David Jackson, Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and Nic Potter had all been members of Van der Graaf Generator, but that band had split up in August 1972 (reformed in 1975).

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

Track listing

1. "The Theme From (Plunge)" (D. Jackson) – 5:31
2. "The O Flat Session" (P. Messina) – 5:32
3. "Morris To Cape Roth" (D. Jackson) – 6:33
4. "Brain Seizure" (H. Banton) – 4:01
5. "Fairhazel Gardens" (D. Jackson and P. Messina) – 7:56
6. "Looking At You" (D. Jackson) – 6:16
7. "I've Lost My Cat" (D. Jackson) – 8:28

Personnel

• David Jackson – saxophones, flute, piano
• Hugh Banton – all instruments on "Brain Seizure", bass on "The O Flat Session"
• Guy Evans – drums
• Nic Potter – bass
• Ced Curtis – electric guitar, bass on "Fairhazel Gardens"
• Pietro Messina – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano

Release history

Year	Type	Label	Catalog #	Country
1974	LP	United Artists	UAL 24033	Italy
1976	LP	(no Label, self issued)	LTH-100-A1	UK
1976	LP	Butt Records	NOTT 002	UK
1977	LP	Philips	9286 854	France
1993	CD	Zomart Records	ZOMCD004	UK

Published by Static Music Ltd, the album was originally released in Italy (1974) on the United Artists record label. It was then released in the UK by the band themselves as a limited edition of 5,000. The back cover of the record's sleeve was stamped with an individual number, some of which are smudged and difficult to read. The musician Pietro Messina is misspelled on the cover as Piero Messina.