A live version finally appeared on their live album Merlin Atmos, released in February 2015.Īllmusic calls the song "monumental", but believes it is "not as concise as it might've been".
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In March 2013, Peter Hammill announced that Van der Graaf Generator would play each night complete renditions of "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" in the subsequent tour. In concerts in 1978, 19 Peter Hammill played the medley solo on piano/keyboard (or with violin accompaniment) a number of times live. A rendition of this medley can be heard on the live album Vital (recorded January 1978), where it is 13:41 long in total. Parts from "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" that are used include "Eyewitness" and "The Clot Thickens". This song consisted of parts of "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" and the second part of "The Sleepwalkers" (from the album Godbluff), glued together.
In 19, Van der Graaf, in a line-up of voice, piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, violin and cello now and then played a medley in their set, called "Medley: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers/Sleepwalkers".
It is the only confirmed live performance of the song of the era, although it is mentioned that it was played live in Leeds in October 1971. The recording was released on DVD in February 2003 as Masters from the Vaults (incorrectly labelled as having been recorded in 1971). And Banton said: "It was very difficult, we had to film it in two halves", although from watching the DVD it seems there was more than one cut. "We spent two hours working out 'Lighthouse Keepers' because we hadn't played it in months. Since the studio recording of "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" was a collage of multiple recordings, impossible to reproduce live in one setting, the band had individual sections of the song filmed and spliced them together in the editing suite. In between tours of Italy, in March 1972 the band made an appearance on Belgian television performing "Theme One" and "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers". And then it's also about the individual coming to terms with society – that's the third level." Live performance Then on the psychic/religious level it's about him coming to terms with himself, and at the end there is either him losing it all completely to insanity, or transcendence it's either way at the end.
He either kills himself, or he rationalises it all and can live in peace. In the end – well, it doesn't really have an end, it's really up to you to decide. And there's the narrative about his guilt and his complexes about seeing people die and letting people die, and not being able to help. Peter Hammill, interviewed by Sounds, said: "It's just the story of the lighthouse keeper, that's it on its basic level. Robert Fripp provided a cameo appearance on electric guitar, which can be heard from 8:10–10:20 into the song and near the end of the song. According to David Jackson, one section of it features the entire band overdubbed 16 times. According to producer John Anthony, the track features a lot more studio experimentation than on previous albums, saying "we pushed the facilities at Trident to the limit and had involved the use of every single tape machine in Trident at some stage." The experiments included tape manipulation and Hugh Banton experimenting with Mellotron and synthesizer. It was recorded in small sections that were pieced together during mixing, and it took about three to four months to record, non-continuous. "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" was recorded at intervals between gigs.
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