No progressive rock band could ever be said to be a household name, but Van der Graaf Generator, celebrating their fiftieth anniversary in 2018, rarely enjoyed that distinction even in the households of many prog fans. VdGG, and the band's main creative force, Peter Hammill, really only had one foot in prog - the other pivoted between more straight-ahead rock, wild experimentation, and at times, brutal noise. While VdGG's run ended prematurely, the...