Gentle Giant - Advent of Panurge 

I will never quite understand why this band don't no join the ranks of YES, Genesis, ELP & Renaissance...Criminally underrated

Rest in eternal peace, Ray Shulman. Thank you for all the wonderful music. ❤🙏🏼

Ray's bass lines are insane

What amazes me is how Minnear plays two completely different melodies at the same time!

For me, Gentle Giant were the ultimate band. Their musicianship, harmonies, songwriting, etc, were always out of the top drawer. They could be quirky, seriously off the wall at times, and they could kick butt too. Every member of the band was a master of his craft, and the variety of instruments played by the various members was astounding. Very few bands come close to them, and I believe that many prog bands today are heavily influenced by this most amazing and unique outfit. What a band!!

RIP Ray Shulman, your bass parts are insanely good in this and in Gentle Giants Music.

R.i.P. Ray..Genius, Wizard of Bass, countless instruments and voice..your legacy will live forever..

I like their drummer, he's so deep into their music

2:48 Is it jazz? Is it medieval? Counterpoint from the future? Is it possibly an example of the most original writing in rock history? I can't believe how great they are

This is like travelling through several timelines at once.

I was lucky enough to see Gentle Giant three times and get to meet Ray Shulman (RIP). They and he were outstanding.

This whole song just blows my mind but 3:01 through 5:20 neatly sums up why I love these guys. From the simple but haunting bass line to the quad-dueling flutes to yankee doodle and then that incredible climax riff, I could listen to this a million times and love it more each time.

They will always be a step ahead. They never needed recognition.

One of the most underestimated bands ever! =)

The BEST band of the 70's! Damn!!!

Blows my mind every time I listen to them….they better be talking about these guys 200 years from now

Advent of Panurge is on Octopus. The Tempo and mood changes here are fabulous.

Today I am deeply saddened by the loss of Ray. I will endlessly listen to my irreplaceable GG.

I love the way this song leads into Raconteur Troubadour on Octopus. Gather round the village square, come good people both wretched and fair...

RIP Ray Shulman 3/30/23. 😢. Listen to that bass here!!! God I loved seeing these guys live ! So happy there is so much video so I can smile again with nostalgic Joy. They invented the word versatility. They were the Best band live! And I saw A LOT of bands!! Thank you guys🥰

Almost 50 years old and it still sounds ahead of its time!

Perhaps the perfect prog group? Great stuff.

Questi dal vivo erano incredibili

just amazing good ...

Underrated YES! But those few 10000"s that we UNDERSTAND and love their Creations will know forever that ther are the greatest influence of many present, past and future fabulous musicians.....Transcendental MUSIC....each and all FABULOUS!!!!! Love LOVE LOVE!!!!!

the movement from the recover/flute part to the heavy drum bass groove into 'so brother hood was made as their bond'.... LEGENDARY

Super ! One of the BEST BAND for ALL TIME !

This version is awesome. RIP Ray I'm glad I discovered your music before you left us.

That's the first album I heard from them and This is the song that hooked me for life.

I love the way he Humps his Piano

Best band ever.

Bravissimo to Gentle Giant! The complexity of a work is matched only by the pleasure of its discovery! It's not given to everyone to appreciate such complex musical structures -yes!-, but oh! how RICH! such literary or pictorial works in which one can easily get lost yes! So, should we go back to the simplicity of a piece like Think Of Me With Kindness (piano/organ...) or Isn't It Quiet & Cold (violin/cello...) for comforting simplicity. The pleasure of rediscovering the subtleties of a work means that we return to Gentle Giant with ALWAYS the same certainty of hearing the same piece again in a different way. How many times have I played any piece of GG to a friend and discovered all these little musical scores under the main ones, as if there were several pieces in the same room. But yes, polyrithmy, polystructure is not for everyone! But those who indulge in it come back with great pleasure and I AM TO MY GREAT PLEASURE AS A MUSIC LOVER! This is perhaps a bit of what explains why GG is still listened to today. You have to believe that there are still people who refuse the musical simplicity and so standardized that current music presents to us. I know, there is still good music for music lovers, but we are so invaded by standardized music that it is good to return to a more fragmented world like Gentle Giant!!!

John Weathers energy is out of this world.

GG number one, i never heard band like this, still feel chills hearing their music.

I never followed/discovered them all that much but did and do dabble. They are fun to watch and listen to. The complexity is over the top at times, the raw rocking prog is phenomenal. A++ musicianship.

As about as pompous and proggy as it gets.....excellent!

Super !!! Gentle Giant !!I Great Band !!!Ever!!!😈

Rest In Peace Legend😇

The greatest thing about Gentle Giant is that, for all their complexity, avant garden approach, madcap orchestrations and technical intricacy, they could REALLY rock. A lot of prog bands were all brains, no balls, as it were, but these guys had absolutely everything going for them. A truly fantastic, transcendent band.

RIP Ray, one of the best musicians and songwriter of all times

This song simply kicks ass and makes no apologies about it.

John Weathers was on fire!!!

I was 15 when I've listen to GG for the 1st time at my friend's place. I told myself: WTH? Put back Genesis! And then my friend told me to listen carefully to this piece and especially starting at 2.42. I finally got it and from then I was hooked. A pure gem.

Tomo sus palabras como mias. Un gran musico menospreciado, como Gentle Giant en el ambiente musical. Un recuerdo y una flor por Ray 🎉

I love how awed in silent the audience is. Reminds me of a King Crimson I went to

From what most consider their greatest album.

JayLib brought me here. Real DJs and producers find the most random music to sample, but it’s usually great. Lots of samples have brought me to some cool ass bands

Astonishingly good and never ever surpassed

Saw them in 1976 live in concert with yes,peter frampton, and gary wright. Great musically creative times that I miss so much.

WOW !! One of my fav GG songs.

I love watching weathers. His facial expressions crack me up. I love the guy!

It is amazing how the lead singer can count time and sing at the same time! These guys must of spent so much time rehearsing 😎🎸🤟

The Intro! Finest multi-keyboard sounds from Kerry Minnear. And then the five awesome boys in the band.😃👍

This song. Every time I listen to it, I find something else I love!

I have become obsessed with this song. Nothing short of a miracle that something like this exists. How can any group of people get together and this is the result. Astonishing stuff.

They were Idols

Orgasmic and Energic!! Magic!!!!!!!

An excerpt from the best studio concert the past years... revelation... Great musicians !!

Great band! Great music! Long Live Gentle Giant! :) Bravo!!!!!

Simply amazing ... been a fan since the early ’70s but never got to aee them live. This live version is positively ass kicking. Great band, totally underappreciated.

amazing

This thing is funky!

Ray Shulman = BASS LEGEND

I love every second of this. These guys are on another level.

It's incredible example of a band working Together, Listening to each Other; they all know their parts and do them right. It just boggles the mind this accomplished. This seems harder to do than Genesis, ELP, or even King Crimson.

Its funny to see the audience sit on their hands during this. Give me a time machine i am there starting a mosh pit!!! Love the Giant!!!!

I love that drummer

these guys are so lucky to have even been in contact with each other. Every young person today wants to start an alternative indie group, its impossible to find anyone with similar music interest. No one seems to want to make even slightly complex music. There is something so satisfying knowing that you wrote a piece at the fullest of your capabilities. Its what you worked so hard to achieve, instead of creating music that just sells.

How can a song called "Advent of Panurge" with significant recorder action rock this hard? It's like a medieval Led Zeppelin :-)

Derek Shulman has one hell of a voice. And that recorder section was admittedly kinda cool

I nearly cried just now for some reason...

Best band. Ever

So much fun to listen to.

Derek has so much passion!!

i love when that crazy ass hook comes in. these guys were too good for their own good

Your comment is awesome-agree a gazillion percent.Without a doubt the greatest most underated band ever.

This. Is. Epic.

One of the best prog songs of all time!

This is what is so great about RU-vid! I get to see an amazing performance by a band I loved THEN, STILL have most of their LPs, but only through YT have I been able to see them. They really sound far more unique than most of the so-called "prog" bands and their music holds up fantastically, and amazingly, 45 years later! Bravo!

What I love about back in these days (unfortunately before my time), a lot of the audiences are absolutely silent in these old prog clips. I went to see a Sigur Ros gig a few years back now and there where people in the audience screaming in quiet parts and it totally killed the atmosphere. Don't people sit and LISTEN to music anymore?

Loved the Octopus album. One of my favourite albums. But to see them do this complex stuff live. Holy smokes. WOW! This is amazing!

Perfection! Amazing!

A wild reinterpretation of this song. Very nice.

I was there (the 70's I mean) and I thought these guy were beyond amazing! But as a huge "progressive rock" (that's what we called it anyway) fan, I just want to go on record that when great keyboardists like Rick Wakeman, Tony Banks, Keith Emerson, Rick Wright, etc. etc. are mentioned, Kerry Minnear should really be at or near the top of that list! (He seems to be often been left out of the usual youtube music chatter.)

Grande categoria, grande criatividade, excelentes performances.

a melhor banda de rock progressivo de todos os tempos

osamdesetih imao u autu jednu kasetu gentle giant i to se uvek slušalo a koliko se smotalo i ispušilo😉

The greatest ever

recorders acapella.. stupendous!!

With all my sympathy! J'apprend le décès de Ray, ce groupe m'a appris le son de la vrai musique! Ce spectacle montre la versatilité légendaire du groupe et c'est un régal en 2023 de pouvoir entendre et regarder cela!

fkn fantastic seen them in 1976 in Newcastle UK

SUPERB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Their songs mutated in an organic way. The melodies crowned and spread open like mushroom caps. The mood was of wet forests, dark and loamy in the twilight and redolent of pine.

Amazing

3:00, just play this section in a loop for my entire life and i dont really need any other music

Grande grupo dos meus favoritos

Great - so stylish way to play everyone of them

This is probably the best band i have ever heard. Listened a lot to them at the time and saw them once in stockholm. Then i lost them along the way and it is just now, thanks to youtube, that i rediscover this amazing music and realise that nothing i have seen or heard since, can quite measure up to their level of musicianship.

John Weather (the drummer) is the one who really made them rock, IMO. And that bass sound....

Medieval Rock whoa!!!!!