Gentle Giant FULL BAND 2023 Interview Steven Wilson Remix 

We need some of this for EACH GIANT ALBUM! We all want to know the start of the band, the 1, 2, 3, friends, all of them. It is so great music that these artists deserve all the attention.

Interview was actually my first LP from this outstanding band! I first heard the band on the German radio in 1976 with "On Reflection" from the album "Freehand" and immediately fell in love!❤ Since the record dealer couldn't sell the "right" album (Freehand), I took "Interview" with me! By the way, it's the only album I know of that has a German book about it! I think it's even a thesis?! In any case, I haven't stopped loving and adoring Gentle Giant since then! In my opinion the best band that has ever lived! Rest in peace, Ray 😢

OMG !! I didn't know Ray died. 🙏🏾💜 Peace to his family and friends ❣ He, and all of the GG crew, brought SO much joy and beauty to people's lives. We've been enriched many times over. I'm grateful beyond words for all his work ! While we all must go, ... still I'm sad . And I'm so sorry to find out he had to struggle long with health problems. He and you all are such FINE musicians.

These guys right here: Most down to earth bunch of musical geniuses ever! Thank you.

Gentle Giant will live on far beyond All of Us!!!...such a Great Band!!!...as a drummer,John Weather's is Awesome!!!

If I may, "Design" contrasts extreme beauty with harsh atonalism. Kind of like life. Absolutely fantastic. WAY ahead of its time. My opinion.

Amazing, magical, elegant and unpredictable GG. Thank you for your hard work. Your music will forever go down in the musical history of mankind.

Kerry Minnear has always been my teacher without knowing about it. Love you Kerry!

Thank you SO much for bringing the Boys in the Band to talk about their marvelous music!!

The part where they are all praising John is so sweet - that said I'm also really impressed about his knowledge of composing and production.

Great to hear from “the Giants” of prog thank you, RIP Ray an amazing musician, writer and arranger 👍🏻

John is such a goofball but is also just such an excellent musician, it’s great to see

This is a fantastic interview.

Good to see you all guys in good shape.

What a wonderful bunch of modest, musical genious chaps. Started listening to them when I was 12, still finding something new in their music. Thank you Sirs.

Brilliant is the only way to describe Gentle Giant. Great discussion. Many thanks.

So talented these musicians. The music is fantastic. i have all material from Gentle Giant. i was 11 when i heard their music. It sounds so good.

Gentle Giant was a amazing and unforgettable band. ❤🏆🇧🇷

Such a phenomenal group. Now that I´m in my mid 60´s, I appreciate Gentle Giant music even more. Interestingly, the opposite happened to other bands from that era. Just amazing. Ray was such a underrated bass player, as were all the other guys for that matter. May he rest in peace.

Fantastic band that used the studio to its full potential. Got to see them live 3 times. Their approach to playing live was totally different. They were ALL natural show men and having seen every major prog band live i can say without any doubt that giant were in a league of their own. Thank you for this amazing post.

An amazing band.

Weathers hitting the vape pen at the start of the interview lolol I would expect nothing less from that madman. Love these guys.

SO COOL TO SEE THEM ALL TOGETHER TALKING ABOUT THEIR MUSIC. SAW THEM LIVE IN 77 I THINK AT HOLLYWOOD PALACE IN BALTIMORE. BLEW ME AWAY. MY LOCAL BAND CAMELOT PLAYED THEIR AS WELL. PROUD THAT WE PLAYED WHERE GENTLE GIANT PLAYED.

If there was any one band that I would have loved a reunion with a new album and even possibly a tour it would be Gentle Giant. Sadly that will never happen now that Ray has passed away. At least their catalogue has been treated with respect. I love those Steven Wilson remixes (I love all of Steven’s work.) So, we should be thankful. We love Gentle Giant. Thanks for the great interview guys! 🤘😳🤘

Gentle Giant was an explosion of creativity, variety, and innovation for a decade. Wonderful music that needs to be curated for the ages. My only hope is they can adequately influence generations to come to make music as appealing. I salute all of these fine gentlemen.

Probably my all time favorite band. The first time I heard them, I wasnt sure, because they challenged my listening skills, but I stuck with them until I just fell in love with the music.

A top band in my life. I've been listening all their great, exhilarating and inspiring music with a awe and emotion for years and years. Thanks for the video

💙Ray💙

My favorite band since the first time I heard them live, playing octopus. I absolutely love Interview, "Design" being one of my favorite songs ever written abstract expressionist in music no one else has reached this pinnacle, a controlled kaos that shouldn't work but dose when done by geniuses! Great interview, Thanks!

Wonderful to see these guys reminisce with helpful prodding by the interviewers. The fact that GG still enthuse music lovers after all these years is a testament to the enduring power of their compositions, personalities and musicality.

I feel so sad that Ray died. This band are so unique in their compositions. Too good even for 70s prog rock fans like me at the time they sounded 'weird' and folky. Now, I'm 64 and I'm slowly realising they were better than their peers, musically and technically.

Always excited to stumble on another recent interview of the boys. And on Interview, no less! I hope that vape at the end was THC, not nicotine. Love you guys.

Thank you Anthony for these heartfelt Interviews with this amazing band. It's so great to see and hear the impressions and experiences of the members Gentle Giant recalling how things where accomplished. I am looking forward to part 2.

Thank you, Anthony (and Mike) for this really fun and informative "in'terview" interview! Absolutely enjoyed the hell out of this, and can't wait to hear Part 2.

Epic interview! Long live GENTLE GIANT!

Will never get enough of these guys: they created some of the best music ever!

This is Super Fabulous! Thank You All! ❤️🙏

This channel is absolutely incredible. You are such an awesome guy for providing this level of content. There is no other channel or source of media that even comes close to catering to fans of this kind of music. We are a small fan base, but we are intense and dedicated. God bless you, for you are truly doing God’s work.

This album is by far my favorite GG. It always has hit hella hard for me. Design is my favorite song too

I really enjoyed this! Great video and conversation with the great band.

Playing the Fool in surround is a dream of mine. Please make it hay!

Great questions great answers. Great interview! Absolutely, adore this band!

My favorite ! The boys look great

The look on Derek's face watching his brother says a lot.

I love this conversation. It was hard to pay attention though with the music playing in the background. The band is super tight on this album. I think it could have been better if they had more time. Similarly, the live version of "Free Hand" is a better arrangement than the studio recording.

Perhaps it will be there in a following episode of this interview, but yet again I find it remarkable that Derek Shulman's qualities as a lyric writer and lead singer aren't mentioned. His lyrics and vocals were definitely a corner stone in Gentle Giant's music.

Absolute geniuses! Great to see them together years later. I saw them at the Palladium in NYC in a believe 1977 and they were amazing!

Yes it's been hard, going a long time! And we're together even now.

Awesome!! I now will put on my mask and be a giant for a day,….ahhhh memories of old days.

"Free Hand" and "Interview" were my introduction to Gentle Giant. They came into the home simultaneously. I was studying classical violin at the time. My brother always knew what to play me first when he introduced a new band or artist to me. In this case it was "On Reflection". Knowing nothing at all about the band, I listened to the albums as pure music and loved them both, but perhaps 'Interview' a little bit more. It was so extreme! Every track was a work of art. I love those albums to this day, and I owe Gentle Giant a great deal as a musician. Great video! Can't wait for part two.

Great!

Such an epic band. So original, a multitude of styles all their own. My favorite band since I was 14 years old. That’s when I first saw them and they Fascinated me, then, and the music still sounds fresh to me now. I still discover things every time I hear them light years ahead of their time. Masterful musicians.

I was introduced to progressive rock in 2002 by our flute player, Cheung Yiu Munn. He was then 18 and from Hong Kong...yet he was superbly knowledgeable about late 1960s and early 1970s progressive rock groups. Prior to meeting him, my love of music focused exclusively on baroque and 20th century classical works...and nothing else! Well, after sampling 2 or 3 tracks each of Jethro Tull, Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, The Family and Van Der Graff Generator (and only The Family really impressed me at the time) I listened to Gentle Giant and it happened to be this album. I could not believe what I heard! I listened to the entire album...then made a mug of tea, rolled a cigarette and listened to the whole album again. By the end of the month I had purchased ALL their studio albums (which means, of course, I had to endure the shabby pop pap of the final 3 which, though superbly played, are not impressive as music, at least compared to what came before it). From Giant to Interview there's not a single track I don't enjoy. Three Friends (especially Schooldays) and Octopus (especially Knots, Boys In The Band and Think Of Me With Kindness) are probably my favourites. Our own group, UNIT, began to explore progressive rock territory as a result of my acquaintance with all this music and our sound changed accordingly although we never sounded like Gentle Giant. How could we? I mean, how could any group sound like them? Splendid stuff.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grandiosi e Geniali GG. La vostra musica mi ha migliorato la vita. Vi amo. I miss yoi very much Ray ❤

Gentle Giant is one of the most original bands in modern music. The musical level of each member and as a team is simply extraordinary. There are bands that are way ahead of their time and musical era, and Gentle Giant is clearly one of them. I truly admire and love Gentle Giant. Thank you so much for your music, your creativity and your beautiful musical " craziness ".

At maybe 14 yrs of age (1975), having not even gotten into jazz, I got turned on to Gentle Giant and Genesis (1st album) . Studied classical, and listened to pop/rock. 🤯🤩🥰 LOVED them immediately.

Enjoyed it very much. Wonderful balanced mixing and clear vids. Captured a very important interview. All members excited and engaged with your observations of their work. Bravo !!

Thanks for interviewing them! One of my favorite bands

what cool guys! how nice it is to see and listen to their communication. It's a pity that the mysterious British source that gave the world so much brilliant original talent in the music of the 70s has now dried up.

Epic video love it so much!!! I would love to watch endless interviews of this band talking about each albums they have made for endless hours (especially Acquiring The Taste).

so happy you got ray before he had passed on in this full band lineup video, huge GG fan out of Aus and only just seeing this video now

Thanks for this roundtable which was more than nostalgia (which it was in part), but music history as well. Hearing the discussion of "cowboy piano" added to my appreciation of the DIY nature of '60's and '70's rock! (By the time I was studying recording in the '80's it was a bit easier to create a tack piano sound with the then new Eventide Harmonizer.)

Thank you!

good bunch of guys!

Design is my favourite GG piece too!

So good to hear them chat together!

I remember reading this name Gentle Giant from time to time, but never heard anything from them on the radio or somewhere else - and none of my schoolfriends did either. In pop magazines I saw pictures of guys obviously having fun on stage, but dressed up like Robin Hood (especially Gary if I remember right) and playing similar funny "hoodian" instruments. So I absolutely couldn´t figure out what kind of music would come out of them. Then a friend recorded the whole album Free Hand from radio - that was possible back then - and I was totally stunned by the very first song "Just the same" already. It couldn´t be further away from what I´d expected which was nothing great. Some kind of upbeat Jazz-Rock with lyrics or what - never had heard anything like that. It took me a while to "work" through the rest of the album I admit, but finally I got it. They taught me a universe of music that was unknown to me, but I don´t wanna get too "pretentious" myself now. So I conclude with the simple fact that GG became my favourite band and music since then. Thanks guys!

Love it Thank You!

Wow! Thanks fellow weirdo's for bringing us yet another band that was so good, the mainstream couldn't digest them. Always keep in mind that if music critics knew jack about music, they wouldn't be critics, but musicians. Many come off as disgruntled failed musicians that didn't have what it takes.😡 It's said that a large portion of their audiences were musicians, many of them also professional (More or less) and way more known!🤯 Looking forward to part 2!🥳

I could listen to this group of guys talk for hours. What i would give to sit down and just pick some of GG’s brains or shoot the shit with Gary.

Absolutely loved part 1. It's so enlightening to hear the band talk about the subtleties of this album and others. It's a very relaxed and informal interview - great job, Anthony and Mike!

I love Crim, Yes and Genesis, but GG are on my car stereo more often, thanks to the funkiness.

Freaking AWESOME interview. Thank you.

Superb interview with the band. Does anyone have any idea if the band are going to reissue Acquiring The Taste? My personal favourite album.

The greatest most epic legendary genius unique criminally obscenely underrated band ever enough said end of story mic drop.

Thank you for this. 🙏🏻❤️😎

Heroes!!!!! I frequently share my GG covers on instagram and they often repost the stories on their page. Geniuses, humble, heroes!!

Always a band people discover after KC, Genesis, and Yes.....but they exceed the others in many ways.

humble chaps!

One of those men wrote Convoy!!!!

An interview about Interview!

This is so cool. I am anxiously awaiting my ordered copy!

Great interview! I could listen to these guys all day

The first three albums are the ones that maybe deserved a remix using modern equipment like Wilson has at his disposal. From Octopus on, production achieved a great level and I’m really satisfied with the original mixes. Just my opinion.

This was great to see. Looking forward to the next part.

Had the thrill of seeing them in concert, twice. Second time, front row seats. One incredibly influential band. Wonderful, tight music.

That is just Fantastic! That is Really what we Think!!! By the way...which one's Gentle!? Really, any of them heard the Dolby Atmos mix??? I am setting up Atmos in my studio & bedroom for playback QC. Have the new discs and was in my convertible blasting (stereo) from Hollywood thru Laurel Canyon to The Valley! Ecstatic! The looks on people's faces...Priceless! ( W T F!!!) Hopefully Dweezil is busy doing We're Only in it for the Money soon in Atmos! Seen GG many times since opening for Tull, Focus, etc! THE most UNDERRATED band EVER!!!!! Kerry is a heartfelt Genius! Tho I worked for Chick (engineer, made english muffins, HE made his own Earl Grey perfume tea, did NOT share with him my Sheryl Crow pie!) for years, twas always Kerry & Keith (Rod & Rick too)! John-FUNKIEST of the Prog drummers!!! RIP Ray-loved his faces in concert! Amazing! Gary-bringer of mighty blues and the guitar duet with Ray was tear inducing! THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Has the band had any luck finding the tapes for In A Glass House? Would love to hear a Steven Wilson remix on that classic.

Wow! You did a great job! Sounds clear, they look great!

I’m so thankful to see my heroes of Gentle Giant share their thoughts. I suppose these remixes are a catalyst for that so thank you. Personally though, I prefer the original Gentle Giant mixes. Interview is an incredible album. Such an apropos concept and theme. I love the songs Interview and Timing the most. Also, their live versions on Under Construction kick ass!

I remember seeing you guys about 3 times in Germany. What about Frank, your roadie? He got us into a Genesis/Peter Gabriel concert back in the States when my brother Stan, of Happy the Man, and the rest of us arrived outside of Pittsburgh. You see, we realized after driving up 3 hours that NONE OF US HAD TICKETS or MONEY. So, Frank recognized my brother and I. He let us become temporary roadies to bring in Genesis equipment. Which we did! Anyways, GG was the best.

cool!

bautiful!!

"Timing" has the most changes in the mix. Took me by surprise in a good way.

Saw them at Avery Fisher Hall in NYC after the Playing The Fool came out. Saw lots of prog shows then, Yes Tull and Genesis album after album. They were my big three. But Giant was different. Exquisite. Nothing less than magnificent. Such accuracy playing and singing. Not that Steve Howe was less accurate but the writing of Giant was so pinpoint structured.

Well that was fantastic. I’m really looking for to the next part. Thanks to all the participants! GG, MK, and MWM all rock.

Que lindo seria poder verlos en un escenario yo creo que seria algo especial y no imposible

I love it when Gary says he isn't counting really. It's about learning phrases that fit together. That's how I feel it too. But obviously that doesn't help be a good musician 😀. Now I'm not very happy about this interview because now I have to spend money to buy this new version !!!!

Like a gentle giant, the most majestic creature on Earth.