Gentle Giant - Sight an Sound in Concert (Full) 

I AGREE!!!

So what is the definition?

@@TheConsciousEvolutionchannel So what is the definition?

@@TheConsciousEvolutionchannel gentle giant

@@tixximmi1 Technical, Emotional, Epic and hard to play, that's is prog.

He's a dick. He was consumed by jealousy of Genesis - in his own words "resentment" - because they fared better commercially. Bad sport.

John 'pugwash' Weathers - went on to join Man, replacing the brilliant Terry Williams (Pugwash also did a stint with the Neutrons). Great drummer, indeed.

They all are on point

I saw him many times as part of this band ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G_Gh94QgWg4.html

Great drummer!

same her. wish i could play like that.

Bass player is doing a little dance

I see plenty of dancing.

@@litup6465 🧐 😅

Absolute! Same here.

More like they are/were the greatest most epic legendary unique innovative genius most obscenely criminally underrated band ever.

Agree!

@@1359401 Yes you right but... Millions of musicians all over the world appreciate them music and they influenced millions of bands. Them music is still studied and played all over the world. Not to mention endorsements giveth from Frank Zappa to Elio e le storie tese. They are Giants... nothing more nothing else. Thanks to have been existed Kids.

very zappaesk! fantasic Band!!

And you hear the punk in there too huh?

True!

Good point

Yey, thank you Mister sound engineer

I agree!

YES!! That bass tone is blowing me away!!!!

His tone and playing style is similar to John Camp of Renaissance. In fact they sound like an avant-garde Renaissance

Just enough fuzz. ;)

My thoughts exactly

@@plumage_again His tone is miraculous. the bass and low end proper are Fender perfection, and as you point out, there's just enough edge, like a tube preamp, or real tubes somewhere.

Last year, in a book about a famous live concert venue in my hometown, where lots of great acts played during the 70s and 80s - everyone from Deep Purple to Diana Ross - I spotted some recollections by a guy who had seen them during their 1976 tour. He and his acquaintance on the seat next to him were both super impressed by the playing skills of GG, and as aspiring bassists, especially by Ray Shulman. "We were floored by him...In time I went into other direcftions in life; my friend however did make a living out of playing the bass. His name was Jonas Hellborg."

@@LibrarianValkyrie "Nowadays you can do everything yourself". Not quite. Granted, the 'cost of entry' is, thankfully, not what it used to be.

Good point. Someone like Ian Dury would not have a hope and we'd be the poorer for it. ✌👍

Sungod has a point. You could release this through bandcamp on your own terms and record in who knows how many ways. I will admit, maybe the openness to creativity was a tiny bit higher than it is now, but that discredits the hard work of experimenting musicians today. Jd Beck and Domi and pushing the limits of jazz fusion from their bedrooms.

Neal Morse? Similitude of a Dream Part I

A lot of great music happened because it was across the pond.

And a wonderful guy. An old friend of mine from Western Pennsylvania, Barbara Tanner, was his wife, and I was fortunate to spend some time with them. Ray was humble and soft-spoken; you'd never know that he was this incredibly talented and skilled musician. Taken too soon.

He passed?

musician

@@lancewilliams4847 Agreed, but it was his bass playing that always jumped out at me. I also liked his stage presence. I saw Giant live a couple of times and he always had a special "spark" about him on stage.

@@bobparker8294 I agree. We all know how talented these guys are on multiple instruments, but, yes, his bass playing is superb. not in the solo sense, but as part of the symphony that is held together by a strong rhythm section. Very interplaying, yet strong and forward.

I don't think the drummer gets much attention either. When you listen to their music and focus on his drumming, he is perfect for their style and sound. Too many people judge drummers by their athletic drum solos, and that is not the main function of a drummer in a band.

No he wasn't.

Yeah, its the complete mastery of music displayed.

@@Percopius The Most Underrated Progressive Rock Band, Gentle Giant

It’s crazy how talented these guys are. I thinks they are my favorite band.

You are correct, best band ever!

I am in a shopping mall in Toledo, Ohio, listening to this band in my ear plugs, I have know their music for over forty years and yet now their music is blowing my mind again, this is wondrous, how could they play live so well? Live they are even better than my favorite band ever, Genesis. Both bands were just amazing.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jnKhmHIG6Kk.html M B, so agree👍🏻👍🏻I stumbled upon this very interesting character who dissects and reacts to great music 👍🏻

@@keith9482 for most of us prog fans, Derek's corny or whiny vocals were the dealbreaker. (Kerry has a much better voice.) also, their music was far more obtuse than a YES or King Crimson. shame, b/c of the talent in the band.

@@dumpygoodness4086 Shulman's got one of THE great rock voices. He's like Roger Chapman without the bleating. Fantastic. Kerry had a very sweet, pleasant voice but couldn't support his voice for lead vocals live.

I always called them, the Best band you never heard of. The word underrated is way overused. Except here.

Genesis I agree. They are in a different league musically compared to YES (and I’m a life long YES fan)

The greatest band ever

marry me

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Brava Lisa!

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Absolutely love your comments/statement/agree a gazillion% with every word.cheers my friend

100% agree on what you've written above Renato.Thank you for put it so well!

Joking right?

Congrats for discovering GG-the greatest most legendary genius band ever

Вы молодец, мало кто из молодёжи понимает серьёзную музыку.

Fuckin A 🤘 Rock on.

and hey why not, this video is one of the best things so far about 2023.

Have to agree! The musicians must had the songs on the fingers. There was no cutting or tune. Played wrong? Do it again, until make it right!

Amen. I sorely miss those days. Analog all the way.

12 seconds in and already I see a dude surrounded by electronic keyboards and synths, waiting for the taped intro to finish. it’s one bad haircut away from a Skrillex gig

@@QuartetoScherzo Picked up my new mixer at Yellow Freight 15 years ago. Had to leave the tailgate down and strap it in. In its shipping box, the damn thing wouldn't fit inside the 5 1/2 foot bed of my friend's pick-up!!! BIG mixer... an analog Allen & Heath 56 channel with 10 subs :) Also had two large custom made slant front side cabinets full of equipment to go along with it. Twelve dbx266xl compressors, two TC Electronics and one Lexicon multi-effect processors, four Aphex Aural Exciters, six Orban Dynamic Sibilance Controllers, two single channel 31 band EQ's, four feedback eliminators, a real time analyzer, etc., etc. I hate digital mixers... will not work with one PERIOD. I will not go through a half dozen screens just to reset a compressor to 3:1 instead of 2:1. Or another half dozens screens to kick a little more 2K in a vocal channel, or drop the center frequency to 1.8K. With an analog mixer and an analog off-board rack, I can make that change in a millisecond. Had people come up all the time after a concert to tell me how great everything sounded... then be shocked that I was using an 'old' analog mixer and off-board effects. My answer... THAT is why it sounded so good!!! I won't use the new switching power supply power amps either. Yeah they're light weight... but the bass will start breaking up way before their supposed rated power :( My old QSC's might weigh 30 pounds a piece... but they will run right at clip for hours and hours and put out crystal clear sound and floor shaking bass. It saddened me to see the Gentle Giant's keyboardist with an on-stage mixer. The only thing worse to me is an on-stage mixer for the drums. For the keyboards... what he/she hears on stage isn't always what is needed in the house mix. And somethings a little EQ'ing is needed, but just on one of the keyboards :( And drums... how the hell can I pull the snare or bass or high-hat up in the mix depending on the song being played it they are all mixed on-stage??? I also always demanded a separate mic for the ride cymbal. With just overheads, the ride gets lost in the mix. Plus every individual instrument and vocalist needs their own separate channel. It IS a pain in the a$$ to keep on top of all those channels... but THAT is what a sound man is paid for.

@@nonddd9222 Nothing to do with what they say up there. That's just a welcome intro. The one people use these days are software synth or softsynth(computer generated sound) very2 different from an old generation digital hardware synth.

Just the same as anybody else!

Yes it is! An absolutely beautiful piece of music, defenitely one of my favourites. Don´t you think this live version here was quite weak though?

when kerry pulled out the guitar I nearly cried

Saw them in Chicago in my late teens, they changed my brain, my outlook on music changed … they set a clean standard in music for me, what a group and never got the respect ! Prog was changed in my mind, loved them !

It's infuriating

glen chimp yes! His solo, while I wouldn’t say it’s nuts, I would say it’s groovy and very nicely composed

@@b1gBud00bo1 Guilty as charged.

Not to shabby on the recorder either!

His solo on "His last voyage" alone would made Jimi smile ear to ear. Brutal musician.

ha!

You ask what kind of o super group is this? answer-they were/are the greatest most criminally underated band ever

Aaaaaand...they sang!!!

Seen this band in The Liverpool Stadium in about 1972, everyone played everything, very talented band..I read somewhere Reg Dwight stepped in on keyboards for a few gigs in the early days.

Underrated indeed it about to start this again its is I a musical class all by itself. This is new music & record companies should recognize its potential. Listening record companies?

SIMPLE PUT IT...PROG ROCK....😁🎸🎶🎵🎻🎶🎶🎼🎼🎼

Pretty cool eh!🍁

No sequencers!

No shit!

The greatest band the public s never heard ?

+rick thompson What a sad story, my thoughts are with you, get well soon.

Interesting because both groups became popular around the same time

Gentle Giant is Kerry Livgrens favorite band...seems kansas being there all together was a great thing.. great story. .

Rick.. he is a monster. What an incredible musician

THATS A GOOD TIME BRO

All of those bands are utterly inferior to Gentle Giant, these guys were actually talented

I hear a bit of Zappa as well

​@@JohnDaubSuperfan369yeah, no talent in Genesis or Steely Dan. Chancers.

😀 Ha! Yes!

Gentle Giant, King Crimson, and Zappa are probably the hardest things you can come across (although Steely Dan can be a huge pain in the ass). Thank God nobody ever requests those three at clubs.

@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 I would include Hatfield and the North in that list, also.

I was in a band that covered "Just the Same". Man, that was a BITCH. Half the band playing in 6, half the band playing in 7 on the verses. Totally insane.

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@@Notecrusher Do you happen to have footage of that? I would love to see someone else's interpretation of that song

They were cool man.....love it.

Love the fact that they all look different.

Wheathers is a monster. That groove 4:30. I'd take that over any of today's drum clinic brand salesman virtuoso.

That comment should be engraved in gold. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

And it's catchy, has tight grooves, is really uplifting and not so cerebral that it's sounds self serving.

Best comment ever

Brilliant - the music and your comment

So true! Gary is one of the best. I had a cool experience involving Mr. Green in 1974. My bro Jim and I wanted to get into the Whiskey a-go-go to hear GG. We went up the fire escape and knocked on a door. Gary Green opened it! He said "C'mon in. Are these guys ready to go on yet?" He went back into the dressing room, got the other Shulmans , Minnears, and Weathers, and they all went down the stairs and out onto the stage to start the show. It was so cool.

@@lukelester481 now that's cool

Hell of a nice guy to boot.

Merci beaucoup pour se partage, j'avoue que c'est l'un des meilleurs groupes progressifs des années 70....

That's probably more a matter of great marketing on part of the managements of those bands you HAVE heard of? :D Gentle Giant did their part of the deal (!) writing, rehearsing, recording and performing the music and people couldn't market it properly. I'm 61 as well and sometimes I feel there is too much nostalgia going on in my record collection. Count yourself lucky to have a "new fresh" experience to be surprised by. :D

Better late than never 😊

I'm 62 same story, what a discovery, incredible talent and creativity

Well said, I got to see GG 4 times, very special group of musicians.

Is that a celtic shirt

This is the kind of Western music many people in Japan love, this is indeed good music.

Fully agreed. I loved the "criminal underrated" definition. All multi-instrumentist musicians. Btw best record is The Power and The Glory imho

The word underrated is used way too much. But in this case I think it holds true.

Yup, here comes Underrated again, yeesh give strength..

I don’t see how. I haven’t stopped 1 single good song. All songs I could have easily written myself.

My favorite band in high school from 1971-75.

An Absolutely Amazing Band,Gentle Giant were So Severely Underrated

Saw them at the Stade Municipal, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada in 1975

July 4th 1976 Auditorium theatre Rochester, NY. I was 16, first time I ever heard them. Friend of mine said hey man, trust me you wanna see this band. The greatest display of musicianship I’ve ever seen. Have been hooked since.

@@tjschakow :)...Those were the days! I was 16 in 76...One of the my greatest years as a man...So many changes since those days; We thought it was just going to get better and better; post Nam...Good health and freedom to you and yours and all fellow Prog heads...What's you favorite GG album? Three Friends for me. But, I love them all...:)

Gentle Giant é um diamante do progressivo.

Isso aí brother!

Muito bom umas das minhas bandas de rock progressivo favoritas.

I agree with you. But I also stand by my position that their low rung position was appropriate.

Haken. Which btw. adore gentle giant ^^

How about thank you scientist?@@flowkap6911

The Shulman sons (and grandson/s) as REPLIKIN. . . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O7Uuwj6Z8Go.html

Neal Morse.

If it was here today, would you even find this special

It's hard to disagree with you, this is spellbinding stuff, I'm a massive fan of Yes too and this more than holds it own.

@@shaneoconnor5811 Yes Music is far more structured and memorable.

Saw them live 7/4/76 in Rochester, NY. Could not believe what I had just experienced. Still, too this day, the greatest show I’ve ever seen and I’m now 61.

Indeed!

Agree with what you gave said here a gazillion% the greatest most legendary genius band ever

They all play so many instruments with such brilliance, great 👍

Dude, do you have that available? I need that DVD!!!!!!

You almost got it right but you should have added the word criminally before underated and added the words greatest band ever

the greatest most criminally underated band ever

You cant stop lstening because they are/were the greatest band ever

+Tag Makers Pet Tags Haha, was thinking the same thing. Anyone that has played in a band knows what your talking about.

Not only is each of them brilliant, but what really makes it Gentle Giant is their most intricate interplay. Together they made some of the most complex and beautiful prog rock (even though they don't like that label).

Like Rush, from the same era, prog rock, all virtuosos

Playing it? Absolutely! But writing it? Oh. My. God! 😳

Arrest me!

They literally knew how to make a hit when they wanted to

It’s not enough , not enough !

🚜 🚓🚕🚚🚕🚓🚗🚐 🙌🚌🚐

Love it!

Indeed.

I thought of Zappa as soon as they started.

Zappa loved Amon Duul too.

Anyone from that era; loved this band...I know; I was there...:)

Nearly The Shaggs level band

And terrible songwriters and vocalists.

@@johnthompson3291 bad and also wrong opinion

@@adamlacey81 I'm taking the piss, man. Dude comes in with a terrible take and I'm telling him off. At least we can agree that this rocks. Gentle Giant is fantastic

@@johnthompson3291 there are more great songs on their Free Hand album alone than most prog bands had in their entire careers. Nothing wrong with the singing either.

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Indeed, they appeared as UFOs on the world music scene! They're great! I love them! More and more!

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Real musicians, real talent. You won’t find a more talented group of musicians in any other band.