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But it wasn't such a simple song. This is a Supertramp production that could never have been such a high quality song without it being produced by the five members playing as the band called Supertramp.
Have loved this song since first listen in 1977, one of Roger's little masterpieces, so joyous and uplifting. The entire album "Even in the quietest moments" is wonderful, it has a different vibe to their other albums, the production quality is incredible. Do yourself a big favour and review the entire album. Cheers
The talent that oozes from this band is incredible. I agree nobody uses sax quite like Supertramp - if you love sax however you need to hear Gerry Rafferty Baker Street. That is a song built around the saxophone!
My favourite as well, I think...along with Breakfast. Roger's songs are outstanding of course but Rick Davies' has a few really underrated musical moments on 'EITQM' with "Downstream" and "Loverboy"
@@WilliamJones-sf5pt Apparently acording to the other students he used to whisper a little ditty under his breath as he studied "I'm learning sax with my file-o-fax" he would say, because they were common at the time and his had a special add-on page-pack with a lesson planner in it. So they say anyway.
@@thesunreport I am not joking. During the ten years Supertramp took off between 1987-1997, John Helliwell said that he went back to school to get a formal education as a musician. Ian Anderson tried doing the same regarding playing the flute. He couldn't get them to stop gawking and marveling long enough to help point out what he was doing wrong technically.
@@WilliamJones-sf5pt I do believe you. The thing which made me laugh in my sleep-deprived delerium was the bit at the end 'So he says anyway'. As this video is quite new it was like watching in real time, as a decades-old piece of really very obscure information realised itself as a piece of hot gossip, so I thought I would play along. Thanks for sharing your thoughts though, it (natural vs academic musicians etc) is an interesting topic.
@@thesunreport Consider every Supertramp album produced was the equivalent of two years of college. Rick Davies was said to be so good at playing the percussion that the other drummer in the group up and quit complaining while leaving out the door that Rick was just "too good!" While Rick would later slide over to play the piano, he played it with the proficiency of a master percussionist.
I had gotten away from Supertramp for a while, and now that I am following you I am falling back in love with this band. They had such a lovely way of producing their music and the instrumentation is immaculate. You are a very good reactor young lady. Thanks loads
My struggle continues. I cannot decide who is my all time favourite band. There is Supertramp, then there is Pink Floyd, and then there is Steely Dan, and The Doobie Brothers, and finally Kansas. At different times in my life, each of them has been my absolute favourite. They are all so talented…..I just love good music.❤️
Salut RoCoeur. Je ne suis pas entièrement d'accord avec toi. Fool's overture est un excellent morceau, avec une quantité d'instruments et une superbe orchestration, c'est vrai. Et je l'adore. Mais la grande qualité de ce groupe tient autant dans la complexité des arrangements qui vont donner une chanson parfaite, que dans celle de réaliser une musique apparement simple mais toute aussi parfaite. "Give a little bit" t'attrape comme la majorité des morceaux de Supertramp. Quand j'étais ado, je la trouvais un peu simple, c'est vrai. Mais depuis longtemps maintenant, elle fait partie de mes préférées. La guitare 12 cordes, cette basse chantante, ce rythme si "catchy", les vagues de choeurs en fond et ce saxo inimitable en font une recette oû chaque ingrédient est savamment intégré et mesuré. Ceci est mon point de vue. Et je respecte le tien. Amitiés
@@eleluku29 Je devrais surement m'asseoir et l'écouter en profondeur. D'ailleurs, quand notre chère Verdy nous as proposé l'album "Breakfast..." que je connais par cœur, ben je me suis rendu compte que la plupart des chansons sont incroyablement complexes au niveau musical. Merci pour votre réponse! 😀🤝
@@user-zl9qb3fx8tq Merci à toi. Je te souhaite de prendre toujours autant (et même plus) de plaisir à écouter Supertramp jusqu'à la fin de ta vie... Pour ma part, ce groupe reste encore et toujours le plus grand bonheur artistique de toute ma vie.
This was on the radio constantly when I was in high school and of course yes, I had to go out and buy The Breakfast in America album. I put the needle down on side a and let it repeat a bunch of times and then when I came back to it I would flip it and put it down on side B and let that play a bunch of times. I'm not like a super fan but they did some really good work and this is probably one of my favorite songs of theirs. It just has so much emotion
My favorite thing about Supertramp, other than the heavy use of the Wurlitzer EP, is the bass mix. It's always perfect and can even be heard on the tiniest of speakers. That's very hard to achieve.
This was always one of my favorite Supertramp songs. Huey Lewis and the news has a lot of Sax and My Favorite Canadian Colin James "Why'd you Lie" and "Dream of Satin" are a couple to check out.
Ms Verdy, a true joy to see you enjoy the greatest songs , bands, artists..for the first time...hoping 2023;brings you much happiness..and thank you for making 2022 , for an old guy like me, much happiness. 😎😁👍
I agree with you concerning the saxophone and the timing of its introduction in many Supertramp songs. This song indeed has a very happy connotation, but also quite obvious sexual undertones ...
Hi Verdy, Thanks for the Enjoyable Reaction and being a fellow Saxophone fan particularly enjoyed your delightful smile when it came in as it raises the whole song to another level. When I last saw Roger Hodgson in Bournemouth (who incidently was born in Portsmouth not far away) it was purely him and a saxophone player, a truly uplifting night. Try Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street' or Candy Dulfer's 'Lily was here' I think You'll be hooked ☺️
Love this song soooo much,takes me back to my youth but still makes me smile when I hear it.....thanks for another great reaction. Not sure if you've already reacted to it as I'm relatively new to your channel but as real contrast to this try "Bloody well right"....guitar,sax and a definite bluesy feel.
You need to react to the title track of this album, Even In The Quietest Moment. It is incredible. This song is the first Supertramp song I ever heard and so I became a fan !
You would also like Steely Dan- a prog jazz/rock band from the 70s that used multi- instruments and transitions much like Supertramp. 'Deacon Blues' is a good place to start.
Hi 👋 Just started watching. Glad you get to experience Supertramp! Since you love the saxophone, you really need to hear "Gunner's Dream" by Pink floyd! It will give you goosebumps at very least!
Sax is to Supertramp as Flute is to Jethro Tull. Both great bands incorporating non-traditional instruments into Rock music...what Progressive is all about!
@@t0dd000 With a few exceptions, I mostly stopped listening to much new music after the 70's. I still consider the 70s the greatest decade of music during my lifetime and absolutely hate today's music. I was/am a big fan of 70s Progressive Rock and I am still discovering new, less famous bands from that era to enjoy. I feel that for the most part, the 80s are where the great bands from the 70s went to die.
This made me cry actually. The times we live in, at least in the US have been so full of rancor and hate, and this brings me back to my late teenage years when I purchased this album, and related to the music and the message of this great album. It informed my youthful idealism along with so much of the other rock music at the time. This was my first Supertramp album, and subsequently I purchased everything that had previously been released by them. I was fortunate to see Supertramp live at Irvine Meadows in the LA area on their final tour with Roger Hodgson being in the band. They took a break in the middle but played a total of 3 hours, and it was absolutely epic. They had a large screen behind the stage playing mostly film quality videos that related to the songs. The visuals for the songs "Rudy" and "Fools Overture" were particularly stunning. Rick Davies at the grand piano, also was just incredible to witness and hear. His voice contrasted wonderfully to Roger's voice.
Love your enthusiasm! John Heliwell (the saxophonist) is a seriously great musician and was the reason (imo) why Supertramp became the success that they were from Crime of the Century onwards
At the concert in Germany where Roger Hodgson announces his departure from the group to pursue a solo career, he plays Give a litlle bit in dedication to the fans. He and the group are clearly moved. John Helliwell who played the sax was always the most humorous member at the concerts.
When Supertramp was auditioning drummers, one of the founders of the band, Rick Davies, said that he wanted someone who knew when to STOP playing. If you listen to most of their albums, you'll hear the drummer back off a bit at times - perfection! I never got to see Supertramp, but I did get to see the writer of this song, Roger Hodgson. He played this song with a 12-string guitar which just has such a full sound all on its own. Consequently, although keyboard was my main instrument, I spent a fortune on a 12-string Yamaha just for the sound. WONDERFUL!
I'm really glad you rewount to hear that entire sax solo again. Love the chromatic runs at the end and the accenting in the phrasing and how it ends on that really high note as the vocals come back in. I must also say, although you probably already know it of course, you are just so beautiful and sexy without having to put on makeup or do all kinds of stuff, although to be fair, I have a feeling you would be a knockout when you really wanted to do that kind of thing. But anyway it's a really nice part of it, but I also as a musician like your reactions because you do always notice and point out things that I feel like people often miss in these reactions. And of course there's just the sheer Joy of seeing different looks come across your face when you hit favorite parts of favorite music, laugh.
It IS a pretty happy tune and catchy as well. It's always a good listen. Keep listening and exploring the songs/artists that some of us oldsters have enjoyed for a long time. It's nice to see the songs stand the test of time. :)
Aside from this song, I want to thank you, on behalf of all who view your reactions, for 'Giving a Little Bit' of your time for us. Your smile and attitude light up a world which seriously needs it!
"Give a Little Bit" was first written by Hodgson when he was 19 or 20 years old before it was introduced to the band for recording five to six years later. Hodgson stated that the song was inspired by the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love", released during the love and peace movement of the 1960s. It was a chart hit in the band's native UK, reaching number 29 on the UK Singles Chart. Wikipedia. I bought this as an album, I'm a music buyer that always bought the album rather than a 45rpm single. The only singles I own were given to me, the 1st was Tom Dooley by The Kingston Trio, an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to the late 1960s, and then Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones, both when they were fist released.
nobody does *that* style of sax like Supertramp. But there's some fantastic (and very different) use of sax in a number of David Bowie songs. And obviously she needs to listen to "Baker Street", aka pop music's most iconic sax riff, ever. And if you want a whole brass section, in the 70s, its hard to get better than Chicago. That's a lot closer to the Supertramp vibe generally.
This sounds good when I play it on my 5-string bass. I tune drop A. When my buddies and I used to jam at our parties we closed with this song. It helped that one of them has a 12-string.
Another great reaction. Have you ever consider doing reactions on Harmonium music? It's a french-canadian band, and the videos would not be as popular maybe, but they did amazing music in the 70's. Comparable to what Supertramp or Genesis did in the same period in my opinion. "Dixie", "Histoire sans parole", "Harmonium", "Pour un instant" and "Un musicien parmi tant d'autres" are some of their most popular songs. "Histoire sans parole" is an epic 17 minutes long, instrumental song with mesmerizing flute playing. And there is saxophone (or is it clarinet?) in Dixie (their most catchy song).
