Gentle Giant live
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Topic: Gentle Giant live
Posted By: Sagichim
Subject: Gentle Giant live
Date Posted: February 23 2012 at 06:43
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i just saw gentle giant's zdf concert , this is really great!! how cool is the dual acoustic guitars part between gary and ray!? phenomenal stuff.. what's your fav live GG part? ( not a whole concert ) |
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: February 23 2012 at 09:08
Bugger, nearly deleted this (thought it was live streaming spam - sorry) 
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: February 23 2012 at 14:08
No harm done  is there anybody out there?? |
Posted By: Gentle Gryphon
Date Posted: February 23 2012 at 19:47
| Definitely the acoustic part..Some really great stuff played by Ray and Gary...And of course the beggining of Funny Ways..Just incredible.. |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: February 23 2012 at 21:21
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Any one knows the GG AT THE GG dvd , i heard it is the best ?! |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: February 23 2012 at 21:37
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The live version of On Reflection at the BBC is phenomenal. Way better than the studio version in my opinion. So Sincere is also much more interesting on the the dvd because of the whole percussion feature at the end. It's a shame that GG never had any more live footage for us fans to view. ------------- 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 24 2012 at 01:47
| I love 'excerpts from Octopus' which is a bonus track on the recent reissue of Octopus. Can also be found on the DVD 'Giant On The Box' which features them on a German TV programme about 1974.I'll probably dig that out this weekend. |
Posted By: infandous
Date Posted: February 24 2012 at 11:14
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All of this stuff you guys mention is on the live album, Playing the Fool. Not video of course, but still incredible (OP didn't specify video, just live). Also the King Biscuit live album is excellent as well, if you want to hear the "Yankee Doodle" recorder performance in Advent Of Panurge. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 24 2012 at 11:44
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You'll like GG at the GG unless you can't stand The Missing Piece. But it is really cool to see those old performances.
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Posted By: Gentle Gryphon
Date Posted: February 25 2012 at 03:14
| The best GG live is Giant On The Box..Maybe it's because I can't stand the post '76 stuff.. |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: February 25 2012 at 06:57
| It is too bad that there is only limited live dvd material from GG. Playing the Fool is my favorite of their live recordings. I was lucky enough-and old enough-to have seem them live twice-on the Interview Tour and the Civilian Tour. I'd have to agree that the acoustic guitar duet with Gary Green and Ray Shulman was the best part of a great show. The five man percussion piece to close out So Sincere is also darn good. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 02:18
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Gentle Gryphon wrote:Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 06:41
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I know this version you are talking about , simply amazing GG were so talented , imagine they would release a new album?! |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: March 31 2012 at 06:01
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Fantastic video indeed, the acoustic guitar duet is great (you can see from where did Neal and Alan Morse get their inspiration for their own duets) but there's so much good stuff that it's difficult to pick up a favourite. The parts where they show their multi-instrumentalist abilities are great, Minnear's vibraphone solo, Ray's violin, the recorder quartet, the percussion quintet with Gary laughing as he drops a drumstick...
It's shocking to see the belgian audience dead silent after the opening Cogs in Cogs but yeah, I live in Belgium for a while and I can confirm that they are very quiet people
 , they get more enthusiastic after the killer raid from Proclamation to Experience.Ah, and I love the faces of John Weathers as he plays
 Giant on the Box is their only DVD I have, I know I need to get GG at the GG one day, hopefully soon...
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: April 01 2012 at 19:05
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I was fortunate to see GG play live three times. Thee was simply nothing like it. Sure, Genesis, Yes, Floyd, et al had amazing shows, full of sound and light and bombast. (I mean that in a good way...LOL.) But GG was pure musical brilliance - and humor. We will not see their like again. BTW, Google "YouTube Gentle Giant," and you will find lots of fun live videos from all over the world. Some of them are true gems.
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: April 01 2012 at 21:06
Yes, you'll find a fair amount of official live material, but you'll also find videos of Gentle Giant conventions that contain live tribute band performances with some of the original members. -------------
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Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: April 01 2012 at 22:48
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I always loved "Features from Octopus" from that DVD, particularly "Advent of Panurge", with the recorder interlude. GG were a great band and just talking about them gives me chills! ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: April 02 2012 at 00:28
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Excerpts from Octopus is the best thing in music ever ------------- I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't |
Posted By: spknoevl
Date Posted: April 02 2012 at 07:43
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Probably one of the two or three best live bands I've ever seen. ------------- http://martinwebb.bandcamp.com The notes are just an interesting way to get from one silence to the next - Mick Gooderick |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 02 2012 at 14:00
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Hi,
I regret having missed this in Santa Barbara. Not even sure why I did not see it, but I think that school bit me. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: April 13 2012 at 14:49
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As i said in a previous post I only have Giant On The Box but I saw that GG at the GG is in YouTube, I just watched it and man that's a great concert too!
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 09:27
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^^^ Thats a great find - thanks! I just heard Playing the Fool and reviewed it - and was drawn to this thread as a result. ------------- 
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 10:12
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I never heard about Gentle Giant. Who is this band. I listen good bands only . Is this good band? I was just a bit too young to see them live. The last time they played in Montréal the power went out and they continued on with their acoustic instruments. Cool. One of the things I laways liked once the videos started coming out though was the drum bash. Their whole show just take sthe wind out of you listening to it on recordings. I can't imagine what it would be like to see them live in small venues where they would often play. Now I have to put some live Gentle Giant on and get no work done today. ------------- |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 17 2012 at 04:18
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I started this thread mentioning the ZDF concert, where gary and ray played the dual acoustic part, absolutely professional and simply beautiful stuff. So if one of you fans never saw this, it is a must! |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 09:37
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This blows my mind every time I see it. From the 'Giant on the Box'-DVD, I believe:
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