New Gentle Giant Release!! - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Gentle Giant & Prog Fans, This One’s for You! 🎶

The legendary 1977 double live album "Playing the Fool" has been fully reimagined, mixed, and mastered for the most immersive Gentle Giant live experience yet!

It's out May 2nd and available to pre-order: linktr.ee/gentlegiantband

Originally released in January 1977, this album captured the band at their absolute peak. Now, over 45 years later, it's been reborn with stunning 96/24 Stereo, 5.1 Surround Sound & Dolby Atmos mixes, and will be on Vinyl CD and Blu-ray, offering a whole new depth and clarity to every intricate note.

Already ordered! Smile

Upon reading the body of the OP, I thought this was gonna be an April Fools prank. Anyway, the word "reimagined" is giving me some doubts about this reissue. But that's just me.

Cristi wrote:

Gnik Nosmirc wrote:

Wow ok I thought it was an actual NEW ALBUM for a sec. Still great news.

I think most people thought of that for a second LOL

, very click bait thread title.

Hi,

I'll be waiting for Steven Wilson's remaster of the "High Oratorio 45 RPM" remaster. Should be much more interesting than hearing the same thing yet again! Tongue

.... and publicized to make it look like it is new .... Confused

which kinda suggests that some folks obviously never heard it before because it was not listed as a top 5 in the onion smell and stink contest! Sleepy

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Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Hrychu wrote:

Upon reading the body of the OP, I thought this was gonna be an April Fools prank. Anyway, the word "reimagined" is giving me some doubts about this reissue. But that's just me.

"Reimagined" probably was the word used to describe the surround mixes.

Hi,

It is a term and thought that bothers me ... and I think it is because the quality of all mp3's out there that are distributed are such poor and bad quality that the majority of folks in the last 30 years likely do not know how much better all the original recordings actually were ... and if you had the LP's (for example), having a remaster like this one, is bizarre and a waste of money, specially if you have a top end stereo system (I do!!!) which blows out a lot of the stuff folks listen to here or in the toob ... where the quality can't be too big, or the site would get blown apart with too much big stuff and not be able to handle lesser materials ... so a lot of it is actually low quality, and DEFINITELY not better than me playing a CD on my stereo, or LP ...

I simply wish that more folks could handle a bigger, and more efficient sound/stereo system ... so they could tell the difference. In fact, some of those "remasters" (even by SW) do not sound good on my system at all ... you know right away that things were fudged really bad to make it look like it was bigger and better ... and in the end, it wasn't even close if you have a high end system, which most folks here apparently do not!

Edited by moshkito - 21 hours 24 minutes ago at 07:03

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Disconnect wrote:

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Rather than picking up a sh*tty, scratched-up copy at my various local record stores, I have no qualms about purchasing this remaster/re-release/reimagined/repurposed/reposessed/retracted/redifined so-and-so that I see some here bitching about.

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Hi,

No argument there, since these days you and I will not find many folks with a high end stereo system and, on top of that, no LP's to listen to that show how things were 50 years ago ... so yeah ... your point makes sense and is very logical, though I would still suggest that it shows, more than anything, how the industry finds ways to make money again off something or other, but, yeah, that's an issue ... scratchy and old LP's would not do well on a high end system, and neith (BTW) do a lot of LP's that were redone in the past 5 years, like some Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath for starters.

My take, for example, is that folks are too worried about number 1 instead of the quality of the materials, and the majority of the bands on the monthly listings, which in my ears, do not sound good enough because they are all trying to sound like someone else that inspired them ... copy of a copy of a copy I tend to suggest.

IF, and that is a large IF, these remasters and whatnot, helped bring the music ability up further, and elevate progressive music (so to speak) then it is a good thing, but in the end, I am not sure that is what they are doing, since the choices are very spotty and haphazard in my book.

The thing that brought "progressive" to the front, was that not only was it innovative, it also took a new and different step to recording it, since it was not the average mish mash of stuff, and featured more independent moments that made the music special, the same thing that helped classical music come "alive" for so many decades and centuries, and the orchestras in the 1960's and 1970's made sure that we realized that.

However, I find it sad that I do not see this as a window to the future of the music and the sound ... instead it is a fairly obvious attempt at cashing in some more ... mainly because any of these redo's will sell much more than the original ... and guess who gets the majority of the money? Unless it was the artist himself/herself that took the step to get it done, as KC and some bands have done to ensure that the record company does not underscore them. But now that PF, Roxy Music and others do not own their stuff anymore, we will be seeing all the albums redone in the future!

I do not think that all of these remasters are not good ... but I have yet to hear one that beats the original in my system and that includes SW.

Again, if you had the original DSOTM and Sgt Peppers in the English pressing, instead of the American trash copies that were taken from a cheap cassette (so to speak), you would very quickly hear it on a good system, that the remasters are crap and then some! Sadly this is an example that only a handful of us left over have any idea about ... but the scary part for me is that these folks doing remasters are putting more effort into the older stuff than they are into the new music, and that is criminal ... the new music and folks need help to get off the copy of a copy of a copy so their work won't sound like everyone else's ... something that was not what we heard 50 years ago ... I wish folks today understood that, instead of standing up for their favorites.

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