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    Posted: April 03 2025 at 18:12
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.
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Wow ok I thought it was an actual NEW ALBUM for a sec. Still great news.
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Already ordered! Smile
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Pre-ordered, thanks for the notice
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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.
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Originally posted by Gnik Nosmirc 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. 


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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Gnik Nosmirc 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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Originally posted by Hrychu 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.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Hrychu 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 - 10 hours 39 minutes ago at 07:03
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