Renaissance and Gentle Giant
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Topic: Renaissance and Gentle Giant
Posted By: rileydog22
Subject: Renaissance and Gentle Giant
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 13:34
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I am fairly new to prog, with only about a dozen albums. A friend reccommended that I get music by Gentle Giant and Rennaissance. What should be my first album for these bands? -------------   |
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Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 13:37
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Gentle Giant: Octopus
Renassiance: Scheherazade and Other Stories. Why? Just because. Those are the best ones. |
Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 13:40
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Gentle Giant : The Power and the Glory or Free Hand Renaissance (1st incarnation) : Renaissance Renaissance (2nd incarnation) : Sheherazade and Other Stories |
Posted By: graydog
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 14:44
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For Renaissance try Ashes are Burning or Turn of the cards. Ashes reminds me of early Wish Bone Ash in folk style. For GG a great place to start is the new DVD. The live stuff is thought by many to capture the essence of the band. The recommendations I've seen are pretty sound and Octopus or Freehand are good places to start. You might like to consider the first album.
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 19:17
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GENTLE GIANT: (In order)
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 20:14
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Gentle Giant: I'd begi with Free Hand, its their most accessible but does not sacrifice any of their complexity Renaissance: I'd begin with Ashes are Burning, their best IMO ------------- 
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