Most talented member of GG
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Topic: Most talented member of GG
Posted By: Man With Hat
Subject: Most talented member of GG
Date Posted: March 11 2006 at 00:19
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Who do you think is the most talented member of this very talented group? Personally i'd give my vote to Kerry, with Ray being a close second. Just a note: All equal is not a poll choice thus not an option. Thank you ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 11 2006 at 07:30
I voted for Kerry Minnear.
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Posted By: Pafnutij
Date Posted: March 11 2006 at 07:35
| Interesting poll. A tough one too, but I guess I'd go with Minnear as well |
Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: March 11 2006 at 07:56
| All of them are amazing musicians. I'm not prepared to make a choice here - they're all equal. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: March 11 2006 at 08:03
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^ same here
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 11 2006 at 12:51
Agree ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Tony Fisher wrote:Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 11 2006 at 13:19
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Yes perhaps but that doesnt help my poll now does it ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: March 11 2006 at 14:01
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I vote for they're all equal. ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: March 11 2006 at 15:23
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I wouldn't say they are all equal ... because Kerry Minnear and Ray
Shulman stand out IMO ... but I really can't decide between 'em ...
partly because with so much instrument swapping going on, I'm not
always sure who does what (although superficially Kerry is the
keyboardist and Ray is the bassist, I believe) But the level in this band is tough ... a decade of listening to them and I still can't decide between the drummers ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: March 11 2006 at 23:27
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Difficult to say... I'll go with all equal too ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 11 2006 at 23:42
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How about this: All 'they are equal' votes get marked down under Phil Shulman ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 00:43
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Kerry but they are all top-notch, especially the shulmans ------------- 
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 02:09
they're definitely all equal  ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 02:12
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Then vote for phil damnit ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: robertplantowns
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 02:17
If they're all supposedly equal then you should put your votes in with the least represented members to try to compensate. Plus like he said in the beginning, ALL EQUAL IS NOT AN OPTION. I guess by refusing to vote for anyone you are all tacitly accepting that Ray Schulman and Kerry Minnear are the best 
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 02:52
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thus the winking smily in my post ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: MattiR
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 05:08
| Kerry Minnear, because he was creating great part of Gentle Giant music. |
Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 08:21
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I can only say Kerry is the best keyboardist in GG. Ray the best lead vocalist in GG. Phil the best bassist in GG. Gary the best guitarist in GG. John the best drummer in GG. ------------- My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head. |
Posted By: MattiR
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 08:48
Ray, not Derek?   |
Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 11:45
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Touche!!! Yeah I get those bros mixed up this early in the morning. Phil was only around for a couple of albums right? Ray best bassist. Derek best Vocals. ------------- My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head. |
Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 11:57
| Kerry Minnear was amazing and I voted for him. I'm surprised nobody voted for Phil Shulman. He was an amazing bass player who could play other instruments, like the violin, just as well. This is truly a hard poll and I almost couldn't vote, but I feel Kerry really led the band with his keyboard playing. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 12:38
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a vote for Ray... but would have gone to Kerry if he were trailing
Ray. Most talented.. who knows... supremely talented.. a vote for
both.
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: MattiR
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 15:43
OK, no problem 
Phil has left GG after fantastic "Octopus" (fourth album)  I don't know why  |
Posted By: MattiR
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 15:47
Phil has never played on bass guitar You thought of Ray perheps |
Posted By: Damen
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 16:38
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Ray Shulman, THE BASS PLAYER, got my vote. ------------- "It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days." -Chris Squire |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 05:29
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Easily Minnear is the most talented as far as music writing is cincerned Ha was the one who mastered all these medieval techniques ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 18:45
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bump. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |