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1398:). These tracks were re-mixed by Steven Wilson from the available multi-track tapes. Some songs from the first three albums were not included in the set as the multi-tracks for those specific songs have been lost. The set was available as a CD of the re-mixed songs and a Blu-Ray disk. The Blu-ray disk had 96/24 Stereo LPCM and DTS-HD 5.1 Surround Sound versions of the re-mixed tracks, additional bonus tracks, instrumental versions of some tracks, and Original Album Mixes from Flat Transfers of Mint Condition Original LPs. There were also new video animations included on the 5.1 Surround tracks. This release came packaged as a single Digipack with the two disks, a 16-page booklet, new artwork and was approved by the band for release. 929:

anymore. And you understand it; they had families. Kerry had just had a baby and Derek was just getting married. But having said that, I was married and so was John. You can change things like that; there are ways to work around that. You don't have to tour. I don't think we really toured an awful lot as Giant. I think we could have worked a lot harder at touring. We toured perhaps five or six months of the year. The rest of the year we didn't tour, which seemed a bit silly if you really want to make it or break the market. So let's go ahead and do it and capitalize on this rush we got. So it all seemed a little odd to me. It was sad.

522:(1972). This was the band's first concept album, and was based around the theme of three boys who are "inevitably separated by chance, skill, and fate" as they become men. Over the course of the album, the three friends travel on from being childhood schoolfriends to becoming, respectively, a road digger, an artist, and a white-collar worker. In the process, they lose their ability to relate to each other or understand each other's lifestyles. The development and fate of each character is musically represented by separate yet integrated styles, from hard rhythm-and-blues-edged rock to symphonic classical stylings. 40: 1090:

members for their rejection include busy schedules, health problems, lack of practice on instruments, and other personal reasons. Asked about a possible reunion in 1995, Phil Shulman replied: "We lead such disparate lives now and different lifestyles, different attitudes... I think it's impossible". In 1998, Ray Shulman asserted: "For me and Derek, the disruption to our lives now, I can't see how it would be worth it. It would be very difficult. The whole process would take such a long time and you would have to give up what ever you are doing. We both have careers independent of GG".

873:(recorded in the Netherlands and released in 1977) was a transitional album reflecting this new approach. While the second side featured longer and more eclectic songs reminiscent of the band's earlier work, the first side featured outright examples of pop-rock, blue-eyed soul and even an attempt at punk. Three singles ("Two Weeks in Spain", "Mountain Time" and "I'm Turning Around") were released from the album, but failed to become hits: the album itself performed disappointingly in the marketplace, failing to win new fans or find favour with the band's existing fanbase. 448:-oriented vocals; Phil Shulman handled the more folk-or-jazz-influenced songs; and Kerry Minnear (who had a particularly delicate voice) sang the lighter folk and chamber-classical lead vocals. Minnear did not sing lead vocals at live concerts, because of his inability to support and project his voice at a level suitable for live amplification (Derek and Phil Shulman handled Minnear's lead vocal parts when the band played live). It has been reported that Elton John unsuccessfully auditioned for lead vocalist with the newly formed group. 648:" I'm not saying how important (or not important) I was to the group, or anything like that, but my brothers thought that that was the end of the band. And that's absurd. When five-sixths of the band are still there, I go - no trouble. And they did: they carried on for seven more years, folks, and that was touring the world and getting great acclaim as a very fine five-piece outfit. But for me it was the only thing to do. It obviously took something away because I wasn't able to listen to music for a few years afterwards. 634:, during which they proved to be very unpopular with the majority of the headlining band's fans. Derek Shulman recalled, "It was perhaps the most ridiculous pairing of groups ever in the history of show business. For the most part we got booed off the stage". Following the tour, Gentle Giant underwent their most significant line-up change when a burnt-out and discouraged Phil Shulman left the band following disagreements with his brothers. Derek Shulman took over all lead vocals for live concerts, becoming Gentle Giant's 785:- another concept album, this time based around an imaginary interview with the band. The music pointedly poked fun at the state of the music industry and at the silly questions that rock stars are repeatedly asked in order to project an image for marketing. Ironically, this more satirical and subversive approach ultimately proved to be a symptom of the undermining of the band's work and artistic integrity. Derek Shulman later admitted, "I think 746: 681: 1161: 402:

continue with the musicians we'd had before. We weren't interested in the other musicians in the band — they couldn't contribute anything. We had to teach them what to do. It got rather heavy when we could play drums better than the drummer, and even on record we were doing more and more of it with overdubs. It got stupid having a band like (that). The first thing was to get some musicians of a higher standard."

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argued like hell, sometimes to the point where you thought they were going to hit each other. But I guess it was brotherly love . But when Phil said he was going to leave, we were all like stumped, 'Oh! What are we going to do? All right we'll buy a Moog synthesizer!' That's kind of trite; I don't mean it quite like that. We had to do something".

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family life. The two factions of Shulman brothers - with Phil on one side and Ray and Derek on the other would eventually resolve their differences and heal their relationship, although Phil never rejoined the band or returned to music as a career. Ray Shulman has subsequently assisted Phil's son Damon Shulman with his own music.

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successive failure of follow-up singles to "Kites". Attempting to escape their new image, they released a pseudonymous double A-side single in late 1968 as the Moles – "We Are the Moles (parts 1 & 2)". This compounded their identity crisis as the single was subsequently caught up in a rumour that the Moles were, in fact,

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away and write us a single.' So we did three atrocious numbers. This song's the worst—'You've got it lads!'—and we went into the studio and handed over the tapes when we came out. They put it out, we yelled at them, and they gave it back—took it off the market" (the single was added to CD reissues of the album).

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century neoclassicism than to contemporary classical music (some Gentle Giant songs, such as "Black Cat", "Experience" and "So Sincere", do utilise more complicated modernist harmonics). In general, the band relied on sudden and unexpected compositional twists and turns to stimulate their audience, including:

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In 2008, a partial reunion of Gentle Giant involved the creation of a new band called Rentle Giant, in order to play Gentle Giant material. This band featured former members guitarist Gary Green and drummer Malcolm Mortimore. They recruited three noted jazz-fusion musicians to complete the band, with

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Gary Green's opinion of the split differs. In 2003 he commented: "My own personal opinion is that the band broke up because Derek really wanted a hit album, and I think Ray did too, and they were fed up. They had been musicians longer than I had, and they had tasted it pretty good when they were with

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While Gentle Giant's skill as performers remained undiminished, their creative peak was now behind them. Affected by changes in popular style (including the growth of punk rock), the band made a mutual decision to refine their writing and performance style in pursuit of a broader market, particularly

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is a complex and determined concept album - named after the aphorism that "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"—it was the band's most directly psychological effort to date. The album was also notable for its three-dimensional cover, using a cellophane overlay (replicated using the

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Over thirty years later, Phil Shulman expanded on his reasons for departure in a 2008 podcast interview conducted by his son Damon and grandson Elliot. In the interview he stated that his main motivation for leaving was because he had realised that the lifestyle of a touring musician was damaging his

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recorded live on 7 October 1975, at Ultra-Sonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, New York. Released on The Amazing Kornyfone Record Label TAKRL 1983 in 1975, following broadcast on WLIR Radio in New York City. TAKRL reissued the record again in 1976 with the same catalogue number using a revised title,

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was another poor seller, later adjudged by the band as being a creative mistake. Derek Shulman eventually remembered it as being "real contrived" while Kerry Minnear would confess to having felt unsure as to whether he had anything to contribute to the album (although he did make an attempt to write

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on stage. made sure we all stopped playing and said we needed to get off the stage. As we were leaving the stage, Phil grabbed the mic and said to the crowd, “You guys are a bunch of fucking cunts!”, and the boo that went up after that was enormous! To this day I'll never forget it! We were sort of

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house full of musicians and instruments... I started learning trumpet when I was five just because it was there and then took up violin when I was seven. We were made to practise for an hour a day at least, when we really wanted to go out and play. ... Eventually I wanted to do it anyway... I wasn't

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There have been two collaborative efforts featuring between two and four of the band members, neither of which has been identified as a formal reunion of Gentle Giant. The first was a collaboration between four former Gentle Giant members – Kerry Minnear, John Weathers, Gary Green, and Phil Shulman

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In the summer of 1980, the group disbanded. In 2005, Derek Shulman recalled that "the creative juices just weren't flowing. I was living in Los Angeles at the time when we broke up. We weren't really sure what direction to take. I don't regret the decision we made to disband, and I'd do it again if

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on which all former progressive rock stylings were purged in favour of radio-friendly soft rock and further (unsuccessful) attempts at creating hit singles. In order to present a more straightforward group identity, Derek Shulman now handled all lead vocals and the band abandoned their conventional

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followed in 1974. This was Gentle Giant's third concept album, this time taking power and corruption as the linking theme. The band also wrote a separate single with the same title. According to Derek Shulman, "WWA said, 'Now boys, you've got to be commercial, you've gotta make singles. Now you run

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Gary Green later recalled "As I remember it, when Phil announced it at the end of an Italian tour, he said he would leave the band. He couldn't continue on. There was too much stress being on the road and the family. Plus the brothers were having a bit of a difficult time. They're brothers and they

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player and had never worked with a band above the semi-professional level, but adapted readily to the demanding music of the new band. The Shulman brothers, meanwhile, settled into typically multi-instrumental roles of their own — Derek on saxophone and recorder; Ray on bass and violin; and Phil on

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Success only served to frustrate the Shulman brothers, who considered themselves to be blue-eyed soul singers and felt that their change of style was insincere and insubstantial. Derek Shulman was later to describe "Kites" as "utter shit"." The Shulmans' opinion was confirmed, in their eyes, by the

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both get re-issued in 2012 on CD/DVD & Vinyl. The CD/DVD features a previously unreleased lost quadraphonic mix. The special 4.1 Surround Sound mix (audiophiles note it's DTS 96/24 and Dolby Digital 48 kHz/24bit) has been adapted from the original Quad mixes. The band members have written

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In March 2009, Green and Mortimore were joined by a third Gentle Giant member in the form of Kerry Minnear and Rentle Giant consequently changed its name to Three Friends. Also at this time, the band recruited vocalist Mick Wilson as dedicated lead singer. After a short tour, it was announced that

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Despite having seen many of their progressive rock contemporaries reunite for tours, Gentle Giant are notable for having consistently refused to reunite as a full band. In 1997, the Gentle Giant fanbase unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the members to perform a reunion concert. Reasons cited by

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was the start of the slide towards the realization that this is a business now, and that's also a part of what the business had become. I was managing the band at the time and music business became a major business"." Despite this approach, the album did not repeat its predecessor's American chart

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At a show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, we went on stage and the Sabbath fans were shouting “get off, we want Sabbath” and we were just getting set to play ‘Funny Ways’. We pulled out the cellos and violins, and the crowd starting heckling immediately, but we were gradually starting to get

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was shaped primarily by Kerry Minnear's broad classical and contemporary classical music training. It also showed the band expanding their already impressive instrumental palette (although many years later Derek Shulman would admit "we recorded without any idea of what it would be like before we

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It was like this big funnel, really. We all had these varied influences, whether it be pop, classical, rock, jazz, or whatever, and we just came together and created what we did. A lot of the bands who were doing prog rock back then were doing long songs that in many cases were just filler, but we

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There has been renewed interest in Gentle Giant since 1990, with new fan clubs, new releases of live concerts and previously unreleased material, and several tribute albums. The rights of the band's catalogue are scattered among many companies, not all of which are keen on re-releasing the albums

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In 1969, the Shulman brothers finally dissolved the group in order to escape the pop music environment that had frustrated them. Surprisingly, they did not return directly to rhythm and blues or soul, but chose to pursue a more complicated direction. Ray Shulman later stated, "We knew we couldn't

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From the start, Gentle Giant was a particularly flexible band because of the exceptionally broad musical skills of its members. One Gentle Giant album would list a total of forty-six instruments in the musician credits — all of which had been played by group members — and five of the six members

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We had a meeting in New York when we started the tour over here. We met in New York to get together and see it as a launch-off place. Kind of had a talk about what we were going to do. At that meeting Kerry and Derek said this was going to be the last tour and they didn't want to be on the road

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direction. As lead singer and frontman, Derek Shulman took on the 'Simon Dupree' pseudonym while Phil played saxophone and trumpet, and youngest brother Ray played guitar and violin. (Both Ray and Phil also played trumpet and sang backing vocals for the group which, during its lifetime, briefly

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However, it has been noted that in spite of the comparatively complex initial sound, Gentle Giant's music is in fact fairly traditional in terms of harmony and features relatively few complex chords. In common with most 1970s progressive rock, Gentle Giant compositions are closer to early 20th

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was done with less passion than some of the other albums. As it turns out we as a band were just not good at being rock or pop stars. We would have loved to be as popular as a Genesis or Rush or Yes. In hindsight, I sometimes think that Gentle Giant was wrongfully put into the progressive rock

809:. The band's notoriously virtuosic live act (featuring rapid-fire instrument-swapping and demanding rearrangements of the already complex studio pieces) made a powerful impression on audiences, meaning that Gentle Giant could equal almost any act on the bill. One 1975 show (at Detroit's 592:" (eight musical works, reflecting the album's eight tracks). It maintained Gentle Giant's distinctively broad and challengingly integrated style, one of the highlights being the intricate madrigal-styled vocal workout "Knots" (whose lyrics are taken from various verses of poetry from 1114:

joined in 2012, adding violin, baritone sax, alto sax and recorder, enabling the band to create a live sound closer to the original recordings. This line-up toured Italy, Canada and the United States in 2012. In 2015, the band consisted of Green, Mortimore, Glasson, Neil Angilley and

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According to a booklet that was included in their first album, the band's name was a reference to a fictional character, a "gentle giant" that happens upon a band of musicians and is enthralled with their music. The character is reminiscent of those from the Renaissance tales of

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we were to do the whole thing all over again". Ray Shulman has commented: "There was definitely the decision that the last tour would be the last tour. Once we knew that, we enjoyed ourselves. We decided to quit then rather than let it go on too long"." In an interview with

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band active between 1970 and 1980. They were known for the complexity and sophistication of their music and for the varied musical skills of the members. All of the band members were multi-instrumentalists. Although not commercially successful, the band did achieve a

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Gentle Giant was formed in 1970 when the Shulman brothers teamed up with two other multi-instrumentalists, Gary Green (guitar, mandolin, recorder etc.) and Kerry Minnear (keyboards, vibraphone, cello, etc.), plus drummer Martin Smith, who had previously drummed for

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on 15 July 2020. The video featured appearances from Gentle Giant members Gary Green, Kerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman (his last band-related appearance before his death), Phil Shulman, John Weathers and Malcolm Mortimore. Additional musicians included

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in a mini-sleeve with the original British release design. Although not widely distributed, these re-issues have been praised for their production quality and remastering. Before that, all first four albums have been re-released on Universal Japan label.

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recorded live on 18 January 1975, at the Academy Of Music in New York City. Released on the Wizardo Records label WRMB 309 in September 1975. This release included an additional fake recording "March Of The Trolls", which the bootleggers had recorded

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includes a corrected version of the song. Conflicting evidence sometimes reports that this defect exists on the original 1971 vinyl release of the album, with the opening note bending up as the tape comes up to speed – probably an engineering error.

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Growing up, family, two sons, lovely little daughter, a wife who was getting lonelier and lonelier… No decision really, it was a foregone conclusion. My brothers, in fact, quite frankly wouldn't speak to me for years afterwards because I said,

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sang, enabling the band to write and perform detailed vocal harmony and counterpoint. The band's approach to songwriting was equally diverse, blending a wide variety of ideas and influences whether they were considered commercial or otherwise.

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recorded live on 18 January 1975, at the Academy Of Music in New York City. Released on The Amazing Kornyfone Record Label TAKRL 1943 in 1975. The record sleeve listed the venue as "Utland Communicable Concourse", which was false

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were located and Alucard Music reissued each album with a bonus live performance of material from each respective album. Each album was remastered by Ray Shulman and Francis Kervorkian (both of whom worked on the 2009 remasters).

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While Kerry Minnear would pronounce himself far more satisfied with this album and its songs, Ray Shulman would eventually state, "I hated making last record, I hated being involved with it". In 2005, Derek Shulman reflected,

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Minnear was leaving the band for personal reasons, and that Three Friends planned to continue as a six-piece. In due course, by 2011, Carey, Williams and Donaldson had left the band, to be replaced by Lee Pomeroy on bass and

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never tried to impress anyone with our talents, maybe we were just trying to impress each other! What to us just seemed like some clever songs really touched a lot of people it seems, which never fails to amaze me.

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the album's songs reflected on lost love and damaged relationships, including the breakdown of the band's relationship with their former manager. It became one of the band's most popular and accessible releases.

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A reissue series on CD and, with bonus tracks, as digital downloads was begun in 2009/2010. In a 2009 interview Derek Shulman also indicated that plans were in the works to put out an animated film based on

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and drummed with various bands there – he died on 2 March 1997. Second Gentle Giant drummer Malcolm Mortimore has continued to work as a successful sessions drummer in the rock, jazz, and theatre fields.

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The band stated that their aim was to "expand the frontiers of contemporary popular music at the risk of becoming very unpopular", although this stance was to alter significantly with time.

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in America. Over the next two years, the band gradually jettisoned many of their complicated stylings in order to attempt to write simpler pop music and attempt to create hit singles.

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Following the dissolution of the band, Derek Shulman went on to a successful career in the organisational side of the music business (initially promotion and artist development for

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got into the studio. It was a very experimental album and we still didn't have an ultimate direction".)" The band's sense of challenge was made evident in the liner notes to

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is generally considered to herald the start of Gentle Giant's peak period. In 2004, Ray Shulman commented " was probably our best album, with the exception perhaps of

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battery of string instruments, wind instruments, tuned percussion and vocal interplay in favour of a straightforward guitar/bass/keyboards/drums/lead singer set-up.

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and formed a band together. Phil – originally acting as a manager figure in order to look after his much younger brothers – eventually became a band member himself.

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Following his time in Gentle Giant, Phil Shulman retired entirely from the music business. He subsequently worked as a teacher, in retail, and ran a gift shop in

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Sivy, Robert Jacob (2016). Philippe Gonin (ed.). "Interwoven Patterns and Mutual Misunderstandings: Binding R.D. Laing's Psychology with Gentle Giant's Knots".

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and Australian Elizabeth Geyer that was nominated best New Age album of 2019 by the Independent Music Awards. Kerry Minnear returned to the UK and settled in

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produced several non-charting singles before being pushed by their management and label in the direction of psychedelia. This resulted in the UK Top 10 hit "

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is a 4-CD set rounding up all of Gentle Giant's Chrysalis albums with bonus tracks including John Peel sessions, 7" mixes, live tracks & 'b' sides etc.

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Roger Carey on bass and vocals, Andy Williams on guitar, and John Donaldson on piano and keyboards. Green contributed lead vocals to some of the songs.

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In 2005, to celebrate the band's 35th anniversary, a series of digitally remastered and specially packaged CDs of their later albums were released by

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By this time, Gentle Giant had become a well-established live act in America and Europe, touring persistently and sharing stages with anyone from

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Ray Shulman moved into soundtrack work for television and advertising before becoming a successful record producer (working with, among others,

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Simon Dupree, at least in Britain. And they were looking for some of that in Giant too. My feeling is that we could have continued on as

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elements. The band also had a taste for broad themes for their lyrics, drawing inspiration not only from personal experiences but from

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box set ("Home Again", "Moog Fugue", and "Move Over"). The band members recorded their parts separately and never reunited in person.

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The new band also featured three lead vocalists. Derek Shulman sang in a tough rhythm-and-blues style and generally handled the more

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clever handling of transitions between sections (such as a hard-rock guitar riff being immediately substituted by a medieval choral)

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In March 1972, Malcolm Mortimore injured himself in a motorcycle accident. To fulfil tour obligations in April, Gentle Giant hired

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Lundberg, Mattias (8 April 2014). "Motivic cohesion and parsimony in three songs from Gentle Giant's Acquiring the Taste (1971)".

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vindicated later on, as we thought we were never going to play Los Angeles again after the cherry bomb incident, but later on the

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begins with an obvious defect, possibly from a damaged master tape, on all current CD and vinyl releases. The 1996 compilation

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into the Top 50 of the album chart in the USA. Strongly influenced by the music of the Renaissance and Middle Ages as well as

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category. Much of what we did was very clever, but we certainly didn't do these long complex tunes like Yes or Genesis did".

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Gentle Giant's music was considered complex even by progressive rock standards, drawing on a broad swathe of music including

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properly. In particular, the first four albums have yet to receive definitive CD releases. For example, the title track on

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in 2000, Kerry Minnear asserted that the split "wasn't because of punk; it was because we had lost our way musically".

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The album achieved such fame, however, that the band decided to adopt the title for their official live double album

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stylings and the consistent use of stated, exchanged and recapitulated musical themes exchanged between instruments)

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By 1966, the Shulmans' band – initially called the Howling Wolves, then the Road Runners – had taken on the name of

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In 1979, Gentle Giant relocated their centre of operations to Los Angeles in order to record their eleventh album,

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is a British music label that releases CDs and DVDs of Gentle Giant. It was founded by Kerry and Lesley Minnear.

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and Derek Shulman (Kerry Minnear wrote some lyrics) up until Phil's departure following the release of

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Exposing Corruption In Progressive Rock: A Semiotic Analysis Of Gentle Giant's The Power And The Glory

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That's it, I'm going. I've got to go back to my family and I've got to go back and be a normal man....

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lead singer (although Kerry Minnear continued to sing his own share of lead vocals on records).

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tour we were able to sell out consistently there, so something clicked with the fans.

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Q Classic, The Ultimate Collectors Edition, "Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock"

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use of musical structures typically associated with classical music (for example,

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Despite this setback, the band pursued their course to its conclusion on 1978's

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division of vocal lines between different singers (including staggered rhythms)

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and percussion-section instrumentation not generally associated with rock music

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was scheduled to be reissued on CD and available to stream on 20 May 2022.

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Dissatisfied with their deal with WWA, Gentle Giant signed a new deal with

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The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

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The core of what was to become Gentle Giant comprised three brothers:

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was released, and in December 2007, German label Repertoire released

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and Divae. Gary also played guitar on the album Deeper Imaginings by

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was never released in the US, but was in great demand as an import.

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was released, and focused on tracks from their first three albums (

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Playing The Foole (A Stake In The Heart - The 1975 American Tour)

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was allegedly titled by Phil Shulman's wife Roberta as a pun on "

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Rock Music Lyrics as Postmodern Poetry: Gentle Giant Realization

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of unreleased material, demos, outtakes and odd live recordings)

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of unreleased material, demos, outtakes and odd live recordings)

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album later in 1972. The band's hardest-rocking album to date,

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rapid and frequent key changes (sometimes within a single bar)

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Amongst The Darkers (Behind The Few - The 1975 American Tour)

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The remaining quintet regrouped to record the harder-rocking

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Ray Shulman on the musical upbringing of the Shulman brothers

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Gentle Giant Tour History - Part Three: Going On After Phil

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Prog Rock in Europe: Overview of a Persistent Musical Style

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CD jewel case on the Terrapin CD reissue, and via a custom

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Phil Shulman on his reasons for leaving Gentle Giant, 2008

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tour, the band played a gruelling set of dates supporting

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accelerating and decelerating duration of musical themes

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Gentle Giant Tour History - Part Eight: The Final Days

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Gentle Giant Tour History - Part Two: Hitting the Road

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Original Gentle Giant drummer Martin Smith settled in

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as lead singer. The rumour was eventually debunked by

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Luhrssen, David; Larson, Michael (24 February 2017).

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Prehistory (including Simon Dupree and the Big Sound)

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Gentle Giant Tour History - Part One: The Early Days

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Derek Shulman on Gentle Giant's failure to win over

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Gary Green reflects on the final Gentle Giant split

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He died on 30 March 2023. 596:'s book of the same title). 345:and were pursuing more of a 7: 4192:Gentle Giant at Discogs.com 4098:"The Music of Gentle Giant" 3833:"Part Eight The Final Days" 3695:Derek Shulman interview in 3270:Sivy, Robert Jacob (2019). 2999: 2555:(1972) Vertigo, Columbia - 2493: 1150: 1084: 529:(born 7 February 1947) (ex- 10: 4503: 2924: 1791: 1749: 1707: 1655: 1648:March 1972 – January 1973 1645:October 1971 – March 1972 1634: 1573:(3-string custom electric 1544: 1520:unusual chord progressions 1433:multi-part vocal harmonies 967:West Hollywood, California 378:album later in the year). 362:as guest). 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