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Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
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Side one
1. "Giant" 6:24
2. "Funny Ways" 4:23
3. "Alucard" 6:01
4. "Isn't It Quiet and Cold?" 3:53
Side two
1. "Nothing at All" 9:08
2. "Why Not?" 5:31
3. "The Queen" (instrumental) 1:40
Gentle Giant Band Members Musicians
Gary Green – lead guitar, 12 string guitar (2, 4), backing vocals
Kerry Minnear – Hammond organ (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7), Minimoog (3, 5, 7), Mellotron (1, 3, 6), electric (3), acoustic (2, 5) and honky-tonk (4) piano, tympani (tracks 1, 3), xylophone (4), vibraphone (3), cellos (2), bass (2), backing and lead (3, 6) vocals
Derek Shulman – lead (1, 2, 3, 5, 6) and backing vocals, bass (4)
Phil Shulman – trumpet (1, 2, 3, 6, 7), alto (3) and tenor (5) saxophones, descant (6), treble (6) and tenor (6) recorder, backing and lead (2, 3, 4, 5) vocals
Ray Shulman – bass (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7), electric (5, 6, 7) and acoustic (5) guitar, violin (1), violins (2, 4), triangle (2), backing vocals
Martin Smith – drums (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7), brushed snare drum (track 4)
Paul Cosh – tenor horn (1)
Claire Deniz – cello (4)
Production
Roy Baker – recording engineer
George Underwood – cover artist
Tony Visconti – producer
Gentle Giant is the 1st album by British progressive rock band Gentle Giant, released in 1970.
Since the LP was not originally released in the United States, the cover illustration was not available. It first appeared in the United States and Canada with the same cover as the Three Friends album.
Gentle Giant were a British progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980. The band were known for the complexity and sophistication of their music and for the varied musical skills of their members. All of the band members were multi-instrumentalists. Although not commercially successful, they did achieve a cult following.
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.
Gentle Giant's music was considered complex even by progressive rock standards, drawing on a broad swathe of music including folk, soul, jazz, and classical music. Unlike many of their progressive rock contemporaries, their "classical" influences ranged beyond the Romantic and incorporated medieval, baroque, and modernist chamber music elements. The band also had a taste for broad themes for their lyrics, drawing inspiration not only from personal experiences but from philosophy and the works of François Rabelais and R. D. Laing. In 2015 they were recognised with the lifetime achievement award at the Progressive Music Awards.
Gentle Giant Band Members
Gary Green – guitar, mandolin, vocals, recorder, bass guitar, drums, xylophone (1970–1980, 2020–present)
Kerry Minnear – keyboards, lead vocals (on recordings only), cello, vibraphone, xylophone, recorder, guitar, bass guitar, drums (1970–80, 2020–present)
Derek Shulman – lead vocals, saxophone, recorder, keyboards, bass guitar, drums, percussion, "Shulberry" (3-string custom electric ukulele)[32] (1970–1980, 2020–present)
Phil Shulman – lead vocals, saxophone, trumpet, mellophone, clarinet, recorder, percussion (1970–1973)
Ray Shulman – bass guitar, trumpet, violin, vocals, viola, drums, percussion, recorder, guitar (1970–1980, 2020–present)
Martin Smith – drums, percussion (1970–1971; died 1997)
Malcolm Mortimore – drums, percussion (1971–1972, 2020–present)
John "Pugwash" Weathers – drums, percussion, vibraphone, xylophone, vocals, guitar (1972–1980)
Gentle Giant Discography Full
Studio albums
Gentle Giant (1970) Vertigo
Acquiring the Taste (1971) Vertigo
Three Friends (1972) Vertigo, Columbia - [US #197]
Octopus (1972) Vertigo, Columbia - [US #170]
In a Glass House (1973) Vertigo/WWA
The Power and the Glory (1974) Vertigo/WWA, Capitol - [US #78]
Free Hand (1975) Chrysalis, Capitol - [US #48]
Interview (1976) Chrysalis, Capitol - [US #137]
The Missing Piece (1977) Chrysalis, Capitol - [US #81]
Giant for a Day! (1978) Chrysalis, Capitol
Civilian (1980) Chrysalis, Columbia - [US #203]
Live albums
Playing the Fool - The Official Live (1977) Chrysalis, Capitol; recorded (au naturel) on European tour, September to October 1976 - [US #89]
In Concert (1994, recorded at the Golders Green Hippodrome, London, 5 January 1978)
The Last Steps (1996, re-released in 2003, recorded at the Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles, 16 June 1980)
Live On The King Biscuit Flower Hour (1998, recorded at the Academy of Music, New York City, 18 January 1975)
In a Palesport House (1999, recorded at Palazzo dello Sport, Rome, 3 January 1973)
Live Rome 1974 (2000, recorded at the PalaEur in Rome, Italy, 26 November 1974)
In'terview in Concert (2000, recorded at Hempstead, New York, 3 July 1976)
Endless Life (2002, recorded at Music Hall, White Plains, NY, 3 October 1975 and at Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA, 28 October 1975)
Prologue (2002, recorded at the Munsterlandhalle, Munster, Germany, 5
April 1974 and at the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10 October 1975)
Playing the Cleveland (2003, recorded at the Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, 27 January 1975 and at Academy of Music, New York City, 5 November 1975)
Artistically Cryme (2003, recorded at Olympen, Lund, Sweden, 19 September 1976)
The Missing Face (2003, recorded at the Ballroom, Cleveland, OH, November 1977)
Live in Santa Monica 1975 (2005)
Live in New York 1975 (2005, recorded at Music Hall, White Plains NY, 3 October 1975)
GG At The GG - Sight And Sound In Concert (2006)
Live in Stockholm '75 (2009, recorded at Club Kåren (Kårhuset), Stockholm University, 12 November 1975)
King Alfred's College, Winchester 1971 (2009)
Live at the Bicentennial (2014, recorded at Calderone Theatre, 3 July 1976; Hempstead, New York)
Compilation albums
The Original Studio Gentle Giant - Vol. 1 (1974)
The Original Studio Gentle Giant - Vol. 2 (1974)
Giant Steps – The First Five Years (1976)
Pretentious – For the Sake of It (1977)
Circling Round The Gentle Giant (1981)
Edge of Twilight (1996, 2CD)
Out of the Woods: The BBC Sessions (1996)
Champions of Rock (1996)
Out Of The Fire: The BBC Concerts (1998, 2CD)
The Essential Of Gentle Giant (1999)
Totally out of the Woods: The BBC Sessions (2000, re-release of 'Out of the Woods' with bonus material)
Way Of Life (2003, 2CD)
Giant On The Box (2004, CD/DVD)
Memories of Old Days (2013, 5CD)
Three Piece Suite (2017, CD/Blu-Ray)
Boxsets
Under Construction (1997, 2CD boxset of unreleased material, demos, outtakes and odd live recordings)
Scraping the Barrel (2004, 4CD boxset of unreleased material, demos, outtakes and odd live recordings)
I Lost My Head – The Chrysalis Years (2012, 4CD boxset of all officially released albums from the period of 1975 to 1980 plus bonus material)
Unburied Treasure (2019, 29CD/1 Blu-ray boxset of all 11 studio albums and 18 live albums)
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