Gentle Giant German TV ZDF 1974-Live Brussels film studio
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- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2012
- German TV ZDF 1974-Live Brussels film studio Derek Shulman ( vocals, saxophone, recorder, bass, percussion) Ray Shulman (bass, violin, acoustic guitar, recorder, trumpet, vocals, percussion) Gary Green (guitars, recorders, vocals, percussion) Kerry Minnear (keyboards, cello, vibes, recorder, vocals, percussion) John Weathers (drums, vibes, tambour, vocals, percussion)
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RIP Ray Shulman. One of the truly great bass players and multi-instrumentalists..
The whole band are brilliant musicians.
Am i the only person who obsessively keeps watching videos of Gentle Giant everyday?
Nothing wrong with that whatsoever considering that they are the greatest most criminally underated band ever
They are like a gem...Take them out a stare at it and be grateful you have it ...:)...
No
Oh, no: you are in good company! :-D
No eres el único amigo!!
During those years I lived in a communist country - Romania - and you could only listen (and never watch) progressive rock groups like GG on banned radio stations like Free Europe. Very rarely one could get an album of "decadent" music groups. And I listened GG with eyes closed ... You cannot imagine my delight to watch now online concerts I only dreamed of during those times. Thank you Gentle Giant!
That's awesome!
Gods bless you for surviving those years, brother.
was Krzysztof Penderecki's music banned too?
Silviu Ciurea your story makes me appreciate them so much more
@@xRickAstleyx Amen!
00:00 to 50:25 was particularly outstanding
I agree the last five seconds was a bit of a let down...
These have got to be one of the most technically proficient bands that have ever existed.
i think your dead right there!!...and i knew that in 1974 when i first saw them in concert....
I've literally just heard this for the first time in my life, and play bass guitar in a band myself, I cannot stress just how accurate this statement is. They pushed the limits of what a band could do. Only records like Tarkus before them managed to do anything similar or technically as proficient.
@@ReadIcculus93 My favourite bands are Gentle Giant, ELP and Jethro Tull. The latter achieved similar precision on albums like A Passion Play or Songs From The Wood, while mostly being more melodic and less dissonant. I think their best drummer, Barrie Barlow, topped (everyone, including) Carl Palmer and John Weathers.
Zappa outshines that. Best concerts - Best 3 person - Hendrix, Best 4 person - RTF Honorable mention Leon Russell. Best concert - Zappa.
One of the greatest prog bands ever. God, this stuff is hard to play. Their rehearsals must have been meticulous. The music is, even in terms of progressive rock, extraordinarily original. So odd and weird, but it works. Never get tired of GG.
Drummer´s lunatic face expressions when playing are pure gold !!!!!!!
Lol...yes!
Couldn't agree more, he's like on the moon😁
The bass player, Ray Shulman, has some crazy faces also.
0:16 Cogs in Cogs
3:20 Proclamation
8:13 Funny Ways
16:58 Runaway
21:13 Experience
27:02 Features from Octopus
33:20 Advent of Panurge
40:32 So Sincere
ya missed proclamation! 3:20
Ted Dennis so I did! I've amended it above :) thanks
no prob. i was just looking for easy access to the greatest drumming faces of all time and i was scared for a second it wasn't included somehow
John Weathers' gurn at its finest
Ray's giving him a run for his money.
They don't make bands like this anymore. Incredible.
They never did. Gentle Giant came here from another universe.
And who doesnt love watching John Weathers play? Just the best.
Yes! Cannot stop looking at his great play!
It's like watching a cartoon Daddy Long Legs, and I mean that in a positive way... it's like he's got more than 2 arms and 2 legs. He's just so energetic and looks like he's having so much fun playing. GG's music is an acquired taste, no doubt, but there's so much amazing stuff going on that you keep coming back for more.
Yep, he feels the music.
@@ConceptJunkie Acquired taste for some, I'm sure. I'm just one of those freaks who fell in love with them the moment I first heard them hahaha.
Beast drummer!!!
So Ray plays flawless bass, puts down the bass, Derek puts on guitar and Ray proceeds to play violin like it is his main instrument and then plays trumpet like that was his main instrument! The versatility of these guys is staggering.
I think Ray played violin in college! So sick man. These guys are the greatest.
You have to love Ray's SNARL
Panmusicents🎷📯🎸🎻🎺🎼🎶🎵🤗
And that vibraphone solo -
Holy Shite
These guys are still ahead of their time even today
Yes, their music was as complex as fuck, but it was also fun and funny and interesting and full of heart and fantasy. So many bands go for the complex and miss everything else.
Your words are "So Sincere" 😁
Bingo! All the Neo-prog bands I've listened to have the chops, but miss the heart. It's so much musical masturbation these days, all flash, no soul. GG composed and played with the story as the center of the song, and they consistently spun a great yarn.
I saw Gentle Giant open for Jethro Tull in 1973 in Rome, Italy, while they were playing Aqualung/Thick As a Brick. I don't remember the Tull show, but I became a Gentle Giant fan for life! And I was studying cello back then too!
I envy you :)
I was there
Then you might like the "Dead South". Plays Cello like a guitar.
Kicking ass from renaissance, medieval kingdoms, through folklore into heavy prog rock. Gentle Giant ruled and this is amazing!
well spoken....;-)
Rush fan in 87, Yes fan in 89. Didn't discover GG til 2012. Late to the party lol...
Me too
Zappa, Tull, Yes, and Gentle Giant, '71. Added Neal Morse in '01. Even saw Pink Floyd open for the Nice. Saw Trini Lopez, Beach Boys, Warlocks and CTA all before '68. You weren't late to the party. Gentle Giant arrived too early. But there are a lot of people who didn't discover them until recently.
The drummer is a pleasure to watch.
+Herreken So is the Bass player :-)
+SchildTräger Which bass player?
Bass player is brother Ray
Best prog rock band of all times.
TheVoltrom Oh god yeah fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no best band in prog.
You got Genesis that are real good and ELP that can kick ass too and Rush , so in my book they are all really good, no best ...just different
+TheVoltrom
Totaly exact the best band of all times and of the universe
Laurent
+andy T I don't think you ever saw them live. I love Yes, love ELP, but these guys were another thing altogether, and live...forget it! (A big "get well" to Gary Green, by the way!)
I said that there is no better band in prog, sure Yes Genesis are good, but those guys are really more open to different styles!
When I was 12 years old I heard it for the first time now I am 58 and still like it a lot more every day... I'm from Caracas Venezuela ..amazing
Me, at 13 or 14, I can't remember which.
A friend turned me on to GG and early Genesis.
The highbrow baroque vibe of the keyboard and bass mixed with the hard blues rock of the guitar and drums is so goddamn cool in a way I never would have expected before I heard them.
I am also an obsessive listener to the best band ever, Gentle Giant. By the way, Kerry Minnear is a genius.
Oh yeah!!!!!!! You absolutely a gazillion% correct-they are/were the greatest band ever
Да пожалуй соглашусь Кинг Кримсон и не только ,даже ранний Генезис и Джетро Талл до 1972 уделывают
You too?
I can't even make it through this whole thing. I keep going "Whoa that part was crazy!" and replaying the same parts lol
Same
Can you imagine the effect of those songs played back in 1970's? No you can't! It's not easy music and it wasn't. Not all people is able to appreciate the subtleties and intrincacies of their music, even now. They were far ahead of their time. Soft Machine is another group I love from that time. Out of this earth!
0:16 Cogs in Cogs
3:20 Proclamation
8:13 Funny Ways
16:58 Runaway
21:13 Experience
27:02 Features from Octopus
33:20 Advent of Panurge
40:32 So Sincere
I'm from Brasil, and I was born in Rio de Janeiro, long, long time ago. When I was at my 13's, I discovered one radio station transmiting in FM (FM was pretty recent back in the day), and this station called Eldorado (or EldoPop for the supporters) and the set list was all about ProgRock and Hard Rock. And GG was very present , along with all the great bands from the late 60's and early 70"s. It was such a GREAT time to be alive. God bless these guys.
Hello my friend of Brasil. i wish GG would play at the radio any time, im from Minas Gerais and just discovered GG because of a friend in Ceara.
@@scrubless5763 hello friend!
Eu descobri o GG na Fluminense FM. Agradeço penhorado.
Probably the most talented and least known of the 70's prog scene. The talent that flowed out of this band rivaled Zappa as far as I am concerned....Gentle Giant, the worlds most unsexy prog band ever...brilliant...
bunnyhead71 Magma would like a word with you.
but the music is so saxxy
Frank was a known fan of them which I LOVE
beg to differ....gentle giant was way out front of zappa....but thats easily said some 50 years on....i am glad (and proud) that i went to see them twice around 1974.....absolutely amazing...
@@asusmctablet9180 Magma is fucking sick, but I definitely prefer Gentle Giant.
There are places in this performance that are just extraordinary. There was never a group like this, and in all likelihood there never will be again.
rodericktech they are just so interesting to watch and listen to they never get old
Zappa and a few others fit this description. But definitely one of the top bands.
Absolutely!
Extraordinary!!!!!!!!
Zappa beats them and Neal Morse is a close second.
Ray- one of the most gifted ever.
Discipline, control, musicianship, versatility, power, invention - it's all here. At their best they were the wizards of prog. How could we have idolised ELP and so neglected these guys? The world is insane.
So true. We are so fortunate to have the recordings of Gentle Giant. I remember 1973 when I first heard them. Thank God.
At some point in time people will understand what the word creative means, and I hope that this comes soon and results in aknowledging Gentle Giant as The True Giant.
Yes man, GG were awesome, criminally underrated band.
Self-indulgent shite!
Richard Hewlett Technically, impossible. But thanks for your input.
Thanks, Gentle Giant. A life's gift.
The transition from Proclamation to Funny Ways is so sublime...
+William Freire It's amazing :)
+William Freire, Yes, the transition is very smooth.
6 years and I'm still listening!
Real epic musicianship personified - the likes of which we will never see or hear again
Neal Morse does a pretty good job. Playing different instruments - Neal Morse "Alive".
that's typical gentile giant, near end of so sincere where all the band play the drums and then all play xylophone. What other band could ever do that?! So amazing, real treat!!
Neal Morse Band.
I will never tire of watching Gentle Giant and seeing their virtuosity. They are genius. Only the crowd disappoints. They look frozen.
Hey u again hahaha
Ah, they don't know what hit them.
@@tixximmi1 lol 😂😂😂
@@tixximmi1 I think they were genuinely stunned.....the crowd I mean!
@@Phoebedumplings And they didn't really know the music. As Zappa would say, "they were pushing the envelope of music"
Shulman's bass and Weathers on drums provides for literally the most monstrous backbeat in music history. I could listen to this video 25 hours a day.
They were/are the greatest most epic legendary unique genius criminally underated band ever.
What a fantastic vibraphone solo. I'm mesmerized.
Dam!!I love the voice of Derek Shulman
Yep he is damm great and one of the best ever
Of course Derek and Phil Shulman (who had left the band by then) were born in Glasgow in bonnie Scotland. Just back from Wales visiting John Weathers and his beautiful wife Carol last weekend, cool. Kerry and Ray, what musicians, enough said!
in 74 i was twelve and bored to death on a sunday morning when i switched the TV on and saw this! Big fan ever since!
In 1974 - a Sunday - I had switched the tele on (ZDF, second German channel) for a youth programme from 11 am to noon. I was just about to switch it off, because "Das ZDF-Sonntagskonzert" was almost always classical music. And I didn't much fancy classical music...when the announcer said on camera, "We are proud to present to you one of the leading rock bands in the world...". I thought, "What? Rock music? Certainly know them!" (after all, I was 14 years old and knew it all :-) ). "...Gentle Giant!" I drew a blank. Sat down and watched it...speechless! I knew "Yessongs" - but this was a whole different planet! Became a fan that day and have stayed for the rest of my life. After the show, I met two friends who walked their dogs every Sunday. We met and said simultaneously, "Did you just watch The Sunday Concert?! Bloody amazing!" So it was 3 life-long GG fans. And it's still my favourite GG concert...
I have no words! Unreachable monsters!
The craftmanship by which Gentle Giant turned their recorded music into versions which were fit for stage performance is still mindblowing.
These guys had so much fun, lots of talent, versatility, and synergy. I keep finding my way back to Gentle Giant.
DREAMFUL ... UNBELIEVABLE & UNREACHABLE ... LOVE IT !!! ---
💔
Long time fan of Giant from the early 70s. These guys are unmatched, way unmatched.
What a song So Sincere is!!!…that Drummer demeanor is amusing…I loved it the musicianship and they way they prog!
God these guys just rip . Love how they just completely created their own style and sound. It doesn't surprise me they were so overlooked though....the average joe could never get this stuff. They were on a different playing field compared to what else was going on at that time in popular music. 100% originality . Gotta love Ray Shulman's nostril flares though, and that vibraphone solo was vicious!
This was 50 years ago.
The year I started playing.
This incredible music is sttill fresh.
Seriously
Les get these guys into the RRHOF
Apparently the Shulman's were just out out of there minds genius's.
And we are grateful.
But the main writer was Kerry Minnear (keyboards)
The mercurial Gentle Giant at their very best LIVE , their performance of Funny Ways showcases musical dexterity the like few will have heard in nearly 50 years since this recording , pure genius never better exemplified by these amazing prog rock artisans .
Unbelievable, overwhelming creativity and musicianship.
superlatives aren't enough for GG
POWER AND GLORY TO GG !!!
It's really cool to see this retro interest in Gentle Giant all of a sudden. They're far more popular now than they were back then.
Yes indeed i love it damm great and about damm time for cryn out loud. They are/were the greatest most epic legendary genius unique obscenely criminally underrated overlooked band of all time.
All I can say is......WOW! The band at the total height of their powers. Just incredible.
I recently ' discovered ' Gentle after being a King Crimson fan since 1991.. I do not know why it took me so long, but GG is become my 'new' favorite band. Not only brilliant musicians but so full of rich melodies...amazing...
Still, I can understand the connnection from KC which brought you to GG. They both had an attitude of "What do you mean we keep lingering on a point? Let's take it further next time! " and both did so in their own individual ways.
I always considered them the Best Band you Never Heard.
congrats to your discovery...but better late than never!!... ;-)
but you can go to the next level with Zappa. Then you're at the top.
@@tixximmi1 Captain Beefheart is the Lord of music.
Magicians!!! At that time, one of the few bands that could challenge
Zappa in playing such meticulous "orchestrated" music. Sampling, mash-ups, glitch, electronics, ...this band did it all in '74.
Yep. But even Frank recognized GG as one of the better innovated groups. Jan 74 was my first Zappa concert. Blew my mind.
the incredible Gentle Giant they were..
I saw this show, only in Texas, not Belgium. Simply stunning. To this day, I've not personally seen a live band as tight, intricate and inventive as these guys. In a show built around several numbers from "The Power and The Glory", the bassist and percussionist really stole the show, as they are the ligament, the sinew that let the music stretch and then snap back into place while keeping it moving along. At the time, only King Crimson compared with their talent, though the sound was completely different.
Today, the only group that excites me like this is Hiromi's jazz trio.
Muito bem lembrado. Hiromi's Trio realmente é tão intrincado e coeso como GG e KC.
O vigor e a potência desse quinteto é impressionante, contagiante, desconcertante. Provavelmente a banda que fez as melhores e mais virtuosas apresentações ao vivo na história do rock progressivo, ultrapassando até as duas encarnações do King Crimson em suas sensacionais trilogias. Curiosamente, no entanto, cada um deles, em seu instrumento, é sumamente menosprezado nas infames "listas dos melhores"...
Very well put.
Absolutely correct.
✌️💯🍀
Falou e disse!
I've been listening to GG since around 1985 and love them. But I was astounded again when I heard this concert and realised that they sound almost exactly like they do on the record. Such musicianship!
I keep re-watching this. It's amazing and rich.
You keep watching it because they are/were the greatest band ever
Great, I was 16 and saw it on TV in 1974 on ZDF ;-). It is a Jewel. Best Band ever.
What a great band was Gentle Giant!
I'm 68 yrs old now and I remember when I was 21 yrs old seeing GG in NY Central Park at the 1975 Schafer Music Fextival I still have the program.
Good lord, Kevin Minnear absolutely killing it on the vibes.
He was a multi-instrumental genius.
F-ing amazing
Culture shock way back then, culture shock again now! Brilliant! The best Prog-Rock band IMO...
Gentle Giant the most innovative and one of the best progressive groups of all time and fantastic live seen them live 4 times always great
You are right on that Jeremy
I like prog because the mixture of hard rock and classical. The 70.s brought a wave of exploratory rock bands as King Krimson one of the first bands Greg Lake was in.. Yes , Pink Floyd, the Moody Blues , Procol Harum, Genesis, Gentle Giant, The Strawbs, Van der graff Generator , The Strawbs, Pavlov Dog, Triumvirat, Ice Castle Jethro Tull, Curved Air, and some Italian prog like PFM , El Orme , The New Trolls and El Banco to name a few but there are thousands out there. hope i have given you some new ones to listen to. You would not be a Richards of the Utah Family of Richards thats my moms side of family
The 60,s and seventies were hot with talent.. See you know many of the great bands . I will have to listen to some of the you mentioned like captain beyond Gods.. I am 61 born in Utah but lived most my life in California close to San Francisco. so saw many bands.
You live in Provo? So you may be among the Richards family of Utah...Richards candy and Ice cream the legacy of Richards in Utah My my grand father was Paul RIchards and started the Memorial hospital in SLC of of 9th I have a cousin still living in SLC Clark Richards.... My aunt was Lenore Richards a great surgeon in SLC. Let me know if these names ring a bell?
I agree what do they know growing up q lot of my friends hated when i listened to gentle giant they were listening to main stream bands
Greatest display of musicianship I ever saw. Rochester 7/4/1976
This was broadcast as a so called Sontagsconzert"", every week on Sunday around noon, and was normally some classical music, I and my brother heard it back then, and loved it right away.
This is one of the best live performances ever.
AHHH Gentle Giant, thanks to all those that love these guys as much as I do! We got to see them in Phoenix way back when, twice over several years. arguably the best live performance I had the privilege to see. The last time I saw them, was their last live performance, that from Derek Shulman's lips when we ran into him after the show. He was a total "gentle "man and was apologetic for their lackluster performance (his words) not mine. They were incredible as usual, but I could tell they were tired. Whenever I need a smile or a bit of inspiration I dial me up some Gentle Giant. Thanks for the posts! sorry to have been so much of a bore. Peace. Waler
Kerry Minnear rocks!! the best vibe solo ever to grace my ears whether in rock or classical!!! its just awesome ;)
One of the best prog-rock bands ever, and no doubt. Amazing albums and remarkable musicians. Surpassing choir. Dig them for almost 50 years. RIP Ray Shulman! Greetings from Brazil!
I first saw these guys on UK TV on a program called sight and sound in concert - it must have been in the mid 70s. I was gobsmacked then and they still astonish me now 50 years later. How they held it all together so perfectly is little short of miraculous.. they absolutely ROCK
They have the sight and sound video uploaded to RUclips here ruclips.net/video/UM-yGcpaY_4/видео.html
1978, I think. Great, great band!
Every time I watch this concert it blows me away like the first time. Pure energy and coolness!😍
The drummer is a monster, as are all the musicians, but I love watching him play.
It is all so incredible, but Experience is my favorite, master inner voices, making any choices 🎵🎶
This is definitive the best Band ever!! Very complex, intelligent and funny music!
They had 10 !! fantastic Albums (from about11) ELP had only one (there Debüt) King Crimson 3 or 4 and Genesis only 4....!! Every of this fine members is a Orchestra at its own ;-)) thanks for sharing this !
They are/were the greatest most underated band ever
Tom Bola ELP has 4 masterpieces; Genesis has 6; Yes has 6; King Crimson has 4; Camel has 3 and GG has 6
All my life I´ve boasted myself as a prog expert and it wasn´t until last spring lockdown time that I discovered this gem of a band. I should be ashamed of my ignorance.....and I really am
Better late than never, Jon!
@@Dirgnimai7 Yes, Kevin
I smile i laugh then cry, laugh some more and just cry and laugh at the same time :)
My favorite band of all, just beautiful and genius
Великолепная , самобытная , интеллектуальная банда .
"In a Glass House" is a masterpiece. Sounds just as good today as it did on the first day it was sold in stores. This is the band (if I had a pick) that I wish I could have played in. Although with my music expterise' they'd laugh me out of the town
Live performing in the '70s Was Just Better Than Today.
@@mshioty It really depends on who's performing, but I agree that there were a lot of amazing bands in the 70's. There are some very impressive performances happening right now, but you have to dig a little bit. Hell, most people had to dig a little bit to find Gentle Giant. They're criminally underrated when compared to some of the other prog rock bands of the 70's, in my opinion.
United Kingdom's crème de la crème avant-garde. So rich, so sophisticated, and yet so sublime, it's hard to describe with words. Hearing these virtuosos play gives the noun 'experience' a new meaning. They dared to trade commercial success for transcendentness. I'm thankful for that.
willoyd Its not hard at all to describe with words-they simply are or should i say (were) the greatest most criminally underated band ever.
I like you definition. The UK's Zappa. That's my 2 cents worth.
I listen to all kinds of Rock, from Brit Invasion and New Wave to Death Metal and Punk and Prog.
THIS is the most talented band ever- period.
Bravo.Bravissimo!!!! Exelent musicians. Fantastic music.
Glass House! Oh yea. that is such a great song. Have it on a Reel to Reel. 40 years still sounds amazing.
36:40 Ray's bass....
These cats were soo far ahead of themselves...RIP RAY. TRULY MISSED
I remember seeing them for the first time when they opened for Tull. When they broke into Knots, my friends and I couldn't believe they could pull those harmonies off live. They did and perfectly! They had the crowd in the palms of their hands. They played for 30 unforgettable minutes. Jethro who?
What a great double bill!
Must have been one the new shows in the 2000's...:)...It's crazy seeing some of the double billings we grew up with; Tull with Giant is real early 67-68? ...I believe I saw Ian tour with U.K as backup...U.K blew them away...Tickets were only like 11 bucks too...:)..
GG didn't exist in '68.
Ian had a lot of great bands open for them. Same complement for Kiss (didn't like them much) but it's the big band that opens the door to GG (Tull) and Rush (Kiss).
Jethro Tull reportedly sued their management for having put GG as an opening act to their tour. The audience reaction was stellar to GG, so Anderson got mad.
gentle giant is what it says on the tin,this band were giants but too gentle.
so crimanally underrated it makes me mad when i think about it.
The word underrated is used way too much. But in this case the shoe fits.
This is the greatest live-band thats ever lived..!
Oh god yeah f yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are without a doubt a gazillion% correct.
Zappa, RTF, Warlocks and Leon Russell all had better shows. You must be young.
What an amazing unique band Gentle Giant is.
The Rhodes piano intro in Proclamation is mesmerizing.Even when they sing out of pitch the sound is captivating. Love strange arrangements. Keeps you interested the whole time. 👍 Puts today’s music to shame. Completely formulaic and pathetic. Prog Rock is just a musical delight. Wish I were old enough to have seen them live.
It's a Hohner Pianet.
They were very good musicians and deserve much more respect that they achieved during their time on the road.
Such a MULTI-Talented band! I was privileged to see them this same year, 1974 along with with the Great Alvin Lee and Michael Martin Murphy. WOW
I'm so blessed to be discovering them (before the times of youtube), and so blessed to actually see other people sharing the same opinion when it's about the real deal. This guys r the secret of the musicianship of all the bands mentioned bellow, and yet we (or better said YOU) celebrated this other bands, while they were imitating the Giant gently.
My Top 5 Prog bands in order Van Der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Genesis, Yes
I don´t like Rankings. Very important bands in the 70´s. More prog than GG and KC doesn´t go. Floyd and ELP not to forget.
Emerson Lake and Palmer..
what about Jethro tull & ELP?
I love Jethro tull TAAB and A Passion Play are phenomenal
now I'm listening Aqualung, Passion Play - is a great album too
Amazing concert. The sound is fantastic.
Saw these cats three times in my early years.
Swarthmore college Pennsylvania.
The Bomb.
The recorder solos are just outstanding.
Probably the most technically phenomenal prog. rock band of all time. This is live and almost impossible to pull off so cleanly, but they did it and more!
AMZ Anderson (Tull) Neal Morse, Zappa Zappa was the most technical by far. But even Zappa interviewed and said that GG is one of the very few bands that are outside of the box.
Zappa has them beat. Really beat. But "BEAT" is performing this Sep in Austin. I have my tickets. Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and a drummer.