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!
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...
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.
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.
@@NuntiusLegis A Passion Play is my absolute favourite from Tull for the same reason you described. Also Relayer and Tales by Yes are up there for me, alongside Giant, ELP and Tull. Such fascinating music.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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
+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!)
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 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!
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.
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...
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...
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.
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!!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
It was such a special occasion when it was announced (1975) they were coming to my home town ,Utica NY. We got back stage to meet them. Later that year I moved to Seattle with my band of musicians. We met them back stage a second time. Such a great time with great musicians.
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.
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!
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 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.
The one and only Gentle Giant! Not only did they wrote this insane stuff, they're there to show the world how to rock their socks off live in concert as well!
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.
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 .
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
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!
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Ich habe das Konzert am Tag der ersten Austrahlung 1974 gesehen. Soweit ich mich erinnere, lief die Sendung im Rahmen des "Sonntagskonzert" im ZDF Sonntag Mittag um 12:00 Uhr! Stellt euch vor, das liefe heutzutage im "Fernsehgarten". Sometimes I believe "In my own funny ways" that in former days everything was better;-).
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?
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...:)..
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.
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
Too bad for the low video quality, but the sounds still captures this highly talented band at it's best! Tremendous performance!! Thanks for sharing, Oscar.
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.
They rocked much harder live, and rewrote the tunes to fit the harder side. Going to their concerts was extra amazing because of that, all the tunes had new endings.
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.
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
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.
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 !
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.
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...
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...
Thank you. That was very much worth reading.
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.
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!!!
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.
@@NuntiusLegis A Passion Play is my absolute favourite from Tull for the same reason you described. Also Relayer and Tales by Yes are up there for me, alongside Giant, ELP and Tull. Such fascinating music.
These guys are still ahead of their time even today
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.
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
They don't make bands like this anymore. Incredible.
They never did. Gentle Giant came here from another universe.
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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.
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.
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!
The drummer is a pleasure to watch.
+Herreken So is the Bass player :-)
+SchildTräger Which bass player?
Bass player is brother Ray
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.
Burda de bueno el beta mano jajajaja
@@naranjacuatro súper bueno
Kicking ass from renaissance, medieval kingdoms, through folklore into heavy prog rock. Gentle Giant ruled and this is amazing!
well spoken....;-)
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?
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.
What a fantastic vibraphone solo. I'm mesmerized.
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.
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".
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.
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!
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"
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.
Thanks, Gentle Giant. A life's gift.
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.
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.
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'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.
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!
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!
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!
These cats were soo far ahead of themselves...RIP RAY. TRULY MISSED
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.
...absolutely insane... no other band past or present can come near to this level of musicianship in a live performance
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.
I have no words! Unreachable monsters!
These guys had so much fun, lots of talent, versatility, and synergy. I keep finding my way back to Gentle Giant.
This is one the Best Prog Rock bands in history! - Ladies and Gentlemen (and those in between) - There is No commercial bubble gum rock music here!
Unbelievable, overwhelming creativity and musicianship.
superlatives aren't enough for GG
It was such a special occasion when it was announced (1975) they were coming to my home town ,Utica NY. We got back stage to meet them. Later that year I moved to Seattle with my band of musicians. We met them back stage a second time. Such a great time with great musicians.
Great, I was 16 and saw it on TV in 1974 on ZDF ;-). It is a Jewel. Best Band ever.
Kerry Minnear is absolutely insane on the keyboards. I never heard anything like this.
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.
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!
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
Ray- one of the most gifted ever.
This is one of the best live performances ever.
Rey Shulman is absolutely genius
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.
The one and only Gentle Giant! Not only did they wrote this insane stuff, they're there to show the world how to rock their socks off live in concert as well!
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)
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.
I keep re-watching this. It's amazing and rich.
You keep watching it because they are/were the greatest band ever
Dam!!I love the voice of Derek Shulman
Yep he is damm great and one of the best ever
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 .
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
The drummer is a monster, as are all the musicians, but I love watching him play.
What a song So Sincere is!!!…that Drummer demeanor is amusing…I loved it the musicianship and they way they prog!
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 think the sound here is fresher and sharper than the LPs! This concert is a gem.
Huge Genesis fan all my life. OMG this band are even better.
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
Mic'ing up these guys must have been a nightmare!
What a great band was Gentle Giant!
Stunning versatility. Great upload, thanks.
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
Im still watching this live, after 2 years found it!!!! Just Epic!!!!
All I can say is......WOW! The band at the total height of their powers. Just incredible.
Ich habe das Konzert am Tag der ersten Austrahlung 1974 gesehen. Soweit ich mich erinnere, lief die Sendung im Rahmen des "Sonntagskonzert" im ZDF Sonntag Mittag um 12:00 Uhr!
Stellt euch vor, das liefe heutzutage im "Fernsehgarten". Sometimes I believe "In my own funny ways" that in former days everything was better;-).
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.
Good lord, Kevin Minnear absolutely killing it on the vibes.
He was a multi-instrumental genius.
F-ing amazing
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 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.
Too bad for the low video quality, but the sounds still captures this highly talented band at it's best! Tremendous performance!!
Thanks for sharing, Oscar.
Fantastic = my best band in 1973-74
So- sincere.
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.
They sound much better live. They were real musicians, always improving their songs and playing them even better live.
They rocked much harder live, and rewrote the tunes to fit the harder side. Going to their concerts was extra amazing because of that, all the tunes had new endings.
I wish I was alive for this show.
Saw them twice in my early years. It was an honor. I was a big admirer of this group. Well, Daniel, this is almost like being at the concert.
Both outrageous and sublime.
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.
Impossibly great! I’m glad I saw all those GG concerts.Priceless
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!
Es gibt kaum eine Band, bei der ich mich so wenig verzeihen kann, dass ich damals nicht in eines ihrer Konzerte gegangen bin.
Glass House! Oh yea. that is such a great song. Have it on a Reel to Reel. 40 years still sounds amazing.
Every time I watch this concert it blows me away like the first time. Pure energy and coolness!😍
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.
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.
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.
Weathers grooves are so delightful. Very underrated drummer.
They were very good musicians and deserve much more respect that they achieved during their time on the road.
I only wish the cameras were back a little farther so you could see the WHOLE band front and center.
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
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.
Culture shock way back then, culture shock again now! Brilliant! The best Prog-Rock band IMO...
I was a moron in high school, and overlooked these guys. They were like Yes on steroids.
Amazing concert. The sound is fantastic.
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