I am 18. I discovered GG nearly one year ago along with many other bands. I wish I could go back in time just to listen and learn about them for a first time!! Those first few listens to each album were mysterious and so special.
I love how in all progressive rock on youtube, someone will say "This band sounds like x" and then someone will always comment ACKTCHUALLY it sounds NOTHING LIKE THEM
Sadly because there are plenty of great bands nowadays. It sounds different of course but the quality is here in any musical genre. Unfortunately these bands can't even afford to go on stage outside of their country just because they are labelled "alternative-underground-deep" and all that musical media trash. And when they come, there are very few people in the room and you can be sure that half of them is here just because the band is unknow. It's kind of a caricature but it's true..
IMO, the best song from their debut album....and then they came with octopus, in a glass house, the power and the glory, and acquiring the taste, and they blew our minds forever!
"Now she sits by the riverside Watching the waters glide by, With a sigh And the things she put faith in Are ripples just waving her by With a sigh She sees lovers pass by with much more than a kiss Ah this - little girl who had everything finds she's nothing at all Now the wind seems so cold Seems all old as it laughs at her fears And her tears And as ducks swim away from her Visions of past love appear In her tears She sees love in his face as she tells him to go, And so - here's a girl who had everything now she's Nothing at all What could she do if she saw him now; Now that he's gone she's losing If she could see what she's seeing now For sure she's more than just choosing Now she sits by the riverside Watching the waters glide by, With a sigh And the things she put faith in Are ripples just waving her by, With a sigh She sees lovers pass by with much more than a kiss Ah this - little girl who had everything finds She's nothing at all" oh wow!
Io ho visto e sentito quell'assolo di drum dal vivo al palasport di Torino nel 72o73. Mai udito niente di così bello! Un grande batterista, un grande gruppo prog. Forse il mio preferito, strumentisti bravissimi suonavano di tutto: violoncello, vibrafono, tromba, violino ecc. non mancava nulla! Li ricordo sempre con entusiasmo e ineffabile piacere!!!!!
Many people have mentioned Led Zepplin in comparisons with Gentle Giant but my honest opinion is that Gentle Giant is a FAR SUPERIOR band to LZ in every way, shape and form.
This was recorded in 1970 zeppelins stairway to heaven in 1971.Some people claim gg ripped off zepp but if anything its the other way around. Zepp was known to steal pretty heavily from some earlier blues musicians
I am jealous of people who still have ALL GG songs to discover! I'm 62, listen to them since the 70's, and my devotion to their utter competence to convey emotion only grows. Welcome to the fan-club, +Maxim Harel! Enjoy the full Acquiring the Taste, and move on to the next album. Any one is amazing in its own way.
One of those groups that justifies having a decent stereo with turntable and subs. SOD earbuds and tiny computer monitors. Move air or go home. Gems of creativity hidden is soft passages. Headroom rules.
17 years old and i love progressive rock...like genesis, king crimson, gentle giant, soft machine, yes, and van der graaf generator...these are examples of true music...of course i also like bob dylan, led zeppelin, cat stevens, neil young, dire straits, the doors etc...only true good music, not this shit we have nowadays...
IMHFO wrong order. HOWEVER, I could just listen to those three acts on my way to Mars and NEVER GET TIRED. Of course the rest of the crew will whip their SpaceDemdulatores out and go Ren on me....!
I'm here in Belgrade, Serbia right now at a cafe and this song came on the speakers much to my surprise. It was some kind of remix though, some kind of really chill dub. Sounds really nice, maybe it's unofficial but if anyone knows where to find it online, please reply in a comment. Gentle Giant - a band way ahead of their time and yet timeless, it will always be good.
The interlude in this song is the most vital part! The whole song, if you listen to the lyrics, is about a girl who (to put it bluntly) pisses away the love of her life and realizes it too late. The song is about her emotional and mental disintegration knowing that her life will never be what it could have been, and the interlude with the loud drums, piano and the music box sounds are a spot-on attempt at conveying a mind lost in turmoil. Absolute musical brilliance for a band's debut!
Awh ... so early 70's ...including the drum effects and all ... just listened to it again .. can't help but still like it ... and it makes me wonder ... should go into my garden of eden to see if any old weed is still growing ............ hehe
Probably the best live band I have ever seen (about 5 times!!) When they played this track live it ended up with all 5 of them on the drum kit at the same time!!
Ricardo Ricca Verdade, mas é bom ver mais um brasileiro que curte o GG. A vida de quem gosta de boa música em terras brasileiras não está fácil, você sabe. GG, Yes, Rush, Jethro Tull e outros do Prog Rock são desprezados pelos nossos "produtores culturais" que só jogam lixo para o povo ouvir.
Some great images in this vid; just want to shout out to the late, great Martin Smith on drums, since most of the photos show John Weathers, who was integral to the classic era of Giant.
What a mix of styles - starting like Crosby, Stills and Nash, then Traffic with the middle section sounding a bit like a more commercial version of Zappa's Mothers, then morphing into Golden Earring/Deep Purple, then Pink Floyd......
Kerry is a brilliant keyboardist and musician as a whole...his parts are clever and inventive but without detracting from the music as a whole. I also love how the drummer always seems to bring order to what could easily become chaotic if it weren't held to such precision. I appreciate him even more now than I did in the 70's because I was more caught up in the shredders (Carl Palmer, Barrimore Barlow, Simon Phillips, etc) and didn't fully grasp the brilliance of such precise timekeeping
In response to the YES comment. They may edge GG out but GG did things that YES didn't. Their funkinest & hard edge appraoch to Prog, humor, cynical & sometimes sentimental lyrics and syncopated party attitude live was a refreshing contrast to the cerebral intensity of YES.
A lot of competition back in the early '70s. But discovered both groups then. The British groups often got less air time where I lived. (southern California) Mainly because the record companies were from LA. So didn't get much Genesis, Camel Wishbone Ash and others. And the rest of the country based their format on what LA was doing. Sad.
I seen Gentle Giant in NY Central Park in 1976. I still have the program from the Schaffer Musical Festival. In the top 5 of my all time favorite bands. I'm 64 yrs old and grew up with the sounds of bands like GG, YES, Tull, ELP
Probably the greatest rock band ever to exist. Believe it or not I bought this album when I was 16 a week after it was released because of the sleeve art - thank God for sleeve artists!! The other major album I bought for the same reason (about a week later I think) was In the Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson - Amazing!!
@fishzilla001 i would suggest you bands like fleet foxes, grizzly bear and the dodos, if you dont already know them. these bands are recent and actually pretty good.
The dislikes are undoubtedly narrow minded dullards who wouldn't recognize real genius if they tripped over it. These guys were just too clever and inventive for the average listener...it takes a more refined palate to fully appreciate the extent of their genius...I hadn't heard this stuff in years, and it was a breath of fresh air compared to most of the banal crap that permeates the airwaves today. Long live creative geniuses like Gentle Giant! Their music lives on...
I've been a massive King Crimson, Zappa, Yes, Pink Floyd and Allan Holdsworth fan(to name a few of my favourites) for years and yet I only just recently discovered Gentle Giant and have been mind blown. There seriously one of the greatest bands of all time without a single doubt and there isn't a piece I've heard that I havn't wanted to put on a loop and play over and over. So incredible and a deep regret is not having discovered them earlier. Couldn't agree more with you drumstud4u. What I'm amazed at with Gentle Giant is that with other bands like Dream Theater for example, I really enjoy there music but want visual stimulation as well to compliment the performance in a concert. With Gentle Giant, I honestly couldn't care less about visuals, I'm thrilled just watching the band and listening to there superb music. Now that my friend is the REAL indicator of a great band. King Crimson are in this league as well but sadly there's not many other groups that I've seen in recent times that have achieved this magical sonic beauty.
Gentle Giant is a band that in the context of progressive rock, although not as popular as Pink Floyd or Yes, musically is much more relevant. Since I first heard, never seen anything like it.
Да, начало Stairway To Heaven от Led Zeppelin очень похоже. А потом фрагмент барабанов от Nothing At All похож на Moby Dick от Led Zeppelin. Фрагмент Ференца Листа уникален. Спасибо!
@@markwoollon Hey I love Zepplin I'm just saying they sound so similar and it's not like the songs are ages apart, could this sounds simply be a product of the culture at the time and the zepplin guys never had heard of this song before writing stairway? It's very possible. However the two guitar lines are sooo close it makes me wonder.
Personally, as a King Crimson and Yes fan, I'm appealed by the sensibilities of Gentle Giant. This is one of my favorite songs - if not my favorite.. Only rivaled by Izabella by Jimi Hendrix and Over the Hills and Far Away by Zeppelin.. Mr. Skin by Spirit.. or 21st Century Schizoid Man / Fallen Angel by KC.
There's a lot of great prog rock bands today, there's not only prog metal. Some examples: Anglagard, Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Beardfish, The Flower Kings, Karmakanic, The Tangent to name a few.
Hey this song is great! I'm beginning just now to listen to Gentle Giant and this is the 1st time I heard this song and I truly had shivers... Give me more Gentle Giant! :)
Now she sits by the riverside Watching the waters glide by, With a sigh And the things she put faith in Are ripples just waving her by With a sigh She sees lovers pass by with much more than a kiss Ah this, little girl who had everything finds She's nothing at all Now the wind seems so cold Seems all old as it laughs at her fears And her tears And as ducks swim away from her Visions of past love appear In her tears She sees love in his face as she tells him to go, And so, here's a girl who had everything now She's nothing at all What could she do if she saw him now; Now that he's gone she's losing If she could see what she's seeing now For sure she's more than just choosing Now she sits by the riverside Watching the waters glide by, With a sigh And the things she put faith in Are ripples just waving her by, With a sigh She sees lovers pass by with much more than a kiss Ah this, little girl who had everything finds She's nothing at all
I care in the sense that there should be bands who achieve the level of excellence required to play a great piece of music from composers like Gentle Giant that it should be heard and bring on a new generation of fans to this great and timeless music.
don't know what's wrong with you,guys.. any guitar player, even not a professional can easily show you that Led Zeppelin and GG, and not only in this song, are simply two worlds apart. An acoustic guitar sound is something BUT melody,chords,finger picking, arrangements,additional sound-path in the background, can really make a BIG Difference.. and..sorry, I'm a 40yrs GG fan..just trying to help. Relax and open your ears and stop comparisons and enjoy ! :-)
@SRNF ...in fact before they became Gentle Giant the Shulmans were becoming pop stars as Simon Dupree and The Big Sound, with screaming chicks and the whole nine yards, but gave it up because they wanted to make good music instead. So what, towards the end they flailed with Giant for a Day and Civilian -- still better than Nickelback (a band brought to you by the singer from GG, by the way)....
Why does everyone thumb's down this post.. Sure Porcupine Tree and Explosions in the Sky are nothing like Gentle Giant, but Beardfish is incredibly similar and just as original / skillful. Also check out the band Ritual from Sweden, they are AMAZING. Thier album The Hemulic Voluntary Band is one of my favorites.
Hey everyone I listened since was a kid all the greatest progresive bands since Floyd C crimson Yes you name it and none of those comes close to G G this band i to complex and full of power
I really like the groove of that 70's prog sound at 3:15, but once it stops at 4:22 it's like "Okay what happened to the song, here's an annoying drum solo with tons of phaser / flanger."
When the current crappy music industry collapses under the weight of greed and utter stupidity, Gentle Giant will be recognized as one of the greatest rock bands ever.
I experienced G.Giant in concert, as warm-up group for Colliseum summer of 1970 at the Nurnberg Mistersinger Halle,(sp)?, where they blew Colliseum off stage! Giant played mostly Giant album, their newest, I was blown away GI, bought their album immediately, still have it, remaining a fan for 40 years! #1
Note to Mr23andme: Agreed, m8.. Back In The Day, all I ever did was 'browse' at the band's LP sleeves and think "interesting"...whilst I invested in Beatles, Classical, Motown, and EMI Prog-Rock; After all, Paper Route money could *only* buy me so much back then.... New to me, this song ROCKS! Now I pursue getting all the Gentle Giant on CD that I can, yes? Thanx fer the clip, m8...
You can hear a little Zappa, The Flock and others in their music but they are one of my top 5 groups. Zappa back in 74 did say GG was one of the better, Outside the Box, groups. He thought they may be one the better groups.
@lechufran Listen to The Band Spirits song Taurus and you will see where the inspiration for the opening sequence of Stairway is may coming from. This was Randy Califirnias Band and they toured togehther wit Zep before Stairway. But anyway - there are only some very small sequences that gave an inspiration for Stairway and I bet Randy liked it.
I heard Gentle Giant perform at Anaheim Stadium in 1976. I thought they were great but I remember they were booed by the crowd. I hink it started with some troublemakers cause they tried it again when Gary Wright came on but it didn't work. I went to see Frampton and left halfway through Yes, the final act.
Good example of why music education is so important ... kids aren't getting the tools they need to become inspired as real musicians like the bands being mentioned herein. Guitar hero and all the 3-chord pop shit are polluting young minds, dontcha think?
@Machadomm YOU GUYS UNDERESTIMATE THEM BY SAYING THEYRE UNDERESTIMATED! LONG LIVE GENGLE GIANT, NOONE BORN YET CAN JUDGE 'EM! its a shame you are on the fans side! and some other stupid ones "thumbed up" your post.... ITS GG YOUR TALKIN ABOUT DAMMIT! THEY CANT BE UNDERSTIMATED IN ANY WAY!
@Mr23andme not really, they are sell outs by trying to go pop like most prog bands and they paid for it. Classic ending for those who chase money continually moving away from their passion, which was prog. Let us not forget their progressive albums before they crashed and burned.
I first heard GG when they were still called Simon Dupree and the Big Sound. They did Kites on the music slot on a TV comedy show called Twice a Fortnight. That would have been about 1967. Always liked them. Not as self indulgent as Yes or Genesis. Musically closer to the Canterbury bands I thought.
I know what you mean, drtymac. I like sunsets, but they are spoiled by the bright ball of light in the middle. I take a picture and cut a hole in the middle so I can look at the pretty colors without all that heat and light.
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Brilliant, one of the best bands ever!!! Thank God they are being rediscovered!!!!
+ulfingvar1 Im 27, I just discover this band and I like them !! Cant wait to have some vynil !
I am 18. I discovered GG nearly one year ago along with many other bands. I wish I could go back in time just to listen and learn about them for a first time!! Those first few listens to each album were mysterious and so special.
+Micah Greeson I'm young too, I hoped more young people would like this.
Dan BrittleCrump just share their music !!
Haha, my friends have no patience for GG music. They are used to listening to the standard genres...
holy shit haven’t heard these guys in like forever damn i’m getting old LOL
GG is a band that made our times Great! Even from far away.
In this one they kind of sound like Camel. Great
that is nothing like camel
Gentle Giant and Camel each got their own unique style
I love how in all progressive rock on youtube, someone will say "This band sounds like x" and then someone will always comment ACKTCHUALLY it sounds NOTHING LIKE THEM
This Song was Sung Long Before CAMEL was Born.
As a fan of both, well spotted, has a similar vibe to Lady Fantasy in the quiet section.
Sadly because there are plenty of great bands nowadays. It sounds different of course but the quality is here in any musical genre. Unfortunately these bands can't even afford to go on stage outside of their country just because they are labelled "alternative-underground-deep" and all that musical media trash. And when they come, there are very few people in the room and you can be sure that half of them is here just because the band is unknow. It's kind of a caricature but it's true..
Saw GG open for Ten Years After. When TYA got on stage, the audience were screaming for GG to return.
cool my youg
IMO, the best song from their debut album....and then they came with octopus, in a glass house, the power and the glory, and acquiring the taste, and they blew our minds forever!
Indeed, they did!!!
"Now she sits by the riverside
Watching the waters glide by,
With a sigh
And the things she put faith in
Are ripples just waving her by
With a sigh
She sees lovers pass by with much more than a kiss
Ah this - little girl who had everything finds
she's nothing at all
Now the wind seems so cold
Seems all old as it laughs at her fears
And her tears
And as ducks swim away from her
Visions of past love appear
In her tears
She sees love in his face as she tells him to go,
And so - here's a girl who had everything now
she's Nothing at all
What could she do if she saw him now;
Now that he's gone she's losing
If she could see what she's seeing now
For sure she's more than just choosing
Now she sits by the riverside
Watching the waters glide by,
With a sigh
And the things she put faith in
Are ripples just waving her by,
With a sigh
She sees lovers pass by with much more than a kiss
Ah this - little girl who had everything finds
She's nothing at all"
oh wow!
Underrated band, mindblowing musicians
The word underrated is overused way too much. Except in this case. The Best Band no one has ever heard of.
Музыка совершенная во всех ипостасях!
Спасибо!
Джентл Джаент - моя любовь навсегда!
Johns Weathers looks like the Gentle Giant ...
I know right!? And he wasn't even in the band at this point.
hahahaha I always thought so !!!!! Man that is funny ! love it.
I was just checking that out!
A pretty cool fact is that on 5:48 Kerry Minnear plays a quote to Franz Liszt - Liebestraum No.3
I really love that quote on the drums solo =)
Io ho visto e sentito quell'assolo di drum dal vivo al palasport di Torino nel 72o73. Mai udito niente di così bello! Un grande batterista, un grande gruppo prog. Forse il mio preferito, strumentisti bravissimi suonavano di tutto: violoncello, vibrafono, tromba, violino ecc. non mancava nulla! Li ricordo sempre con entusiasmo e ineffabile piacere!!!!!
Sure it's one of my all-time favourite GG's song. It's pretty awesome. Thank you, Giants for giving us such a masterpiece.
Gentle giant is one of the most melodical bands in rock and roll ever. Sweet tune
Many people have mentioned Led Zepplin in comparisons with Gentle Giant but my honest opinion is that Gentle Giant is a FAR SUPERIOR band to LZ in every way, shape and form.
I love both on different ways
This was recorded in 1970 zeppelins stairway to heaven in 1971.Some people claim gg ripped off zepp but if anything its the other way around. Zepp was known to steal pretty heavily from some earlier blues musicians
That is true about Zepplin, but I don't think either band sounds alike at all. I don't think Zep stole anything from GG, now other bands....
Agreed. Though this track owes far more to the first Crosby Stills and Nash album than it does to LZ.
Never listen it before, but... it's absolutely, incredible brillant.
I am jealous of people who still have ALL GG songs to discover! I'm 62, listen to them since the 70's, and my devotion to their utter competence to convey emotion only grows. Welcome to the fan-club, +Maxim Harel! Enjoy the full Acquiring the Taste, and move on to the next album. Any one is amazing in its own way.
One of those groups that justifies having a decent stereo with turntable and subs. SOD earbuds and tiny computer monitors. Move air or go home. Gems of creativity hidden is soft passages. Headroom rules.
17 years old and i love progressive rock...like genesis, king crimson, gentle giant, soft machine, yes, and van der graaf generator...these are examples of true music...of course i also like bob dylan, led zeppelin, cat stevens, neil young, dire straits, the doors etc...only true good music, not this shit we have nowadays...
cholinar Wow! I’m reading this and you’re now 25!!!!
bro turned 40
bro has turned 40
After Zappa's bands and King Crimson this is the best band in the world. :)
So... i'm not the only one in the world that says this.What do you prefer Genesis or Yes ?
Hard to tell, from Yes I admire just 3 albums - Yes Album, Fragile and Close to The Edge. Genesis - just Gabriel era, nothing else. :)
Fair answer to a tricky question. You my friend have great taste in music.
Check out a nice Zappa cover /watch?v=joGvWx3zems
I admire more than those 3 but having said, the 3 you've named are my favorites too and really do capture the essence of YES. :)
IMHFO wrong order. HOWEVER, I could just listen to those three acts on my way to Mars and NEVER GET TIRED. Of course the rest of the crew will whip their SpaceDemdulatores out and go Ren on me....!
I saw these gents at a little bar in elyria, Ohio in '76. THAT was the best concert I've EVER seen, and I attended a lot of concerts!
Randy, I was at that show too. I believe the club was called The Joker
I'm here in Belgrade, Serbia right now at a cafe and this song came on the speakers much to my surprise. It was some kind of remix though, some kind of really chill dub. Sounds really nice, maybe it's unofficial but if anyone knows where to find it online, please reply in a comment. Gentle Giant - a band way ahead of their time and yet timeless, it will always be good.
The interlude in this song is the most vital part! The whole song, if you listen to the lyrics, is about a girl who (to put it bluntly) pisses away the love of her life and realizes it too late. The song is about her emotional and mental disintegration knowing that her life will never be what it could have been, and the interlude with the loud drums, piano and the music box sounds are a spot-on attempt at conveying a mind lost in turmoil. Absolute musical brilliance for a band's debut!
MARAVILLOSO!! MI GIGANTE GENTIL !!
Awh ... so early 70's ...including the drum effects and all ... just listened to it again ..
can't help but still like it ... and it makes me wonder ... should go into my garden of eden to see if any old weed is still growing ............ hehe
Probably the best live band I have ever seen (about 5 times!!) When they played this track live it ended up with all 5 of them on the drum kit at the same time!!
Martin S. Any photos? Thanx.
I swear, if there were one single band I could go back in time and see...
@@sammywight9857 Sadly not.
Poucos conhecem,músicos sensacionais,todos multi-instrumentistas.
Ricardo Ricca Verdade, mas é bom ver mais um brasileiro que curte o GG. A vida de quem gosta de boa música em terras brasileiras não está fácil, você sabe. GG, Yes, Rush, Jethro Tull e outros do Prog Rock são desprezados pelos nossos "produtores culturais" que só jogam lixo para o povo ouvir.
No Brasil temos várias jóias, muito mais reconhecidas pelo resto do mundo: Terreno Baldio, Bacamarte, etc.
Mi favorito ray Shulman... Para mi el mejor bajista del mundo!!! 👏😎🇨🇱
What a masterpiece.
What an amazing, absolutely unique band.
Some great images in this vid; just want to shout out to the late, great Martin Smith on drums, since most of the photos show John Weathers, who was integral to the classic era of Giant.
What a mix of styles - starting like Crosby, Stills and Nash, then Traffic with the middle section sounding a bit like a more commercial version of Zappa's Mothers, then morphing into Golden Earring/Deep Purple, then Pink Floyd......
Best band ever. Nothing else to say.
I literally discovered this track yesterday and it's one of the most beautiful musical creations I have ever listened to.
Liebestraum, by Franz Liszt at 5:48. Beautiful!
Like hearing Holst in, Call any Vegetable on the Just Another band from LA , album.
Kerry is a brilliant keyboardist and musician as a whole...his parts are clever and inventive but without detracting from the music as a whole. I also love how the drummer always seems to bring order to what could easily become chaotic if it weren't held to such precision. I appreciate him even more now than I did in the 70's because I was more caught up in the shredders (Carl Palmer, Barrimore Barlow, Simon Phillips, etc) and didn't fully grasp the brilliance of such precise timekeeping
Uno de los mejores grupos abstractos de rock progresivo junto a focus, el&p, yes, king crimson, punk floyd, sky, premiata tornería marconi etc......
Never gets old.
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In response to the YES comment. They may edge GG out but GG did things that YES didn't. Their funkinest & hard edge appraoch to Prog, humor, cynical & sometimes sentimental lyrics and syncopated party attitude live was a refreshing contrast to the cerebral intensity of YES.
"Nothing At All"... A gem!
Add Gentle Giant to a long list of great UK progrock bands, including Camel and Wishbone Ash, that never really caught on in the colonies. Pity.
I beg to differ.Loyal fan from New Zealand here of those bands you mentioned.
I'm American as baseball and I LOVE Gentle Giant.
@@res3382 Same 😎
I'm from the US, and other than the first two albums, GG is relatively unknown here, sadly
A lot of competition back in the early '70s. But discovered both groups then. The British groups often got less air time where I lived. (southern California) Mainly because the record companies were from LA. So didn't get much Genesis, Camel Wishbone Ash and others. And the rest of the country based their format on what LA was doing. Sad.
a masterpiece
I seen Gentle Giant in NY Central Park in 1976. I still have the program from the Schaffer Musical Festival. In the top 5 of my all time favorite bands. I'm 64 yrs old and grew up with the sounds of bands like GG, YES, Tull, ELP
I'm 63 and saw them in 1975 in The Netherlands and yes, also growing up with the usual suspects.
Excellent band , high music level In the top 10 of progressive rock bands. In the early 70s they opened for Jethro Tull .
Probably the greatest rock band ever to exist. Believe it or not I bought this album when I was 16 a week after it was released because of the sleeve art - thank God for sleeve artists!! The other major album I bought for the same reason (about a week later I think) was In the Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson - Amazing!!
Does your King Crimson cover glow in the dark? There were about 500 released album covers that did.
3:04 one of the best moments in Rock history
Stark beauty.
Yes one of best group ever still shape and fine..!
The better group who gave us kind of perfection ...and this is true....thx g g !
@fishzilla001 i would suggest you bands like fleet foxes, grizzly bear and the dodos, if you dont already know them. these bands are recent and actually pretty good.
The dislikes are undoubtedly narrow minded dullards who wouldn't recognize real genius if they tripped over it. These guys were just too clever and inventive for the average listener...it takes a more refined palate to fully appreciate the extent of their genius...I hadn't heard this stuff in years, and it was a breath of fresh air compared to most of the banal crap that permeates the airwaves today. Long live creative geniuses like Gentle Giant! Their music lives on...
drumstud4u 🍀👍💚🎅🏻
I've been a massive King Crimson, Zappa, Yes, Pink Floyd and Allan Holdsworth fan(to name a few of my favourites) for years and yet I only just recently discovered Gentle Giant and have been mind blown. There seriously one of the greatest bands of all time without a single doubt and there isn't a piece I've heard that I havn't wanted to put on a loop and play over and over. So incredible and a deep regret is not having discovered them earlier. Couldn't agree more with you drumstud4u. What I'm amazed at with Gentle Giant is that with other bands like Dream Theater for example, I really enjoy there music but want visual stimulation as well to compliment the performance in a concert. With Gentle Giant, I honestly couldn't care less about visuals, I'm thrilled just watching the band and listening to there superb music. Now that my friend is the REAL indicator of a great band. King Crimson are in this league as well but sadly there's not many other groups that I've seen in recent times that have achieved this magical sonic beauty.
Gentle Giant is a band that in the context of progressive rock, although not as popular as Pink Floyd or Yes, musically is much more relevant. Since I first heard, never seen anything like it.
I remember a time when I said Pink Floyd, and people would say "who?".
This was released a year before Led Zepplins' Stairway To Heaven.........
Да, начало Stairway To Heaven от Led Zeppelin очень похоже.
А потом фрагмент барабанов от Nothing At All похож на Moby Dick от Led Zeppelin.
Фрагмент Ференца Листа уникален.
Спасибо!
@@markwoollon Hey I love Zepplin I'm just saying they sound so similar and it's not like the songs are ages apart, could this sounds simply be a product of the culture at the time and the zepplin guys never had heard of this song before writing stairway? It's very possible. However the two guitar lines are sooo close it makes me wonder.
Fantástico, maravilhoso! Incrível! Não conhecia... .
Rock Erudito, incomparáveis, música de extremo bom gosto e sutileza.
5:48, unique
The drum solo has something of the one in Sweet Smoke's song "Silly Sally"
Personally, as a King Crimson and Yes fan, I'm appealed by the sensibilities of Gentle Giant. This is one of my favorite songs - if not my favorite.. Only rivaled by Izabella by Jimi Hendrix and Over the Hills and Far Away by Zeppelin.. Mr. Skin by Spirit.. or 21st Century Schizoid Man / Fallen Angel by KC.
70s Yes, King Crimson, and Gentle Giant are my favorite prog bands. ;)
2:51 Only Gentle Giant could do that!!
Zappa had them beat by 4 years.
Bravissimi !!!!!!!!!!!
I bought this album in 1977, loaned it to someone, and it was returned, warped beyond hope :(
GREAT PIC!!!! So talented people!!!
There's a lot of great prog rock bands today, there's not only prog metal. Some examples: Anglagard, Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Beardfish, The Flower Kings, Karmakanic, The Tangent to name a few.
Absolute Gentle Giant beautiful Master-Piece
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Hey this song is great! I'm beginning just now to listen to Gentle Giant and this is the 1st time I heard this song and I truly had shivers... Give me more Gentle Giant! :)
number 1 gentle giant's song...
Now she sits by the riverside
Watching the waters glide by,
With a sigh
And the things she put faith in
Are ripples just waving her by
With a sigh
She sees lovers pass by with much more than a kiss
Ah this, little girl who had everything finds
She's nothing at all
Now the wind seems so cold
Seems all old as it laughs at her fears
And her tears
And as ducks swim away from her
Visions of past love appear
In her tears
She sees love in his face as she tells him to go,
And so, here's a girl who had everything now
She's nothing at all
What could she do if she saw him now;
Now that he's gone she's losing
If she could see what she's seeing now
For sure she's more than just choosing
Now she sits by the riverside
Watching the waters glide by,
With a sigh
And the things she put faith in
Are ripples just waving her by,
With a sigh
She sees lovers pass by with much more than a kiss
Ah this, little girl who had everything finds
She's nothing at all
Still as great as the very first time I heard this amazing Gentle Giant track , one of the best prog rock bands ever , MUCH UNDERRATED.
the '70s best music.
@eurekabach Oh is that Liszt? Thanks for the heads-up, I was wondering. Lately I've been playing this song a lot, for some rason.
If I met with this LP at that time. Probably I would be a rock legend right now. :) It's a pity I was born after 70s :(
Besides, who cares about today's music when we have the awesome legacy that the old bands gave us?
I care in the sense that there should be bands who achieve the level of excellence required to play a great piece of music from composers like Gentle Giant that it should be heard and bring on a new generation of fans to this great and timeless music.
look respect all music.. not just your memories (Record Shop Owner) tired of hearing this from people! ... mehh!
Thank you very, very much for upload this gem!!! I was 14 years old when this album was released!!!..And thanks for the memories as well...!!
Is it, "and the girl who had everything, finds she's nothing at all"?
at the end everything sounds like everything man, just a question of acquiring the taste...
I had this album (had all the GG albums), but for the life of me I can't remember this song. How could I have missed it? It's excellent.
THiS WEiRD PICTURE AT THE BEGINNING FREAKING ME OUT !!!
don't know what's wrong with you,guys.. any guitar player, even not a professional can easily show you that Led Zeppelin and GG, and not only in this song, are simply two worlds apart. An acoustic guitar sound is something BUT melody,chords,finger picking, arrangements,additional sound-path in the background, can really make a BIG Difference.. and..sorry, I'm a 40yrs GG fan..just trying to help. Relax and open your ears and stop comparisons and enjoy ! :-)
Great song, from beginning to end.
@SRNF ...in fact before they became Gentle Giant the Shulmans were becoming pop stars as Simon Dupree and The Big Sound, with screaming chicks and the whole nine yards, but gave it up because they wanted to make good music instead. So what, towards the end they flailed with Giant for a Day and Civilian -- still better than Nickelback (a band brought to you by the singer from GG, by the way)....
Das bandas rock que mais vibrei...ADORO!!!
pugwash was an underrated drummer as well.
This Is superb...I am going to buy the Cd...If I can find one...
Why does everyone thumb's down this post.. Sure Porcupine Tree and Explosions in the Sky are nothing like Gentle Giant, but Beardfish is incredibly similar and just as original / skillful. Also check out the band Ritual from Sweden, they are AMAZING. Thier album The Hemulic Voluntary Band is one of my favorites.
Hey everyone I listened since was a kid all the greatest progresive bands since Floyd C crimson Yes you name it and none of those comes close to G G this band i to complex and full of power
I really like the groove of that 70's prog sound at 3:15, but once it stops at 4:22 it's like "Okay what happened to the song, here's an annoying drum solo with tons of phaser / flanger."
I wish I still had the original album. Great stuff!
This track really highlights the zone shared by Gentle Giant, Traffic, and early Pink Floyd. If you like this, try "The Wind" by Circus Maximus (1967)
When the current crappy music industry collapses under the weight of greed and utter stupidity, Gentle Giant will be recognized as one of the greatest rock bands ever.
I saw them as an opening band for Jethro Tull in 1971- awesome they were......
its quite an amazing piece of music.... in my view!
The drum solo sounds similar to the drum solo from In a Gadda Da Vida by Iron Butterfly.
I experienced G.Giant in concert, as warm-up group for Colliseum summer of 1970 at the Nurnberg Mistersinger Halle,(sp)?, where they blew Colliseum off stage! Giant played mostly Giant album, their newest, I was blown away GI, bought their album immediately, still have it, remaining a fan for 40 years! #1
Great group - wish I had the chance to see them live back in the day.
Reminds me a little bit of Promise (Reprise) from the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack.
Note to Mr23andme:
Agreed, m8..
Back In The Day, all I ever did was 'browse' at the band's LP sleeves and think "interesting"...whilst I invested in Beatles, Classical, Motown, and EMI Prog-Rock; After all, Paper Route money could *only* buy me so much back then....
New to me, this song ROCKS!
Now I pursue getting all the Gentle Giant on CD that I can, yes?
Thanx fer the clip, m8...
Gentle Giant really were in a class, even a genre of their own making.
You can hear a little Zappa, The Flock and others in their music but they are one of my top 5 groups. Zappa back in 74 did say GG was one of the better, Outside the Box, groups. He thought they may be one the better groups.
@lechufran Listen to The Band Spirits song Taurus and you will see where the inspiration for the opening sequence of Stairway is may coming from. This was Randy Califirnias Band and they toured togehther wit Zep before Stairway. But anyway - there are only some very small sequences that gave an inspiration for Stairway and I bet Randy liked it.
I heard Gentle Giant perform at Anaheim Stadium in 1976. I thought they were great but I remember they were booed by the crowd. I hink it started with some troublemakers cause they tried it again when Gary Wright came on but it didn't work. I went to see Frampton and left halfway through Yes, the final act.
Good example of why music education is so important ... kids aren't getting the tools they need to become inspired as real musicians like the bands being mentioned herein. Guitar hero and all the 3-chord pop shit are polluting young minds, dontcha think?
@Machadomm YOU GUYS UNDERESTIMATE THEM BY SAYING THEYRE UNDERESTIMATED! LONG LIVE GENGLE GIANT, NOONE BORN YET CAN JUDGE 'EM! its a shame you are on the fans side! and some other stupid ones "thumbed up" your post.... ITS GG YOUR TALKIN ABOUT DAMMIT! THEY CANT BE UNDERSTIMATED IN ANY WAY!
@Mr23andme not really, they are sell outs by trying to go pop like most prog bands and they paid for it. Classic ending for those who chase money continually moving away from their passion, which was prog.
Let us not forget their progressive albums before they crashed and burned.
I first heard GG when they were still called Simon Dupree and the Big Sound. They did Kites on the music slot on a TV comedy show called Twice a Fortnight. That would have been about 1967. Always liked them. Not as self indulgent as Yes or Genesis. Musically closer to the Canterbury bands I thought.
I know what you mean, drtymac. I like sunsets, but they are spoiled by the bright ball of light in the middle. I take a picture and cut a hole in the middle so I can look at the pretty colors without all that heat and light.