Gentle Giant - Peel The Paint (Official Video)
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2017
- Gentle Giant - Peel The Paint (Official Video)
Taken from the 1972 album 'Three Friends'
www.gentlegiantband.com
Directed by Noah Shulman
Artwork by Matthew Lanci
Additional Animation by Ronald Rabideau
Lyrics:
Free from the start
Left to depart
Finding the pleasure and the pain in his art
Lost in the hush
No need to rush
Time waits for him, him who creates with the brush
Colour the brush
High in the air
His dreams are there
Searching for answers he will look everywhere
Thinks he has won
A place in the sun
Free from the worries and the ways of everyone
Colour the brush
Peel the paint
Look underneath
You'll see the same, the same old savage beast
Strip the coats
The coats of time
And find mad eyes and see those sharpened teeth
Nothing's been learned
No nothing at all
Don't be fooled, get up before you fall
Carnal grave
Crawling smooth
Open flesh and you must let him in
Glass reflects
What you are
It shows the face, the evil face of sin
Nothing's been learned
No nothing at all
Don't be fooled, get up before you fall
Nothing's been learned
No nothing at all
Don't be fooled, get up before you fall
I like how half of the song is just the unique drum/guitar solo. And for those who didn't notice, the video was animated and directed by Noah Shulman, Derek's son.
Great job he did too!
Very nice!
thanks for the info, sir
That's cool to note! Malcolm Mortimore was my favorite of all their drummers, but only on this one album due to a motorcycle accident which side lined him for years. He came from, and went back to the jazz world. His timing and dynamics on this album are sublime.
It definitely sounds like Brian May took inspiration from and improved on the delay guitar-solo here.
I am proud I have recognized the immense greatness of this band more than 50 years ago! 😊
I know and I followed them since "Simon Dupree and the Big Sound". And I had the fortune to see and hear them twice in Germany. 🎸💖
I've listened to these guys for 48 years, and I believe they are the most talented, innovative, eclectic, and versatile musicians you'll ever hear.
Absolutely one of the greatest guitar solo's ever recorded.
Agree.
True - except we do not use apostrophes with *plurals.*
I do. :D
Gary is a great guitarist!
@@EducationMattersYes don't you just love a self important asshole? (ooooh forgot to capitalize my D)
Criminally underrated group
...not underrated, but ignored by insiders ( radio, critics, etc.)... but not from a certain guy named Frank Z. who, in a couple of interviews said that he was following this group, Gentle Giant, and was following their work...
Absolutely
I seen them in Newcastle (ENGLAND IN 1976/77) and have been listening to them since. I have been blessed.
@@lucasanfilippo5370 And inspiration for the genius of Cardiacs (as was Frank Z).
And still one of the most inspiring for many prog musicians and prog lovers.
The interplay between Gary Green's guitar and Malcolm Mortimore's drumming on this track is the stuff of legend.
Gary Green kicks the living crap out of that guitar solo. Amazing stuff!
Imagine if Gentle Giant had done a side long epic. That would've been nuts.
They don’t need to do it. Every short song by them has lots of ideas inside.
Gentle Giant: to know and to love!
I think my favourite bit is when Gary Green switches on the huge reverb about half way through his solo. You can hear the "click" of him stomping on whatever unit he was using. What gratifies me the most is the fact that they must of heard the noise in the control room and in the mixing etc. etc. but they left it in!! Genius. Best band ever.
The must *have* heard the noise in the control room. Great observation.
He used a borrowed Echoplex. This and Brian May's use of the same type of device (on Brighton Rock) are my two favorites. Very different approaches, though.
Gosh but you're right! I'd never noticed that before!!!
Very underrated guitarist!
delay
I owned the "Three Friends" album during my last year in Junior High School in 1972.
I would listen to it repeatedly.
Pretty heady stuff to be listening to for a fourteen year old!
Me too... but we were smarter than those other kids, right ?
No lo vendes?….cuanto?
Gentle Giant, Todd Rundgren, Zappa, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, Emerson Lake and Palmer, those were the years of some really great music. I graduated high school in 1975. ZZ Top, Jerry Jeff Walker, Grateful Dead, Poco, the Byrds, A Beautiful Day
Greatest band ever existed. My favorite ever. Long life to all members of this incredible band!
Actually saw them open for the Strawbs in the mid 70’s at Berkeley. Best band that night! 😎
One of my favorite bands. Seen them 3 times 1976-77 so fin.
The absolute pinnacle of prog, bar none...
Questa è musica! 👍👍👍
Oh my god.... the psychedelic guitar solo... blows my mind
I Love Noah Shulman's videos with these songs.
The greatest band of all time, obviously...
And the coolest thing is they never sold out went commercial pop muzak like Genesis did and became boring meglomanics like Roger Waters who has ruined any admiration or positive feelings I had for him. His strident and obnoxious behavior believing he can'save the world' his concerts are like Nazi rallies with moronic politics, telling us what to think and who to vote for? He disappeared up his own ass and the ridiculous travesty that the Floyd in later years became was enough to ruin their legacy. Gentle Giant remained true to their vision and standard and one could argue that they didn't become big in America but they are actually remembered fondly. They didn't break up and reform as some completely different sound or weird trip like King Crimson did who released albums (post Discipline) that are at times so unlistenable and tedious (infact almost tortuous to listen to) as a fan one continually bought the crap until it was so obvious it sucked and then one day the guitarist is making curious videos with his untalented, insufferable, attention hound wife in bizarre costumes to promote staying home and being safe? Just another sellout in the agenda and social engineering and control. I could probably think of a few more bur I'll stop and again I absolutely enjoy listening to this prog classic and alas artists who don't make me cringe as people. I tip my hat to these Gentlemen Giants!
The greatest band ever existed.
Three genius!
Three Friends is a 1972 release, not 1977 as shown.
Yeah, what the heck was that?
This is absolutely brilliant
Saw them only the once circa 1973 in Plymouth, and I still vividly remember the gig despite seeing thousands of bands since. Their musicianship was on a different level - I recall.
LOVE!!! ART!!!
who knew in 1972 that we would be enjoying this timeless work of art in the 21st century set to a cool art video?! always got a charge out of Derek's shout, low in the mix, at about 6:01
Second favourite moment.
That solo....... :')
ABSOLUTLY THE BEST BAND !!!
Oh my goodness, this is so much more enjoyable to listen to than the original release!! So clear!! Awesome. Can't wait for this release.
Ordered mine yesterday!
Not joking. At your request, here's the side-by-side comparison: ruclips.net/video/hVWsFNKBcq4/видео.html
The German import disk on Line label was not too bad. Will have to side by compare however.
O dislikes... ah Gentle Giant, the uniters of us all!
Someone broke it. There's always the one or two people that dislike due to their lack of understanding of the band.
Creak Or it's just not their style. Maybe it's as simple as that.
@@kenkoopa7903 it’s not because something is not your style that you need to dislike it.
@@vorald4948 If you dislike something, I feel like you're allowed to hit the dislike button.
Definitely, without a doubt, one of the bands of all time
One of the greatest band ever. Gentle giant along with the pretty things has to be the two most underrated bands of all time.
I discovered this band lately but oh mean. This is the one of the most underrated bands ever. Their songs are just pure of art.
NO, why this isn't popular?? AAA
fuck popularity
There is a point of being too good for pop music. Its a miracle groups like Yes and Elp made it big.
@@peterkeenan6382 Those 2 you mentioned had definitely cultivated a solid audience prior to their switch to more "pop" music. GG definitely were trying to expand their demographic, but these earlier albums are so far removed from other popular music at the time (unlike, say, Yes, with Howe as essentially a blues guitarist) that a switch of that nature was nearly impossible.
I love you, Giant. Bizarre, Gentle and inmortal.
@emobile => I even saw them at least 3 times in Hamburg. My absolute favorite "Prog"-Band. It's even them, I'd say, that were more progressif than others. Let's light a candle for RAY, ok ?
Absolutely Awsome👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸
@Lothar Lustig 😴
First time I listened to this song was with some plush Koss headphones while sitting in a Bean Bag Chair when I was 12. Man I miss the adventurousness of "rock" music in the 70s.
Sounds absolutely beautiful.
god I love this band. intricate and heavy as fuck.
Love this song and Gentle Giant. Well done Noah!
I love very much this piece,and this group... and this video is very beautiful! And Limbo videogame, too... Great!
Came to my small home town warming up a J. Giles Band concert because we consistently requested our local FM station to play their records We got back stage and they were such good guys. Later on the west coast of that same tour we got back stage again to say we had seen them earlier in the year on the east coast.
Great visuals for this song, to see that after all these decades !👍🏻
Ye gods, there is so much to love about this. It was only their third album, and yet they had the classical structure, the hard rock hooks and that guitar break! And I expect there was something about the trousers.
Incredible song incredible band
1972 album...one of their best one IMO
The myth, the legend. The greatest band!
The best progressive rock band ever, after 50 years i still listen their music.
Derek Shulman, the man responsible for bringing Pantera to the world out of Dallas
@Ampeli Guitar Wdym
@Ampeli Guitar Oh ok. I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of them, but I can respect what they did for Metal. Same for bands like Genesis for Prog
Samuel Jacobson He signee Pantera to his record label
@@avi_s0ncin0 I knew that, I was just wondering why he said that because it sounded negative.
and Slipknot too
Le solo de guitare est un classique.
How I missed this band over the decades I will never know,soon to be made right
Rock Progessivo - gosto da parte que ele sola junto com a batera.!!
Three Friends was my 2nd GG album, Peel The Paint and Schooldays are my 2 favorite songs but the whole album is great I have owned 5 copies 2 vinyl 3 cds.
Great job Noah excellent animation!
This kid remaind me main character of game Limbo
U spell bad
@@neeco5708 yeh
Minor spelling mistake. I win.
Bravo! Noah Schulman. A great animation to a great tune. Do the entire album.
Like the first light of twilight, this music opens your eyes to old promises and to all the anomalies of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, this piece pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken regrets, flayed lives and the torpor of tormented watchers!
Wait... Where have you been all my live??? I love this music.
2:25 Strange. This is basically how also John Wetton builds tension, albeit slowly, in Starless, two years after this.
2:26 That reminds me of 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson and Lemmings by Van der Graaf Generator
I can relate for the drum performance in some way, but the guitar play... I was hearing a bit of The Machine (I know The Machine is too much recent compared to Gentle Giant, I just had a glimpse of "It sounds a bit like") and Jimi Hendrix (King Crimson drummer technique that I agree, but I can add how Jimi Hendrix drummer had strange echoes here). The part when the violin plays makes me remniscent of 1970's album from Yes (one of the songs had some violin). Many echoes there and there and the part in 3/4 with a lot of keyboard was special to my ears: The drum sequence sounds almost like the Yes drummer in "Yours Is No Disgrace". Peel The Paint is just... marvelously great!!!
EDIT: I read the lyrics and It really hits my artistic fiber to the core... espescially the following verses:
"Nothing's been learned, no nothing at all
And don't be fooled, get up before you fall"
Diving in my imagination feels like it. It just mixes everything up as my introspection lacks meditation to prevent being affected by it.
I often feel see me as a monster in some way and it's really just nothing about the Surface-me. The Dept-me is crafted by so many stimulias I should shake it off.
Life really marks us in so many diversified ways. To try peeling its marks in us is a "Meditate-or-drown-in-it" case for sure... At least it's time to learn to not peel the paint too much! ;)
👍
lunga vita ai gentle giant
Beautiful!
Three Friends is my favourite album, and I never knew that video existed.
My favorite GG album also.
@@gardenofeels6872 same here
One of the best bands ever! Was lucky enough to see them twice.
amazing solo
According to Derek Shulman in recent interviews, Gentle Giant continues to build in popularity with new listeners.
I really started getting into GG in 1975, and saw the band once in 1977.
" Chester, 1977" on that latest big boxset...
Giant fan. Period.
life changing.
Fantastici... Bravissimi...my age 64...
W Gentle Giant..
For ever!
real music. flowing, timeless
wow....what a blast...!!...that took me back 47 years.....:-).....i'm still feeling slightly dizzy now......
Geniaal ...
A smart and talented heavy metal band should do a cover of this. Think of the possibilities of stage production this song could provide.
When I first listened to Three Friends, I found this song the hardest to consume - it was like I had to really fight to get through it with my brain still in tact, but at some point it just clicked and *boom* I simply heard perfection.
Last album with Philip Shulman aboard - and talso the last not to feature John Weathers -, it was the second GG album I bought. I also bought a cd, listen to it up the the present day. Can't get enough of Gentle Giant.
Jose Andrade Phil Shulman was with the band for the next album ‘octopus’ then he left.
Nope, Phil did this, the 3rd, and also the 4th record Octopus.
I think you might have meant to say it was the first album TO FEATURE John Weathers, not "the last NOT to feature John Weathers". As i am sure you know John Weathers was there drum from here on out til the very last album.
@@davidsorcher5072 no, this album features Malcolm Mortimore, Wheathers first was Octopus, he and Phil only played together in that album
@@toshinokyokosenpai9239 yes, you are correct.
fantastico gigante gentile
Em 1973 com 17 escutei esta cançao.
Inacreditavel.
Continua fazendo minha cabeça ate hoje.
It's a shame they haven't found all the multitrack tapes, but fantastic nonetheless. Gary's guitar solo sounds vicious in that remix.
i read somewhere the master tapes where destroyed cut up into pieces , if this is true its a crime and a bloody insult .
What tracks are they missing? It sounds pretty complete. However, I don't know much about studio engineering
I just caught this today. Excellent work! Keep this wonderful song alive! Great job!
I usually approach *remixes* with a measure of caution, skeptical of "improvements," but I really like the clarity and detail here. And the animation is a treat !! Well done ~~~~~~~
A pleasure to listen
Prog dentro de las bandas Prog!!!!.....BRILLANTES!!!!!!!
Wow!!! everyone gets to be giant for a day.
Damn! I'm sorry I missed out on this. It was fantastic and fabulous!! This was ABSOLUTELY GIANT!!!
Cool, very cool. Saw GG 4 times. Enough said.
Gary Green sounds here like playing better then Jimi Hendrix!
Seconded.
He's nowhere near as slick as Hendrix. It's a good little solo but it really doesn't come anywhere close to Hendrix, who weaved together complex licks seamlessly with impeccable rhythm
hendrix was way overrated
Firstly Garry plays mostly gibson guitars. Hendrix was mostly strat man. Secondly Hendrix helped develop many pedals notably the wha wha. Nobody used it better. Hendrix would not have fiitted GG even if he wanted to. Both very accomplished musicians , completely diffrent players. Hardly comparable. Nobody was comparable to Hendrix even the great immitators such as SRV. Hendrix generously sited Rory as the greatest electric guitarist. Again not really comparable. Everyone has a favourite, but is anyone really the best? its just fantastic that there so many awsome players across all genres
Gary Greeb us an ubsubg guitar, but I agree that the comparison is uncalled for. Personally I prefer Green but all will have their faves for different reasons.
Passati quasi 50 anni, ma sembra inciso ieri!
I've clicked so many "like"... Me too......
Heard them first time on a LP during an horrible military service. Ha.ha !
Awesome music! Can't find anything like it....
Thank you so much for these visualizations!! Brings new life to amazing, breathtaking music!
Gentle giant / som da minha adolecencia .Progressivo medieval lisergico extremamente pesado em Peel The Paint
It sounds like Brian May had listened to this solo when he played the solo in his "Brighton rock".
I thought the same.
That 1960 Les Paul sounds absolutely transcendental.
Wonderful.
Beautiful 🤩
That's so beautiful, and it matches to the music perfectly
Very beautiful video!
C'est tellement bon !
C'est une merveille!!
Thanks so much for the upload...Love Three Friends...School Days, Working all Day...One of GG's best...Added to my greatest prog list; already a subscriber...:)
4:20 THAT ROCKS!!!
Sounds awesome! :)
Maravilhoso, minha banda predileta ❤️