Gentle Giant - Cogs in cogs \ Proclamation
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- German TV ZDF 1974-Live Brussels film studio Derek Shulman ( vocals, saxophone, recorder, bass, percussion) Ray Shulman (bass, violin, acoustic guitar, recorder, trumpet, vocals, percussion) Gary Green (guitars, recorders, vocals, percussion) Kerry Minnear (keyboards, cello, vibes, recorder, vocals, percussion) John Weathers (drums, vibes, tambour, vocals, percussion)
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The fact that this band actually *existed in the real world* continues to fill me with amazement and joy.
indeed... a very relevant observation...
I remember (surprisingly) a few of their concerts where at times the audience didn't have a clue to what they were listening to.
Cogs in cogs is so sick! Monster notes!
The guy trying to tap his foot to the beat at 00:52 - yeah, wasn't gonna happen.
hehe typical prog rock problem, just when you think you can safely start foot tapping the beat, in comes the time signature change
look dude, he is p e r f e c t l y on time , at his own time, that's the greatness :)
LOL! That's funny!
Good eye -
It looks like he knows the song and is tapping to the vocal rythm, but late !
John Weathers is vastly underrated as a drummer; human metronome with slick chops. Outstanding talent in this group!
Most drummers are underrated because the layman has no idea what they're doing.
He was the perfect drummer for the band. He was funky.
Absolutely. Drummers don't often get a lot of love, but this guy is a drummer's drummer !!
The Bonham of Prog
Truly wonderful drummer
This just might be the greatest prog rock band ever.
You won't get more complicated arrangements than this!! Yet it all fits together - like cogs in cogs!
Zappa. Try Echidna's Arf of You.
I think that 30.000 of the 74.000 views of the video are mine.
Flawless performance. Such an under.rated band. An older shredder I used to teach music with showed me Gentle Giant, King Crimson and Yes. Then he told me to count out all the odd meters and report back to him with the time signatures and bars (seriously, it's insane). Whether you understand music theory or not, this band was on a whole other level.
So Heavy Prog or Heavy Fusion? My first impression was prog. But they are a bit more on the Fusion side of things in this performance.
I love reading the positive comments about this band. I love their music dearly and it's so nice to see that I'm not crazy. lol
Doesn't prove that you are not crazy, but Gentle Giant is my all-time favorite band, period.
This was a fantastic band, one of the best, sadly overshadowed by other, more commercially successful, bands at the time, so I sure am glad they are being recognized in recent times, with constant reissues of their albums
I'm surprised people didn't stand up and clap after the end of cogs in cogs that was fucking AMAZING!
SRNF In Japan, the most appreciation a performer can receive from an audience is silence. When everyone is silent, you have all of their attention.
SRNF This was a more of a film being made, than a concert. The crowd was instructed not to clap between certain songs so the band could transition into the next tune smoothly.
you can tell at 3:24 Derek is thinking, "Wow, this crowd is dead, man. Might as well prog their faces off lol"
They didn't stand it applies because it was so amazing. Truly melted faces off.
They’d all dropped copious amounts of acid and were transfixed, they actually thought they were watching an episode of rainbow and Derek Shulman was bungle, that’s why Gary green decided to dress like rod Jane and Freddy with bib and brace for the sight and sound concert. True story 😆
I'd take GGs creepy balding drummer over Phil Collins any day LOL
That’s actually a crackhead version of Phil Collins lol.
Lol he looks outdated and like a hipster at the same time.
phil collins was balding in the 70’s too. i guess being a fantastic prog drummer has its tolls
Man, they were effing tight live! Never understood why they didn't get more popular.
The went very popular in Italy and Germany only.
One of the few bands that you can say, they were ahead of their time. Zappa was too but there were song's people could sing to. GG was unique. The '70s in LA saw an explosion of music which spread across the country. I don't think their management was working hard enough to promote them. On the other side, the music didn't have the right commercial potential (stealing from Zappa) GG is more popular today than the '70s.
De acuerdo con su comentario. Yo le agrego que no lo supieron promocionar como a otras bandas inglesas con este estilo de música. Quizás con más renombre sus integrante que los de Gentle Giant. Músicos completos si los hay cualquiera de ellos ejecutan cualquier instrumento y lo hacen a la perfección. Creo que junto con PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI, un escalón musical más abajo que GENTLE GIANT dos grupos que no fueron valorados musicalmente.
Con el tiempo su música se hace más hermosa de escuchar para la mente, oídos, piel y corazón.
Un saludo desde La Paz, Canelones Uruguay 🇺🇾
@@jorgetrejo5219 ¡Hola! Estoy de acuerdo.
Because they are TO good !!
when they all come in together on proclamation it just makes me flip. So fucking precise and groovy.
Having really amazing record quality in albums is one thing, but performing like this with this complexity is another. I love their music!
i may have seen them between 73 and 80 25 times, and seeing this still blows my pants off. i dont care what the punk movement said about the progressive music, the musicianship of these guys is beyond anyone else, except yes in 73 till bruford quit, and genesis with gabriel. zappa, too. corea, McLaughlin, man you needed to have chops.
THIS IS F'NG LIVE! no autotune.
thanks for sharing.....
These guys are pure genius . . to say they are talented would be an understatement. So good to watch real musicians enjoying what they do.
i've no idea how human beings can play this - it really sounds like something from another planet - and i mean that as a compliment.
2:13 Ray's got dat bass face.
What’s weathers face got lol? 😬😆
Ray always looks like he just smelled something really nasty
Zappa praised Gentle Giant because, being a accomplished composer, he understood exactly what the band was doing and recognized their efforts.
Such a technically demanding, beautifully executed and incredibly inspiring piece of music
Best band I ever saw live (along with The Magic Band of course). Brilliant musicians and such nice people. Got a back stage at Liverpool Stadium and Pugwash's parents were there too, quite surreal.
Gentle Giant is in a class of their own-every member of this band was a master of their instrument.Fantasticly incredible version of this GG masterpiece
This interpretation of Cogs in Cogs is Outstanding !
2:29 Damn he's having fun on that kit!
This version of Cogs in Cogs simply beats to hell the studio version. Why didn't they recorded it this way on Power & the glory? I need to have it in HD audio.
It's on the out of the woods cd compilation this way
Sorry but disagree-both versions kick ass
Not unusual for a live version to be better than the studio version. Look at the Echoes live at Pompeii version by Pink Floyd. Miles better than the studio version
No doubt in the top ten of the greatest prog rock groups ever. Well deserved. Incredible band.
drumer as usual makes funny faces ))
My son is loving this band and he is .............10 years by 28 th of april
jolyty Well I guess he’s grown up now, is he still a prog rock fan?
jolyty Well I guess he’s grown up now, is he still a prog rock fan?
This was so groundbreaking it defies imagination!
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As more time goes by, the luckier you realize you were. Gentle Giant is the most UNDERrated band in music history.
John Weathers at 2:28
the drummer's great.
Why have I not heard of GG before? Ive just read some comments on youtube stating that this is the most underrated band ever. I cannot agree more. This is epic, to sad I was born in the 90s...
Saw them twice in the 70's in a venue justlike this one on the first row. I was is syncopation heaven!!!!!!!!! It had to be one of most excited mind blowing live performances ever!!!!!!!!!
Weathers is Gentle Giant himself.
Hahaha...I was just thinking that myself. I don't know how I missed the resemblance 40 yrs ago.
Yeah . But on prescription glasses 😂
I cannot believe how good this sounds.
Their precision is just amazing.
Hahaha! On this video, Minnear really looks like the King of Hippies. And boy do I love the expression of Weathers starting at 4:39! Fantastic songs, I love the innovative genius of Gentle Giant!
Amazing awesome outstanding! Prog Rock at its best! 🥁🎸🎤💪🏻💪🏻!
whoever put up this awesome footage thanks. Seeing these guys jam this amazingly complex song with ease and looking like they are having fun doing it is just such a testament to how great they were.
Excellent post! What a great live performance.
they are so far advanced...i don't think they'll get their full recognition for another 50 years
You're probably right, but who cares? We who know how great they are is all that matters!!
no one wants to be in a band like this i am gonna start one who wants to join it?
King Crimson are credited with being the the true pioneers of prog i love em' but the Gentle Giant is the pinnacle so complex unlike any one, this band can't be credited enough , truly underrated and over looked except for those in the know such a shame because because they're all still with us.
Before Fripp there was Zappa.
The finest, most original and most talented band ever to have graced a stage -- and The Power And The Glory is arguably their greatest album. Brilliant writing and superb playing. Only saw them once, at Warwick University, but it was an incredible, unforgettable evening. There were only a couple of hundred people there, sitting on Persian carpets. It wasn't even sold out!
They don't make bands like this anymore!
These guys were geniuses!
The Kerry Minnear extravaganza.............👍💚
Kerry was a musical genius!
I love prog, but it bothers me that they just sit there and watch. Just because you are standing up and maybe dancing or clapping your hands or anything like doesn't mean your not appreciating the music. I feel that is one of the reasons of why prog died, people were promoted to silently listen, and they got sick of it.
To be honest I think that it was a generational thing. It was only by the Punk/New Wave era that audiences really loosed up and started to really move to the music.
Another thing is that you watch a German audience here, and whatever time frame you watch bands performing on German television, the public remains static compared to British and Dutch audiences. It is a thing of culture you cannot change easily.
Would you rather they be like an American audience a whooping and a hollering ffs? They were listening intently to the intricacies of the music something which was lost shortly after this when punk and disco reared it’s head then it went to another extreme with people head butting and vomiting on each other. 😆
I simply love this JAM. Saw them in a club just like this in 76 on the second row. Could touch them. IT WAS A COMPLETE MIND EXPLODING EXPERIENCE
OMG, John Weathers is so fucking awesome!!!
Best band of all time
Yeah sparkola, I agree. This is one of the 'rockiest' GG numbers and the audience appears drugged.
its a sick fucking world where Katy Perry and Kanye West have achieved incredible success and a band like Gentle Giant gets nearly no recognition. really fucking sad
But GG will be here for your great grandchildren. Katy and Kanye won't even be close.
2:05 - 2:37 is about the most genius I have ever heard in music
@ 4:40 john weathers is tripping balls LMAO!
PROGTASTIC!
One of my favorite bands!!!!!! Is the audience sleeping?
This was recorded in a tv studio where the audience was asked not to applaud or make noise because they wanted the band to flow through their songs without distractions like applause between songs.
@@Eleventhearlofmars Thanks for the reply, but you’re about 10.5 years too late.
search the world over - you will never see this pur level of musical genius !!!!!!
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John Weathers showin' his "Oh" face
I have all the original LP's, and some bootlegs too... Saw them live in Rotterdam. Can't get enough.
The music is too hard to play for most people. This is Zappaesque in its complexity.
The first time I saw this, my life changed forever. I was destinated to worship and be devoted to this band, just didn't know yet.
I had to become a professional musician after I saw them the first time in 1976. I still am. Seeing them, they were everything I wished to be at age 16. They changed my life too, I've never worked a single day in an office because they showed me the "way of life." I'm so happy youtube has brought them a whole new audience, no band deserves it more
musica per intenditori, che bravura
The live version of Proclamation is really the best version/ best song ever/best song evah/ evahh
The power and the glory: wonderful album!
A modern audience today wouldn't be able to sit through the first 30 seconds without checking their phones. This is why you don't see this music at venues in this age.
@videocanone Yeah! I am 17 years old and really love these guys' sound...
Complex, sophisticated, totally on top of MANY heads~~~~~~ awesome, TRANSCENDENTAL F> Music and great performance!!!!! Derek Shulman is HOTTTTTTTTTTTTTT !!!!
I saw them live. Twice. Free Hand tour. Blew my mind both times.
Played at Norwich St. Andrew;s Hall in 1974 ! 60 pence ticket.
“I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your grandkids are gonna love it.”
Fantastic performance! Thanks for sharing!
@WesB The biggest crime of the century-they are the greatest band ever
Cogs in cogs is such a piece of art!!
He's Kerry Minnear - although not as commercialy successful as emerson, I'd say they're about leveled, skillwise... Kerry is not quite as energetic and destructive though, hehe ...
He doesn't stab his keyboards. He's not a murderer!
Some of the keyboard work in any band I've ever heard.
Not as energetic?? Really? Have you not seen him doing his funny ways vibes solo?
J seen them in stochholm . nice consert
Hopefully great groups like this will emerge again, and hit the top--in the way Yes and ELP, Rush, etc made it!(And Genesis and others I left out! Today, if this group were still young and in their prime, with media exposure, they would be at the top because there are still us older folks who grew up in the 60's, 70's and 80's and love and appreciate great music! Peace, BobbyK
George Carlin is the drummer!!!
lol
I still have the original Playing the fool on vinyl. Still gets played frequently. In my opinion GG is very close to Focus in there style of play. And to a lesser extent Gryphon. I just got after 10 years of searching Red Queen to Gryphon 3 on CD!!!! Isn't life GREAT!!!! Thanks for this upload I've NEVER seem them live before. THANK YOU!!!!!
Just a supremely talented group of musicians.
Love them!
Pure genius
What is really curious about GG (and Yes too) is that the backing vocals are really complex. This group is amazing!
2:13 how bad-ass is Ray Shulman?
@startrooper64 Great percussion is a prerequisite for timeless music. Gentle Giant definately had that.
prog used to sell
@vishiquals Absolutely spot on correct.
@videocanone Man, Three Friends is one of the best in my opinion. Prologue is a masterpiece, along with the title track.
@vishiquals Well, keep on going on your prog journey! I am playing some progressive with a keyboard player, who is a friend of mine, and we really enjoy it, 'cause it's complex, but sounds great!
Geniuses at work!
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I saw them twice,in the 1970s at the Palladium. Those were the days
Fisica y tecnicamente John Weathers es parecido a un baterista que tuvimos acá en Uruguay en un grupo de Rock Progresivo llamado PSIGLO en los '70.
the RIGHT groove
Interesting to see they didn't go in for big stacks of amps. In all the GG videos I've seen the backline has been pretty minuscule. At a guess they used small amps and went into the PA, to balance out the vast array of instruments they used in concert.
@vishiquals Well, keep on spreadin' them! It's nice you have finally found this Prog legend out!
No band matches GG in pure awesomeness. My favorite is still "Civilian" from 1980.
How I discovered Gentle Giant I will never remember, ( not my era - I was an 80’s pop kid ) but my god, I’m glad I did! And watching the live performances just mesmerises me. Power And The Glory has to be my absolute favourite.
@leonardojef
and me for the other half. LOL