Gentle Giant (1975 3 Pack)

Gentle Giant (1975 3 Pack)


1-Gentle Giant
Olympia
Paris, France
November 29, 1975

1) Proclamation/Funny Ways
2) Talk
3) The Runaway/Experience
4) On Reflection

AM > reel-to-reel (1st gen mono) > wav > flac


Magmasystems Notes:

This is the first time that these recordings have been released. The original reels came from "A French Gentleman" who stumbled upon the various Magma blogs and who, as it turned out, had seen Magma several times in the 1970's. The gentleman not only had some assorted photographs, but had recorded various concerts. These tapes made their way to a well known DIME contributor who wishes to remain anonymous at this time. This person spent quite a bit of time digitizing the music and trying to clean up the sound. Some of these efforts were successful, some were not so ... as will be apparent in some later releases. I have dubbed these recordings "The French Gentlemen Tapes", and after about two years, I have been given permission to share these through time. Much thanks go to the Gentleman, as well as Trahnsferheur.

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2-Gentle Giant
Playing the Foole: A Stake In The Heart

Recorded at the Utland Communicable Concourse
January 1975

Source: unknown recording>LP>FLAC Audio
Audio ripped from LP using Nero Soundtrax/ADSTech Analog-to-Digital software.
Size: 233MB

Track List:

01- Proclamation
02- Funny Ways
03- Experience
04- So Sincere
05- The Advent of Panurge
06- Mister Class and Quality
07- The Power and the Glory

Note- The track "The Power and the Glory" was recorded in the studio,
and is not a part of the performance. This track was recorded 26 August 1974.

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3-Gentle Giant mega-rare restored vinyl "Playing The Foole" Capitol Studios West Hollywood, Ca 1975-02-13 Killer sound and performance! mp3 sample

This fabulous set was recorded live in the studio with no audience. It was for broadcast in March on Los Angeles radio station KMET. Why this show has never been released is totally beyond me. The performance beats the commercially-available "Playing The Fool" by a mile. Although I haven't indicated it that way, I believe this to be a pre-fm recording. When you listen to the sample, you will understand why - the recording is amazing! This has to be the best recording and performance of "Funny Ways" that you will ever hear.

The following quotation is from Jack Skelly's great GG website, located at http://members.aol.com/JAskelly/GGpartfour.htm:

Feb. 13          In West Hollywood, California's Capitol Studios, Gentle Giant made a live studio recording, with no audience, meant for broadcast in March over KMET Radio in Los Angeles.  It included much of the material they were performing on stage during their early 1975 tour.  The group even recorded a brief musical jingle based on the radio station’s call letters, which, during the March broadcast, served as KMET’s station identification.  Interestingly, this jingle has been officially released on SCRAPING THE BARREL under the title With Gentle Giant on KMET.  The date of this live session is often listed as Jan. 1, but this date of Feb. 13 seems definitive.  At the time, they were in the area for the nearby Santa Monica gig listed below, held that same evening.  In fact, the Capitol Studios recording is often mistakenly listed as having been recorded in Santa Monica, as well.

Setlist:

Proclamation
Funny Ways
Experience
So Sincere
The Advent Of Panurge
Mister Class and Quality?

The end of this release included the single version of "The Power And The Glory". It had to be removed.

Lineage: TAKRL version ->Pop and click removal via Sound Forge ->FLAC encoding via Flac Frontend V1.1.3 (new version!) sectors aligned and verified. No noise reduction.

I have heard the Wizardo version of this LP. This sounds MUCH better.

Does anyone have any more of this event from a certified pre-fm tape? Please post it!

Enjoy!

A DoinkerTape

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Gentle Giant-Torino (Nov. 28, 1974) (FLAC)

GENTLE GIANT
TORINO, ITALY
PALAZZO DELLO SPORT
NOV. 28, 1974

Derek Shulman - Vocals
Ray Shulman - bass
Kerry Minnear - keyboards
Gary Green - Guitar
John Weathers - drums

01 Intro / Cogs In Cogs
02 Proclamation
03 Funny Ways
04 The Runaway
05 Experience
06 Excerpts from Octopus, Part I
07 Excerpts from octopus, Part II
08 Nothing At All
09 Plain Truth

TOTAL LENGTH - 71:45

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Here's another Giant show that hasn't gotten around much. My intention
here on dime is to only seed GG shows that are not easily available
elsewhere. I'm picking shows that are mostly new to the trading
community, I don't mean shows that are just new to bit-torrent sites,
but ones that haven't traded hardly at all, period. I've been lucky
enough to get my hands on some of these through the years, so I figure
this is a good place to get them out there. Anyway, that's the plan.
Thanks to all for the kind words so far.

This particular show came to me a few years back in a trade. The guy
I got it from wasn't sure what he had at first, so he contacted me
for some help and we managed to figure it out. I've never seen this
listed anywhere else in my life, so I was thrilled the guy got in
touch with me.

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SOUND QUALITY

Well, not the greatest. Maybe a B- or so. Still plenty enjoyable,
but those of you looking for only a few choice Giant shows might want
to pass on this one. Serious collectors - grab it. It is a full show.

I did nothing to alter this recording from the way I received it.
Excerpts from Octopus is split in two, apparently because of a tape
flip and I left it that way.

One cool thing during Excerpts - the band always included a recorder
quartet but this time, the four of them play a bit of Raconteur
Troubadour on the recorders. That only happened briefly at late 1974
European gigs like this one. Later, that tune was used during a
guitar duet instead.

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LINEAGE

CDr trade to me - - >
ripped to my PC with Exact Audio Copy - - >
encoded to flac level 8 with Trader's Little Helper - - >


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So enjoy the show! Thanks to the taper and thanks to you.

Visit me at my "Gentle Giant Tour History"
http://www.ggtourhistory.50webs.com

Gentle Giant-Torino (Nov. 28, 1974) (FLAC)


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Gentle Giant (3 Pack) (FLAC)

Gentle Giant (3 Pack)



GENTLE GIANT
18 minutes, 47 seconds
Sound quality: EX
Session date: 8/8/72 ; Tuesday
Studio used: BBC Maida Vale, Studio 4
Producer: Pete Ritzema
Engineer: Bob Conduct
Tracks broadcast:
1. Funny Ways
2. Plain Truth
3. The Advent Of Panurge
Band personnel:
Derek Shulman
Phil Shulman
Ray Shulman
Kerry Minnear
Gary Green
John Weathers
Broadcast date: 9/5/72, Tuesday, 22.00-24.00, VHF & MW
Show on which broadcast: Sounds of the 70's: John Peel with Top Gear
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GENTLE GIANT
TORONTO, ONTARIO
CONVOCATION HALL
JAN. 24, 1975
(EXCERPT FROM SOUNDCHECK)


Here's a little tidbit for any hard core Giant collectors out there.
It's a short, four and a half minute snatch from the band's soundcheck
before their Toronto show, where they were supporting their POWER AND
THE GLORY album.

There's already a pretty decent recording of the actual concert from
that night floating around out there, but that doesn't include any of
the soundcheck. This is from a different source completely. I knew
a guy who managed to get into a couple soundchecks around that time
and he managed to grab this little gem on one of those occasions. So
I got this direct from that taper.

There are no vocals on here and the band does plenty of the typical
noodling around you'd expect at a soundcheck. But you can recognize a
little of the song So Sincere. The highlight, however, is a small
portion of No God's a Man, a tune they never played in concert. Maybe
they were considering it?
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GENTLE GIANT
VICENZA, ITALY
PALAZZO DELLO SPORT
JANUARY 5, 1973

01 - Announcer Introduction
02 - Prologue
03 - Alucard
04 - Funny Ways
05 - The Advent of Panurge
06 - Nothing At All
07 - Plain Truth

One sad bit - the encore of Mister Class and Quality is missing. The master tape got damaged
at some point and, try as he might, the taper could not salvage that song. :-(

Total Time - 60 minutes 22 seconds
Sound quality - not too bad - a solid B

DEREK SHULMAN lead vocals, bass, saxophone
PHIL SHULMAN - lead vocals, saxophone, trumpet
RAY SHULMAN - bass, violin, percussion, trumpet
KERRY MINNEAR - keyboards, cello, vibes, percussion
GARY GREEN - guitars
JOHN WEATHERS - drums

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Gentle Giant 1972 (2 Pack) (FLAC)

Gentle Giant 1972 (2 Pack)


Gentle Giant Live at the Grugahalle, Essen, Germany 1972-01-21

Giant
Funny Ways
Nothing At All
Plain Truth
God Save The Queen

Lineage: Silver CD "Gargantua" ->FLAC

Enjoy!

A DoinkerTape


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Gentle Giant 1972-04-28 Town Hall Cheltenham England (T-393)

This release is sourced from a cassette tape that I got in trade many years ago from a fellow trader / taper in England. It's an audience recording. This is from John Weather’s first tour with the band, when they opened for a Jimi Hendrix film, Jimi Plays Berkeley. it’s also the only known tape to include the song Schooldays.

Mics and Recorder unknown >
Cassette >
Playback Deck: Tascam 130 >
Nikko 32 Band EQ >
Akai DR16 Digital Hard Disk Recorder >
HHB CDR-800 Compact Disc Recorder >
CDR > WAV >CD Wave Editor > FLAC


1. (tune up)
2. Prologue
3. Alucard
4. Funny Ways
5. Nothing At All (including drum solo)
6. School Days
7. Plain Truth
8. The Queen


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Gentle Giant - Frankfurt (October 29,1973) (FLAC)

GENTLE GIANT
Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
1973-10-29 (October 29th 1973)

AUD - B

Lineage - unknown analog source>CD-R>dBpowerAMP>FLAC level 4>you

(Checked with EAC to ensure that this is not MP3 sourced).



01. The Runaway
02. Way Of Life
03. Funny Ways
04. Knots
05. The Advent Of Panurge
06. Nothing At All (including drum solo/percussion bash)
07. Plain Truth (including violin solo)
08. In A Glass House (including guitar solo) - incomplete

Derek Shulman - vocals, saxes, bass guitar
Ray Shulman - vocals, bass guitar, violin
Kerry Minnear - vocals, keyboards, cello, vibes
Gary Green - vocals, lead guitar
John Weathers - drums, percussion


This is a fairly good audience recording, considering when it was made, a bit "muddy"
at times, but generally very listenable. I've certainly heard worse... probably a "B",
although as I've said before, these things are very much down to personal taste.


It came to me on CD-R, and I've left things pretty much as they were - I've just made three
minor amendments to the recording, removing approximately one second of drop-out during the
audience reaction after The Advent Of Panurge, and removing about 40 seconds of auditorium
noise that followed the applause for Plain Truth and preceded the re-appearance of the band
for the encore (In A Glass House). Sadly, the encore was incomplete, suffering a rather
hurried fade-out on my version, so I tidied this up without removing any actual music - I
simply made the fade-out a little less jarring. I believe the recording sounds a little
smoother as a result, and no changes to the music itself have been made.

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Gentle Giant-Ultrasonic 75 (October 7, 1975)

Gentle Giant
Ultrasonic Stadios, October 7th 1975


QUALITY: Very Good


01 Cogs in Cogs
02 Proclamation
03 Funny Way
04 The Runaway / Experience
05 Octpus Medley (The Boys In The Band, Dog's Life, Knots, The Advent Of Panurge)
06 So Sincere
07 Free Hand
08 Just The Same

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Gentle Giant-Montreal (October 27, 1972)

GENTLE GIANT
Centre Sportif de l'Universite de Montreal, Quebec, CAN
October 7th 1972

AUD - B

Lineage - unknown analog source



01. Prologue
02. Alucard
03. Funny Ways
04. Nothing At All
05. Plain Truth
06. Peel The Paint

Derek Shulman - vocals, saxes, bass guitar
Ray Shulman - vocals, bass guitar, violin
Phil Shulman - vocals, saxes, trumpet
Kerry Minnear - vocals, keyboards, cello, vibes
Gary Green - vocals, lead guitar
John Weathers - drums, percussion

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