Part 2: Gentle Giant FULL BAND 2023 Interview Steven Wilson Remix
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2023
- Here's part 2 of our band with the living members of Gentle Giant's album “Interview”
Watch part 1: • Gentle Giant FULL BAND...
@GentleGiantOfficial has just released a new @StevenWilsonHQ remix of their 1976 classic "Interview" and we have all the living members here to talk about it! (Plus some commentary by Ray Shulman before he passed away)
Derek Shulman
Kerry Minnear
Gary Green
John "Pugwash" Weathers
This is part 2 of a pretty lengthy conversation led by MWM and @MikeKeneallyChannelOfficial
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Kerry Minnear is such a humble genius.
Indeed
I’d prefer Kerry oversees a remix vs S. Wilson. I still prefer the original mixes of their incredible music over these remixes. True for other bands remixes
I hope the boys are checking back on the comments, I saw the band in 1975 when they played in St. Louis, MO. I never heard of them. I was 22 and with my girlfriend who would eventually be my wife and my younger brother who was 17. We chose the concert to see Rick Wakeman. When Gentle Giant came on my brother and I looked at each other in awe. When they finished their act, we were no longer interested in seeing Rick Wakeman. The next day I was off to Peaches Records to get Free Hand. I remember that day like yesterday. Cheers gentleman.......👍
Gentle Giant is the most talented band I’ve ever listened to. Each and every one of them are/were absolutely amazing musicians. Much love and respect to Mike Keneally as well (another great musician in his own right).
Rest in peace Ray Shulman. You will surely be missed…but never forgotten by us diehard prog fans.
Fully agreed
John Weathers: The pinnacle of Prog Rock (etc.) drumming.
I LOVE his drumming, etc.
huge thanks to anthony, mike k, and the "boys in the band". for a fan like me, this is a treasure trove.
Aw shucks. Thank you Rich
Playing the Fool remix LET'S GO!
Heck yeah!
Pugwash going off on The Eagles made my week!
I can't stand the Eagles, so this story just reinforced that haha
@@MakeWeirdMusic me too! There's a Lebowski quote in there somewhere
A country western band….love it 🤣
No one could challenge the power Pugwash's drum face...no one. Oh yeah, he was a great drummer too.
Gentle Giant's legacy will only evolve and unfold into a greater mass appeal. Why? Well at the time of their band tenure, they spoke a musical language that was absolutely fresh, innovative, and damned authentic. They did not adhere to formula. It was all an expression of sincerity regardless of the form. With that said, it takes time to absorb these new ideas and bake them into one's consciousness. Hence, their recordings are just beginning to be realized by other musicians and an audience that can appreciate their output. I'm just grateful to have experienced their work when it was being recorded and released to us college kids. No one could predict what Giant would release or where they would take us. It was an absolute gas! It was all so sincere.
Agreed. Timeless music. Thanks James!
I agree. I tried to describe the music to someone the other day (impossible task as the interviewer on interview found out). I just said there are many genres of music - country, classical, jazz, folk etc and then there is gentle giant in a genre of their own.
I agree with you except for your first sentence. GG will never have any sort of mass appeal. Most people don't actually listen to music, they just keep it on on the background. Most people don't want to have to "figure out" their music. I have come to accept that after 50+ years of having known only a single other person who also enjoyed this sort of music. I typically don't even bother trying to share it with anyone anymore. I'm old enough that I saw these guys live four times.
@@beammeupscotty1955 me too and I agree to all of that but great music will live on as long as the musos of each new generation get it and that’s good to know.
"Playing the Fool" is one of the best live albums by anyone. And the live gurning is unsurpassed.
So many funny moments in this. The Eagles story is pure lol
I know. I muted my mic so everyone wouldn't hear my laughter throughout haha
GG to Eagles to Yes? That's almost like having King Crimson and Peter Gabriel Genesis with Willy Nelson in between.
@@gj8683 With the exception that Willie Nelson is actually a talented and interesting artist, unlike the totally full-of-themselves band that prompted your analogy.
Thanks for part two Anthony 🙂 "Four Friends" reminiscing about past experiences. It's so great to see them being so happy about their accomplishments and sharing them with us.
Thanks for watching Don!
RIP Ray Shulman.
The name of the manager they are talking about is Patrick Meehan. Black Sabbath named a record "in honor" of this guy, "Sabotage", after GG blew the whistle.
These guys were masters of the odd time blasts. Superb musicians one and all.
this second part turned out to be more fun and more interesting somehow.. maybe the boys having warmed up by this moment.. this was so enjoyable to watch .. wish Ray would've been here too
Yeah, we all eased up a bit and it became less of an "interview"
Interesting comments about Yes. Doesn't surprise me.
I love that these guys still get on so well. What a hilarious interview. One of my two concert regrets is never seeing Gentle Giant (the other is never seeing Pink Floyd).
I saw them in Springfield Mass opening for 'Focus'.
The audience chanted Gentle Giant through most of Focus set🍷
Great fun hearing the band chat. As well as being the best band ever they also come across as really nice people. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching
It is so fantastic to see and hear the stories from such a great band and the fact that, they are being recognized, 50+ yrs later for their brilliance. I am 66 and was a fan since '73, saw them many times when they were in So. Cal.. The Missing Piece tour/show ('77) was amazing, especially Memories of old Days-everyone playing Gtrs !!. I like the story about the Eagles and what a-holes they are/were...never liked that band. I was a pro keyboard player and a very experienced analog synth. programmer. The xylophone "sound" on Another Show can be achieved by resonating the white noise generator on a Mini-Moog, I have discovered and duplicated it....thanks for sharing the very entertaining "Interview" !!
Thanks for watching, Stan!
Wonderful stuff, fingers crossed for In a Glass House.
No kidding. It'd be magic if they could!
Oh yes.
Any of you guys heard three piece suit ? Its a Steve Wilson remix from master tapes of the first 3 albums. Not all tracks were available but pentagruels nativity and schooldays are amazing. I think its the closest we will get on the first 3 but hopefully Glasshouse could be done. Hope so anyway. Love to the band and all you posters who know the truth.
Gentle Giant. The greatest band of all time. Nuff said.
@@peterduff3082 A Steve Wilson remix of In a Glass House would be way beyond awesome. It was my go-to GG album for many years and, even now, for me, is tied for first place among their recordings.
Fantastic to hear from the band I have loved and have had album's in my collection for 48 years 👍👍
Gentle Giant is a band of excellent gentlemen
I’m with Mike Keneally, I think the Timing solo is brilliant. The harsh tone, spitting out notes. It rocks so well.
It sounds like the telecaster, isn't it? And it is a typical Gary Green solo with all the energy. I love it too!
Gary sounds like a furious cat on that solo, right from the first notes... Always loved it too!
Timing is possibly my favorite song on the album. Incredible music.
Great interview, both these 2 videos and the album, and amazingly great band. I very much enjoy hearing their detailed experiences and opinions about their music.
GG were a band of brothers. Not 2 or 3 brothers, but 5 brothers. Just awesome guys. Composers, musicians, artists, virtuosos. The real deal! Can't digest the fact that this was so long ago. Can't get over Ray leaving us. I'd love to talk to these guys again. So may questions and so much I still want to hear from these guys, even after so many interviews. Thanks everyone. Mike and Anthony are doing an amazing job here and a huge service to the music community.
That was just lovely, thank you
Hello there...or, as Scot Lade would say (well, shout), greetings and salutations! I've just watched the 1 hour 50 minute live stream on Gentle Giant partly because I'm a recent subscriber to Scot's channel but mainly because the subject is my favourite rock group. Thus I discovered your channel, Prisms Of Prog, Spinning Prog and that splendid Swedish chap, Pontus. I'll subscribe to your channel now because chaps like you deserve our support.
Although I am old enough to have been aware of the original progressive groups of the 1970s, I only discovered them in 2002. Prior to that I only listened to classical music, mainly baroque and 20th century. As an inveterate snob, I assumed 'pop music' was far too shallow and insubstantial for me to waste my valuable time upon. However, our group (UNIT) had Cheung Yiu Munn in it, an 18 year old Hong Kong Chinese lad who was our flute and guitar player from 2002 to 2011. He found my musical snobbery deplorable and insisted I take notice of these ancient groups he loved (primarily Jethro Tull, ELP, Yes, Genesis and Dream Theatre). To cut a long story short, while I found some of that music interesting, even inspiring (especially Tull), I investigated further and managed to discover Colosseum, The Family, Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Gentle Giant by myself. The Family and Gentle Giant are, to date, the only groups for which I have in my collection every studio tracks they ever recorded. There are few tracks from Bandstand that only barely make the grade and most (but not all) of the tracks from the final 3 Giant albums are definitely below par yet still good enough (but only just) for me to retain in my collection.
The advantage for me here is that my introduction to this music is devoid of any hint of nostalgia so it was all totally new to me. (As an aside, it's faintly ironic it took a Chinese teenager to introduce me to music from my own culture. I wonder though...how did an 18 year old Chinese lad become acquainted with numerous progressive rock groups from the 1970s?) Anyway, when I heard Octopus and Glass House for the first time (in 2003), I could not believe what I heard. I spent 3 or days listening to those 2 albums in order to try to comprehend all the different, disparate musical strands. Like The Family they utilised all manner of varied instruments but unlike The Family they mastered harmony, counterpoint and rhythmic complexity that forced me to admit not only classical musicians know how to compose and perform music that merited my attention - groovy! The progressive rock influence is apparent on a fair number of our own pieces although we do not possess the astonishing technical proficiency of any of these groups, especially not Gentle Giant, but I don't want this to appear as a thinkly disguised attempt to advertise our own group, so I'll stop here.
I hope your channel introduces more young people (and maybe not so young people) to progressive rock, especially the groups who are not so famous. Rock on!
I’m glad you spent so much time discussing the camaraderie and trust within the group. You can hear it. I think it even shows in the compositions. I’ve always attributed the “lack” of guitar solos to the fact that the compositions are generally intended to make everyone shine, rather than give the spotlight to an individual. Not that all the members don’t have great individual contributions. Thanks!
Great Giant insights , love it thanks all 😉🤘🏻
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it
Cracking interview once again with the band and very well enjoyed it. Love everything about the way these albums have been reborn again with the array of mixes you get, n these packages. Being a surround FREAK! I am in Multichannel Heaven with them and not only are Steve Wilson's mixes great to have but also the original Quad mixes of these albums. No doubt Wilson has once again done a stellar job on Interview has he as with the others and of course I want the rest of their albums to have the same treatment. I would also like to see either an individual blu ray or CD/Blu-Ray release of the band's debut album get released.
Thanks so much!
Love to hear that you guys have a sense of humor about yourselves.
Thanks so much for this, brings back so many memories of the expectation and anticipation when a new GG album came out, so long ago now. Wonderful to see them reminicing with such fond memories and humour, RIP RS.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Great interview!! I first heard gentle giant on the radio "playing the game" which was unlike anything I had ever heard .. I bought the live album in search of it, then the missing piece - sadly I was young and poor so it wasn't until much later I found it on the power and the glory - I eventually collected them all - of course, the treasure is, in fact, unburied treasure. Amazing collection after all the years of collecting live albums and dreaming of the bootlegs shown on Dan's GG website. So great to hear stories from the band directly - lucky time to be alive, as a fan! Of course, I miss Ray, as he was such a force and talent - thank you all!
At 19:12: John Weather recalls a "three act" tour with Giant opening, The Eagles in the middle, and then Yes. Priceless.
Delightful second part!!!! Thank you!!! Do you think an interview with only Kerry Minnear could be possible? Talking about his thoughts on harmony, melody, percussion, contrast, counterpoint, choosing how to continue a part, etc…?
I would love to, but I'm pretty sure he would rather be crushed by an anvil.
Yes! I’d love that!
Thanks a million Anthony! 🤗 I so hope these interviews and the music parts reach new ears and produces more fans, if anyone deserves it, it's Gentle Giant, and also young aspiring musicians who can learn a lot from these cats, and give them something to hone their chops with!🤩
Once again I am sufficiently weirded out, and I thank you for it!😜
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
@@MakeWeirdMusic You bet! I noticed Mike has two Tiesco's on the wall behind him, those were freaking Rad, and had rock solid necks, and more controls than most could operate on the fly during a gig! My 62 Hofner galaxy was like that too. Every once in a while one of those type guitars comes into my shop for repair and I get to do some surgery on it and then make weird music!😅
Thank you so much for this.Although virtual still its so great to see these giants all together again!
Agreed. Thanks for watching
@@MakeWeirdMusic You made my day with these interviews.Great channel too.
FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!!! i sure wish they had ALL the studio album multitrack tapes for SW to remix/update. LOVE YOU GG!!! 🙏🏼😎❤♾
Very first concert I ever went to was Gentle Giant Interview tour! It's great hearing these guys together! Wish Ray was there too...
Yayyyy!!! Great job Anthony!
Thank you!
Best evening i've spent in a long time. Thx
Thanks for watching, Billy
This was amazing !!! Thank you
Glad you liked it
I appreciate your bravery in discussing Yes ... and the Weevils.
So good to see all these guys together and being so nice (except when talking about Steve Howe !)
@MakeWeirdMusic - Yes, I should have checked ALL your videos first because I did indeed see your lovely Ray Shulman tribute...the moral: I should have checked first before I left my comment!
One of my top top favorite shows were seeing you & King Crimson in Oklahoma City 1973 there was less than 500 people
There ….fantastic killer show
Thank you so much for this! LOVE ALL THE GUYS!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just loved these interviews on Interview plus. Really disappointed to hear that Yes were so unsociable. The thought of my 2 favourite bands on the same billing would have been absolute magic. I was lucky enough to see Gentle Giant 3 times. The first being the Glass House tour. I'd bought the In A Glass House album because I loved the cover. When I got home and played the album I was hooked. Immediately got tickets for the imminent London show and went out and bought Octopus! GG live totally exceeded my expectations. Been a massive fan ever since. I too would love a Steven Wilson remix of Glass House, but sadly looks unlikely.
So lucky you got to see them live!
Great guys. Love it.
Love this!
It is so great listening to this conversation. It does portray the true band feel indeed.
Glad you enjoyed it
Having watched the first part of this group interview, I really wish that Kerry would pipe up more often. Obviously he and Ray were the major contributors to the amazing music that G.G. composed. When he is called upon for reflection, he seems to not remember a lot of things, I do hope that he's not slipping away mentally, but that does happen to highly creative people sometimes. So glad they aren't discussing "Give It Back", which I never did appreciate as a Gentle Giant song...faux reggae!
Yeah, but with a beat that was far more tricky than most reggae (this coming from a reggae lover, btw).
Gods !
Hearing the interview with these guys is nearly as fun and interesting as listening to their music.
👏👏👏👏👏
still, we NEED a Kerry Minnear specific interview as he is very quiet and shy….
Kerry has a mental block on a lot of GG stuff. But maybe if I can get some specific questions together, we can figure something out.
@@MakeWeirdMusic 1) why did you stop making music (in public) ? It's a crime against humanity IMHO :-) For a person who studied music in a prestigious college, then making records + touring for 10 years, wasn't there a possibility to continue and, most of all, the will ? Did you receive offers from other bands to join in your career? I mean, YES changed tens of keyboard players, they should have called you...or Tull ? 2) There was some music in the background of one of the GG DVDs, I read it comes from you, I beg you to release it (I pay !) together with some other stuff I'ms are is sitting around...
he
is
central to the whole scheme, yet he is the least opined of all!!
it's unsettling to see ...
🥔👁️🍅🏒🚨🏒
I agree, he seems to be the creative genius for so much of what I love about Gentle Giant. His compositions and ability to perform them flawlessly night after night. I love his catchy intros. Not so crazy about slow soft mellow ones though.
@@user-fe8yp1rb9mabsolutely- we need a Kerry Minnear solo lp but he puts up the excuse of writer’s block
This part of the interview is priceless - the lovely comments about Ray, the reveal that it was Weathers who was the voice during the honkey tonk piano in the title song and of course the infamous phone call. Hysterical! I've seen that several times and each time I see it - I lose it. Wonderful job! I'm truly enjoying it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
they could easily do a new album, just looking at the vibe they give up, but hey ! these 2 interviews are almost just as good !
I agree. Fun to have these recorded
I would give my right arm to have a new mix of Acquiring the Taste - one of my favorite albums of all time!
That can be arranged.
❤
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this ❤
I remember seeing GG at the Cow Palace in south San Francisco where they were opening for Yes. The audience was there primarily for Yes, whereas I was there for GG and they were so rude to GG that I almost went ballistic.
What a show
Interesting about the eagles giving it the biggun...music that sold but is dated as fuck vs the timeless music of GG...these guys are so modest...but so many people are tuning in to what they did and I hope new fans keep the flame burning
The missing piece I found an outlier where it comes to sound. It sounds very thin, lacks very much bass. Sounds congested and flat. The opposite is octopus. I always suspected that it was recorded with tubes electronics. Anyway, that sounds tube like, big and bold. I would be so happy if I could get some information about that.
Ah, I see one of the chaps from UNIT has left a typically verbose comment / story below or above, wherever this appears. Like him (or her), I came to progressive rock late in life and, like him (or her) Gentle Giant are one of my faves. This interview is splendid but (sigh) it's not the same without Ray Shulman. He was the youngest of the brothers, too. A commemorative video is definitely in order even though I suspect other You Tubers will make their own.
We did publish a tribute video to Ray. I don’t think we made it about ourselves. Maybe you’ll like it. 🤷
A friend saw Gentle Giant open for Black Sabbath at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans and apparently the crowd (if not Sabbath) was not appreciative of GG's efforts. It sounded like a mismatch to me, to say the least. About as bad a when Jethro Tull toured with a rap / funk group ... 🙂
Of course Yes was threatened by Gentle Giant. Yes.
Not to disparage Yes, but Gentle Giant was easily their equal, if not their superior.
2:32 Well, it's violence and sex in harmony...
Yeah. You know...
As if I didn’t already have enough reasons to hate the fkn Eagles, man. Their fault for agreeing to being sandwiched between two Prog acts. Take it out on your manager, Don.
Steve Howe did say that Gentle Giant was more innovative than Yes. (I'm surprised he would say that. He's a great guitarist, but humility is not his forte.)