These guys have been my "desert island band" since I was turned on to them by my jazz piano teacher back in 1993. Love to see the Yamaha YC-45D Kerry has to the left and plays during the bridge. I used to have one, plus an identical stack (deliberately, of course!) as his back in the day: Hammond organ down low, Wurlitzer electric piano in the middle, and a Claviinet D6 to top it off. (Then I built a shelf over the Clav and perched a Roland Juno 60 synth up high.) Happy days! Pugwash Weathers is my favorite drummer and probably biggest influence. Go Wales!
Two weeks in Spain makes the year disappear easy Two weeks in Spain, you forget, bored and yet weary We're back again, drink the wine, weather's fine, only Two weeks in Spain's not enough
1978 and what a sound !!!! What a group of course and what an amazing song, all is good, not boring or sad, like other prog can be with the years...... this band is alway very modern and in the time for 2020 !!!! Incredible ! My favorite prog group with Kansas. This guys are part of the human music history ....
+Jeff Smart @2:05 Kerrys little keyboard doodle sound much better in this concert then on the actual recording, it has that crystal pure and ethereal sound to it - best bit in my oppinion.
I FIRST HEARD THIS TRACK IN 1978 . MY 30 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER RECENTLY GOT MARRIED THIS JULY 2023 AND SHE WENT TO SPAIN FOR TWO WEEKS I MUST HAVE PLAYED THIS SONG AND TO HER AND MY SON IN LAW A HUNDRED TIMES ..IT'S A ROUNDABOUT !
John Weathers. What a stunning drummer! If you watch a listen carefully, you will find that during the chorus (Two Weeks in Spain) he doesn't play after-beat snare on the 2 and the 4 but hits the snare on the 1 and the 3. And it's PERFECT.
Man these guys are just awesome..as a drummer watching this guy play with that commitment and laying it down.. love it... oh and the bass playing. Is any one else thinking David Brent LOL. Sooo good!
My father was a NYC old school club date musician...played piano and trumpet for some 30 years with some of the most incredible jazz musicians in the country.....when I turned him onto Gentle Giant he was really impressed...blown away to say the least...the album was Free Hand..
:D i can agree, spain is really a beautiful country. Been there i think already more than 10 times. Specially the Mountains in Spain are absolutely gorgeous!
I saw them twice in a year. The second time they opened with this. Until that time I had disregarded the tune. Blown away is an understatement. The syncopation in the middle eight was not to be believed. ❤
Back in 1978 we bought a 'Prinzsound' radio/cassette recorder from Dixons. That night GG were in concert on the radio and I taped the whole thing and played it till the tape wore out - this was my favourite track
I am sure BTS has their own charm but these guys!! I love this band of awkwardly dressed GUYS! Their more adventurous songs are cool but I also love their later, more groovy(?) tunes too. If I were a rock musician, I'd be dressed and play like Ray, the bassist. But every giant was and is awesome!
Yep absolutely agree with you a gazillion% my ultimate hero and favorite musician ever along with keery minnear. Gentle giant is/was the greatest most epic legendary genius band ever.
Catchy song, funky even, but it would have been nice if the keyboards had been replaced by guitars... I remember this song from ca. '78 .I think my aunt had this album...
Dave McEvoy Try a listen to the Rat Race Choir version, especially their 1978 version at Speaks (no video) here on UA-cam, it's done well, very guitar heavy but keys still work too. Mark Hitt uses a Gibson hollow body, I think an ES-355, and it works well.
Very niche, can understand why they weren't widely known, as opposed to Jethro Tull with a more accessible sound, but this is definitely a niche I enjoy, very funk influenced, could almost be prog-hop
La intro está sacado de un pasodoble que suele tocarse en las plazas de toros durante las corridas, por ptra parte Gentle Giant tiene gran influencia de Frank Zappa en casi todas sus canciones, además de la música tradicional medieval, una enorme banda de rock progresivo, inmejorables
that s gentle gaint music two week s in spain drive power lyrics i like the most older song s super i see one time the band in klln germany i injou the super time now what s happen s with the band yes genisis pink ployd jethro tull super life music super free feeling that s life and now computer music shit music
@@sharonlee4773 and by the way, this one song was a desperate attempt at doing something commercially viable enough to be a hit single. They were getting tons of pressure from the record company, as critically acclaimed as they were. In fact, their attempt at a punk song appears on this album, buried around some progressive/pop/ rock masterpieces. The album they made after this was a catastrophic straight ahead pop failure, and after one more very good mostly straight rock and roll album they had to call it quits in the early 1980s. Truly sad, they deserved a lot better.
@@sharonlee4773 I don't know what happened to my original reply so I'm going to do it again. If you think that Bach and Beethoven were "jerking off" then maybe your opinion could be respected by others who feel the same way. I don't. Further, I question whether you ever heard any of their other music from their 11 or so albums, or if you just took this one snapshot song as your basis for trashing them as "not as good as Zappa," which is kind of an asinine perspective from the outset. I've certainly got no problem with Frank Zappa, but what if I picked out one Mothers song, analyzed it to death, and concluded that Frank Zappa's music is far inferior to Gentle Giant's The Power and the Glory album? But I won't fall any further into the rabbit hole of trying to change some ones internet opinion. Enjoy your Zappa and your sex pistols.
@@garycitro1674 Wait up now,let me get this straight.Youre aligning the genius of Bach and Beethoven with this prog shite?? Man even Zappa (who I respect), cant be compared to Bach and Beethoven!! And Frank would be the first to say so. Im assuming youre American then! And possibly high?
is anybody else addicted to this song?
Definitely!
in a word... yes
oh yes!
+CJ From Grove Street DITTO
I play this song on keyboard and voice !!!
I never even heard of this band a month ago. Now each album is an unexplored gem.
Congrats you have discovered the greatest most epic legendary unique genius band ever.
You lucky, lucky person! Enjoy!
One of those songs that, once it's in your head it takes up residency. That bass is ridiculous.
Ray Shulman was a monster on bass.
Ray is easily too 5 greatest ever criminally underated
Absolutely..
No argument from me.
And that tone is the fattest!
@@phairlever awesome bass sound.
John elfin Weathers! What a FEEL....committed to the groove 100%
Every part of Gentle Giant is fucking incredible and beyond anything I've ever heard before
John Weathers was beating on those drums like they owed him money or something! Nice!
"Like they owed him money" LOL awesome !
I thought the same first time i saw this
hilarious comment
1:00
@@mautnerr🥁 + no 💰 = 😠
R.I.P Ray Shulman 😢😢
These guys have been my "desert island band" since I was turned on to them by my jazz piano teacher back in 1993.
Love to see the Yamaha YC-45D Kerry has to the left and plays during the bridge. I used to have one, plus an identical stack (deliberately, of course!) as his back in the day: Hammond organ down low, Wurlitzer electric piano in the middle, and a Claviinet D6 to top it off. (Then I built a shelf over the Clav and perched a Roland Juno 60 synth up high.) Happy days! Pugwash Weathers is my favorite drummer and probably biggest influence. Go Wales!
Oh god yeah!! F Yeah!!! The greatest most epic legendary unique genius band ever.
drummer does a great job
Two weeks in Spain makes the year disappear easy
Two weeks in Spain, you forget, bored and yet weary
We're back again, drink the wine, weather's fine, only
Two weeks in Spain's not enough
The drummer just is too cool !
ANIMAAAAAAL !
The drummer is related to someone ik :,)
Beast mode!
1978 and what a sound !!!! What a group of course and what an amazing song, all is good, not boring or sad, like other prog can be with the years...... this band is alway very modern and in the time for 2020 !!!! Incredible !
My favorite prog group with Kansas. This guys are part of the human music history ....
I absolutely adore how the bass sounds in this
what a mean bass sound! love this performance
It gets in my head. Can't get it out. Great song
dont know how they did it-sounds EVEN BETTER!!!!-the bass/drum/guitar-perfection!!!
+Jeff Smart @2:05 Kerrys little keyboard doodle sound much better in this concert then on the actual recording, it has that crystal pure and ethereal sound to it - best bit in my oppinion.
kool
I FIRST HEARD THIS TRACK IN 1978 . MY 30 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER RECENTLY GOT MARRIED THIS JULY 2023 AND SHE WENT TO SPAIN FOR TWO WEEKS I MUST HAVE PLAYED THIS SONG AND TO HER AND MY SON IN LAW A HUNDRED TIMES ..IT'S A ROUNDABOUT !
The best band...forever!
+Anatheo Drum Yes indeed- They are the greatest most underated band ever
These guys are top notch musicians!
Perfección.. sin dudarlo Gentle Giant. estarán siempre presentes!
John Weathers. What a stunning drummer! If you watch a listen carefully, you will find that during the chorus (Two Weeks in Spain) he doesn't play after-beat snare on the 2 and the 4 but hits the snare on the 1 and the 3. And it's PERFECT.
This music makes me happy :)
Man these guys are just awesome..as a drummer watching this guy play with that commitment and laying it down.. love it... oh and the bass playing. Is any one else thinking David Brent LOL. Sooo good!
Badass drummer
This is the power of Scotland
Only one of them was born in Scotland, and he grew up in Portsmouth.
Excelente
Brilliant musicians 🤟
My father was a NYC old school club date musician...played piano and trumpet for some 30 years with some of the most incredible jazz musicians in the country.....when I turned him onto Gentle Giant he was really impressed...blown away to say the least...the album was Free Hand..
Love Gentle Giant repping the Oakland A's! 👌
Man that drummer is beating the fuck out of that high hat like a bad habit.
He's hitting those drums like they owe him money!
the drummer is holding it down. He's laying in on those drums !!!
Beating them like they owe him money.
Kerry has the best moves haha
RIP, Ray!
puta que pariu a melhor banda do mundo
it really cant get any better than that for its age
:D i can agree, spain is really a beautiful country. Been there i think already more than 10 times. Specially the Mountains in Spain are absolutely gorgeous!
glorious, just glorious
I keep dipping into the GG..love this...and the rest is growing on me!!
I saw them twice in a year. The second time they opened with this. Until that time I had disregarded the tune. Blown away is an understatement. The syncopation in the middle eight was not to be believed. ❤
Saw them 3 or 4 time back in their heyday. Good fun. Them and Crimson the start of math rock!
Great mix🎉. Absolutely sreading joy. Long live Giant
Genius! Now finally, after five decades, the bass end can be revelled in on the new 2024 remix! The missing piece!
Indeed!
Always wondered who sang this tune, for more than 40 years it has been rattling about in my head 🤔, the power of you tube..who would've thought.
D.E.P. Ray Shulman 😢
What a band they were.
Yup - and that grity sound really ties it all together :)
Back in 1978 we bought a 'Prinzsound' radio/cassette recorder from Dixons. That night GG were in concert on the radio and I taped the whole thing and played it till the tape wore out - this was my favourite track
@iade38
On the money, friend. Anyone who tries to play his parts knows he is one of the most underrated bass players period...
The bass is fuckin amazing, how the fuck didnt I discover this before?
bravo! awesome music!!!
Queen is the poor man’s Gentle Giant
Sadly, Ray Shulman passed away March 30, 2023.
RIP.
Brilliant!
Yes its great!
Great song!
On my 2nd week in Spain now
Brilliant seen them at Newcastle in 76
Crumbs! This is in 4/4 time! Whatever happened to 7/8, 11/4, etc? This is a brilliant song - it’s really funny!
I am sure BTS has their own charm but these guys!! I love this band of awkwardly dressed GUYS! Their more adventurous songs are cool but I also love their later, more groovy(?) tunes too. If I were a rock musician, I'd be dressed and play like Ray, the bassist. But every giant was and is awesome!
the keyboard, at first, which scratches his ass :)
I’ve always loved Weathers decked out in Oakland gear for this gig lol
Rockin tune!
My favourite band back in the day, and John Weathers is a badass wicked motherfucker!
A beast!
I say again - Ray Shulman = genius!
Yep absolutely agree with you a gazillion% my ultimate hero and favorite musician ever along with keery minnear. Gentle giant is/was the greatest most epic legendary genius band ever.
it's such a heavy groove, but at the same time, i can't seem to find the 1! That takes a lot of talent to write something like that!
go go guys keep up singing...
WE MISS YOU RAY! R.I.P 30 DE MARZO.
Dig it!
If you ever spent 2 weeks in Spain, you know what they mean…….🤗
😀 ! This is it ! 😀
🐂💨💨💨💨💨
love that mr weathers.. such fine and solid music .. a band that's never gotten their proper druthers
Hilarious whenever the camera shows Kerry Minnear shaking his butt.
Avi Soncino he's got the moves haha
He has so much legendary genius in him he has to shake out the excess
Which tours did you see?This is definitely higher IQ music-like most all British Prog from that era.
n1
When this stuff gets inta yer head, ya can't get it out!
Bill Hicks on guitar!
Good observation i noticed the same thing before
Catchy song, funky even, but it would have been nice if the keyboards had been replaced by guitars... I remember this song from ca. '78 .I think my aunt had this album...
Dave McEvoy Try a listen to the Rat Race Choir version, especially their 1978 version at Speaks (no video) here on UA-cam, it's done well, very guitar heavy but keys still work too. Mark Hitt uses a Gibson hollow body, I think an ES-355, and it works well.
OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!! :-) That's Kerry Freakin' Minnear, a modern day Mozart!!!
Very niche, can understand why they weren't widely known, as opposed to Jethro Tull with a more accessible sound, but this is definitely a niche I enjoy, very funk influenced, could almost be prog-hop
Derek Shulman Is totally crazy😮😮😮
2:03 que chingooon !!..puro Ray !!
Tighter than an ants chuff!
Great tune... Thanks for sharing it.
Anyone have the "Rat Race Choir" version of this classic?
Why does Derek Shulma remind me so much of Ethan Klien of H3H3! Lmao
I can see it.
@chuckstadbass Which high school & band was that?? That Palladium show was outstanding.!!
Sounds like they got this from funk it up by sweet
@gogorox93 i think they were around long before ian dury................
La intro está sacado de un pasodoble que suele tocarse en las plazas de toros durante las corridas, por ptra parte Gentle Giant tiene gran influencia de Frank Zappa en casi todas sus canciones, además de la música tradicional medieval, una enorme banda de rock progresivo, inmejorables
Like a cross between Genesis & The Blockheads, but better
that s gentle gaint music
two week s in spain
drive power lyrics
i like the most older song s
super i see one time the band in klln germany
i injou the super time
now
what s happen s with the band
yes genisis pink ployd jethro tull
super life music
super free feeling
that s life
and now
computer music
shit music
Kerry Minnear! 2:19
Why did John Weathers always wear an Oakland A's uniform?
This funky groovy thing kills the pop...
did anyone notice the keyboard player pick his butt at the beginning?
Yeah he was pickin a wedge. His underwear was bunched up inside his ass crack.
Gasp! It's Jack Black!
Been a fan of the band since 1976... Very underrated and hated by some..Not me, some of progressive rocks best!!
It’s like a cut price Zappa but without any songs.
Zappa gave kudos to them more than once, you can look it up.
@@garycitro1674 But Zappa made some sense out of virtuoso-this is just riffs,motiffs n jerking off! No wonder Punk came along!
@@sharonlee4773 and by the way, this one song was a desperate attempt at doing something commercially viable enough to be a hit single. They were getting tons of pressure from the record company, as critically acclaimed as they were. In fact, their attempt at a punk song appears on this album, buried around some progressive/pop/ rock masterpieces. The album they made after this was a catastrophic straight ahead pop failure, and after one more very good mostly straight rock and roll album they had to call it quits in the early 1980s. Truly sad, they deserved a lot better.
@@sharonlee4773 I don't know what happened to my original reply so I'm going to do it again. If you think that Bach and Beethoven were "jerking off" then maybe your opinion could be respected by others who feel the same way. I don't. Further, I question whether you ever heard any of their other music from their 11 or so albums, or if you just took this one snapshot song as your basis for trashing them as "not as good as Zappa," which is kind of an asinine perspective from the outset. I've certainly got no problem with Frank Zappa, but what if I picked out one Mothers song, analyzed it to death, and concluded that Frank Zappa's music is far inferior to Gentle Giant's The Power and the Glory album?
But I won't fall any further into the rabbit hole of trying to change some ones internet opinion. Enjoy your Zappa and your sex pistols.
@@garycitro1674 Wait up now,let me get this straight.Youre aligning the genius of Bach and Beethoven with this prog shite?? Man even Zappa (who I respect), cant be compared to Bach and Beethoven!! And Frank would be the first to say so. Im assuming youre American then! And possibly high?
I'm not sure if I should like The Missing Piece or not. At least, it is better than Civilian. Plus, it rocks. But it is GG...
You should LOVE The Missing Piece. Go listen to For Nobady and have an epiphany.
Despite being a prog guy, I've always found this song so incredibly annoying that I can't even listen to any other GG songs.
Get out of town you misguided clown this song/tune is damm fucking great and GG is the greatest band ever
So silly