GENTLE GIANT On Reflection Live Music Reaction - They are totally unbelievable! First time hearing
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GENTLE GIANT On Reflection Live Music Reaction
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They were the pinnacle of Progressive Rock.
Yes indeed, saw them as a backup to Jethro Tull at MSG, NY in the 70's
They are THE progressive rock band. Live they had no equal. My all-time favorites.
I met them after the show Very nice people with no ego .They signed my copy of Octopus
Ore of the most progressive of rock bands.
A unique assembly of super accomplished and talented musicians.
Saw them many times… one of my favorite bands of all time. Supremely talented. Great live act. Tight and highly entertaining.
Gentle Giant is another treasure from my youth.
Me too. And it still is. Forever! 🌟
The best. I was so lucky to have been the right age to make sure I maximized my Gentle Giant experiences. Wherever they were in the states, that’s where I was. Never a band like them, and never will be again.
Brilliant band decades ahead of its time
Yes of course, Gentle Giant are one of Classic Progs Greatest bands and more popular now than Ever !! 👍🎶🎸🎹🎻🥁🎤🎷🎺🎼
Still love them RIP Ray! Saw them live in Chicago later 70's....so incredibly talented & unique.
Totally progressive and super musicianship.
Saw Gentle Giant 4 times absolutely brilliant. Well worth a listen
I loved GG for at least two decades before I ever saw this (sight and sounds concert) I believe, I bought a bootleg about 15 years ago...But, when you know giant's work like the back of your hand, I was moved when I watched their live performances and them doing note for note from their studio works, having not seen them live...Thanks youtube...And unless you spend YEARS devouring their works; e.g. Octopus, Three Friends, In a glass house etc. it's only then you realize how important they are in the prog discussion. Listen to Acquiring The Taste 10 times in a row...That helps with the love....:)
My friends older sister had six tickets to Gentle Giant in 74 in a university lecture hall in Toronto. I was impressed saw them 3 more times including this tour.
Love them, own all of their albums.
The ultimate Prog band the Great Gentle Giant 💫❤️☝️
A stellar performance!!! ☮️❤️
very talented musicians. i have all their work. huge fan.
Such a talented group - saw them many times, never a crowd so it was very intimate and amazing !!!! - Very underrated - not underrated, just unknown. RIP Ray Shulman (guy on violin brother to Singer Derrick)
Ogni gruppo di quel periodo sono unici ,insuperabili,pazzeschi,virtuosi ,dei grandi della musica e resteranno per sempre i più grandi.
That was in memory of Ray Shulman who died recently. Ray is the one playing the viola and bass guitar and his brother Derek was on lead vocals. This is the band at their most Gryphon-esque ( a band who used to play early music and played instruments they made themselves) but they went beyond this. This version differs from the album version which is in three parts because its parts are in a different order. I'm told as well in the portion where they sing in four parts with the viola and vibraphone (I think) that Ray is playing the accompaniment to another part as he sings his own part which makes it even more difficult. There was recently the analysis by Doug Helvering (a Classical composer) where he was commenting on it at great length whilst following it in a musical score but that seems to have disappeared from UA-cam. However his 50 minute long reaction to the whole of the Free Hand album is still up ua-cam.com/video/p-VYUSV0_6A/v-deo.html
The band were not mega-successful at the time although they had plenty of fans worldwide but they appear to be becoming more popular again nowadays, especially with the Stephen Wilson remixes and UA-cam.
All in all a fitting tribute to Ray who leaves us with fond memories.
You've now played the band three times. Firstly "Proclamation" ua-cam.com/video/XcCLlVHzNis/v-deo.html then in April, "Free Hand" ua-cam.com/video/0681B0sgnlM/v-deo.html and also Simon Dupree and the Big Sound which the Shulmans led.
In my way did I use you, do you think I really abused you
On reflection now it doesn't matter:
How can you say I made you need me more than anyone else
Who can say it right now it's finished over:
It's my act, it's my calling, I explained exactly the falling
Different ways of life can never even:
Be the same when you saw me, could you always take me the
Same way As I came and went I tried to remember you:
Still, you stay
Tied in your way
Changing times
Watching the signs
How:
Could you see in me what you thought about all you want me to be
Now:
On reflection why should have I changed my ways for you
All around all around, all around all around
All around all around, all around all around
Cry my sympathy's with you but I never lied to you all in all
It seems it's just an experience:
Placed my cards on the table told of everything I was able
Understanding still, not anything different:
Find another to lean on, start again for I should have long
Gone, on reflection now it's just an experience:
Soon the pain will have ended, together never intended, as I
Come and go I'll try to remember you:
Still, you stay
Tied in your way
Changing times
Watching the signs
How:
All around all around, all around all around
All around all around, all around all around
All around all around, all around all around
All around all around, all around all around
All around all around, all around all around
All around all around, all around all around
I'll remember the good things how can you forget all the years
That we shared in our way:
Things were changing my life, taking your place in my life and
Our time drifting away:
I'll remember the good things how can you forget all the years
That we shared in our way:
Things were changing my life, taking your place in my life and
Our time drifting away:
Look back it's not your game, together just in name
I'll remember the good things how can you forget all the years
That we shared in our way:
Things were changing my life, taking your place in my life and
Our time drifting away:
I'll remember the good things how can you forget all the years
That we shared in our way:
Things were changing my life, taking your place in my life and
Our time drifting away:
I'll remember the good things how can you forget all the years
That we shared in our way:
Things were changing my life, taking your place in my life and
Our time drifting away:
All around all around, all around all around
All around all around, all around all around
All around all around, all around all around
All around all around, all around all around
All around all around, all around all around
All around all around, all around all around
Wow, I had no idea Ray died recently. So sad and way too young. One of the greatest multi-instrumentalists of ours or any era. If it made sound Ray could play it at a virtuoso level. The definition of underappreciated. Only some of the greatest compositions, arrangements and performances ever recorded. Peace and love to his family. Thanks for making our lives that much better by sharing your genius.
Interesting lyrics from the perspective of a guy that was dumped by his lover, while he still cares romantically…while she has moved on coldly.
Same with think of me with kindness.
Great group. Saw them open for Tull in Baltimore. 1972ish.
Life changing.
RIP Ray
ua-cam.com/video/mlR7YbM7_Jc/v-deo.htmlsi=zYbmyLb3dg4_E-Wq
Definitely from the best british progressive rock !
One of the best live bands ever. At the risk of sounding petty, Derek should have rethought the jumpsuit thing.
No way the speed suit fuckin rocks lol!
Simply the best band ever existed. Superior musicianship.
Gentle Giant made Progressive Rock into a pure art form. They are all gone now. 10 Years of bliss 1970-1980
They were mostly brothers, professors of music in their own right, one of the best progressive bands I’ve ever heard. Gentle Giant, Yes and ELP are for me the sacred triad of prog-rock. Beautiful musicians.
I used to refer to them as electric baroque chamber music but then my son, who was educated in music at a top conservatory, told me they were more renaissance than baroque. I had the pleasure of having my eyes (and ears) opened seeing them at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1977. I went to see the band Renaissance, who opened for them. I had never even heard of GG. What a way to be introduced to them. To say I was blown away does not come close to describing the impact. This was right about the time the live Playing the Fool album was released so the song list was very similar. Ray played bass, Violin, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and trumpet. Kerry play keys, 'cello, vibes, electric guitar, drum set and vibes. I had never before seen so many instruments played by so few people with such acumen. In 1980 I saw them again. They pretty much stuck with Guitar (Gary), Bass (Ray), Drums (John), Keys (Kerry) and lead vocals (Derek) and rocked out. I remember the exact day of this concert as it was the day I graduated from college; Friday the 13th of June. My graduating undergraduate class was 169 (13x13). And our scheduled commencement speaker did not show up as her state was blowing up - she was the governor of Washington and Mount St. Helens had recently exploded. I skipped all the evening celebrations and saw GG at the Roxy in West Hollywood. This turned out to be 3 days before their very last performance. I have continued to listen to GG all these years. No one else has come close to what they did.
I'd never heard them. Loving it!
I saw GG in the mid70s in New Haven. I was only familiar with with their debut self titled album, but had a friend who was a fanatic. Waiting for them to come out, I asked, "how many of these guys are there?" as the stage was full of all kinds of instruments. The musicianship was impeccable, the music and tempos highly complex. It was literally amazing to watch, though their style, while loosely prog, does take some getting used to - it is an acquired taste. But they were also self-depreciating: note the intro saying their latest was "reasonably sucessful in some parts of Thailand and Singapore"! They did it their way, all the way.
Totally shocked to see you reacting to Gentle Giant. This entire album ("Free Hand") is amazing. Most GG is a bit advanced and esoteric for the masses, but Free Hand has several memorable and accessible tunes. Well, relative accessible, by GG standards. This is probably my favorite GG tune of all time.
i love octopus
Paul - Robert Taylor of AllMusic wrote that "On Reflection" was revolutionary for its time due to the band's vocal approach. Taylor also wrote that the song was one of progressive-rock's defining moments. Terrific and submission choice< Paul. Nice review, Harri.
Gentle Giant is my favorite band of all time! And yes, they toured with Jethro Tull back in the day!
Yeah that's who I first saw them with.
On Reflection is a somehow summary of GG's work. Another nice song of them is called 'Isn't it quiet and cold' and there is an awesome video in the tube
that style of the voices singing different parts and then coming together in harmonies dates back to the 1600s.
yes, its called hocketing.
Some may be interested to know that Gary Green (recorder) currently resides in Princeton, Illinois. It is located north of Peoria and has a population of around 7800+. Life takes you on strange journeys indeed.
On some of thheir albums they had over 30 instruments all played byvthe band, no outside players ever.
Tull and Gentle Giant have their roots in medieval music.
I'm sure others will have directed Harri to the studio version - where the song structure is virtually inverted, with extra lyrics. The studio version of this song is a real favorite of mine - appearing on a various-artists album which I "inherited" from my father at the age of 5, it was my very first experience of progressive-(folk-)rock. I wonder why it took me another 17-ish years to study Gentle Giant at length, because when I finally did so they joined the likes of King Crimson and Frank Zappa (and Charles Mingus and Michael Mantler) in my all-time pantheon of musical geniuses.
Ray passed away on March 30, 2023.
May he rest in peace...
The toured with Jethro Tull in 1972-73' and Tull Loved GG and especially Ian Anderson !! 👍
GG was a band the members of Yes, Genesis, Tull, Zappa and others saw when they had a chance to see them touring !!! Sadly Bassist/Violin Ray Shulman just died two months ago !! 😪🙏🎶
Great one,Harri! Gentle Giant actually opened for Jethro Tull in their early years ( I believe it was for the Thick As A Brick tour here in the US). They most certainly were progressive to the core (until their final album or two). Never was a band as talented and never will be. They are unique in the pantheon of great UK prog bands! There are several live shows/vids of them on y-tube. I highly suggest you seek them out,bro. Just take into consideration that they were all playing different instruments at the start of this song. The lead singer - Derek Shulman,sometimes played bass during songs where his brother,Ray-played violin. The band at times would break into sections live where they each played recorders ( the flute sounding instrument here...like the beginning of Stairway to Heaven,e.g.). They also had a me oment where they were all playing drums/percussion at the same time. Just remarkable talent! Freehand (this song is from it) was their highest selling album. But also check into Power & The Glory,In A Glass House, and Octopus. You will be AMAZED! Thanks for this one...Regards, T
ASo--forgot to mention...this live version is quite a different arrangement to the studio one. They were so skilled,they'd come up with totally different versions of their songs in concert. Here is the studio take... ua-cam.com/video/aaI81eJV9so/v-deo.html
Vocal playing around is superb
As with some of their other songs, this is a substantial rearrangement compared to the studio version, which is also great.
As someone who discovered GG soon after diving deep into the 70s prog scene, I still have trouble classifying them. Definitely progressive. But not in the jazz or metal way-kind of Baroque Prog. But they are definitely interesting…definitely had cult following…can definitely play and orchestrate… And they can write riffs and Melodie’s that will stick with you for days. Listen to that bass start running through the complex lines at the 9:44 mark.
An amazing, relatively obscure, under-appreciated band with plenty of material out there.
This is the best prog-rock band, the most complex and innovative. I love Yes, Van der Graaf generator a lot, but Gentle Giant is the best.
most challenging music. crazy good musicians. unique.
Thank you, you summed it up very well!
They opened for Yes in 76(?) in Denver. I knew their music from a couple of lps. Their musicianship is stunning and their ability to completely rearrange their tunes for live performance is amazing. In terms of sound quality their live Playing the Fool is more consistent than Yessongs. They are right up there with Yes, Genesis and King Crimson in my opinion.
Gentle Giant is the definition of Prog.
it’s important to point out that this is a completely different arrangement than the original on Free Hand. More than any band i know, Giant would rewrite their tunes for live performance. Snd they always rocked much harder live than on record as well. They are the greatest
I seen Gentle Giant live in Offenbach Germany in 1976 along with Genesis and some other Bands
I don't know if this was the same, but on some BBC in concert programmes you applied for tickets without knowing who you would see.
Your comment about commercial success being secondary to musical quality for GG is correct. The liner notes to their first album as much as say that, very directly. This live version is significantly different from the original studio version, however.
Check out Advent of Panurge, dude. Or the Runaway. Or So Sincere. Etc, etc. And don't worry about labeling them--they strenuously resisted all conventional classification. Giant is one of the very few bands for whom Frank Zappa had only high praise. There was no one else like them.
For those who enjoyed the medieval/renaissance contrapuntal stuff, the short instrumental work Talybont (ua-cam.com/video/nqdZ27ar4eQ/v-deo.html) has a little of the same feel, a bit like you are in a fair with Robin Hood at an archery contest, and you are drinking mead with Friar Tuck.
Hey Harri, GG is perhaps the GREATEST band EVER.
Awesome band! Great review! 👍 The only other band you could compare them with is Gryphon, but they are still different.
Not sure why reaction channels are focusing on this one song. Much more great material from Gentle Giant.
Let nostalgia kick in
Derek Shulman said they were three classically trained musicians with a rock drummer and a blues guitarist.
Jethro Tull meets early Genesis!
This appears to be from 8 months ago. You have heard this band and others long ago. I watched you reactions through the Pandemic 🤔
This must be a Second listen at least. Since once you hear One GH song you HAVE to hear Every GG song Immediately!
Although not exactly the same, I do think Focus is kind of similar too. Anyone who likes this, should definitely check out the Dutch band Focus.
Their live performances were better than their studio albums.
Epitome of Prog
👏👏👏👏
More than Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant stands out for their music's complexity, so they are perhaps more comparable to Emerson Lake and Palmer, later Frank Zappa, or Yes.
For me that tune and "inca's road" by Zappa are the nices music ever writen.
There was never a band like Gentle Giant and probably never will again. There are bands influenced by them but never like them. There is a band on UA-cam called Three Friends who has some of Giant's members in it. Give them a listen.Not qwuite the same but not bad!
King Crimson
I'm way late here but that's not a flute, it's a recorder.
Gentle Giant is one of the very few acts that impressed Frank Zappa.
GG's beautiful chaos...but not so chaotic if you're paying attention
Yes, they're prog, to understate
They certainly have a cult following, and am in the cult!
Me too. Forever.
It took me a bit to “understand” Gentle Giant and Van der Graaf Generator. But once you do, your whole outlook on music changes.
Oh, the band are most commonly compared to Van Der Graaf Generator, although they both have distinct identities.
This band is as prog as prog can get.
100% better than Tull IMHO
jethro is prog lol
Surprised by the lack of audience enthusiasm. Is this just English restraint? Such brilliant musicianship and diversity in compositions. Love this band. You are correct. It is all about the music. Like Genesis they take the music quite seriously, but not themselves. So there is always a bit of a sly smile to their music. A bit of a tongue-in-cheek presentation. (prog rock for sure)
I saw them live on many tours, and believe me this isn't a normal GG crowd. It was part of series of concerts called 'Sight and Sound' that the BBC recorded, so the atmosphere is a little sterile, and the audience were not necessarily already fans of the band, but just lucky enough to have got free tickets to a concert. It was an experimental TV link up with BBC radio, in the era before stereo TV transmissions, it was called a 'simulcast', the idea being to use your, hopefully, higher quality radio receiver to hear the broadcast and turn off your mono TV volume. For one number there were some technical issues, the drummer had to fill in with some awkward extended chat while it was sorted. I have never seen the band look so ill at ease for a gig, this was their first TV break for them and it was broadcast live, warts and all. Still a big technical challenge in the 1970's to deal with such a variety of instruments on stage, particularly acoustic ones, then the added cameras, muted crowd, and a shaky response to a change of direction for some of the new songs, all had an effect on the bands performance. This was not them at their height of confidence, and they would struggle on for acceptance for only another couple of years.
@@MrDiddyDee Total professionals. Love GG.
In the 60s, we had The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and The Small Faces. I thought all the so called Progressive bands were twee, boring and soulless. In the 70s, I was telling a friend that I hated it and he said that I was just getting old. Suddenly, Punk wipes them away and I realised that it wasn't me getting old, it was musicians who had become decrepit.
This not the song introduce someone to Giant.
It's not pop - if you're prepared to go outside of 4/4 and the key of C Major then you're in for a massive treat.
I'm outa here! Headache!
Sorry 😅 I lasted about 14 seconds.
Not my cup o tea! 😂
My goldfish lasted longer !
Definitely your loss, if you put nothing in you get nothing out.
side 1 PISSIN with the BIG dawgs then MEMORIES of DAYS track 7 gone BYE to SEAL the DEAL FULL IMMERSION ftw :P timeless ! things u cant UNHEAR!
dont say i dont DO anything for u
ua-cam.com/video/fxkmpr_Y8n0/v-deo.html this song a DIP in the OCEAN only its wet and COLD try some warmth Friend >> Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece (Full Album)