Steven Wilson Remixed Gentle Giant "Free Hand"
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- CORRECTION: Civilian is NOT being remixed/remastered by Steven Wilson. The album is being remastered (I don't know by whom) and released in the US in 2021.
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We’re incredibly proud to feature this interview with Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman, John “Pugwash” Weathers, and Gentle Giant mega-fan Mike Keneally.
Steven Wilson’s remix of “Free Hand” is fantastic. It’s a huge improvement over the previous releases. The remix offers a clarity and an energy that I’ve never detected before. Mike and I rave about it in the video.
Even Derek Shulman says he thinks it sounds better than the original.
Take a listen and let us know what you think!
Steven Wilson’s “Free Hand” remix is available on June 25, 2021.
You can purchase it on the Gentle Giant website.
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CORRECTION: Civilian is NOT being remixed/remastered by Steven Wilson. The album is being remastered (I don't know by whom) and released in the US in 2021.
Well this is sad
:(
Interview is being remixed by SW?
Is it the same remaster from the recent boxset?
Not sure. I’ll ask.
Bummer. I don't like Civilian as much as some of their earlier works, but it's still a good album.
Personally, I'd like to see some more live material come out. The Last Steps (from the Civilian tour) is a great live album but the recording quality is not that great.
BRILLIANT!!! He has made an abortion of all the other remixes....aswell as the Yes stuff. What do people keep giving their master tapes to this guy for?! He must be deaf.....
The greatest most criminally underated legendary genius band ever
100%
I agree! Love GG!
Cheers from Brazil!
(Edit) Me favourite album is... the 1974 live recording in ZDF!
YES exactly.
Amen! GG is the gift that keeps on giving. The remixes just emphasize this.
Acquiring The Taste & In A Glass House are my favourite albums.
Lovely to see John again.
What a great story teller
My all time favourite band. They were just too brilliant to be really succesful.
It's a curse!
I don't think it's because they were brilliant, but because what they've done will always be a little bit undigestible to the average listener.
More than that I think they never really quite got the ear of the guitar nerds like Crimson or Zappa did. It takes an interest in sitting inside of unusual rhythms in a way that maybe only Radiohead, Aphex Twin and perhaps Kendrick Lamar and J Dilla have really been able to bring to a wider audience.
@@weatheranddarkness Very close to what they were trying to do, without all the guitar solos
Some of the greatest musical nights of my life were watching Gentle Giant. Hearing a GG song now literally brings me to tears. Free Hand is without question one of the best prog albums ever (along with In A Glass House, Three Friends, Octopus...oh hell, ALL of them!). What I wouldn't give to go back to 1975 at the Shrine in L.A. just one more time. MAN I love GG!! Thanks for posting this.
Simply the greatest most legendary genius criminally underated band ever
Moist legendary! Haha
@@MakeWeirdMusic My bad-a funny typo mistake
@@1359401 Moist or most, you're totally correct. GG (esp. live) was the greatest prog band of all time, and trust me when I say I was (and am) a HUGE Yes fan. But GG, man...that was something else!
@@jupiterlegrand4817 Yeah my bad-moist- a stupid mistake/typo- at the end of the day bottom line I love yes but nobody and i mean nobody comes close to GG . they are/were the greatest most unique original criminally underatedl legendary genius band ever
it's really exciting to me to hear Ray speaking. I personally think his composing was some of the best music ever, prog or whatever you want to call it. His bass lines, acoustic guitar duets with Gary, his writing approach the most unique in all of prog, those looping contrapuntal sections with the accents on the ands of the beat, his Bartok folksy violin stuff, his great stage presence, I could go on forever.
Ray doesn't get enough credit, for sure.
MAGICAL MUSIC AND COMPOSITIONS.....BOUGHT WHEN I WAS 13 IN 1975........NEVER LOSES ORIGINALITY OR CEASES TO AMAZE
Agreed
I'd love to hear from Kerry! One of music's greatest masterminds - and much too modest from what I can tell.
We did an interview with Kerry in 2017. You can look that up
Kerry is the mastermind. Frankly I love Gentle Giant and their newfound attention but I prefer the originals over this remix.
Fabulous webcam interview. Great to see the incomparable Pugwash!
Thanks for watching!
When Derek said that his hair was parted from John's hard snare hits I laughed so hard.
Yes, it's a great line lol
Nothing has ever come close to Gentle Giant. I feel so grateful to have been born when I was, and they were there to form a crucial part of my soundtrack.
I feel similarly. So diverse and fun. Thanks Geof
Derek really likes “Civilian”! So do I man 👍. Hopefully we’ll get that in a remix
I hope so too!
@@MakeWeirdMusic I'm with you and Derek. It was a streamlined return to form. Dynamite from start to finish. And "Inside Out" was indeed the best track. It helped me learn to play the guitar.
@@2wayplebney Would be stoked for Interview, too.
@@timbeaton5045 apparently, Steven Wilson has already worked on Interview and The Missing Piece as well as Free Hand... 😊👌
A criminally underrated masterpiece, I think.
A dystopian vision that resonates even more today than ever.
'Octopus' and 'Freehand' were my favorite 'Gentle Giant' albums',in my youth!One of my 'all-time' favorite bands'!So much talent and writing ability.I guess I'm 'old',but I really miss this 'quality' of music,writing and musicianship!These guys' changed 'modern-music',historically.Such a great 'vibe'!💙💯🍻
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad we've got Steven Wilson to inject new life into these amazing albums. Time to go and listen to Gentle Giant again!
Me too. Wonderful to hear this music through fresh ears.
If only those multi-tracks were available for In a Glass House though... 😕
How amazing to hear from the geniuses many years later. Music is applied mathematics - Gentle Giant is advanced calculus. Not everybody is going to "get it." Saw them live three times in Southern California and they were so incredibly brilliant. Always and always will be - a FAN!
Thanks, Chad. I'm just about to post the full Shulman/Keneally interview. Stay tuned today...
Watching the top prog band of all time. They stuck together for 10 years. Derek Shulman even admitted some GG albums were not so great..but THAT was GG. Always inventing themselves and progressing. Saw them twice in Ottawa Canada. Power and the Glory tour and Free Hand tour. Great interview and nice to see Pugwash. A powerhouse on drums.
Thanks for watching
SW mixes tend to stay at a lower overall volume, with a higher dynamic range. When the loud parts hit, they really hit. I'll buy it.
Not just that, but the clarity of the instruments and voices is markedly different.
Still humble guys...they still don't know they are genius. Lov' that. I still enjoy Gentle Giant, never left them. Been to a concert in the seventies and heard my ears and looked my eyes out. Thank you guys!
Thanks for watching, YY
Steve wilson, it people like him that make music so amazing, I became an audio engineer being inspired by his productions.
He is awesome!
Gentle Giant is so unique, they are Master Class on Prog Rock, or even in moder music in general... Why not? This video bring me to tears as i see Ray now that he passed... Soo good to live in a generation which we can (for good or sometimes bad) hear and see our favourite bands express themselves.
Gentle Giant is the finesse of music.
Can't wait! my favorite GG album.
You’ll love the remix.
From 2019 to 2020 I only listened to GENTLE GIANT no other band.....thank you GG for getting me through covid.
They were a good covid choice
My introduction to the band and has remained one of my favourites ever since
It's amazing!
Such a great album. Steven Wilson’s remixes are so worth getting as he adds his own touch to the album but not so much that it overpowers the original music. Great chat!
Plus all the additional content that comes with the CD/DVD package
Lovely to see you here, Niamh ^_^
@@progrocker666 Found the simp.
As a big GG fan, I had the original stereo vinyl, then remastered CD, then CD of the original quad mix... but when I got the Steven Wilson Atmos remix it blew my mind! Totally opened up the music, hearing things I'd never noticed before. Incredible.
Great to see and hear from Ray, Derek and John. "Just the same" and "On reflection" 2 of my all time favorites. seen them live they were mind blowing. I have seen many bands live they were the simply the best. Agree with Derek never understood the disrespect given to Civilian a great album! Thanks for the interview.
Thanks for watching and enjoying!
Would love to see Steven remix Aquiring The Taste. That's probably my favorite album by them.
Yeah I wonder if the multi tracks are available
My favorite GG album. I am excited to hear that Civilian may get a re-do, that’s such an underrated album!
Agreed
4:28 _"This band is pretty tight."_
Yes, Ray. That is correct. ♥
A mild understatement haha
35th anniversary version of Free Hand Lp sounds pretty damn good to my ears. But great to hear/see the boys in the band again.
I agree. It sounds good, but Steven's mix is much cleaner.
Ray spoke on(teased?) In'terview remix like a true sage -- it is clear, crystalized fire.. Really hope he had the good health and chance to hear the final version before his passing.
I always appreciated Free Hand as one of my favorite albums, but I never really appreciated In'terview before the remix... I always hated the "noisy" parts and all the effects, but now they got so expertly mixed&mastered on the remix that "Another Show" is probably my favorite song, lol, I just love all of it; down to Kerry's "doppler effect" car horns on the Moog.
Thank you Gentle Giant and, even more-so, thank you Steven Wilson for keeping GG alive!
Make sure to check out Steven's upcoming album "The Harmony Codex"!
Really cool to see someone ask them, and for them to talk a bit about, the fact that they did so many different (sometimes wildly different) arrangements of songs, or put together medleys of songs for their live show. That's serious work. I'm always surprised interviewers often don't ask them about that. There aren't many bands who do that sort of thing. Portnoy era Dream Theater is the only other band who come to mind (with Portnoy's rotating setlists and their medleys).
1. In a Glass 🥃 House 🏠
2. Free Hand 🤚
3. Octopus 🐙
4. Three Friends
5. Power Glory ❤
Genuinely strange these guys didn't listen to their own music after it was recorded! It was so marvelous to listen to! Bizarre.
Free Hand is outstanding, can't wait to hear the remix, also intrigued that an Interview remix might be on the way...I think it's an underated GG album.
Interview might be my favorite GG album.
Just ordered the 2xlp limited red vinyl edition 🧐
i can't wait to hear the remix of inside out
Me too
In 1979, I had a part time job at a hardware store. A co-worker friend of mine (the kind of person who loved 'weird' music) made cassettes for me of Gentle Giant's albums Freehand and Interview. I laid a couple Zappa cassettes on him ( I had just discovered Frank Zappa music). I still have the GG cassette's. I have loved their music from that first listen! I am forever grateful to GG and I'm pleased that people continue to discover them.
ps In the early 2000's , another friend gave me a CD of Mike Keneally, who had already blown me away with his playing on a couple Zappa albums.. HOLY WOW what an inventive guitarist! Makes sense that Mike K would be a mega fan of Gentle Giant.
pps I'm loving these remixes by Steven Wilson. So cool to hear things in a slightly altered way.
Just another mega fan.
So many good musicians. Thanks for watching, Andy.
Always have and always will love Gentle Giant. It´s my all time favorite band along with Jethro Tull. Be well you guys!
Same here, Charles. Did you see my Passion Play video?
@@MakeWeirdMusic No I have not.
I have been sharing your music with my high school students in our "Prog Rock Club" for the past few months. I have now retired and they are pleading with me to keep the PRC alive. Here is the common thing they say: "I had no idea music like this existed until you shared it with me. Thank you so much. My playlist has changed a lot...and for the better!" It's like the great movie line but I will tweak it a bit: If you play it for them, they will come around and love it!" There seems to be a resurgence in interest in Prog here on UA-cam. It's because people are hungry for authenticity. GG is the real deal!
I agree, Dave. They are the real deal!
I Love Inside Out
Thank You Giant 🙏🙏❤
Great song
Thanks. I'm an American and yet saw GG 3 times in the early 70s. Amazing fun events.
You're lucky! I got to see Three Friends in 2015 and that's it. But it was great!
What a unique wonderful band , been a fan since Three friends. Thanks for post, lovely humble Giants 🤘🏻👍🏻
Our pleasure!
The best band ever
100%
RIP Ray Shulman
RIP
Great to see them all again so young and spry! Great content thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it
I always loved Gentle G.
Here's my answer to that of why now.
Because todays programmed noise is pure crap.
If was then..it was exploring the musical universe in a Jeep.
Now here we Are.
Old Blues still rules, Old Motown was the driver, Progressive Rock was the best then. No boindries, just pure emotion.
And there's your answer. It was all about the moment. Not perfection..It was a great time in music.
And I do remember Rick Wakeman kicking over his Moog when if was not on que..
I was ..Yow! Following up Keith Emerson?. Not sure but he was pissed in the Round..
Those were the daze.
And I never forgot them.
Best music at the time..and I was 13..in SF...
Today’s programmed music is not pure crap. You are just exposed to more crap than you were decades ago. There is much more good music than ever.
Pure talent across the board. Fantastic band
Absolutely. All of them.
Steven Wilson did such a great job with the YES re-mixes that im becoming a huge fan and buying every one he does !
Totally agree.
I am NOT going to ever forget the original recording, however, this mix is excellent. Gentlemen, thank you for all of the decades of superior music. You've been my favorite band since the mid- 70s and had a real influence on my development as a classical pianist ;) I learned about counterpoint and voicing before I even learned it in my piano studies by listening to your music. Fortunately, this, combined with my good luck in landing in the early music original interpretation movement in the 60s formed my ear training. No one ever knew where I got my sound, but it was because of you!! Love you, guys!!
GG is the best! Thanks, Angelea!
That was wonderful. Thanks for doing this, Anthony.
Thanks Ricardo! Glad you enjoyed it
Really impressive. I still have the vinyl version + a Cd version. I will certaintly get this remix as well. Thanks to Gentle Giant for all the great music they gave us👍
Yeah I have a lot of copies too. This one will be the best one tho
I think that this is pure genius from a great underrated band, If they're fine with it, then so am I. Steven has been doing these amazing, or so I've heard, remixes for a while now and if you've ever heard his music, then you know he's a master and the right guy for the job.
With that attitude, you're bound to love it!
"It's better than the original. " - Derek Shulman
Crazy, right?
One of my favorite GG releases. Just bought the remix !
Hope you like it!
Such a great content!! Gentle Giant is really an unique band and Free Hand is a terrific album, I love it!!
Thank you. I appreciate you checking it out
I Think this is very very special!
Me too.
@@MakeWeirdMusic We understand Each other!
I can still clearly remember the day that a close friend of mine, who was the engineer at Advision Studios asked me to help him destroy a large number of 8-track masters from their temperature and humidity controlled storage room.
He had rigged up an 8-track machine so that we could listen to some of them before we took a razor blade to them.
There were several Gentle Giant masters, and this was one of them.
We listened to it all the way through, and solo'd many of the tracks to better hear what was going on.
It's sad that the master recording of such a fantastic LP was lost - but apparently it had never been paid for by the record company, and Advision were within their rights to order it's destruction.
Is this a true story?!
@@MakeWeirdMusic It most certainly is.
We used tape splicing razor blades to cut up about 50 extremely famous master recordings on that day.
I cut my teeth on you men! You got me through high school & beyond. Being from Texas, the reaction to GG was always interesting. As a drummer myself, John taught me how to count!
Cannot wait for this, once again SW weaves his magic ears. What an amazing band, so unique, So Sincere :)
It really is fantastic
Interview, Civilian, how's about The Missing Piece??
That's also coming!
Would like to hear Gary's input on this. Looking forward to getting this!
I emailed him twice to ask, but from what I hear he only checks his email twice a year
It is still a mystery to me that the guys who pulled the legacy into the 21st century live on stage (Three Friends band) are absent. Gary and Kerry.
I was lucky to see the last performance with Kerry in Wurzburg.
It wasn’t due to a lack of trying.
Amazing guys, GG Genius
Agreed
Great Band. Great Album. Awesome
Thanks, Vitor
They talk a lot about how the live arrangements were drastically different from studio recordings, and yet we barely have any live footage from them whatsoever, how tragic!
Though I'm so grateful for recent remasters of their live performances - it's pure magic watching them play ❤
Free Hand was one of the very great albums of the 70's. Gentle Giant were phenomenal.
Agreed
The music is brilliant, I feel inside out should have been on the radio. I'd love to hear a remix of the second album. I also liked the missing piece (maybe not betting they could do it) but what a band - the power and the glory made them popular, free hand took them into the main stream (as much as possible anyway)
They should have had more radio airplay at the time. But what do I know? I'm only 41 haha
Another excellent video for your channel. Great job as always.
Thank you! Cheers!
This is wonderful to see. I love these people.
Me too, Blake!
@14.52 I'm so glad somebody else thinks this
Also Mr Weathers. What a thrill!
Yessir!
_Free Hand_ and _In A Glass House_ are the pinnacle of GG's output, in my opinion. At 4:48 - love this bit of insight re overrehearsal, it really shows their deep musicianship.
Hoping to release the full interviews before I leave for vacation on friday
GG's best album! Good memories brings me back to 70's.
Right on
It's flourishing because 1) it is damn good, and 2) maybe more and more people are fed up with hip-hop and trashy stuff like that, and crave the complexities of so many "prog" acts from the 70s.
Its flourishing because a decent amount of people are finally waking up and realizing that they are/were the greatest band ever
There's a great discussion about modern hip-hop in the full interview, which I'm hoping to release this week. Ray and Mike have a very different opinion.
I'm in Awe...
Glad you enjoyed it.
Oh no!!!! So sorry I missed this!!!! Will watch now!!!!
Unforgivable!
Nice to hear Mike Keneally's opinions in at 3:05 - given his great admiration for the band.
I’ll release the full interview with Mike, Derek, and Ray in the next couple weeks
Finally Civilian will be available for a decent price!
I hope they do all the albums in 5.1.
In a glass house, Interview, missing piece and giant for a day.
Obviously the first three only had limited songs available as multi track Tapes. I wonder if the others are available, and if so, why such a long time between releases?
I received an official message this morning: Civilian will be remastered, not remixed by Steven Wilson.
@@MakeWeirdMusic that's perfectly fine with me! I just want a copy that doesn't cost and arm and a leg
There is a fully remixed debut album that came with the recently released boxset. The previously missing multi-tracks for that album were revealed by a fan who actually had them in his possession prior to the release of the Three Piece Suite.
Just want to say Hello, I love Gentle Giant , always been in my top 5 bands of all the bands.
Hello! Thanks for stopping by
i'm wondering if you guys could ask STeven Wilson if i can listen to my old records or not? if it would be ok. i need someone today to tell me exactly what the artist intended 40 years ago. with a straight face. wouldn't know how to breathe without him....lol
Fantastic interview!!! I’m curious if In a Glass House is on the docket for a remix? We’re they able to find the master tapes for that one? Fingers crossed!
Nope, they don't have the original multi-track. Oh well. :(
I would like to see a GG cover album with Mike Keneally on guitars vocals and keyboards, Patty Pershayla on Bass Mandolin Ukelele and lead vocals Joe Travers on Drums and Maybe Tommy Mars
Are we getting Missing Piece and Giant For A Day remixes too?
Genius!
Thanks for watching, Enzo
As Rick Beato has mentioned many times, before there was Pro Tools there were pros. GG were consummate pros.
Juiciness !
Indeed, Gavin. Quite Juicy
I already pre-ordered my copy a good month or o ago and it's GREAT! news to see that Wilson is also going to be doing the surround mixes for Interview and Civilian too. I already have the 2012 4.1 mixes of Freehand and Interview and even though I enjoy them I know that Wilson's job on the mixes will be much better. It would have been nice if the original Quad mixes were included too and having got into all this stuff back in the 70's the only real thing that entices me to buy music these days is Multichannel recordings. And it is mostly of the music I loved all those years ago rather than buying anything new that's out there. Basically, because there is bugger all out there these days and hardly anything new really floats my boat.
It’s a good time to be a gentle giant fan
@@MakeWeirdMusic It is indeed and considering it took all these years to come up with these new mixes just goes to show how lucky we are to be living in these times.
Just like the Beatles, great constructed and performed music will always be appreciated. During their heyday, Gentle Giant was considered too weird for the average rock-n-roller, but with time, many people(and their offspring) are starting to realize just what an amazing band G.G. was. It's too bad that they can't reunite for one live DVD performance, while they are still around...even get Phil back for a cameo...I know Gary has tried to keep the flame burning with Three Friends. Maybe the music is a bit too complicated for septuagenerians, but it would be greatly appreciated.
They were incredible, weren't they? Thanks for watching
"Inside Out" helped me to learn to play the guitar. It's a fantastic song.
You are probably one of a dozen people to tell me that, graham!
@@MakeWeirdMusic it went beyond chords and into the realms of leaving strings open to emphasise the stuff you are picking. (As you can tell, I know very little about musical theory, but I can recognise when something funny is going on.)
I got to see them live twice, but both times they were the opening band; once for Tull and once for Renaissance. Not to take anything away from those two great bands, but in both cases, for me personally, Gentle Giant was the more interesting band. Wish I could have seen them as headliners, playing as full set with encores.
Lucky you! Those must have been great shows. Thanks, Bob!
Derek is right - Civilian is a great record!!!
I haven't listened in a long time
Very excited for Civilian. That album needs a remix more than Free Hand IMO
I was mistaken about Civilian. It will not be remixed. Just remastered and released in the US.
@@MakeWeirdMusic ok. Probably not enough popular. Its a great album though
Now I kinda wanna hear Raymond's remix
Hadn't considered that, but I do wish they'd try a modern remix.
How anyone can say the new remix is better is beyond me.
You know what they say about opinions, Robert!
Maybe I missed it, but was it mentioned why the other two original members--Gary Green and Kerry Minnear--were missing from this Zoom call?
A bit ironic that the band is called Gentle Giant although they are MONSTROUS musicians and composers. A real singularity band.
It wasn't for a lack of trying. Kerry doesn't like being in videos and Gary didn't respond to the request.
Bless 🙏🙏❤❤❤
Thanks
I'm looking at the album covers and I'm mystified... Where does the different hand come from?
They probably didn't have the original artwork, so they recreated it. It's very well done, if you ask me.
IMO the main problem with the 2005 reissue was that whoever re-mastered it made it far too hot. If you look at the signal there's loads of clipping and unnecessary compression. Steven's new remix is far more dynamic, because he's allowed the transient peaks space to breath. It also helps that he's able to mix it all together digitally without any tape bounce-down issues causing excess noise to signal. That's why is sounds 'clearer' and 'more separated' Derek :) So there!
Just spent a fortune on Unburied Treasure for the remixed albums and live cd’s. Now, 5 minutes later we have a supposed new and improved remix of Freehand. Why was this version not included in the box?
Because it..wasn't...finished?
They weren't even being worked on back then. I believe SW had some spare time during the pandemic to remix some albums including the 3 GG albums we'll be subsequently getting...
GG were hilarious live, what with the gurning and all.
Where is Kerry Minnear?????
I begged him! Multiple times!