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| 412.1 | Playing the Fool | COMICS::LANG | More Trouble Every Day... | Wed May 03 1989 00:00 | 14 |
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Hi,
Well, thanks to various record fairs that I've been to recently,
I have managed to pick up 4 GG albums..... At the time that they
were big (were they ever "big" !!!), I was too young to appreciate
them, but listening to their material...well...its too good for
words, it really is !!
Cheers
Harv
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| 412.2 | Never really heard them, but..... | WELMTS::GREENB | Bob and Kim take on the world | Wed May 03 1989 14:40 | 7 |
| Harvey, Gentle Giant were never really 'big' in the UK. They were
quite popular, but I think they were overshadowed by other 'techno'
(horrible word, but that was the label they and many others had
to endure) bands who were more popular. Apparently, though, they
were a lot bigger in Europe, especially, I think Italy.
Bob
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| 412.3 | three friends | COGMK::KUHN | Schnauzering | Wed May 10 1989 01:46 | 7 |
| hi bob,
yea, i have "Interview". its real hard to find an import of "Glass
House" here in the states. It suprising a band with that kind of
talent just fades out. Technically, they were superior to most other
techno-bands like Yes ect. They are probably session players now
or something like that.
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| 412.4 | It's on the tip of my brain...... | WELMTS::GREENB | Kim and Bob, joint MBNITC | Wed May 10 1989 13:45 | 10 |
| Hello all!
I'm trying to remember who GG were before they became GG. Were they
the group who had a psychedelic smasheroo with 'Kites'? I can't
remember the name of the group, or if that was them, but they were
certainly around at that time.
Where's Alan Trevennor when you need him?
Bob
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| 412.5 | Simon Dupree & The Big Sound | AYOU30::PAULC | Goodbye Igor | Wed May 10 1989 13:54 | 5 |
| 412.6 | | WELMTS::GREENB | Kim and Bob, joint MBNITC | Wed May 10 1989 16:34 | 4 |
| Thats them, I think, Paul. I was getting confused between SD & the
BS, and Sounds Incorporated....
Bob
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| 412.7 | SD & BS | COMICS::LANG | More Trouble Every Day... | Wed May 10 1989 16:48 | 9 |
| Yes,
Simon Dupree & the BS contained all 3 of the Shulman brothers with
Derek being "Simon Dupree". Drummer , John Weathers, used to play
with Graham Bond and also the Grease Band.
Harv
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| 412.8 | more trivia | LEROUF::MERRICK | Always verify your witchcraft | Wed May 10 1989 16:58 | 4 |
|
John Weathers was also better known as Pugwash.
Ken
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| 412.9 | A little Giant info... | TYCHO::HALL | I did not cavort | Fri May 12 1989 03:03 | 134 |
| 412.10 | Some Vinyl still available | COMICS::LANG | Jings, crivens, help ma boab | Sun Jun 18 1989 14:40 | 11 |
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FYI....
"Playing the Fool" has been re-released on CD and also LP on Essential
records. Also, "Octopus" is available on Import at your friendly
Virgin megastore.
Cheers
Harvey
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| 412.11 | The Power and the Glory on CD ! | CSC32::A_PARRACO | Make it so, Mr. LaForge | Thu Jun 29 1989 23:17 | 8 |
|
I just purchased the only copy of "The Power and the Glory" in
Denver or Colorado Springs, it was out on Capitol's GREEN LINE
of re-releases ............and it was only $ 10.98 !
It sounds AWESOME on CD, every bit as good as I'd hoped for !
- Andy
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| 412.12 | GG CDs on Road Goes On Forever label | ILLUSN::SORNSON | Are all your pets called 'Eric'? | Mon Jan 03 1994 19:27 | 29 |
| This is a cross-over question (of sorts) from the MUSIC conference note
557 (on Gentle Giant).
Here in the USA, in a music chain-store called Tower Records, I
recently found several GG CDs on the Road Goes On Forever label. They
were (rather) high-priced imports. I purchased
The Missing Piece and
Giant For A Day
and noticed that
Power and The Glory
was also on this label, though it was also available on a cheaper label
(budget priced, actually) -- Capitol, I think. [I bought the cheaper
version a while ago, and so wasn't inclined to shell out twice the
price for the same thing.]
My question is, is Interview or Playing the Fool available on this
label (which has a London address)? If so, I will look forward to
completing my GG CD collection. [I have everything but these two and
Civilian on CD ... and Civilian I'm willing to skip. I even managed to
find In A Glass House at Tower Records!]
Thanks in advance if anyone knows anything (which you can take any
way you want :-).
-mark.
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| 412.13 | GG Records | SHIPS::WHITWOOD_N | Nigel Whitwood | Tue Feb 01 1994 16:51 | 9 |
| Playing the Fool is available (but I dunno what label).
Missing Piece isn't available (going by HMVs CD Catalogue but this
didn't list Glass House either.
Out of interest one of the Schulman brothers is now a record producer in
the US (produced the Sugar Cubes apparently).
The drummer (Weathers ?) plays the pubs with The Man Band.
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| 412.14 | | TASTY::JEFFERY | Children need to learn about X in school | Mon Jun 06 1994 12:26 | 4 |
| I saw a review of some Gentle Giant records (sorry CD's) on re-release
in Q this month
Mark.
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| 412.15 | | NEST::PAPIA | | Fri Jun 10 1994 21:03 | 8 |
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re:last
Which ones?
Vinny
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| 412.16 | A good year for GG | STAR::BENSON | My other fiddle is a Strad | Mon Feb 17 1997 21:02 | 40 |
| (Cross-posted from MUSIC, for any lurking GG fans...)
BTW, you can always get all the Gentle Giant info you need (and then
some) at
www.cs.umass.edu/~barrett/gentlegiant.html
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In case anyone's still listening... A couple of Gentle Giant tribute
CDs are about to be released. One is a "fan" tribute, done by people
from their internet mailing list, but including a couple of semi-famous
people like Mike Keneally and the late Kevin Gilbert. You can read all
about this one (and even hear some of it) at
www.quackwatch.com/GT/
They're taking advance orders now for shipping on March 15.
The other one is from Mellow Records in Italy, a prog rock specialist.
Theirs should be available in 2-3 weeks. Both of these are 2-CD sets,
btw... The reason I know so much about them is that I have songs on
both. Ex-DECcie Lance Levine also sings on em.
There are also some recent GG releases. The best is "Out of the Woods",
a live BBC concert. "The Last Steps", another live one, just came out a
couple of months ago. But "Out.." is much much better. A 2-CD
compilation of stuff from their first 5 albums also came out last year:
"Edge of Twilight" is the name. Believe it or not, ANOTHER live release,
this one from the King Biscuit Flower Hour, is also rumoured. Of course
it's impossible to find any of these outside of mail order specialists!
Tom
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