IMO, the best song from their debut album....and then they came with octopus, in a glass house, the power and the glory, and acquiring the taste, and they blew our minds forever!
Probably the greatest rock band ever to exist. Believe it or not I bought this album when I was 16 a week after it was released because of the sleeve art - thank God for sleeve artists!! The other major album I bought for the same reason (about a week later I think) was In the Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson - Amazing!!
Man! What is the drummer doing with those heads? Whoa! He's putting to shame even the best drummers of today! I wish I could see what he's doing. These guys are amazing!
@M0ofi32012 It's a flanger/phaser effect. They usually apply those effects during mixing and mastering. In this case, they may have ran the drum mics through an effects processor or a pedal. Unfortunatley, he's just playing out. He isn't doing anything to the heads. You can thank their sound tech for that cool phasing effect!
Saw them in San Diego and L.A. several times. Even saw the bass player outside the Whiskey A Go -Go on Sunset Blvd. prior to a Peter Hammill concert there in 1979...or it could have been outside The Roxy Theatre...
Today I busted my Gentle Giant cherry. Read about George Jefferson liking them, so I listened. Wow. This is good stuff. Cant wait to explore the rest of their catalogue.
17 years old and i love progressive rock...like genesis, king crimson, gentle giant, soft machine, yes, and van der graaf generator...these are examples of true music...of course i also like bob dylan, led zeppelin, cat stevens, neil young, dire straits, the doors etc...only true good music, not this shit we have nowadays...
@Luckzzz I was born when these guys were in their prime! Ohhhhh, to have a time machine! I wish more people nowadays would appreciate the genious of Gentle Giant. DC noise podcast
@AlexBkatzmann I must disagree with your opinion. This is not pure rock (it's original, no doubts about that, but ain't pure). PURE rock is everthing from Lead Belly, Jerry Lee Louis, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Elvis Presley to the early Beatles...everthing after that isn't that pure anymore. But it's not about being pure, I mean, GG was the only band that successfuly mixed Liszt and drums solo.
@wrxwagon100 The sources you've quoted are right. Now, when we're talking about rock, the first artist I think of is Chuck Berry (guess he's one of the best exemples of the 'purest' rock you can get, of course most people would disagree with that, claiming that Presley is the stereotype of rock 'n roll player...thats just my opinion though). On the other hand: Prog rock! We must agree that it's the best thing that happened to rock in ages!
@dadoo1617 you can find there their influence, I don´t think they stole it, but i´m sure they have it in their mind "unconsciously" when they make the songs
I experienced G.Giant in concert, as warm-up group for Colliseum summer of 1970 at the Nurnberg Mistersinger Halle,(sp)?, where they blew Colliseum off stage! Giant played mostly Giant album, their newest, I was blown away GI, bought their album immediately, still have it, remaining a fan for 40 years! #1
We played this song in 1976 with jordan and joel phister and that guy jim (on keys)in jims basement. Playing it live in Staten Island is where I met the guys from "HOT ICE" .
When the current crappy music industry collapses under the weight of greed and utter stupidity, Gentle Giant will be recognized as one of the greatest rock bands ever.
I love this song, I wish they had not included the middle section and left it a ballad. I would go see GG when ever they came to Los Angeles, I think their best was in A Glass House. Loved just the same. Stopped listening after interview.
Back In The Day, all I ever did was 'browse' at the band's LP sleeves and think "interesting"...whilst I invested in Beatles, Classical, Motown, and EMI Prog-Rock; After all, Paper Route money could *only* buy me so much back then....
New to me, this song ROCKS!
Now I pursue getting all the Gentle Giant on CD that I can, yes?
To hear the talentless generic commercial music of today compared to this band...it's a shame where the music business has gone. My wife calls me a relic for listening mainly to early 70's prog bands, but this is when musicians had actual talent and creativity.
KE ROLOTOTOTA!! ME RECUERDA MIS DIAS DE SECUNDARIA ALLA EN EL DFCTUOSO EN EL GRAN CET 92 ESKUELA PIONERA EN SU TIPO UBIKADA EN ATZCAPOTZALCO LA VILLA ESQUINA CON AVENIDA DE LOS 100 MTS
This song reminds me of an old girlfriend who thought she was all that and a bag of chips because of her beauty....but she had a negative personality 40% of the time..!
I dumped her after a few months and wound up with a smokin great woman with a fun personality who was kind to everyone, very sweet and made me very happy.!!
We would walk along the beach in Santa Cruz, CA and my old girlfriend (all alone) saw us many times together in a beautiful place hand in hand.....
holy shit, stairway to heavennn!!!, when they started singing I thought it was a strange zeppelin cover, but then I realized this song was realised one year before :o
@lechufran Listen to The Band Spirits song Taurus and you will see where the inspiration for the opening sequence of Stairway is may coming from. This was Randy Califirnias Band and they toured togehther wit Zep before Stairway. But anyway - there are only some very small sequences that gave an inspiration for Stairway and I bet Randy liked it.
The first time I heard them was in 1978 on a live BBC performance that used to be every Sunday @ 07:00 pm, it was so amazing that I bought all records one by one, going backwards to get used to the strangest ones. Ended unfortunately with Giant for a Day which is not my favorite.
i only recently learned about this band, but i love them!
(on led zep, they were the worst plagurizers in the music business. the lemon song was written by willie dixon. nobody's fault but mine was an old blind willie johnson song....NOT led zeppelin! even if they did change arrangements, it is still NOT THEIRS!
@Machadomm YOU GUYS UNDERESTIMATE THEM BY SAYING THEYRE UNDERESTIMATED! LONG LIVE GENGLE GIANT, NOONE BORN YET CAN JUDGE 'EM! its a shame you are on the fans side! and some other stupid ones "thumbed up" your post.... ITS GG YOUR TALKIN ABOUT DAMMIT! THEY CANT BE UNDERSTIMATED IN ANY WAY!
It may be a silly thing to try to isloate one song as a favorite, but this one would be a top candidate. It just oozes everything that is GG: mysterious yet in your face, subtle yet overt, mystical yet common, haunting yet friendly ... and ... bombastic yet simple.
@SamuelLJacksonsFish I am a troll fol de rol. Sounds like a lyric from one of the GG songs to be found hilariously entertaining the masses here on youtube. I for one highly recommend these videos for the stressed and highly strung amongst you in need of light refreshment. These videos are hysterically funny and keep me smiling through the crap and shit life throws. Monty Python does Prog.
Gentle Giant were huge in Quebec, as was Progressive music's biggest bands : Pink Floyd broke there first in North America, so did ELP ( which is why they recorded their live at the Olympic Stadium ), Genesis, etc... But Gentle Giant was that special band that everybody respected and loved... You can even trace their influences in Quebec's biggest band ever: Harmonium ( an amazing folk-progressive band from the 70's... By the way, this song was WAY before Stairway to Heaven, genius...
@Mr23andme KE ROLOTOTOTA!! ME RECUERDA MIS DIAS DE SECUNDARIA ALLA EN EL DFCTUOSO EN EL GRAN CET 92 ESKUELA PIONERA EN SU TIPO UBIKADA EN ATZCAPOTZALCO LA VILLA ESQUINA CON AVENIDA DE LOS 100 MTS
@Mr23andme not really, they are sell outs by trying to go pop like most prog bands and they paid for it. Classic ending for those who chase money continually moving away from their passion, which was prog.
Let us not forget their progressive albums before they crashed and burned.
@SRNF ...in fact before they became Gentle Giant the Shulmans were becoming pop stars as Simon Dupree and The Big Sound, with screaming chicks and the whole nine yards, but gave it up because they wanted to make good music instead. So what, towards the end they flailed with Giant for a Day and Civilian -- still better than Nickelback (a band brought to you by the singer from GG, by the way)....
Gentle Giant put the meat in the middle or end of al therel songs. The slow start to this song & incredible guitar rift,druming and harmony of this song. all there albums basicallly the same. invent multiple songs in side songs. would ever think syncopated drum sole from hearing the beginning of this song. listen to every album and song catch the genious that they hid. They had the right Idea. people missed it.listen to CSN&Y, Genesis, ELP, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull
I heard Gentle Giant perform at Anaheim Stadium in 1976. I thought they were great but I remember they were booed by the crowd. I hink it started with some troublemakers cause they tried it again when Gary Wright came on but it didn't work. I went to see Frampton and left halfway through Yes, the final act.
First heard this band in late 72 My best friend's oldest sister had spent some time in England and she came back to Detroit with a cassette tape of 3 bands we had not heard before. Gentle Giant, Roxy Music and Manfred Mann's Earth Band. These guys were so incredibly tight. Had not heard this before. The vocal harmonies remind me of David Crosby and Graham Nash
I really like the groove of that 70's prog sound at 3:15, but once it stops at 4:22 it's like "Okay what happened to the song, here's an annoying drum solo with tons of phaser / flanger."
i have to say I used to hate the piano/drum part, but now i have to say this song wouldn't be the samew without it. This is the best Gentle Giant song, and one of the best songs ever.
This is great. Gentle Giant is releasing their stuff on iTunes and Amazon in a week ! I can finally get back the music that ex-girlfriends have absconded with. Yea!
just great music--by any comparison. jazz. classical, rock. they didn't start by being a commercial sell-out. just wanted to produce interesting music. and they did.
I find that Gentle Giant's excellent progressive music stirs up an entirely different array of feelings and thoughts as opposed to similar bands of the era, such as Emerson, Lake and Palmer or Yes, which are both magnificent bands. Though it's that calm and perplexing feeling that draws me to Gentle Giant's vivid imagery in music.
Gentle Giant is a band that in the context of progressive rock, although not as popular as Pink Floyd or Yes, musically is much more relevant. Since I first heard, never seen anything like it.
I knew 2: Interview and Power and the Glory! Today I am getting in touch with all the ones available at you tube; my GG session begun at 2:30 PM. Now is 6:38Pm and I just got here listening and downloading this terrific first GG song! Amazing!!!
Haha! it's off the first GG. An amazing intro into the beginnings of a magical world that developed by leaps and bounds but this song stands with the best of GG. Just another song befitting their perfect name
I know what you mean, drtymac. I like sunsets, but they are spoiled by the bright ball of light in the middle. I take a picture and cut a hole in the middle so I can look at the pretty colors without all that heat and light.
I only ever owned one Gentle Giant album (Pretentious) which was a compilation album, it had this track and The Runaway which are two of the greatest rock songs ever, they never got the popular acclaim groups like Pink Floyd did but Gentle Giant are excellent musicians and song writers.
Hey this song is great! I'm beginning just now to listen to Gentle Giant and this is the 1st time I heard this song and I truly had shivers... Give me more Gentle Giant! :)
Good example of why music education is so important ... kids aren't getting the tools they need to become inspired as real musicians like the bands being mentioned herein. Guitar hero and all the 3-chord pop shit are polluting young minds, dontcha think?
Sorry, but I have to disagree - I can clearly remember my music teacher saying the same thing in 1972 - besides, the kids today have many, many 'serious' tools to choose from to use and far easy access to information than previous generations had. In the end, it's up to the individual to follow a dedicated path. They just need to wade through all of the consumer-based, easy delivery, instant gratification marketing crap that seems to dictate our modern lives.
progressive rock is the most re-listenable music of all time
lettybones 2 weeks ago
Anyone who thinks modern music sucks hasn't heard "Siberian Breaks" by MGMT.
It's a life-changing masterpiece.
username91ification 2 weeks ago
IMO, the best song from their debut album....and then they came with octopus, in a glass house, the power and the glory, and acquiring the taste, and they blew our minds forever!
juandhaltrich 1 month ago
awesome - sounds like their most accessible tune, maybe
chriselsworthy 1 month ago in playlist music 3
Simply awesome.
monscream 2 months ago
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME.
powerlinestreet88 3 months ago
ultra sick shit. I LOVE THIS
420reviewer 3 months ago
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babaerenler57 3 months ago
Probably the greatest rock band ever to exist. Believe it or not I bought this album when I was 16 a week after it was released because of the sleeve art - thank God for sleeve artists!! The other major album I bought for the same reason (about a week later I think) was In the Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson - Amazing!!
MartinandFreddie 4 months ago
@MartinandFreddie Without a doubtThe greatest and most underated band ever
1359401 3 months ago
FUCK EVERYTHING ON EARTH! THIS SONG HAS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND ANYONE ELSE! THE GIANT WINS AGAIN!
klinkerkk 4 months ago 2
holy drum solo!!
deathmetalben 4 months ago
One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. It will be always in my heart
trancegenic 4 months ago
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Thank you very, very much for upload this gem!!! I was 14 years old when this album was released!!!..And thanks for the memories as well...!!
julianozain 4 months ago
Thank you very, very much for upload this gem!!! I was 14 years old when this album was released!!!..And thanks for the memories as well...!!
julianozain 4 months ago
Genesis meets the Beatles meets Gregorian chants... they'd deepen their sound in subsequent albums but this is wonderful too.
grahamlaur 5 months ago
Real musicians playing real music with real instruments.No auto tune just talent.
cmikex2 5 months ago
@cmikex2 Amen to that brother.
StudioMasterS500 4 months ago
i'm not a huge fan of GG, but man this song is perfect
i especially love when the verse returns after that "freejazz" part. makes my wiener tickle
halflaifjee 6 months ago 2
I saw them in 1972 when they were the support group of Jethro Tull... same feeling of mine... GREAT music !!!
TheMarioBarrio 6 months ago
Amazing...pure art...
TheDidiFerr 6 months ago
Awesome music like Gentle Giant lasts forever..and ever, and ever
Some of us are lucky to have seen these guys live.....
Thumbs up for a Giant Reunion...!!
mrprogjazzgto 6 months ago
Man! What is the drummer doing with those heads? Whoa! He's putting to shame even the best drummers of today! I wish I could see what he's doing. These guys are amazing!
M0ofi32012 6 months ago 3
@M0ofi32012 It's a flanger/phaser effect. They usually apply those effects during mixing and mastering. In this case, they may have ran the drum mics through an effects processor or a pedal. Unfortunatley, he's just playing out. He isn't doing anything to the heads. You can thank their sound tech for that cool phasing effect!
StudioMasterS500 5 months ago
Peaceful. Just like 1970. We knew how to get along with each other in those days. Love and peace are unknown to most young people in 2011. How sad.
mctavish51 6 months ago
why is this group so amazing??? :D
Inghe 6 months ago 2
UTTERLY TOTALLY MINDBLOWINGLY BRILLIANT Phew!!!!!
MartinandFreddie 7 months ago
the '70s best music.
manuedo61 7 months ago
THIS IS REAL MUSIC. NOT THAT CRAP OF TODAY'S POP
DarksideOFcollages 8 months ago 3
Saw them in San Diego and L.A. several times. Even saw the bass player outside the Whiskey A Go -Go on Sunset Blvd. prior to a Peter Hammill concert there in 1979...or it could have been outside The Roxy Theatre...
muzqu 8 months ago 2
kereeeen bosss....
MARCHBALI 8 months ago
Fantastic!
fostercathead 9 months ago
This is a truly fabulous album that I did not understand at the time!
Only thing I would say is that I think there are plenty of great bands today too. Sadly, we tend to say "all old is great" and all new is awful.
PhysicsForTheFuture 9 months ago 14
@PhysicsForTheFuture Wow, I can agree with everything you said on that comment. Music can be, but doesn't have to be sophisticated to be good.
HURBRET 3 months ago
Today I busted my Gentle Giant cherry. Read about George Jefferson liking them, so I listened. Wow. This is good stuff. Cant wait to explore the rest of their catalogue.
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Sim2428 10 months ago
just want to say that hate kids who go to yt and write comments how they know ' good music' and the rest is piece of shit.
Kids, You have no better taste than others who listen to bieber. You just WANT to have. Shut Your mouth and let each person listen what he likes.
matlu051990 10 months ago
It´s in my bones. Thank you GG.
athanaVideoes 10 months ago
rock symphony ..far out and groovy babyee..now i'm lost.. now i'm found..some one turned the record round.
tawhaowhao 10 months ago
ZAPPA!!! you forgot ZAppa !!!!!
RadioheadaphexZappa 10 months ago
17 years old and i love progressive rock...like genesis, king crimson, gentle giant, soft machine, yes, and van der graaf generator...these are examples of true music...of course i also like bob dylan, led zeppelin, cat stevens, neil young, dire straits, the doors etc...only true good music, not this shit we have nowadays...
cholinar 10 months ago
@mr scarlett thread amen brother. best band ever
1359401 11 months ago
Best band ever. Nothing else to say.
MrScarletThread 11 months ago
Its like my mind...... it goes places...just off on tangents...strange angles
holdersteven 11 months ago 2
If I met with this LP at that time. Probably I would be a rock legend right now. :) It's a pity I was born after 70s :(
Luckzzz 11 months ago
@Luckzzz I was born when these guys were in their prime! Ohhhhh, to have a time machine! I wish more people nowadays would appreciate the genious of Gentle Giant. DC noise podcast
manticoremanticore 11 months ago
Awesomeness made song. Incredible.
simoskywatcher 11 months ago 7
Influence???? theres no influence from the beatles.... any1 who does real music and are real musicians knows that this is pure original rock
AlexBkatzmann 1 year ago
@AlexBkatzmann I must disagree with your opinion. This is not pure rock (it's original, no doubts about that, but ain't pure). PURE rock is everthing from Lead Belly, Jerry Lee Louis, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Elvis Presley to the early Beatles...everthing after that isn't that pure anymore. But it's not about being pure, I mean, GG was the only band that successfuly mixed Liszt and drums solo.
eurekabach 1 year ago
@eurekabach "Pure rock"....no such thing really, the earliest rock was from a few possible sources:
1) Early 50's R&B (either Chicago R&B of the era, which we now call electric blues or vocal group R&B, which became known as "doo-wop"),
2) The mishmash of country and R&B we now call rockabilly, but in the day was Buddy Holly, Elvis and Bill Haley,
3) Piano based rock, which was an adaptation of a 1940's Jazz piano style called Boogie-Woogie, as played by Little Richard and Jerry-Lee Lewis.
wrxwagon100 1 year ago
@wrxwagon100 The sources you've quoted are right. Now, when we're talking about rock, the first artist I think of is Chuck Berry (guess he's one of the best exemples of the 'purest' rock you can get, of course most people would disagree with that, claiming that Presley is the stereotype of rock 'n roll player...thats just my opinion though). On the other hand: Prog rock! We must agree that it's the best thing that happened to rock in ages!
eurekabach 1 year ago
@eurekabach Yep, love Prog rock!
wrxwagon100 11 months ago
@eurekabach To be more precise these artists are acutally Rock N Roll artists not Rock, the two being slightly different
AlexBkatzmann 1 year ago
@eurekabach Oh is that Liszt? Thanks for the heads-up, I was wondering. Lately I've been playing this song a lot, for some rason.
muzqu 8 months ago
Hearing the begining tells you the influence they had (dear prudence the beatles ;) )
Btw they´re a great band.
Gabiiii7 1 year ago
my mp3 has all it needs 1 pink floyd 2 led zepp 3 the who 4 supertramp and now 5 gg
joeyhage 1 year ago
this band replaces the beatles on my mp3
joeyhage 1 year ago
one person accidentally pushed disslike and if not then they are a troll
joeyhage 1 year ago
excelentes recuerdos de aquellos años 70
VideoMeLike 1 year ago
excelentes recuerdos de aquellos años
VideoMeLike 1 year ago
GREAT PIC!!!! So talented people!!!
watershrine 1 year ago
This riff is a plagiat of Dear Prudence (esle it is a super song form the first album of the group)
dadoo1617 1 year ago
@dadoo1617 you can find there their influence, I don´t think they stole it, but i´m sure they have it in their mind "unconsciously" when they make the songs
Gabiiii7 1 year ago
Great group - wish I had the chance to see them live back in the day.
msandisue 1 year ago
i f***ing pressed the dislike button for a mistake...
Stef1v 1 year ago
Gentle Giant, excelentes musicos.Una de las mejores bandas del mundo. Saludos.
Solano1961 1 year ago
Gentle Giant is one of the greatest bands ever!!!! Recurdo a mis amigos de la SAHOP, Carlitos y El atonal. Excelente musica para pachequear.
Solano1961 1 year ago
I really love these guys...
paberaguitar 1 year ago
I experienced G.Giant in concert, as warm-up group for Colliseum summer of 1970 at the Nurnberg Mistersinger Halle,(sp)?, where they blew Colliseum off stage! Giant played mostly Giant album, their newest, I was blown away GI, bought their album immediately, still have it, remaining a fan for 40 years! #1
rharj1 1 year ago
Sounds like they took some inspiration from Genesis, I would have difficulty to tell the difference with Peter Gabriel s voice.
carlphone 1 year ago
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@carlphone I don't agree with you at all on this one.
vishuiqual 1 year ago
Very Good
arthurmaia2 1 year ago
It's weird to hear blues riff in a Gentle GIant song. Sounds awesome, though.
Canaveral305 1 year ago
SRNF I understand precisely what you are saying.
However, I forgive this band everything. The 70's turned very sour. They had to pay the bills. Think about what they left us. Then smile!
Best wishes
teddingtontcu 1 year ago
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What a great music. The best of the seventy's....
ablais1958 1 year ago
What a great music. The best of the seventy's....
ablais1958 1 year ago
Things are getting said, all I can hear is Gentl Giant and all the other amazing artist's!
ATtTheGates 1 year ago
I was not familiar with them but I really like this! Thanks!
MTCatman 1 year ago
They were 40 years ahead of their time.......... If they would play this one on the radio.,it would be a Hit !! A 10 minute hit !! well maybe not ;o(
giamozz 1 year ago
We played this song in 1976 with jordan and joel phister and that guy jim (on keys)in jims basement. Playing it live in Staten Island is where I met the guys from "HOT ICE" .
MegaANDYGH 1 year ago
we played this song in 1976, with , jordan and joel phister, and that guy jim on keys.
MegaANDYGH 1 year ago
This is a great song. A sadly underrated, underheard, underknown band
MsAdriana1969 1 year ago
never forget these geniuses...
finnertyManuel 1 year ago
When the current crappy music industry collapses under the weight of greed and utter stupidity, Gentle Giant will be recognized as one of the greatest rock bands ever.
terransage 1 year ago 27
@terransage amen.
123zboom 8 months ago
@terransage
It is beautiful..great...it is the best...
Emese1965 4 months ago
Great song, from beginning to end.
gringochucha 1 year ago
I love this song, I wish they had not included the middle section and left it a ballad. I would go see GG when ever they came to Los Angeles, I think their best was in A Glass House. Loved just the same. Stopped listening after interview.
mainsalaco 1 year ago
Note to Mr23andme:
Agreed, m8..
Back In The Day, all I ever did was 'browse' at the band's LP sleeves and think "interesting"...whilst I invested in Beatles, Classical, Motown, and EMI Prog-Rock; After all, Paper Route money could *only* buy me so much back then....
New to me, this song ROCKS!
Now I pursue getting all the Gentle Giant on CD that I can, yes?
Thanx fer the clip, m8...
BadNews88 1 year ago
To hear the talentless generic commercial music of today compared to this band...it's a shame where the music business has gone. My wife calls me a relic for listening mainly to early 70's prog bands, but this is when musicians had actual talent and creativity.
skorziks 1 year ago 2
I love this song. Classic 70's prog.
Arglactable 1 year ago
MARAVILLOSO!! MI GIGANTE GENTIL !!
pinamar13 1 year ago
KE ROLOTOTOTA!! ME RECUERDA MIS DIAS DE SECUNDARIA ALLA EN EL DFCTUOSO EN EL GRAN CET 92 ESKUELA PIONERA EN SU TIPO UBIKADA EN ATZCAPOTZALCO LA VILLA ESQUINA CON AVENIDA DE LOS 100 MTS
lorenzovivanco 1 year ago
I love this tune..!
This song reminds me of an old girlfriend who thought she was all that and a bag of chips because of her beauty....but she had a negative personality 40% of the time..!
I dumped her after a few months and wound up with a smokin great woman with a fun personality who was kind to everyone, very sweet and made me very happy.!!
We would walk along the beach in Santa Cruz, CA and my old girlfriend (all alone) saw us many times together in a beautiful place hand in hand.....
mrprogjazzgto 1 year ago
Funny how they all look your everyday serial killer...
s0ulbassAtt4ck 1 year ago
@s0ulbassAtt4ck
lol
1m2a3t4t5 1 year ago
holy shit, stairway to heavennn!!!, when they started singing I thought it was a strange zeppelin cover, but then I realized this song was realised one year before :o
lechufran 1 year ago
@lechufran Listen to The Band Spirits song Taurus and you will see where the inspiration for the opening sequence of Stairway is may coming from. This was Randy Califirnias Band and they toured togehther wit Zep before Stairway. But anyway - there are only some very small sequences that gave an inspiration for Stairway and I bet Randy liked it.
MrBlacksmurf17 1 year ago
The first time I heard them was in 1978 on a live BBC performance that used to be every Sunday @ 07:00 pm, it was so amazing that I bought all records one by one, going backwards to get used to the strangest ones. Ended unfortunately with Giant for a Day which is not my favorite.
123zboom 1 year ago
i only recently learned about this band, but i love them!
(on led zep, they were the worst plagurizers in the music business. the lemon song was written by willie dixon. nobody's fault but mine was an old blind willie johnson song....NOT led zeppelin! even if they did change arrangements, it is still NOT THEIRS!
theonlysevenismagic 1 year ago 2
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
umbrellabread 1 year ago
the battery sound reminds a lot the one of the first Queen album, Queen I.
franpoule 1 year ago
The most under-rated band ever....
what a shame.... love these guys!!!!
Machadomm 1 year ago 10
@Machadomm YOU GUYS UNDERESTIMATE THEM BY SAYING THEYRE UNDERESTIMATED! LONG LIVE GENGLE GIANT, NOONE BORN YET CAN JUDGE 'EM! its a shame you are on the fans side! and some other stupid ones "thumbed up" your post.... ITS GG YOUR TALKIN ABOUT DAMMIT! THEY CANT BE UNDERSTIMATED IN ANY WAY!
soddencas 5 months ago
i heard this first time at the age of 18 in 1970 in a club in hanover, germany. drug-club.... i ll alwayas remember ... :)
MrHaveaguess 1 year ago
someone linked me to this saying it sounds like Radiohead's Lucky. don't hear it
yassymeeny 1 year ago
It may be a silly thing to try to isloate one song as a favorite, but this one would be a top candidate. It just oozes everything that is GG: mysterious yet in your face, subtle yet overt, mystical yet common, haunting yet friendly ... and ... bombastic yet simple.
popgrubbs 1 year ago 2
Definetly the best song they ever wrote.
Bananiolo 1 year ago 3
0:55 fowards reminds me of something. Dont the beatles have something similar?
Salocin27 1 year ago
My dad was disappointed in himself when he couldn't guess who it was when I randomly put this on.
pika50potter 1 year ago
hilarious stuff. These GG videos are camp, ridiculous and as funny as hell. Whenever I need a good grin or giggle its gotta be GG.
Islwynpaul 1 year ago
fucking troll... again.
SamuelLJacksonsFish 1 year ago
@SamuelLJacksonsFish I am a troll fol de rol. Sounds like a lyric from one of the GG songs to be found hilariously entertaining the masses here on youtube. I for one highly recommend these videos for the stressed and highly strung amongst you in need of light refreshment. These videos are hysterically funny and keep me smiling through the crap and shit life throws. Monty Python does Prog.
Islwynpaul 1 year ago
Whatever. Have fun trolling i guess.
SamuelLJacksonsFish 1 year ago
No, it's actually spam, I think I saw the exact same comment on another video,
pika50potter 1 year ago
@SamuelLJacksonsFish you dont deserve an opinion.
samrrool 1 year ago
What? I was talking to some guy who put the same comments on like 10 Gentle Giant videos.
SamuelLJacksonsFish 1 year ago
Gentle Giant were huge in Quebec, as was Progressive music's biggest bands : Pink Floyd broke there first in North America, so did ELP ( which is why they recorded their live at the Olympic Stadium ), Genesis, etc... But Gentle Giant was that special band that everybody respected and loved... You can even trace their influences in Quebec's biggest band ever: Harmonium ( an amazing folk-progressive band from the 70's... By the way, this song was WAY before Stairway to Heaven, genius...
studebaker69 1 year ago 2
One of the most under appreciated bands ever.
Mr23andme 1 year ago 85
@Mr23andme absolutly true
samysnes 1 year ago
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@Mr23andme KE ROLOTOTOTA!! ME RECUERDA MIS DIAS DE SECUNDARIA ALLA EN EL DFCTUOSO EN EL GRAN CET 92 ESKUELA PIONERA EN SU TIPO UBIKADA EN ATZCAPOTZALCO LA VILLA ESQUINA CON AVENIDA DE LOS 100 MTS
lorenzovivanco 1 year ago
@Mr23andme not really, they are sell outs by trying to go pop like most prog bands and they paid for it. Classic ending for those who chase money continually moving away from their passion, which was prog.
Let us not forget their progressive albums before they crashed and burned.
SRNF 1 year ago
@SRNF ...in fact before they became Gentle Giant the Shulmans were becoming pop stars as Simon Dupree and The Big Sound, with screaming chicks and the whole nine yards, but gave it up because they wanted to make good music instead. So what, towards the end they flailed with Giant for a Day and Civilian -- still better than Nickelback (a band brought to you by the singer from GG, by the way)....
yzerkeon 1 year ago 2
iv recently been told that sadly john weathers has passed away.can anyone confirm this.
redskies12 1 year ago
Don't post unsubstantiated rumors.
If you don't know that it's true, don't be so bloody eager to be 'first' with 'news' just to be 'in the know' .
farkinelify 1 year ago
I remember when this song came out, i couldn`'t believe it, just think by that time this music was totally new, unique
javichuification 1 year ago
diggin' the drum solo!
guscus69er 1 year ago 2
Gentle Giant put the meat in the middle or end of al therel songs. The slow start to this song & incredible guitar rift,druming and harmony of this song. all there albums basicallly the same. invent multiple songs in side songs. would ever think syncopated drum sole from hearing the beginning of this song. listen to every album and song catch the genious that they hid. They had the right Idea. people missed it.listen to CSN&Y, Genesis, ELP, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull
TheSteve8595 1 year ago
Sounds like "Stairway to Heaven" to me...esp the vocal line at parts....and the melody at 0:34.. totally "buy-ing (a) stair way to hea-eh-ven"
scottelliottmusic 1 year ago
dont forget this one was recorded almost a year before stairway
joaormedeiros 1 year ago 44
@joaormedeiros yeah....not suprising....Zepp was pretty good at the rip-off.... greatest cover band of all time...so some would say
scottelliottmusic 1 year ago
@scottelliottmusic also check out "Taurus" by the band Spirit....quite similar to Stairway as well
scottelliottmusic 1 year ago
ledgarot
konrad1111 1 year ago
@joaormedeiros led zeppelin seems to have 'borrowed a little of stairway from GG xD
PeeceSells 1 year ago
@joaormedeiros Bizarre, similarity between the two song, some words inverse you can find in Stairway?
pewploid 1 year ago
@joaormedeiros Stairway to heaven sounds more like Taurus by Spirit (1968) than Nothing at all
SebinusPremier 1 year ago
@joaormedeiros I was going to mention that.
nbelsky 10 months ago
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this song is like a "coitus interruptus"...what a wonderful orgasm it could have been :(
Stef1v 1 year ago
I heard Gentle Giant perform at Anaheim Stadium in 1976. I thought they were great but I remember they were booed by the crowd. I hink it started with some troublemakers cause they tried it again when Gary Wright came on but it didn't work. I went to see Frampton and left halfway through Yes, the final act.
mcsew2k 2 years ago
First heard this band in late 72 My best friend's oldest sister had spent some time in England and she came back to Detroit with a cassette tape of 3 bands we had not heard before. Gentle Giant, Roxy Music and Manfred Mann's Earth Band. These guys were so incredibly tight. Had not heard this before. The vocal harmonies remind me of David Crosby and Graham Nash
westpalmscott 2 years ago
I really like the groove of that 70's prog sound at 3:15, but once it stops at 4:22 it's like "Okay what happened to the song, here's an annoying drum solo with tons of phaser / flanger."
MawcDrums 2 years ago
What are you? A spaceman?
pvssymaster 2 years ago
i have to say I used to hate the piano/drum part, but now i have to say this song wouldn't be the samew without it. This is the best Gentle Giant song, and one of the best songs ever.
axzck 2 years ago 4
GG is one of the most original and versatile prog rock bands of the '70s..
They have their own sound and beat their drums to their own beats....!!! HEHEHHEEEE
This tune RIPS...!!!
mrprogjazzgto 2 years ago
Grew up listening to Gentle Giant.... Saw them at Anaheim Stadium in 1974
They were a refreshing alternative to the slim pickings in that genre in those days.... ELP and YES were my favorites in those days
SteelyDug 2 years ago
I love the beginning of this song. I start thinking of making love to my man.
gojiberries1 2 years ago
This is great. Gentle Giant is releasing their stuff on iTunes and Amazon in a week ! I can finally get back the music that ex-girlfriends have absconded with. Yea!
jedwing 2 years ago
just great music--by any comparison. jazz. classical, rock. they didn't start by being a commercial sell-out. just wanted to produce interesting music. and they did.
FatherOfThings 2 years ago 2
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i can't help but notice the similarity to the voice of McCartney
lionsfan42 2 years ago
Great stuff -- my youth.
LuigiScattagomazza 2 years ago
Uh, that "Stairway to Heaven" intro kicks ass...
tsuaFzneiH 2 years ago
the intro sounds a bit like 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds' to me.
nevrens 2 years ago
at the end everything sounds like everything man, just a question of acquiring the taste...
mab 2 years ago 2
I find that Gentle Giant's excellent progressive music stirs up an entirely different array of feelings and thoughts as opposed to similar bands of the era, such as Emerson, Lake and Palmer or Yes, which are both magnificent bands. Though it's that calm and perplexing feeling that draws me to Gentle Giant's vivid imagery in music.
Entity1490 2 years ago
I totally agree! Just great music.
LuigiScattagomazza 2 years ago
Gentle Giant is a band that in the context of progressive rock, although not as popular as Pink Floyd or Yes, musically is much more relevant. Since I first heard, never seen anything like it.
jabandrade 2 years ago 4
fantastic , i remember seeing these guys inthe 70,s when i was in my late teens they where great then as they are great now if there still going.
66mate21 2 years ago
number 1 gentle giant's song...
babaxa 2 years ago
one of three best Brit-prog bands, period.
xTjPx 2 years ago
superb song
alebatte 2 years ago
Interesting................
Duenderelojero 2 years ago
su entrada es super relaaaax y despues suavemente se pone hendrix la rajaaaaa lo maximo
fatherfocus 2 years ago
I knew 2: Interview and Power and the Glory! Today I am getting in touch with all the ones available at you tube; my GG session begun at 2:30 PM. Now is 6:38Pm and I just got here listening and downloading this terrific first GG song! Amazing!!!
shamayin 2 years ago
1:12 Zappa reference?
We're Only In It For the Money?
mario21128 2 years ago
Haha! it's off the first GG. An amazing intro into the beginnings of a magical world that developed by leaps and bounds but this song stands with the best of GG. Just another song befitting their perfect name
wigginsdesign 2 years ago
I had this album (had all the GG albums), but for the life of me I can't remember this song. How could I have missed it? It's excellent.
terransage 2 years ago
breadcrumbs...
GolasgilEldemar 2 years ago
I think this would have been better as a simple ballad. I made my own edit with the drums/piano part cut out and put it on my ipod :)
drtymac 2 years ago
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jabel5 2 years ago
I know what you mean, drtymac. I like sunsets, but they are spoiled by the bright ball of light in the middle. I take a picture and cut a hole in the middle so I can look at the pretty colors without all that heat and light.
jabel5 2 years ago
great idea!!
steenje 2 years ago
I only ever owned one Gentle Giant album (Pretentious) which was a compilation album, it had this track and The Runaway which are two of the greatest rock songs ever, they never got the popular acclaim groups like Pink Floyd did but Gentle Giant are excellent musicians and song writers.
shonensy 2 years ago 5
GIANT......no more words.
irineuquirino 2 years ago
Hey, Paige and Plant steal from the best!
nbelsky 2 years ago
Hey this song is great! I'm beginning just now to listen to Gentle Giant and this is the 1st time I heard this song and I truly had shivers... Give me more Gentle Giant! :)
MrUrgando 2 years ago 6
Good example of why music education is so important ... kids aren't getting the tools they need to become inspired as real musicians like the bands being mentioned herein. Guitar hero and all the 3-chord pop shit are polluting young minds, dontcha think?
PrplHazel 2 years ago 7
Sorry, but I have to disagree - I can clearly remember my music teacher saying the same thing in 1972 - besides, the kids today have many, many 'serious' tools to choose from to use and far easy access to information than previous generations had. In the end, it's up to the individual to follow a dedicated path. They just need to wade through all of the consumer-based, easy delivery, instant gratification marketing crap that seems to dictate our modern lives.
royism 2 years ago 2