Gentle Giant - Funny Ways - 16mm Film - 1974

Haha those Germans are great audiences.
Where is the video of all of them playing vibraphones at once?

the singers a fag

Of Course !

did i just witness an extended xylophone solo

Something like that - It's actually a Vibraphone (with metal note-bars- xylophones have wooden note-bars - so the sound is different shorter, and drier ) The vibraphone has quite a lot of jazz literature -Lionel Hampton, Gary Burton etc - predating this music which would have been an influence. Anyway -Kerry Minnear certainly plays an exciting solo here, on an instrument more usually associated with coolness than wild passion!
I loved this piece 30 years ago - and I still do!

It takes an open-minded person to be opened to experiementation, or even people who are not bands.

The music industry is unimportant to me.

I just listen to music everywhere anywhere.

I love GG.

Actually I think the 70s was a funny time. Bands like Yes and ELP had major label backing, which would never happen nowadays. The music industry was still experimenting with formulas, seeing which would sell the most, and they gave prog a chance. Then when they figured out the pop formula by the early 80s, they dumped it. Anyways thats what I think :o anna

Strange ways
Can't reform 'em

It is phenomenal.