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Gentle Giant - Free Hand Cover, at the Knitting Factory, (Us performing it)

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Uploaded by on Apr 22, 2009

Us kids performing sum GG in spring of 2009. we will not let this music fade away!!! Took us a year to transcribe, but we did it, though there were a few mistakes!! Recorded on tape; sorry for lack of video, but i like tape!! I'm on the clav and Rhodes. Bonus: the end of a mystery song; CAN YOU GUESS WHAT SONG IT IS?!?

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  • very good, well played :-) I was waiting to see whether you'd done the studio or live version - it was quite refreshing to hear the studio cut done live, since most copy the 'Playing the Fool' version.

    ..So what are you doing next.. Close to the Edge? ;-)

  • @duncanparsons we recently did One More Red Nightmare but a certain guitarist decided to hit the C# chord too early and much confusion ensued for two bars of 7/8 so I would rather not post it here...:/

  • We should jam together, I'm 19! =)

  • @maisplante i would love to...i live in SoCal

  • This is amazing! Any band would struggle to play this song, especially this version, let alone with players so young. I think this version taken from the studio version rather than live is far more tricky than the live version. If you'd taken it just a tad slower it would have been a little tighter probably, but really it's a staggering achievement. Well done!

  • thank you. We only had 8 weeks to get everyone together and rehearse. We ended up playing almost exactly the same length as the record, but i have to agree with you on sloppiness. We are not yet musicians even close to Gentle Giant's league. Few are.

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  • The mystery song: Counting Out Time - Genesis

    "Without you mankind handkinds through the blues!" :P

  • yay! it's us! thanks for putting this up!

    it's xanthe (the singer), by the way.

    let's get the band back together again SOON!

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  • I know these kids and they were age 13 to 17.

  • @EyMeng :-) fair enough! OMRN is a good one to try tho'.. good to see these tunes being played.

  • Outfreekingstanding. Would love to SEE you guys do this!!

  • You sound like you could be one day though. Bear in mind Giant were mid to late 20's when they recorded free hand.

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