Prog Synch Listen: Gentle Giant. Friends

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2010 NEARfest - they changed the band to Three Friends. It was a killer show.

I saw them around that time too.

Thrice actually - once with Yomptepi and The Fish





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[Hightea]

Phil Shulman, the eldest brother, is still in the band at this stage.





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He played alto and tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet, trumpet, mellophone, piano, plus occasional percussion and vocals





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little confused here. Gentle Giant doesn't exist anymore. The Shulman's go as far as to say they are not interested in GG anymore and I believe they have another band.
Gary Green still may bring back Gg or the three friends band?

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Hangs head - haven't seen them.

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love how GG always mixes up the tone and time signatures even in the middle of a jam.

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Working all day

ooooooooooooof!

Malcolm Mortimore was an excellent drummer but not as robust as Pugwash!

Gary's guiatr is always stunning understated but on the mark




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love how GG always mixes up the tone and time signatures even in the middle of a jam.

I concur




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[Hightea]

2010 NEARfest - they changed the band to Three Friends. It was a killer show.

I saw them around that time too.

Thrice actually - once with Yomptepi and The Fish





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Assume you saw them back in the day too.
I saw them in 77 and 78.

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love how GG always mixes up the tone and time signatures even in the middle of a jam.

I concur




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Thriced.

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I loved the title of their self-mocking 'best of'







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Toe is starting to move...

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Assume you saw them back in the day too.
I saw them in 77 and 78.

Impressive .

I saw them 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1976




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Toe is starting to move...

Body swaying, head nodding....




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Probably Gary's heaviest solo....!!




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Oh, the head's starting with those rhythmical ascending and descending motions...

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Oh, the head's starting with those rhythmical ascending and descending motions...

I know the ones!

bouncebouncebounce....







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I wonder if Brian May listened to Gary.

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And the noddings continue!!

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"Gary Green's guitar solo on "Peel the Paint" uses an echoplex belonging to Mike Ratledge that Green's brother Jeff, a roadie with Ratledge's band Soft Machine, had borrowed"





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"Gary Green's guitar solo on "Peel the Paint" uses an echoplex belonging to Mike Ratledge that Green's brother Jeff, a roadie with Ratledge's band Soft Machine, had borrowed"





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Thank you - I do enjoy this kind of info.

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And the noddings continue!!

The penultimate track that runs into one of the most beautiful tracks ever written

What a finale?




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