From Loudersound.
Gentle Giant have released a new and rare vide clip of the band performing live and being interviewed on Italian television. The clip is from 1972 and features original founding member Phil Shulman with the band as they perform Peel The Paint from 1972’s Three Friends. It is thought to be the clearest existing footage of the band performing with Phil Shulman.
“In 1972, The band had just signed with Pat Meehan Sr. at WorldWide Artists Management who hosted a private party at the Kings River Club in Lido di Jesolo, Italy,” say the band. “This film features an (overdubbed) performance of Three Friends‘ Peel The Paint followed by a brief interview with Phil Shulman. This film was originally broadcasted on an Italian program called Permette Questo Ballo. It is believed that there are several different edits from this event that was broadcasted through the RAI archives in Italy.”
In the clip, when asked what sort of music they play, Phil Shulman, who would leave the band a year later, says [although some of the real meaning might have been lost in the translation], “The music of Gentle Giant is all our own. The band are made of six instruments and we play different types of music. Some of us have played jazz, others are classical musicians, blues interpreters and we even have a musician of C. O. Jolly Heavy Funk. All this put together constitutes our music, which has no special characteristic. it is just ur music.”
Although Gentle Giant haven’t played live since they disbanded in 1980, the band have been highly visible recently. Their virtual reunion for the lockdown fan video of Proclamation won the Event Of The Year category in the Prog Magazine Readers’ Poll for 2020.
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8-track vinyl LP on the Vertigo 'swirl' label - This album took
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inner and lyrics printed across the inside, the gatefold picture
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Vertigo 'swirl' label with second variant 'Made In England' label text,
matt gatefold picture sleeve with die-cut poly-lined swirl inner. The
sleeve shows only minimal signs of storage with very little shelf wear
for its age & the vinyl shows few signs of play) GENTLE GIANT Acquiring The Taste (1971 first UK issue
8-track vinyl LP on the Vertigo 'swirl' label. This album took
the band into more experimental & darker areas but is still
their own recognisable sound - a rich blend of hard rock &
orchestration - with hints of influences from King Crimson &
Van Der Graaf Generator, housed in a gatefold picture sleeve
with the poly lined 'swirl' die-cut inner. The sleeve displays
some minor general wear with some edge & corner scuffing,
and hassome strange blank ink marks on the back, but still
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VeryGood+ example of this progressive masterpiece!) GENTLE GIANT Gentle Giant (Mid 70s UK second issue of the
debut 1970 7-track LP on the 'spaceship' Vertigo label, the
innovative first album from the Shulman brothers & co,
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live set regulars, Funny Ways & Isn't It Quiet And Cold,
featuring the late, first drummer Martin Smith, housed in the
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The sleeve shows just a little light general wear whilst the
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