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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(Archive quality 1975 UK Vertigo 'spaceship' label 15-track
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inside. Both the sleeve & vinyl are Near Mint) GENTLE GIANT Live - Playing The Fool (1977 UK green label
9-track double LP, the group's fantastic official live album
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Not Mint, but an ideal filler for any Gentle Giant fan CTY1133) GENTLE GIANT Giant Steps... The First Five Years 1970-1975
(1975 UK Vertigo 'spaceship' label 15-track double LP,
featuring selections from the band's first six albums, front
laminated gatefold picture sleeve with band photos & an
interview with Ray & Derek Shulman printed inside. The
sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear with a bit of edge
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barely played) GENTLE GIANT Octopus (Mid 70s UK Vertigo spaceship label
issue of the 1972 8-track vinyl LP, the formidable fourth
album which marked the last involvement of eldest Shulman
brother Phil, & the first outing for third drummer John
Weathers, whostayed with the band thereafter, engineered
by Martin Rushent [T-Rex, Yes, Buzzcocks, Stranglers], this is
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complexity of Knots, full of interlocking vocal harmonies
wedded to bold symphonicrock sounds. The gatefold sleeve
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