Gentle Giant: Unburied Treasure Box Set || UNBOXING
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- Hi all I hope you enjoyed today's video! Question: should I use the camera for all videos or just the unboxings? I think my phone camera is better for chatty videos but for unboxings the camera is better!
Tomorrow will be another episode of Saturdays With Dad and it'll be about the 2000s!
See you then!
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For some reason I thought this was a gentle giant cake.... I’m going back to bed.
Gentle Giant has been my favorite band for the last 45 years. ALWAYS discovering new detail within the music! If I could only have ONE of their albums, it would be the Official Live album, Playing The Fool. Not only does the material cover several of their albums, but the recording is just so good! The arrangements are unique and the amazing number of instruments used by every member in the band on stage is stunning! One of the best live albums of all time!
Wow, what a seriously impressive box set from a group I've known little about. Beautifully packaged and a wonderful, to-the-point unveiling from you, Niamh. Thank you.
Thank you!!
@@the_prog_nerd yes - other unboxing presenters could learn from this
Wow that looks like an amazing collection! Martin Smith (who drummed on their 1st 2 albums) lived near me in Southampton. Sadly died aged 50 (in the late 90’s). He was very well respected.
Hey Niamh, I never read the comments on this particular video, as I was having some technical issues with TH-cam at the time... but after what you said about the negative comments, I had to find out what you were talking about.
It's a shame that these few comments had upset you, because I think that the 'positive' was very much outweighing the 'negative' with the majority of these.
If you really put things in perspective, I don't think even these negative comments were aimed to upset you.
It's just that a few people were pretty envious that you could indulge in your passion, in the way that you do.
I'm sure that they didn't have anything personal against you... but if they did, then they're definitely the ones with a problem, as you're a good person, and deserve some common decency, and respect.
I'm personally very happy that you have the means to follow your passions, it's a pretty cool thing!.
Well said, The negative comments seem to be bitter types that don't like that Niamh has these awesome box sets and they don't, They are acting like children.
Hi Niamh, this is an amazing video. You are very lucky to have this magnificent boxset. I have all the Gentle Giant studio albums on CD apart from 'In a Glass House'. Your channel is great, keep on going please!
Gentle Giant are sooooooo underrated.
An amazing group of musicians.
My favourite is 🐙
Know little of this band, but would instantly think theyre prog from their album covers, like 70s genesis and yes
Prog rock album covers are the best
So cool! 😎
I have this box and I love it! So nice to have the touring history accompanying the bootleg live recordings, it shines a light on the live story of the band. Any Giant fan knows how their sweaty, heavy live shows differed quite radically form their sometimes antiseptic studio recordings. Not to mention the often total rearrangements of their material for concert use. Also nice to have in one place all the live documents from the early years of the band when Phil Shulman was still in the group. As massive as this box is, there is still stuff missing....like their BBC sessions for instance. Or the studios leftovers and demos as found in the Under Construction box. Still, worth every penny as one-stop shopping for any Gentle Giant fan.
I was in the audience at the Roxy show in 1980. That was their last US performance. It was a great show. Didn't know it was being recorded for a release, 40 years later. Funny, I tried to sneak in a cassette recorder to record a personal copy of that show but was caught and sent back to my car. They were going through everybody's stuff that night to make sure that there were no recorders going into that show.
Excellent video Niamh, I enjoyed that. Thank you so much. :) Well done to GG on a well packaged presentation.
Wow, that is a CHOICE box set-great find! My favorite album would probably be In A Glass House-only available on import here in North America, so heavily prized. Although I do concur that Three Friends is a great album.
I was in a band once and the singer would sometimes ape, to great success, Derek Shulman's vocalizations. At one gig, some attendee yells in between songs "Ya gonna play any Giant?' The singer says, no they learned it from us'
Holy crap!
I was looking at that and the price just took me aback a bit!
Wow! Amazing set! Bobby want...
Just got an original pressing of Free Hand on vinyl at my local record store 10 minutes ago. Love gentle giant so much
Glad that this channel introduced me to Gentle Giant especially their concept album "three friends" (don't judge me, I got stuck on king crimson for a long period of time like I always do whenever I discover a new band lol) and as a musician it opens alot of creative ideas in me again
No problem!! They’re a great band!! Thanks for watching!!
Amazing! Love this band! First heard them back in 1978 and got all of their albums! :)
Gosh that box set is gorgeous. So many goodies inside.
If you're wondering how she affords all these records, her dad is the richest man in England, outside of the royal family of course.
Do you actually have inside knowledge or are you just being sarcastic?
I more wonder about how she has the time to give them any kind of serious listen. This Gentle Giant Box Set alone would take years. Stick with the first 8 or 9 official releases before you take that dive!
@@garycitro1674 agreed!
@@garycitro1674 Of course I'm being sarcastic but then again she does seem to come out with one box set after another. I'm pretty much broke retired guy but who needs to buy anything now, you can just listen to it for free on TH-cam. When she's reviewing an album I open up another tab to TH-cam and listen to what she talks about.
Exactly what i have been wondering as that GG box is crazy money, s/h one on Amazon for £400 !!!.....And I would so love to own all those King Crimson boxes..I do have the Road to Red though as top friend bought it for my 60th birthday present.
@@ronnieguitar99 Rishi Sunak hasn´t forked out £54billion for nothing, you know! lol
This is one of the greatest and best box sets i've ever seen. It is a limited version, the first output in 2019 with 2000 pieces, the second in 2020 with 1000 pieces are complete sold out. So sadly.🙄☹️😭
OMG! I can't get no satisfaction.
Awesome box set from a great band of superb musicians wish I could afford it. Favourite album is Octopus do love three friends and the live playing the fool too.
Thanks for sharing the video, I really appreciate your recommendations. Definitely I must go more into Gentle Giant. I only own Octopus and it seems like a great album.
"Hi to everyone!" "that's enough of you" 😂
Thanx a lot for your presentation !!! For me Glasshouse was THE moment where I've been fallen head over heals for GG (bought the lp in 1973 in a small record store near my school in Darmstadt /Germany, cheers and keep on posting please!
Gentle Giant albums in order how much I have listened to them since 2000.
1. Three Friends (1972)
2. Interview (1976)
3. In A Glass House (1973)
4. Octopus (1972)
5. The Power and the Glory (1974)
6. Playing the Fool (1976)
7. Free Hand (1975)
8. Acquiring the Taste (1971)
9. Gentle Giant (1970)
10. Live at the Bicentennial (1976)
11. Live in Stockholm (1975)
12. Giant Steps (compilation 1970-1974)
13. Three Piece Suite (1970-1972/2017)
14. Giant for a Day (1978)
15. The Missing Piece (1977)
16. Civilian (1980)
17. Live in Santa Monica 1975 (bought it yesterday)
I saw gentle giant in Wales in the early seventies. Supporting the Jimi Plays Berkeley Hendrix film. They were LOUD.😀
I only have one album, Steven Wilson's remix The Power and the Glory. Never really got into them and I didn't know anyone else who did. That is a pretty extensive box set, lot of material to ;listen to, Someone gave me a collection of Grateful Dead live audience recordings, over a hundred different concerts and I listened to none of them in the 5 years I've had them, there's just not enough time to listen to what I own in my collection, If I started at the beginning I wouldn't be able to listen to all of it before I die. I do respect your dedication to listen to as much as you can.
One of my favorite Prog bands i bought them new in the 70s when they came out congrats on the 10K Plus. My recent purchase was the power and the glory Blu-ray very excellent.
Really enjoyed the video. It was a clearly presented and fascinating peek into the boxset I am amazed how much content there is in the boxset. My favourite album is probably Glass House.
Thank you!!
Finally......GENTLE GIANT!!!!
Wow, Gentle Giant beings back memories. I grew up in Ayrshire, Scotland. When I was about 14 or 15 I got to go up to Glasgow with my cousins to see Gentle Giant (circa '72-'73). Very nice. Which actually reminds me that I've been meaning to ask if you or Dad happened to be familiar with a band that was called The Nice? It was Keith Emerson before Emerson, Lake & Palmer. As you both really love the early ELP, The Nice would be very much along those same lines. "The Five Bridges Suite" was written by Keith Emerson and was inspired by the city of Newcastle.
Wow. The fact that you have the cash to buy all of this stuff is awesome. Wish I did.
Three Friends is also my fave GG album! You've got great taste!
Aaaaaaand, you've finally, officially made me envious of you :p
Glad to see someone shed some light on this literal treasure trove.
This is such a cool set! I will certainly keep my eyes out for one
I really would love to go through all the stuff inside more than really listening to the CD's. I love reading all band related things and liner notes. Don't know if I'd put out for something like this but love it nonetheless. Fantastic content as always Niamh. Happy Friday everyone! Actually have the heat off and windows open and I hope my neighbors are enjoying Zappa's Hot Rats at high volume as much as me🤣!
What a box set! SW could learn a thing or two from this packaging.
SW?
@@NaughtyVampireGod Steven Wilson
@@jordanfarquharson5345 ok - thx
Free Hand is such a great album, especially the title track. In A Glass House and Power & The Glory also fantastic. Well, all the albums from Acquiring The Taste to Free Hand are great. Interview is a slow burner but also excellent.
You might have some fun with Giant For A Day - it's kind of GG's Love Beach, lol.
Totally agree with you on the albums. Interview was the last decent studio album they did.
Lmao on the Love Beach gag.
I used my copy of GFAD to kill zombies in the back garden 😊
Playing The Fool Live is one of the best live albums ever.
@@MrTarkus01 Missing Piece has a few good tracks. GFAD and Civilian are terrible GG albums, but taken on their own merits as very slick pop/rock albums, they're kinda good fun with a few decent tunes here and there.
As someone who only got into GG fairly recently, despite being aware of them since the mid 70s, I genuinely can't get over how good the classic GG albums are. They've barely dated at all, and there are even things on the albums that sound like math rock and post rock, long before those genres existed.
Agree about Playing The Fool - great live album.
@@MrTarkus01 The Missing Piece not only has some great songs on it, it has "FOR NOBODY" which is one of the best songs of all time from anyone!
OK guys, you got me.
I just listened to The Missing Piece for the first time in ages. There's some good stuff on there.
As Old As You're Young,
Memories Of Old Days, and
For Nobody.
@@MrTarkus01 Yeah, those are definitely the highlights. I like 2 Weeks in Spain also (and the rest of the album, even though it's out of character, one-off shots at trying to get a hit single. But come on man, For Nobody is just ridiculous -- a great encapsulation of what GG is all about in one short song. It used to be my ring tone!
Wow this box set looks beautiful!
Gentle Giant is the, BEST!!!!!
Great video. BTW as an Irish speaker, it’s nice to come across someone with a traditional Irish name🤗. Maith thú!
OMG you got it!!! Must have been a small fortune!
Your Video makes me so jaleous because i am a fool this Sold Out Monster package !
Congratulations
that's very nice
I love Three Friends and Octopus!!!
1. Octopus 2. Acquiring The Taste 3. Free Hand 4. Gentle Giant 5. The Power & The Glory 6. In A Glass House 7. Interview 8. Three Friends/Civilian
Good list order, personally for me Acquiring the Taste is their masterpiece but I've come to learn that every GG fan has a different album as their fave...nothing set in stone there, as to which is overall considered their best work it's a very individual thing with no particular album seemingly regarded their finest classic.
@@felinefanII yup that’s the thing with Giant...no particular album is universally hailed as their greatest. For me it’s a toss-up between In a Glass House and The Power and the Glory.
There's a missing piece here. I like that album
Hi Niamh,
Thanks for showing this. I never got a copy of this...and being a huge Gentle Giant fan...I'm sad I missed out.
Mark Anthony K
Projekt Gemineye
Excelente adquisición. Muy bueno está el box set. Gentle Giant, de los mejores grupos progresivos de la década de los setenta.
not enough gentle giant reviews😎👍
Happy The Man prog rock band were the US = of GG...imo
Looks like a lot of live albums, i like that
Wow, amazing box!
I had no idea they had so many albums. I don't think they ever played this far West. I only ever heard the first one. Compared to the other stuff I was into it didn't really grab me. I had the CD. I'd like to explore them now.
I like the tripod camera . Better pic quality too.
Wow, I'm not a GG fan, but that's a GREAT box set.
"That's enough of you!"
Hello Niamh! A bit random, but have you checked out Far East Family Band? Their album Parallel World is one of my favorite space rock albums ever!
Strange picture, very lisergic and prog. Hello, from Madrid, Spain.
I often wish that the material included in these box sets had been made available before I started collecting the albums or that they did a separate set that doesnt include the officially released albums - simply because I am hesitant to shell out the cash required to purchase a load of discs that I've already got. The albums in the set are great - my introduction to them however wasnt until the Edge of Twilight compilation that came out in 1996 which I'll admit took me a while to get into, however after perservering I finally got it and promptly went out to get everything they'd done as well including the live DVDs. So If the live cds were available seperately - presumably they are of varied quality as I'd guess they are either radio broadcasts or audience tapes? - I'd most probably buy them - same thing with the ELP Fanfare set, The Wishbone Ash Vintage Years set (which really pains me as it has the first gig I saw Wishbone Ash it at Bournemouth WInter Gardens in 1978 that in reviews is said to be an excellent show). Very very nice box set though.
I'm a Civilian fan, not many of those who thoroughly enjoy their last album as me. I hope some day I'll get the box set
Thanks for the video. I see that you didn't keep the plastic bands to hold the cds together. I thought this had to stay on. They're a plain to get off and on. So, I guess I shall remove mine.
I really considered buying this as a die-hard GG fan. But I'm not a big fan of live recordings, particularly unofficial ones, and since I have all the GG albums and some live stuff, the price for this was just too much ... considering, as far as I heard, the audio quality seems not to be that great on the exclusive live material. I would really recommend their live album "Playing the Fool" though. Some of the songs were rearranged for the live performances and are really worth listening to also in those versions.
That's pretty impressive. GG never really caught my interest. I must get out Octopus tonight and see if I Feel any different.
👍🏻
Wish I would've picked this up when it came out.
Checked Discogs, not willing to pay almost 1,000 cdn for this.
It is a geourgeous set though
what is 1,000 cdn in dollarsUS? thx
That is a monster box set indeed, Perfect for any Gentle Giant fan. Niamh, I was wondering if you like the band Spock's Beard?
´Two weeks in Spain makes the year disappear easy
Two weeks in Spain, you forget, bored and yet wearyWe're back again, drink the wine, weather's fine, onlyTwo weeks in Spain's not enough´
Ha when i first saw it i thought it was a cake
At 3:10 you can see the on the poster the introduction of "Gentle Giant" with "ace singer Simon Dupree." Simon Dupree and The Big Sound were a relatively famous band, with a hit radio single called "Kites." GG lead Singer Derek Shulnan was "Simon," and his brothers were also in the band. Throwing that away for Gentle Giant was adventurous.
I was lucky enough to be present when Gentle Giant unboxed this for the first time themselves:
th-cam.com/video/5L6kwOdTjHA/w-d-xo.html
Re that cover art, is anyone else here who's old being reminded of the ending of the Nickolas Roeg film Don't Look Now?
so sad I didn't get it :(
A short view of the luckiest guy in England. When do we get to hear you playing bass?
Silly lobster on TH-cam
Use the camera for every video.
How much did it cost anyway
Is all this cds are the Steven Wilson mixing? Anyone knows
I liked acid/art rock and modal jazz always more than the so called progressive rock, obwohl die Übergänge ja teilweise fließend sind^
I wish I owned it, but it's rather expensive. I have the individual CDs, except the live concerts and Civilian + Giant for a day since I don't like those two
It’s more like a treasure chest than a box set
How Much if I may ask?
Damn, I dribbled on my keyboard!
Very lucky young man from :05 through :08, probably doesn't realize it.
At that age you never realize until many years later. Then you either regret or have moved on.
Octopus is my kappaT ...
Seems to be a kind of Holy Grail for any Gentle Giant fan. Unfortunately, the box set is a huge disappointment : the album new remasters done for this boxset are not as good as the previous reissues (2010/2011 remasters are amazing) and the live cd's are kind of "official bootlegs" with poor sound quality for most of them. Of course, I'm only talking about the sound quality (and this is just my own humble opinion) .. Gentle Giant's music is fantastic and they are probably the most underrated prog band from the 70's.
Hey what happened to that stream from yesterday? I started watching, now its gone.
My video comments were very rude so I took it down :(
@@the_prog_nerd Same that had to happen
damn how many pounds did this run you niamh?
Is that Niamh's dad in the background sending morse code?
How did you know! 😅😅
Congratulations