PROGRESSIVE MARATHON FIRST REACTION to Gentle Giant & Haken
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
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1. Gentle Giant - Playing The Game
2. Haken - Celestial Elixir
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I have been enjoying Gentle Giant for 40 years or so, and will never get tired of their brilliant creativity and unparalleled musicianship.
Gentle Giant is THE BOMB! Please do more of them!
GG is the greatest most epic legendary unique genius band ever
@@1359401 I agree!
@cromobotia Agree heartily.
Never heard Haken before, that was fun, very eclectic and with so much different moods, all fitting together. Near the end the guitar sounded very Vai style (around 33' 20”), which I love. So yes, I agree : good idea to mix two songs on a video. The old ones can discover new music, and the younger get in the origins of the genre. Great
It is always a fun time with Gentle Giant Nick! You should make a full album reaction at this point!
I would suggest "Three Friends" or "In a glass house". Also the Haken song was so cool, keep up with this nice music on your amazing channel!
@@nicolasaloni4282 Three Friends is their only real concept album, so that's a big YES from me. Would be perfect for a full album reaction.
This is my favorite song by Haken. Their live versions are very good as well.
Aquarius is a concept album and I am sure you will give the full album a listen even with the lyrics. After hearing the album, you will get a ton of reprisals and motifs in Celestial Elixir. Great song, but even better pertaining to the entire album. Thanks Sidecar.
Actually . . . ALL their albums are Conceptual/Themed albums. Not many bands do that (Pain of Salvation, Ayreon, Seventh Wonder to name a few).
Two amazing bands from different eras, very interesting choice indeed, quality has no age
Finally got some time where I could focus on this cool Marathon from Sidecar. I really enjoyed hearing that Gentle Giant song. I can’t say that I had heard it before but I really enjoyed the structure and melodic licks with a great bass part. I’ve heard HaKen on the channel, but theyare really growing on me. I really enjoyed both songs. It was nice to finally be able to sit and actually relax to hear them both and all the excellent musicianship. Really liked the idea that although the old days from the 70s were so pioneering it doesn’t mean that people have forgotten how to play new music and do it well. Plenty of space to like them both, great reaction Nick. 👍👍
Thanks Nick and Sidecar once again. I'm the old geezer, but still kickin, who loves Gentle Giant. The 70's were my real prime time (grateful). One has to acquire the taste for Gentle Giant, in fact one of their LP's is called, "Acquiring the Taste". This is a British band, excepting the guitarist who is an American. I believe that they were all classically trained, as well as all being multi instrumentalists. They have many influences including English Renaissance music as well as early instruments. You are quite right Nick, they are apart from fusion and prog, they stand alone. Best album IMHO, "Free Hand". Thanks again Nick et al, keep doing what you are doing! You are, in a very real sense, keeping music that will never be taught, ALIVE into the future!
You can't go wrong with pretty much all GG albums from 1970 to 1975. The Power & The Glory is one of their masterpieces, every song a MUST.
GG is a deep deep rabbit hole worth jumping down.
'The Power and the Glory' together with 'Free Hand' is my fave Gentle Giant album.
Same. 'In a Glass House' is a close 2nd for me after those.
Three Friends for me...but saying I love them all.
I knew I would love the GG, but an fairly new to Haken, and I found it equally interesting and satisfying...and much for the same reasons as you mentioned, specifically the limiting of vocal aggressions, which can be the dealkiller for perhaps too many newer bands. At this point in the tape, we have been spared such issues. Fingers crossed. Loving the playful variety. Well done, SD!
It's nice to see the Giant getting the respect they deserve these days. Technically, the best band there ever was. 🙃
Great request😊. Two great songs from two great progressive rock bands! Nick, sorry to hear about the bad experience at the Haken concert! Wish you two could have fully enjoyed it! Thanks sidecar dog! Loved this request! Keep em coming! Nick hope you both have a great trip! ❤
One step closer to one if GG’s greatest, Proclamation👀 always so happy seeing you react to them, the most unique sounding band ever. And thanks for introducing me to Haken, i cant wait to discover them better !
Derek playing the Shulberry in this song from Gentle Giant... Strange stuff.
Thanks so much Nick. I was introduced to Gentle Giant via Columbia House record club (I forgot to mail Power and the Glory back:) As a Beatle Freak, I was so happy to hear something so different and so fun. Now I always include GG in the big 5 of seventies prog.
Sorry Nick for the mess up, I didn't know there was an instrumental version. I don't know this whole album.
What I love about most early Haken is their willingness to experiment with different styles of music and then incorporate into a modern sound. The music is just so damn Cinematic. A wonderful soundscape painted for my ears.
Ps, Eli ,aka Sidecar dog, always comes over to lay beside me on the couch when I'm listening to some good symphonic prog.
He gets a good keyboard and drum massage.
I still play Gentle Giant vinyl 50 years later. As far as concerts go…. I won’t stand for anyone. No seats? No go. Too old for that shit.
My fav GG album!
Praying for Lex's back to be Healed !
Kerry Livgren of Kansas said that Gentle Giant was one of his greatest influences.
Gentle Giant, by far
"Playing the Game" Bass line WAITS for the rhythm then plays it parallel is JUST GENIUS!
Continuing to pray for you both - my wife also has back issues (among a larger list of disabling issues), so I am all too familiar with how painful and limiting that can be! Keep loving her and taking care of her - and know you aren't alone in that journey!
I'm a huge Gentle Giant fan - have been since the late 70s! Amazing music - enjoy!
Celestial Elixir is a goated song. Another one is Crystallised
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❤cool, I haven't heard much Haken but I like them. even the vocals which is often a problem
How would a Gentle Giant concert be with the associate band being Frank Zappa? Did they ever play together?
Gentle Giant is a "one-of-a-kind" band. NO ONE comes close. MORE inventive and progressive than YES. You mentioned Chick.....on the Jazz side I would say Return to Forever is the parallel.
I think I’m guilty of not listening to something I haven’t heard before, not necessarily because it’s new, but just unknown or unfamiliar. But lately I’ve been watching more tv or just don’t have time.
All this musicality, inventiveness and virtuosity without today’s Prog’s too often boring and overbearing overplaying screamin ‘Hey, look what I can do!’
Nick, you must do the song In a Glass House by GG, it will blow your socks of, so go barefeet!
Done, my friend! Check it out:
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Strange that you compare GG with Yes. For me they are completely opposite. Yes is epic songs, very much based on chords and emotions and powerful rock. Gentle Giant is much more complex, short songs, based on intricate melodies, very mathematic and more innovative. I like both but don't see how you can say one reminds you of the other. It's like saying Mozart makes you think of Stravinsky…
It's the other way around. Stravinsky makes me think of Mozart. Stravinsky admitted to having studied Mozart's operas closely as models and declared himself ''Mozart's continuer.'' You literally made my point.
@@NicknLex I get what you say but if my example was bad, it's not about Stravinsky having studied Mozart that makes my point. It's the big difference in approach of the music. Gentle Giant did not study Yes (and I suppose the other way around is true too 😀). But their approach of music is too different to compare one to the other.
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"Celestial Elixir" (as I just looked up the setlist) was the last track before the encore at _your_ show (and ours too), and I was VERY happy that they played a track from their debut! Woo Hoo! If you remember, possibly your audience was singing along at the end when Ross Jennings was singing (38:54) "WhooawhooaWHOOOAwhooa whoa whooaWHOOAohh" 🎵 like our audience, as he got the crowd to chime-in.
Sorry we haven't been able to talk about the last 2 shows we've seen (Marty/QR). (From a previous comment about the Haken show) That is soo strange that you guys had a "Pit" going with people moshing to _Haken_ . . . wow! We here in LA didn't even get that! People were into the music, I don't think I've ever seen a Slam Pit at a Prog Metal show anywhere in LA. (Only Opeth & Nevermore come to mind).
That sucks that poor Lexi was having back trouble 🙁. Also at our show, the double bass pedals were fine, unfortunately Ross Jennings's vocals were a bit buried in the mix, otherwise it was a great show. And surprisingly we very much enjoyed "Arch Echo", their drummer and keyboardist were especially awesome!
The "Cover" art of _Aquarius_ gives you an idea of the album "Concept". And you get that playful "Turn of the Century, Seafarer & Ragtime" tropes much like the Jordan Rudess era of DT, with the former keyboardist of Haken; "Diego Tejeida", and the excellent Bass of former member "Thomas MacLean", who was also the _Guitarist_ for his side band *To-Mera,* (which you also have, to experience in the future). The newer Keyboardist "Richard Henshall" was also formerly with To-Mera.
Don't even get me started on my favorite Gentle Giant album (which you have as well 😄 but need to get you the Wilson mixed version), every track is stellar, and got me ready for the odd, avant-garde and angular music to come.
You also got to hear a bit of the GG influence on Haken (especially the point/counterpoint vocal harmonies that Ross also does on many tracks).
- Thanks Sidecar for getting Nick & Lexi into these bands. Thank you for the "Shout Outs" Nick, I really appreciate it and take care of your Lexi😊. EnjOy the albums! 🎶 Rest in Peace Ray Shulman.