They weren't overlooked. They were both too far ahead, and too far behind their time. No one else was approaching prog rock this way. That they were inaccessible to the critics wasn't their fault
Incredible how they swap and change musical instruments. You can see they're all classically trained, accomplished musicians. A very special band indeed
He could be at any instrument any week, "You may know what I don't know, but not thatI don't know it and I can't tell you So you will." Bless him The Great Gentle Giant of ProgRock Ray Shulman.
I saw Gentle Giant live at the beautiful Tower Theater in Philly in the late seventies. I'm still in awe,and amazed by that concert. 5 classicly trained Musicians playing the coolest progressive Rock tunes on the Planet. ❤🥁🎶
Memorabile concerto in Italy nel 1972. Qui da noi hanno avuto un grande apprezzamento , grandi strumentisti e musica all'avanguardia. Una delle migliori prog band....
I agree with this,listen and love their music since 50 years, so unique innovative and beautiful,you have a big chance to discover them and you will have a splendid marvelous journey with them.
I'm glad you're hooked. Gentle Giant is easy to absorb and digest unlike other Prog bands like King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd that you would really have to listen a few times to appreciate them.
As a big fan of progressive rock, I love this. GG is a very undervalued progeband. Mainly forgotten, which is sad. But some of us keep the memory alive?
holdem5180 of course. But there are 142 millions of people that have seen that video, and half a million have seen this. So GG is a very undervalued band. We have the proofs.Sorry for my bad english.
I guess people just didn’t applaud for someone playing their heart out on the vibes...I just don’t get it. That, my friends was pure genius what we just witnessed here. We’re not worthy! HAIL GENTLE GIANT!
Gentle Giant is my favorite band. Their performance on their main instruments is amazing, but it's amazing that their performance doesn't diminish at all when they switch instruments. They are truly a group of geniuses!
pink floyd is not everything. but they are not best nor worse than gentle giant. nor any other band from the 60's /70's. because they were all amazing in their own original way. no one ever did anything like dark side of the moon before. that is why PF is great ;)
I was fortunate enough to see this band in 1975 - like no other I had seen or have seen since, it was them that inspired me to become a musician. Their material was and is both brilliant and timeless. British prog produced many great bands - without doubt this was one of the very best in the genre.
Hoje perdemos Ray Schulmann, um dos gênios musicais e criativos desse incrível grupo. Ray influenciou e inspirou muitíssimos baixistas com seu estilo forte, dinâmico e sincopado. Pode ser visto nesse vídeo alternando-se no violino e trompete. Que descanse em paz.
I saw Gentle Giant in the UK this era, maybe this tour. I sort of knew Kerry Minnear, we had a mutual friend & I lived opposite his parents. His solo here is one of my favourite bits of GG, but it's a vibraphone not a xylophone (xylophones have wooden sound blocks).
@@barrieflix Wow. You probably lived close to the greatest musician to ever live. There is a video of him playing an electric guitar with some quality depth.
The acoustic guitar strumming over the xylophone is just so beautiful. In fact, there are so few rock-oriented bands that ever used xylophone. These guys were so special in an era that is now long gone. It just can't be over 30 years since I was just a long-haired hippie kid listening to this stuff ? Where did the years go? Thing is, THIS music holds up and still sounds both modern and fantastic!
It’s crazy how far apart on the music spectrum this and MF DOOM are, but given the right opportunity, they come together and form a beautiful song with both segments equally shining, not being overpowered by the other, and neither having to change its style to fit the other, madlib did great on putting the sample and beat together, with DOOM laying down some powerful punchy lyrics. Amazing work by both Gentle Giant for the original song and DOOM and Lib for putting their twist on this song to create a whole new one, music is definitely the universal language, able to bring us all together even through different genres
Few things gets better with time, nostalgia is one, Gentle Giant is another, Long live Gentle Giant and their Music. Love to all the lads and hats of for Ray. If somebody happens pass his place of rest, please lay down a Rose from me.
My heart yearns to be back in high school listening to these songs playing on my dads old ‘record player’ he had given me. I had my new Radio Shack deluxe headphones i had saved up to buy. The seventies were a horrible beautiful time. The music coming from Europe, being called progressive. Genesis’s second album only being sold as a special import at Licorice Pizza. NOBODY but my friend and I had ever heard of GG. Thank you for my time trip. It’s was better back then….
music of GG unfolds like a picture book full of stars, where birds come chirping, spinning farandoles, cracking rattles and dancing wizards. From rounds to nursery rhymes, the arrangements display their mystery, the songs fill with fervor and the instruments have the roundness and brilliance of chimes ;)
Damn! this is the band that got away...I missed seeing them live. They played at New Paltz the year before I got there. Back in the day, going to a concert was a big event. If they were still around, I would have seen them 10 times by now...Thank God there's plenty of footage of them live, no one would believe what they pulled off live, except for those lucky to see them in concert,
@Pcrimsont. I got lucky. My then boyfriend introduced a ton of bands to me when we met in 1970ish. I was 18. We got to see so many bands play at Massey Hall in Toronto Ontario, one and a half miles from where we lived. They put on what they called Cheap Thrills concerts. This is how we got to see Genesis, Strawbs, and others but GG was the ultimate!!! My favourite then and now, 51 years later! You would like Focus, Curved Air, King crimson, Exception, Camel, Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells, Pink Floyd, Emerson,Lake and Palmer, TRex. Enjoy!
@@wendycrawford1792 Hi Wendy. I did see a lot of live music in the seventies, but not as many in the following decades. Plenty of Genesis, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson tours. One of my highlights was Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells at Carnagie Hall in Manhatten. When the NYPD's Tatoo came on stage for the bagpipe section, the place went nuts!
This is soooooo beautiful, it should be remembered as the classical music of our times, Gentle Giant is as great as all those great classical composers Bach, Beethoven and others.
My Special Band from the progbands . There was so many in the ealy 70th ( Genesis , Yes,King Crimson , Focus , Camel , Soft Machine, Colloseum , Jethro Tull aso. ) They Sounds all different but GG was more different. 5 genious musicians could Play over 30 instuments in a way of close by perfect !!!!!!! That was GG 👍💯🎸💞
@ronaldoroyal|8443. Yes! I was introduced to GG by my then boyfriend back in 1970ish. I was 18, along with so many other brilliant bands, some of which you mentioned. We were lucky at the time. Massey Hall in Toronto had these bands come and put on shows for 5 bucks a ticket!!! We lived an hour and a half away. We saw Gentle Giant 3x, Genesis 4x, Camel in England in 75. Never did see King Crimson or Pink Floyd, but loved them both intensely. For whatever the reasons, Gentle Giant was my favourite band then and still is to this day. It’s hard for me to listen to them - so emotional and memories. Cheers
Fact is.....I don´t get tired of listening to this song.. No matter how old it is..for me the sensation brought if beyond any countable measure of time. it´s has a dimension sense of its own..
I hate "OMG" in texts....But for the love of God: these guys were the top musicians of their era. I'm a simple keyboard "rocker" to this day. I'll play any Yes. Genesis, Pink Floyd...and some of my favorite Gentle Giant....but they were way underated for their time...any time! They rocked, and also showed an amaing grasp of ja..(guess what key is broken on my pc).....There just aren't any words: at the age of 58, they inspire me to keep on: practicing, trying to increase my knowledge of theory, and reach for................................
This is a great discovery, I’ve given up reading some bullshit for my new job tomorrow, it’s totally destructive to my evening peace. This music is far more inspiring and instructive.
Sempre extraordinários de princípio a fim! Um trajeto que segui a milímetros e que ainda hoje não dispenso a música de uma banda MUITO além do que se convenciona chamar "música"! Soberbos executantes e qualidade e profusão de instrumentos e sua inclusão nas composições, de uma complexidade e fineza incrível! Gentle Giant São ETERNOS!!!
I have loved this song literally from the first time I heard it, when it was first released, and I think I might actually love it more now. It is timeless and really showcases how ridiculously talented each one of these men are.
Kerry's vibraphone solo just covers the moment when the arch angel Satan turned evil. Fuck me, holy shit, why is noone screaming in the studio, I know I would have. Unfortunately this was recorded when my father was still in primary school.
This is one band I deeply regret not seeing. Gentle Giant was a fantastic band and were way ahead of their times musically speaking. I'll have to just settle for their recordings and TG for that.
Gentle Giant :one of the "Giants" of my youth..unforgettable and ,most of all,still ALIVE .. This creativeness and genious musical approach, highest performers'skills need to be known by this current and future generations. Long Live the Giants and thank for sharing that with us: good soul vibrations..!!
It is incredible that they have a mastery of so many instruments. I would love to be in a band like this. All the work put in, the musical skill. The satisfaction you would get from being able to pull this off.
What a masterpiece! And the most skillful group of singers and musicians. If any band I wish I could see live - that would been it. I would love talk with the people who were in the audience...I wonder if they all agreed this was the best performance they ever witnessed ...
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Pure genius, one of the most overlooked bands of all time.
They weren't overlooked. They were both too far ahead, and too far behind their time.
No one else was approaching prog rock this way. That they were inaccessible to the critics wasn't their fault
Never underrated. Always genius. Forever Giant.
I so appreciate this band like no other in this time
Wouldn’t go that far….this song is ok but I like the MF DOOM ONE BETTER.
Incredible how they swap and change musical instruments. You can see they're all classically trained, accomplished musicians. A very special band indeed
th-cam.com/video/jnKhmHIG6Kk/w-d-xo.html squid, so well said👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
"strange ways" by maddvillain is a good song that samples this song
Thanks 13 years later! Was listening to gentle giant and couldnt place where I had heard it before
Thank you.
R.I.P. Ray Shulman
He could be at any instrument any week, "You may know what I don't know, but not thatI don't know it and I can't tell you
So you will."
Bless him The Great Gentle Giant of ProgRock Ray Shulman.
These guys don't just dabble in other instruments, they MASTER them!
I saw Gentle Giant live at the beautiful Tower Theater in Philly in the late seventies. I'm still in awe,and amazed by that concert. 5 classicly trained Musicians playing the coolest progressive Rock tunes on the Planet. ❤🥁🎶
Their collective talents are beyond measure.
The most insanely talented ensemble ever assembled
The most exquisite band in the history of the rock and roll i m sure
Memorabile concerto in Italy nel 1972. Qui da noi hanno avuto un grande apprezzamento , grandi strumentisti e musica all'avanguardia. Una delle migliori prog band....
That Vibes solo though!! 👌🏼
Never heard GG until yesterday. I am totally blown away. Their music is really out of this world.
Congrats you have discovered the greatest most epic legendary unique original innovative genius band ever enjoy the journey.
I agree with this,listen and love their music since 50 years, so unique innovative and beautiful,you have a big chance to discover them and you will have a splendid marvelous journey with them.
I'm glad you're hooked. Gentle Giant is easy to absorb and digest unlike other Prog bands like King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd that you would really have to listen a few times to appreciate them.
Most underrated band of all time.
you left out greatest
That's my song. Funny ways. And what a xylophone solo
its actually a vibraphone
🇫🇷 Great ! I ve all their original vinyls records ! ❤
I' m 65 years old and The Giant follows me all along my life !
These fellas put sounds together like no others. Period.
Very ture. VERY UNIQUE and VERY AWESOME.
R.I.P., Raymond Shulman...
As a big fan of progressive rock, I love this. GG is a very undervalued progeband. Mainly forgotten, which is sad. But some of us keep the memory alive?
Udai Taxim agree
Nearly half a million hits, undervalued? I think not.
chris guy One Direction - You and I - 142 million hits. I think yes.
one direction and Giant should never even be in the same sentence...... period..... no comparison
holdem5180 of course. But there are 142 millions of people that have seen that video, and half a million have seen this. So GG is a very undervalued band. We have the proofs.Sorry for my bad english.
The xylophone solo is the best ever. I saw this live & i swear to God he lifted up into the top of the Calderone Theater. 1974
Amazing solo indeed, although it's a vibraphone! 🙌🙌🙌 Btw you are a very lucky guy!!
The older I become, the better this song gets. I guess it's my own funny ways!
I guess people just didn’t applaud for someone playing their heart out on the vibes...I just don’t get it. That, my friends was pure genius what we just witnessed here. We’re not worthy! HAIL GENTLE GIANT!
Met Kerry's daughter Sally 3 days ago at Progfest. She did an awesome set with Dave Bainbridge. Much talent inherited.
Gentle Giant is my favorite band. Their performance on their main instruments is amazing, but it's amazing that their performance doesn't diminish at all when they switch instruments. They are truly a group of geniuses!
Love this band. And returen for their fantastic compositions and melodies
The whole performance is truly incredible, but the vibraphone solo is totally flabbergasting!
I 'VE SEEN THEM LIVE, WITH THE THREE BROTHERS TOGETHER ON STAGE........WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!!! BELIEVE ME , THEY CHANGED MY RELATION WITH THE MUSIC!!!!
amazing artists, wonderful music!
This song is a masterpiece!
darkside of the moon saved my life but gentle giant changed it forever
pink floyd is not everything, many people don't understand that and they jail themselves to the same.
yep
pink floyd is not everything. but they are not best nor worse than gentle giant. nor any other band from the 60's /70's. because they were all amazing in their own original way. no one ever did anything like dark side of the moon before. that is why PF is great ;)
I completely agree, and the "Yes".
Ray Shulman my hero 😢 what a sad sad sad day. RIP Maestro.
I just went to hit the 'like" button and thought, how in the hell can I "like" this tragic news. But you paid proper tribute to this genius.
He was the King of 4 strings
Wonderful Kerry Minnear solo on vibraphone. And without doubt one of the best Gentle Giant song.
I was fortunate enough to see this band in 1975 - like no other I had seen or have seen since, it was them that inspired me to become a musician. Their material was and is both brilliant and timeless. British prog produced many great bands - without doubt this was one of the very best in the genre.
Hoje perdemos Ray Schulmann, um dos gênios musicais e criativos desse incrível grupo. Ray influenciou e inspirou muitíssimos baixistas com seu estilo forte, dinâmico e sincopado. Pode ser visto nesse vídeo alternando-se no violino e trompete. Que descanse em paz.
These 5 took prog to ridiculous heights, and yet, when they all hit the groove, they were so damned funky . True artistry
Better therapy video ever. A "detox" sound for a sick world we have.
Descansa en paz Ray ❤
Minnear was a monster on the keyboards! One of the best ever! And the xylophone part here is phenomenal!
I saw Gentle Giant in the UK this era, maybe this tour. I sort of knew Kerry Minnear, we had a mutual friend & I lived opposite his parents. His solo here is one of my favourite bits of GG, but it's a vibraphone not a xylophone (xylophones have wooden sound blocks).
Vibes but yeah, absolute beast!
@@barrieflix Wow. You probably lived close to the greatest musician to ever live. There is a video of him playing an electric guitar with some quality depth.
The guy puts down the vibe mallets then picks up a cello and sings backup. How freaking good were they?
That’s Kerry Minnear (and all of them) for you
@@rubintuesday 🥰
I've watched this video for the last 10 years, I keep comming back at least once a year, such an epic performance
The acoustic guitar strumming over the xylophone is just so beautiful. In fact, there are so few rock-oriented bands that ever used xylophone. These guys were so special in an era that is now long gone. It just can't be over 30 years since I was just a long-haired hippie kid listening to this stuff ? Where did the years go? Thing is, THIS music holds up and still sounds both modern and fantastic!
Where was the standing ovation for the greatest vibraphone solo ever?
Not a sound....He was expecting SOME applause...at least.........!you can see it.....
too shook
When prog rock bands perform no one is cheering, clapping or shouting. … Pure Silent and appreciation of music.
Ray Shulman R. I. P.
Oh my goodness, I had no idea until now... this is so sad...
It’s crazy how far apart on the music spectrum this and MF DOOM are, but given the right opportunity, they come together and form a beautiful song with both segments equally shining, not being overpowered by the other, and neither having to change its style to fit the other, madlib did great on putting the sample and beat together, with DOOM laying down some powerful punchy lyrics. Amazing work by both Gentle Giant for the original song and DOOM and Lib for putting their twist on this song to create a whole new one, music is definitely the universal language, able to bring us all together even through different genres
god-like taste in music
It really feels like every member of the band is a composer/creator. SO unusual!
Superb. The vibes solo gives me shivers!
Me too. Saw this live!❤️
@@wendycrawford1792 Saw them at the Rainbow (Finsbury Park) supporting Tony McPhee - fantastic gig.
Few things gets better with time, nostalgia is one, Gentle Giant is another, Long live Gentle Giant and their Music. Love to all the lads and hats of for Ray. If somebody happens pass his place of rest, please lay down a Rose from me.
one of my teacher brought me here... what a great teacher.
The transition from Proclamation to Funny Ways with that genius look from Ray, brilliant
On the last bass note.
Such a beautiful song. I never get tired of hearing it
Kerry minnear vibraphone solo..es un "extraterrestre" hallucy..man 🤘🤘
My heart yearns to be back in high school listening to these songs playing on my dads old ‘record player’ he had given me. I had my new Radio Shack deluxe headphones i had saved up to buy. The seventies were a horrible beautiful time. The music coming from Europe, being called progressive. Genesis’s second album only being sold as a special import at Licorice Pizza. NOBODY but my friend and I had ever heard of GG. Thank you for my time trip. It’s was better back then….
Brought up listening to this great band of the seventies. Happy memories
Love to the Giant, one of the best bands ever.
Rest in peace, Ray🙏🏼
music of GG unfolds like a picture book full of stars, where birds come chirping, spinning farandoles, cracking rattles and dancing wizards. From rounds to nursery rhymes, the arrangements display their mystery, the songs fill with fervor and the instruments have the roundness and brilliance of chimes ;)
This is absolutely the best! The talent of Ray is off the charts!
The transition from Proclamation to this song is so sublime...
It sounds like the ending to raconteur troubadour
Damn! this is the band that got away...I missed seeing them live. They played at New Paltz the year before I got there. Back in the day, going to a concert was a big event. If they were still around, I would have seen them 10 times by now...Thank God there's plenty of footage of them live, no one would believe what they pulled off live, except for those lucky to see them in concert,
@Pcrimsont. I got lucky. My then boyfriend introduced a ton of bands to me when we met in 1970ish. I was 18. We got to see so many bands play at Massey Hall in Toronto Ontario, one and a half miles from where we lived. They put on what they called Cheap Thrills concerts. This is how we got to see Genesis, Strawbs, and others but GG was the ultimate!!! My favourite then and now, 51 years later! You would like Focus, Curved Air, King crimson, Exception, Camel, Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells, Pink Floyd, Emerson,Lake and Palmer, TRex. Enjoy!
@@wendycrawford1792 Hi Wendy. I did see a lot of live music in the seventies, but not as many in the following decades. Plenty of Genesis, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson tours. One of my highlights was Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells at Carnagie Hall in Manhatten. When the NYPD's Tatoo came on stage for the bagpipe section, the place went nuts!
perfection
Ray Shulman is amazing
Descansa en paz, maestro. 😢😢😖
The start of 4:34 with Kerry is absolutely mind blowing…
This is absolutely so good
This is soooooo beautiful, it should be remembered as the classical music of our times, Gentle Giant is as great as all those great classical composers Bach, Beethoven and others.
My Special Band from the progbands . There was so many in the ealy 70th ( Genesis , Yes,King Crimson , Focus , Camel , Soft Machine, Colloseum , Jethro Tull aso. ) They Sounds all different but GG was more different. 5 genious musicians could Play over 30 instuments in a way of close by perfect !!!!!!! That was GG 👍💯🎸💞
it's true
@ronaldoroyal|8443. Yes! I was introduced to GG by my then boyfriend back in 1970ish. I was 18, along with so many other brilliant bands, some of which you mentioned. We were lucky at the time. Massey Hall in Toronto had these bands come and put on shows for 5 bucks a ticket!!! We lived an hour and a half away. We saw Gentle Giant 3x, Genesis 4x, Camel in England in 75. Never did see King Crimson or Pink Floyd, but loved them both intensely. For whatever the reasons, Gentle Giant was my favourite band then and still is to this day. It’s hard for me to listen to them - so emotional and memories. Cheers
Fact is.....I don´t get tired of listening to this song.. No matter how old it is..for me the sensation brought if beyond any countable measure of time. it´s has a dimension sense of its own..
Beautiful music 🎶..if someone sends you this..that person is a legend ❤️ 🙌 💖
I hate "OMG" in texts....But for the love of God: these guys were the top musicians of their era. I'm a simple keyboard "rocker" to this day. I'll play any Yes. Genesis, Pink Floyd...and some of my favorite Gentle Giant....but they were way underated for their time...any time! They rocked, and also showed an amaing grasp of ja..(guess what key is broken on my pc).....There just aren't any words: at the age of 58, they inspire me to keep on: practicing, trying to increase my knowledge of theory, and reach for................................
+Joseph Baum z?
You're only as old as you're young, mate! Keep on practicing :D
Kerry Minnear, can I get a FUCK YEAH!
Minnear was a multi-instrumentalist, progrock virtuoso.
Definitely!
Fuck Yeah
RIP dear Ray
This is a great discovery, I’ve given up reading some bullshit for my new job tomorrow, it’s totally destructive to my evening peace. This music is far more inspiring and instructive.
Oh my god, this is soo beautifully.
Madvillain brought me down this street.
yeeeeeeeessss
"My ways are strange. They'll never change."
They are all so locked in
Sempre extraordinários de princípio a fim! Um trajeto que segui a milímetros e que ainda hoje não dispenso a música de uma banda MUITO além do que se convenciona chamar "música"! Soberbos executantes e qualidade e profusão de instrumentos e sua inclusão nas composições, de uma complexidade e fineza incrível! Gentle Giant São ETERNOS!!!
R.I.P Ray Shulman 😢🌹
A band without egos. Ray had to play the violin, so his brother played bass. Then John Weathers eats a drumstick and all hell breaks loose.
I can't find words to define each musician and each part of this masterpiece!
Freaking musical geniuses- every one of them
underrated ! music beyond this reality! the more i listen to this song, the more i like it!
The mooore i look at it the moore i like it
they were spooky good.
the best song of all time performed by the best band of all time
Totally insane levels of musicianship! So playful and joyful. Thanks for sharing.
I have loved this song literally from the first time I heard it, when it was first released, and I think I might actually love it more now. It is timeless and really showcases how ridiculously talented each one of these men are.
madlib is a fucking genius i swear to god
Genius at work. Masterpiece! Thanks
Kerry Minnear going crazy on the vibraphone..underrated Prog band!
Another upper shelf with a label of Masterpieces
Kerry's vibraphone solo just covers the moment when the arch angel Satan turned evil. Fuck me, holy shit, why is noone screaming in the studio, I know I would have. Unfortunately this was recorded when my father was still in primary school.
Being reserved,I guess.....I saw them ...front row....1975 or 75......we were well stoned on Ganga......we didn’t sit on our hands,I tell ya what!
As far removed from "music" manufactured for TV audiences as possible. This beautiful track is simply delicious. Thank you so much guys.
Omg! I had never seen the performance of this song before!
Javiera Beatriz Alina Martìnez Daza X2
Their musicianship was second to none, true genius. One of the most under appreciated and underrated bands in the history of music!
This is one band I deeply regret not seeing. Gentle Giant was a fantastic band and were way ahead of their times musically speaking. I'll have to just settle for their recordings and TG for that.
And still the times have not caught up with them.
I saw them OPEN...for Foghat...and..get booed off the stage!..Flint,Michigan....
Gentle Giant :one of the "Giants" of my youth..unforgettable and ,most of all,still ALIVE .. This creativeness and genious musical approach, highest performers'skills need to be known by this current and future generations. Long Live the Giants and thank for sharing that with us: good soul vibrations..!!
It is incredible that they have a mastery of so many instruments. I would love to be in a band like this. All the work put in, the musical skill. The satisfaction you would get from being able to pull this off.
Simply Genius!
What a masterpiece! And the most skillful group of singers and musicians. If any band I wish I could see live - that would been it. I would love talk with the people who were in the audience...I wonder if they all agreed this was the best performance they ever witnessed ...
I saw them get BOOED off the stage once!....We were in the front row...and kept turning around ..like..WTF,People?
One of the most amazing performance i've seen in my life !
Gentle Giant IS the greatest band of all time !!!
Fantastic musicians!