Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!microsof!fluke!ssc-vax!uw-beaver!ubc-visi!alberta!auvax!jean From: jean@auvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Gentle Giant Message-ID: <139@auvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 14:44:43 EDT Article-I.D.: auvax.139 Posted: Mon Jun 27 14:44:43 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 14:08:16 EDT Lines: 29 I am glad to hear that some people knows about the best rock that we had in the seventies. It is sad to see all these great bands turning to commercial or dying. Gentle Giant is, I am convince, the most progressive of all the; Tull, genesis, yes, uk, zappa, camel, banco,... The musical research is incredible. I had the chance to see them live in Montreal, with "civilian" the last album which was a try to reach the american commercial rock, but was alsoi a retrospective of some of the classics. The best album is probably "octopus" and "in the glass house" (import) very rare album. Also both "Three fiends", "aquaring the taste" and some others more or less interesting like "interview", "power and the glory", and "the missing piece", "Giant for a day". At the beginning the band as three brothers, the Shulman's, Rick Minnear who has a very high degree in orchestration. The split of the band is the result of a breakdown of Minnear cause by this new direction. Jean Goyette et Ti-moteur