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- Gentle_Giant abstract "Gentle Giant were a British progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980. The band was known for its extreme complexity and sophistication of its music and for the varied musical skills of its members. All of the band members, except Malcolm Mortimore, were multi-instrumentalists. Although not commercially successful, they did achieve a cult following.The band's onetime stated aim was to "expand the frontiers of contemporary popular music at the risk of becoming very unpopular," although this stance was to alter significantly with time. While never achieving the commercial heights of progressive rock contemporaries such as Jethro Tull, Genesis, Yes or Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Gentle Giant was considered to be one of the most experimental bands in the genre (as well as one of the most experimental rock bands of the 1970s).Gentle Giant's music was considered complex even by progressive rock standards, drawing on a broad swath of music including folk, soul, jazz, and classical music. Unlike many of their progressive rock contemporaries, their "classical" influences ranged beyond the Romantic and incorporated medieval, baroque, and modernist chamber music elements. The band also had a taste for broad themes for their lyrics, drawing inspiration not only from personal experiences but from philosophy and the works of both François Rabelais and R. D. Laing.".
- Gentle_Giant activeYearsEndYear "1980".
- Gentle_Giant activeYearsStartYear "1970".
- Gentle_Giant associatedBand Man_(band).
- Gentle_Giant associatedBand Simon_Dupree_and_the_Big_Sound.
- Gentle_Giant associatedBand Three_Friends.
- Gentle_Giant associatedMusicalArtist Man_(band).
- Gentle_Giant associatedMusicalArtist Simon_Dupree_and_the_Big_Sound.
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- Gentle_Giant formerBandMember Derek_Shulman.
- Gentle_Giant formerBandMember Gary_Green_(musician).
- Gentle_Giant formerBandMember John_Weathers.
- Gentle_Giant formerBandMember Kerry_Minnear.
- Gentle_Giant formerBandMember Malcolm_Mortimore.
- Gentle_Giant formerBandMember Martin_Smith_(musician).
- Gentle_Giant formerBandMember Phil_Shulman.
- Gentle_Giant formerBandMember Ray_Shulman.
- Gentle_Giant genre Art_rock.
- Gentle_Giant genre Avant-garde_music.
- Gentle_Giant genre Experimental_rock.
- Gentle_Giant genre Folk_rock.
- Gentle_Giant genre Hard_rock.
- Gentle_Giant genre Jazz_fusion.
- Gentle_Giant genre Progressive_rock.
- Gentle_Giant genre Symphonic_rock.
- Gentle_Giant recordLabel Alucard_Music.
- Gentle_Giant recordLabel Capitol_Records.
- Gentle_Giant recordLabel Chrysalis_Records.
- Gentle_Giant recordLabel Columbia_Records.
- Gentle_Giant recordLabel DRT_Entertainment.
- Gentle_Giant recordLabel Major_League_Productions.
- Gentle_Giant recordLabel Vertigo_Records.
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- Gentle_Giant associatedActs "Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, Man, Three Friends".
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- Gentle_Giant caption "Left to right: Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman, John Weathers, Gary Green and Kerry Minnear, in 1977.".
- Gentle_Giant genre Art_rock.
- Gentle_Giant genre Avant-garde_music.
- Gentle_Giant genre Experimental_rock.
- Gentle_Giant genre Folk_rock.
- Gentle_Giant genre Hard_rock.
- Gentle_Giant genre Jazz_fusion.
- Gentle_Giant genre Progressive_rock.
- Gentle_Giant genre Symphonic_rock.
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- Gentle_Giant label "Chrysalis , Vertigo , Columbia , Capitol , One Way, Alucard Music, DRT Entertainment, Major League Productions (MLP)".
- Gentle_Giant name "Gentle Giant".
- Gentle_Giant origin "United Kingdom".
- Gentle_Giant pastMembers Derek_Shulman.
- Gentle_Giant pastMembers Gary_Green_(musician).
- Gentle_Giant pastMembers John_Weathers.
- Gentle_Giant pastMembers Kerry_Minnear.
- Gentle_Giant pastMembers Malcolm_Mortimore.
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- Gentle_Giant pastMembers Phil_Shulman.
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- Gentle_Giant quote "Acquiring the taste is the second phase of sensory pleasure. If you've gorged yourself on our first album, then relish the finer flavours of this, our second offering. It is our goal to expand the frontiers of contemporary music at the risk of being very unpopular. We have recorded each composition with the one thought - that it should be unique, adventurous, and fascinating. It has taken every shred of our combined musical and technical knowledge to achieve this. From the outset we have abandoned all preconceived thoughts on blatant commercialism. Instead we hope to give you something far more substantial and fulfilling. All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste.".
- Gentle_Giant quote "Growing up, family, two sons, lovely little daughter, a wife who was getting lonelier and lonelier… No decision really, it was a foregone conclusion. My brothers, in fact, quite frankly wouldn’t speak to me for years afterwards because I said "that’s it, I’m going. I’ve got to go back to my family and I’ve got to go back and be a normal man."... I’m not saying how important I was to the group, or anything like that, but my brothers thought that that was the end of the band. And that’s absurd. When five-sixths of the band are still there, I go - no trouble. And they did: they carried on for seven more years, folks, and that was touring the world and getting great acclaim as a very fine five-piece outfit. But for me it was the only thing to do. It obviously took something away because I wasn’t able to listen to music for a few years afterwards.".
- Gentle_Giant quote "It was like this big funnel, really. We all had these varied influences, whether it be pop, classical, rock, jazz, or whatever, and we just came together and created what we did. A lot of the bands who were doing prog rock back then were doing long songs that in many cases were just filler, but we never tried to impress anyone with our talents, maybe we were just trying to impress each other! What to us just seemed like some clever songs really touched a lot of people it seems, which never fails to amaze me.".
- Gentle_Giant quote "It was perhaps the most ridiculous pairing of groups ever in the history of show business. For the most part we got booed off the stage... At a show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, we went on stage and the Sabbath fans were shouting "get off, we want Sabbath" and we were just getting set to play 'Funny Ways'. We pulled out the cellos and violins, and the crowd starting heckling immediately, but we were gradually starting to get past it, when someone threw a cherry bomb on stage. made sure we all stopped playing and said we needed to get off the stage. As we were leaving the stage, Phil grabbed the mic and said to the crowd "you guys are a bunch of fucking cunts!", and the boo that went up after that was enormous! To this day I'll never forget it! We were sort of vindicated later on, as we thought we were never going to play Los Angeles again after the cherry bomb incident, but later on the Octopus tour we were able to sell out consistently there, so something clicked with the fans.".
- Gentle_Giant quote "We had a meeting in New York when we started the tour over here. We met in New York to get together and see it as a launch-off place. Kind of had a talk about what we were going to do. At that meeting Kerry and Derek said this was going to be the last tour and they didn't want to be on the road anymore. And you understand it; they had families. Kerry had just had a baby and Derek was just getting married. But having said that, I was married and so was John. You can change things like that; there are ways to work around that. You don't have to tour. I don't think we really toured an awful lot as Giant. I think we could have worked a lot harder at touring. We toured perhaps five or six months of the year. The rest of the year we didn't tour, which seemed a bit silly if you really want to make it or break the market. So let's go ahead and do it and capitalize on this rush we got. So it all seemed a little odd to me. It was sad.".
- Gentle_Giant quote "house full of musicians and instruments... I started learning trumpet when I was five just because it was there and then took up violin when I was seven. We were made to practice for an hour a day at least, when we really wanted to go out and play. I suppose it was a good thing we were really, and eventually I wanted to do it anyway... I wasn't formally taught at all.".
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- Gentle_Giant source "Derek Shulman on Gentle Giant's failure to win over Black Sabbath's audience in 1972".
- Gentle_Giant source "Derek Shulman on Gentle Giant's writing approach".
- Gentle_Giant source "Gary Green reflects on the final Gentle Giant split".
- Gentle_Giant source "Liner notes for Gentle Giant's Acquiring the Taste album".
- Gentle_Giant source "Phil Shulman on his reasons for leaving Gentle Giant, 2008".
- Gentle_Giant source "Ray Shulman on the musical upbringing of the Shulman brothers".
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- Gentle_Giant yearsActive "1970".
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- Gentle_Giant subject Category:Musical_quintets.
- Gentle_Giant subject Category:Musical_sextets.
- Gentle_Giant subject Category:Vertigo_Records_artists.
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