Gentle Giant is the most underated prog band in history! What a concert man!

This band is the definition of progressive rock.

This drummer is so incredibly on point.

The tone on Ray Shulman's bass is killer!

Some credit due to the sound engineers, what a superb recording!

My reaction remains the same as the first time I heard Gentle Giant: Oh. My. God.

Pugwash is awesome. Seriously underrated drummer

The Shulmans lived 200 yds from me in Potsmouth when they first started out, they were then called The Roadrunners around 1964/65. I used to watch them play at Eastney youth club at Eastney moden school back then as a 14 year old. Also Phill Schulman who played sax in the band was my art teacher at Eastney Modern school. They then turned profesional & changed there name to Simon Dupree & the Big Sound, before forming Gentle Giant. Lots of care free happy moments back in those days.

What happens in On Reflection is a miracle. I showed that to dozens of students, musicians and friends. Some were shocked, but some couldn't note how impossible is to make someone play 4-part poliphony in 2 different instruments and still sing a capella polyphonic lines

RIP Ray, one of the finest multi-instrumentalist of our lifetime

Ray Shulman is one of the most criminally overlooked and underrated bassist of all time.

Can you imagine a band like this today trying to get a record deal? Thank goodness for a time that fostered this kind of creativity.

been listening to them for over 50 years now. and it still shakes my giblets. no dancers, no light show, no screens, just masterful musicianship.

I'm a 24 years old discovering Prog, and Gentle Giant is slowly getting there as my favorite Prog Band. Crazy how they had talent !

This is like the 100th time I've watched this. Loove this band.

Gary was just awarded a star on the walk of fame!

Bands like this is why Iove prog so much

Wow this Is Genesis meets Steely Dan meets ELP meets Family. Absolutely stunning!

Amazing band. Overloaded with talent and amazing songs. These guys really should be as well known as Yes and Genesis.

Derek Shulman (Lead Vocals, Tambourine), Gary Green (Guitars, Recorder, Co-lead vocals), Ray Shulman (Bass, Viola, Co-lead vocals), Kerry Minnear (Keyboards, Cello, Co-lead vocals), John Weathers (Drums, Vibraphone)

The BEST band, ever. Fine composers, fine performers, virtuoso instrumentalists. they were able to write in all kind of styles: ballads, hard rock songs, classic counterpoint, funky, Renaissance tunes.... And they did not care very much about show business: the music was at first place, always. Just amazing. Every musician has something to learn from them. Thank you, Giants.

Tightest and most talented band in prog rock ever, I am a huge King Crimson fan, but these guys are just overwhelming.

RIP Ray Shulman, those bass grooves and that awesome fat tone will live forever. 🙏🏻 🎸

Love the painter and decorator aesthetic the band had in those days.

As a huge prog fan I have to admit I came a little late to these guys. There is, in my mind no other band who achieved that level of musicianship. Gary Green is easily up there with Howe and Hackett and Ray Shulman and is up there with Chris Squire and that's only two them. The vocals first drew me in and here they a faultless. I can only think they never won as many plaudits on their instruments because they never stayed on them long enough! A friend's band supported them around this era and said it blew their minds watching them after their set. So glad they are getting the appreciation they deserve now, they were truly ahead of their time. Thank you Gentle Giant for the music and the humour, no one worked as hard as you.

I’ve played difficult music in many bands and projects; Rush, Toto, Steely Dan etc but this stuff - this is truly unbelievably hard to play as a band and as individuals.

Dereck Shulman : " look whose coming to the show dressed as a baseball player..." Wheathers:" Says the guy dressed as a plasterer"

It’s 2022, I have seen this a gazzillion times, and never stop to amaze me, those guys where brilliant !!

Unreal. Totally unreal. I mean, how on earth do you compose and perform music like this? Unreal...really.

Gary Green has to be one of the most underrated guitarists of all time.

One of the things I like best about Gentle Giant is that for all the astonishing complexity, they had fun and weren't afraid to show it when they were playing live. No dry ice and lasers and robes necessary.

This is how you did shit back then...no computers, no auto tune, no drum machines, no samples.... the mixer was as long as a dining room table...everything was hard wired and the tape was 2" wide and cost a fortune!!! You worked your part until you could play it in your sleep! This was the best time in audio EVER!!!!!

Ray, once again proving bass is the hardest instrument. What a monster player.

My god what a formidable live band. One of the few Progressive Rock bands that actually ROCK. Then there’s vast dimensions of their arrangements. Forever cherished Band. ❤️

This is still so far ahead compared to most of todays music ! The interchanging of instruments, polyphonic lines, changes of tempo, etc. etc. Gentle Giant, a must for all who aspire to make music.

2021 I'm listening!

What is refreshing about these guys is that they did not attempt to be any kind of superstar. Just every day people with extraordinary musical talents enjoying making great music.

This has to be one of the best bands ever. So friggin good

Only a band as great as Gentle Giant can make a song like "Two Weeks in Spain" sound so good.

Ashamed to say that despite being 61 I'd never heard of Gentle Giant until this year. Every album is a gem uncovered.

By far the greatest of the "Prog Rock" bands from that era. Those harmonies.....how did they come up with them, much less remember the notes they were supposed to hit when the time came? Truly amazing!

"Memories of Old Days" is just staggering. The way the four guitars are orchestrated is unbelievable

More than the depth and complexity in the music itself, and more than the musical mastery of every single one of the band members, the raw energy that comes from total conviction and the absence of mediocrity are what I find so inspiring. They believe in their music with a vengeance. Also, I think it's brilliant to use complexity itself as a means of expression, when it has only ever been a consequence of expression before. It's brutally unapologetic, just as real rock should be.

October 11, 1975 New York Academy of Music. The tightest display of musicianship this Concert Rat has ever seen. These guys.

Ok, so the entire BAND can play guitar and how many other instruments?!? Easily one of the most underrated prog bands of all time. Incredibly intricate and tasteful arrangements coupled with shear raw talent. I ask you - where are the band like this today??

the second time I got to see Gentle Giant I was living In Atlanta GA. they played a relatively small club downtown called Alex Cooleys Electric Ballroom. I went there with a friend and was tripping on LSD. Got separated from my bud and was searching for him, I went upstairs and there was a section roped off with 5 people sitting at a table I was standing next to them and one of them turns to me and asks me if I was familiar with this music. I said oh hell yes and told them of my first time seeing GG. they invited me between the ropes and I sat down, these people are known as the band Kansas. I sit with them tripping and drinking on their dime for the whole concert. What a life for a poor boy from Indiana.

For Gentle Giant round about two million views, respect! They are one of the most criminaly underrated bands ever. I like GG so much, it's real good music.

Is there a more under appreciated, underrated, under discussed guitarist than Gary Green! He's just amazing!! We all have our favorite guitarists, but he has never gotten the respect he deserves. He's flown under the radar for so many years. Only true GG fans really know of his excellence. Just love the guy. I'm just glad people get to see him and GG in these live performances on KZfaq. Thanks for the share!! I love Gentle Giant. So glad I got to see them four times. Opening for Yes, Jethro Tull and Foghat in the early 1970's. Finally got to see them headline at Harpo's in Detroit, Michigan in 1980. What a band. Truly one of a kind.

I saw them at the Roxy in L.A. around the same time. They were jaw dropping. Tight, so very very tight playing really complex parts executed flawlessly.

I would have tears streaming down my face to witness this in person...One of the few prog bands I never saw...

Long live the Giant! Long live the greatest drummer of all time, Pugwash John Weathers!!!

Os brasileiros também amam o Gentle Giant. Maravilha das maravilhas!!!!

The greatest band ever. Period. I encourage especially the die-hard Gentle Giant fans who were critical of the later, more commercial tunes to listen to this show as a whole. The juxtaposition of the non-prog songs adds quite a bit, just like the constant rotating of instruments and overall dynamics.

Most unique prog band ever. Amazing musicians.

AMAZING AND WAY AHEAD OF THEIR TIME ! Derek has a very unique and pleasing voice.

The Most Underrated Band Ever!

Can not sing enough praises of this group. They should go down in rock history as among the best of prog rock groups. And the most inventive groups of all time

This is quite simply the finest live music you will ever hear. The versatility and togetherness of the band, combined with the arrangements and atmosphere created by the sheer might of the writing ability is astounding. I say this as a Fripp, Zappa, Genesis and Yes fan. This is another level in my opinion.

Great Band ! Saw them live a few times back in NYC

On the DVD, there's a wonderful band commentary audio track option where they critique themselves through the entire performance.

Hang on a minute, the keyboard player is playing a cello, the guitarist is playing a recorder and the bassist is playing a violin!!! What the... kind of super group IS this???

Shit! This band is good! Being in Sri Lanka at the margins of the western music world, I came across Gentle Giant much after I immersed in Western hard rock, progressive and jazz rock. In the seventies, we only got to hear the big names - ELP, Yes, Tull, Floyd et al - and may be vaguely of the existence of these lesser known groups like G Giant, Gong. It's thanks to You Tube and you cool guys who upload.

It isn't the GG style of the mid 70's, a different sound and another outfits. But i can't stop listening to this awesome Gentle Giant BBC concert. It's even realy good. They played five GG classics and six songs from The Missing Piece album.

Amazing underrated band by the mainstream and part of the public...

I first saw them live in maybe 1970 opening for Jethro Tull in Rochester, NY. I have every album and have seen them live another 3 or 4 times through to their disbandment. Whoever would think that Gregorian Chant could be so electric; that Medieval sound could rock in such an innovative way. What a great band with such great musicians playing multiple instruments. I miss them

As a big fan of prog rock and as a young musician writing prog rock, the discovery of this band made my day

RiP Raymond Shulman. Amazing songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and sound engineer. You'll be sorely missed.

Rest easy, Ray! Such a tremendous multi-instrumentalist, greatly demonstrated here!

For just one guy to be so brilliantly proficient is a rare find... For FIVE of them to be so good - and all find each other, and then to play like this, is a miracle. Exceptional musicianship - A true gem of a band - seldom given the credit they deserved, sadly. Perhaps it's just above most people's tiny brains.

I can’t imagine trying to play this … the beat, the changes , so complex. Omg

I saw Gentle Giant It was the concert at Widener University featured on the latest huge boxset: " CHESTER, 1977" GG turned a mausoleum of a field house into a concert hall. Ray Schulman's quad violin solo was extraordinary!

At this time I was working for the BBC and actually went to this recording!

In my opinion, it's simply one of the best bands even after 40 years. Incredible. Thanks for publishing.

Zappa loved this band,high praise indeed.

I am 76 and bought 2 import records of Gentle Giant back in 72. They got a opening act gig for Wishbone Ash. The audience had never seen or heard of them and just came t see Wishbone Ash. By the end of their second tune the audience were standing on their cushioned seats and bouncing on them to the music. People were dancing in the isles. they simply went crazy. After they finished Wishbone Ash came on and the audience sat quite and at the end of the second tune it was dead silent. I turned around and the entire audience had left the hall. WTF!!! I saw the Doors, Janis Joplin, Cream, Hendrix twice, The Rolling Stones, Yes, ELP, Genesis, Rush ...and many more but this was the best concert I saw in my life.

1. Two Weeks In Spain (The Missing Piece) 0:22 Gary Green - Electric Guitar Kerry Minnear - Wurlitzer, Synthesizer, Hammond Organ Derek Shulman - Lead Vocals, Tambourine Ray Shulman - Bass Guitar John Weathers - Drum Kit 2. Free Hand (Free Hand) 3:33 Gary Green - Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals Kerry Minnear - Wurlitzer, Hammond Organ, Clavinet, Backing Vocals Derek Shulman - Lead Vocals Ray Shulman - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals John Weathers - Drum Kit 3. On Reflection (Free Hand) 11:10 Gary Green - Soprano Recorder, Vocals, Electric Guitar Kerry Minnear - Cello, Vocals, Wurlitzer, Clavinet, Synthesizer Derek Shulman - Vocals, Tambourine Ray Shulman - Violin, Vocals, Bass Guitar John Weathers - Vibraphone, Vocals, Sleigh Bells, Drum Kit, Glockenspiel 4. I'm Turning Around (The Missing Piece) 16:57 Gary Green - Electric Guitar Kerry Minnear - Wurlitzer, Hammond Organ Derek Shulman - Lead Vocals Ray Shulman - Bass Guitar John Weathers - Drum Kit 5. Just The Same (Free Hand) 21:06 Gary Green - Electric Guitar Kerry Minnear - Wurlitzer, Clavinet, Synthesizer, Hammond Organ Derek Shulman - Lead Vocals, Tambourine Ray Shulman - Bass Guitar John Weathers - Drum Kit 6. Playing the Game (The Power and the Glory) 26:03 Gary Green - Electric Guitar Kerry Minnear - Minimoog, Synthesizer Derek Shulman - "Shulberry", Lead Vocals Ray Shulman - Electric Guitar John Weathers - Drum Kit 7. Memories Of Old Days (The Missing Piece) 30:50 Gary Green - 12-String Acoustic Guitar Kerry Minnear - Hammond Organ, Wurlitzer, Synthesizer, Electric Guitar Derek Shulman - Bass Guitar, Lead Vocals Ray Shulman - Acoustic Guitar John Weathers - Electric Guitar 8. Betcha Thought We Couldn't Do It (The Missing Piece) 38:14 Gary Green - Electric Guitar Kerry Minnear - Electric Guitar Derek Shulman - Lead Vocals Ray Shulman - Bass Guitar John Weathers - Drum Kit 9. JP Weathers presents 40:53 10. Funny Ways (Gentle Giant) 42:40 Gary Green - 12-String Acoustic Guitar Kerry Minnear - Cello, Backing Vocals, Hammond Organ, Synthesizer, Vibraphone Derek Shulman - Bass Guitar, Lead Vocals Ray Shulman - Violin, Backing Vocals, Trumpet John Weathers - Drum Kit 11. For Nobody (The Missing Piece) 51:23 Gary Green - Electric Guitar Kerry Minnear - Hammond Organ, Backing Vocals, Wurlitzer Derek Shulman - Lead Vocals Ray Shulman - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals John Weathers - Drum Kit 12. Mountain Time (The Missing Piece) 56:00 Gary Green - Electric Guitar Kerry Minnear - Wurlitzer, Hammond Organ Derek Shulman - Lead Vocals Ray Shulman - Bass Guitar John Weathers - Drum Kit

Prog rock at its finest! All around!

NO ONE of them prog groups (genesis yes e.t.c.) where so dang tight like giant sooo dang tight!!!!! believe me i ve seen all of em live!!

15:04 transition gives me chills. Massive amount of talent in this band. Have watched this concert countless times now. Never gets stale.

Ray was huge in any sense. A Fender bass in his hands look as a strato. RIP dear giant.❤

4:30 one of the coolest grooves I've ever heard! It lasts only seconds! I love that about prog music, there's such variety of riffs, rhythmic patterns, melodies. Once you've gone prog, everything else sounds like children's music and endlessly repetitive.

GG by far the best live band I have ever seen! Yes complex arrangements but not contrived nor disingenuous. Superb melodies, harmonies, and rhythms. This band was FUN and the most musically adventurous.

As silly as it is, I've always thought Mountain Time was an underrated song. The performance at the end of this show only confirms my conviction.

Nunca receberam a atenção que mereciam. Banda iconica dos anos 70!

What a great band! There's everything: folk, funk, rock, jazz and incredible lots of talent

Listening to this version of On Reflection makes me the happiest person in the world

1978 and what a sound !!!! What a band of course and what an amazing concert, all is good, not boring or sad, like other prog can be with the years...... this band is alway very modern and in the time for 2020 !!!! Incredible ! My favorite prog group with Kansas. This guys are a great part of the human music history ....

Pasan los años, pasan las décadas y me sigue asombrando la "sincronizada virtuosidad" de este grupo. Su sonido es único e irrepetible. Gran personalidad la de los GG. Una de las mas grande bandas que he escuchado. Gracias Gentle Giant!

Over the years they have risen to the top of 70s prog for me! Just astoundingly creative and an incredible live band!

9:14 Ray Shulman effortlessly tears up a beautifully composed series of riffs.Then he doubles on violin right after.Now that's a real feat of dexterity.Wow!

How wonderful is this, nobody “dislikes” this video. “WE” always find sometii hi king to complain about. Gentle Giant is lovely pure joy and weirdness.

Im so happy to see this has 2M views. Restores my faith in humanity a bit

These dudes were the real deal. Every song a masterpiece. Their work is virtually impossible to cover in any meaningful way.

The time changes and metric modulation alone is formidable.

always thought they were the best British prog band saw them in 1972 in plymouth, they were very much like the way they are in this brilliant upload - remarkable!

Truly one of the greatest prog rock bands live and recorded. My favorite in the entire genre is Play the Game. I cannot believe that they could play Play the Game live. It is impossibly difficult.

I was their that night. A most underrated band with some exceptional talent.

One of the better live rock concerts ever!! What a great band GG!! I am a devote follower of Yes, Genesis , ELP, P Floyd, Marillion, Renaissance....but this, THIS is different. I cant stop watching GG....Thanks for your music

I love GG! I first heard Octopus in 1973. Had every album after that. They’re incredible musicians playing incredibly complex music. This takes me right back to my teens!

The band went out together to see Giant play this set in New Haven, in '77. We were stunned by their incredible musicianship. There was no band like them in the genre with their technical abilities, member to member. I recall they wore the same outfits as here, too. It was a display of musical excellence I'll never forget.