Gentle Giant
Derek Shulman- vocals
Gary Green- guitar
Kerry Minnear- keyboards
Ray Shulman- bass
John T. Weathers- drums
Woolsey Hall
Yale University
New Haven, Ct. U.S.A.
November 8, 1977
first uploaded by Doinker in late 2007 (from this same tape source,
but that was with a CD extraction, this is without one, direct from tape source)
performance quality: A- (an inspired, very good performance)
recording quality: B (very good, slight background noise)
source: 1st generation audience tape (master may be with Dolby B? copy is w/o)
runtime: 72:41
setlist:
1: two weeks in Spain
2: free hand
3: on reflection
4: turning around
5: just the same
6: playing the game
7: memories
8: betcha thought we couldn't do it
9: talk and funny ways >
10: the face > plain truth (excerpt) > violin and drum solos
11: for nobody
according to the etree setlisting, this recording is missing:
the band introductions,
octopus medley
and mouountain time,
but it does not list for nobody in this set.
this recording comes from fzmio69 who apparently taped it and it should be
and sounds like it is all from the same concert.
comments:
this sounds to me like close to a full Gentle Giant show, at least all I have of it.
this is from the Missing Piece tour, I think, and you can tell it's a hall, not a club,
but not a bad take at all by the recorder of this. seems that there is a "missing piece"
of this concert, since this recording runs shorter than some of the 77 shows I've heard.
I've heard a lot of rather marginal sounding Gentle Giant recordings, even this recent,
fortunately this is definitely better than that (or I wouldn't want to be bothered taking
up Doink's or dime's time and bandwidth before, and now mine, to upload it). I don't know
what kind of deck and microphones were used, decent equipment, I'd say. The sound in
Woolsey Hall doesn't sound very good to me here, a little boomy and echoey, (I've never
been in there but a couple who have, told me the acoustics in there are not very good for
concerts) Not much crowd interference in the sound, I spliced a couple of abrupt edits in
the source recording, but didn't notice any cuts in the songs. Sounds like this dude did
a pretty good job and recorded a good Gentle Giant concert, which should please some here
on the dime who haven't DL'ed this before. I did not see this (or any 1977) Gentle Giant
show so I don't know if some shows were just 72+ min. at this time, I've heard a couple
that run 90-100 min. from 1977, so who knows, but it's a nice disc worth having if you like
these guys. I've seen them 3 times, 2 in 1975, 1 in 1980 (the 1980 is posted).
I do not know if there was another band for this concert, if so then this could be their
full show. (I doubt it though.) I've been told by a few from Ct. that Gentle Giant likes
playing in New Haven, Ct. This would suggest they're right about that.
Apparently New Havenites like Gentle Giant too. They patiently endured some sound problems
in the beginning which fortunately get better fairly early in the show.
do not sell this recording.
trade freely and losslessly.