GENTLE GIANT
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Centre Sportif de l'Universite de Montreal
1972-10-07 (October 7th 1972)

Opening act: Plume Latraverse and Pierre Landry

Audience recording, lineage unknown
Sound quality: B

01. Prologue
02. Alucard
03. Funny Ways
04. Nothing At All
05. Plain Truth
06. Peel The Paint

Total time: 52:55

Derek Shulman - vocals, saxes, bass guitar
Ray Shulman - vocals, bass guitar, violin
Phil Shulman - vocals, saxes, trumpet
Kerry Minnear - vocals, keyboards, cello, vibes
Gary Green - vocals, lead guitar
John Weathers - drums, percussion

LINEAGE - unknown analog source>CD-R>dBpowerAMP>FLAC level 4>you
(Checked with EAC to ensure that this is not MP3 sourced).

A pretty good audience recording, considering its age. I'm not confident enough to try any re-mastering (yet), so I'm presenting the music exactly as it came to me. Sound quality is generally very listenable, a bit lacking in top end at times, but I've certainly heard worse... I'd rate it as a "B", although I appreciate these things are very much down to personal taste.

I've been on DIME for about six or seven months now, and this show doesn't seem to have been seeded here before - if it's a reseed, then I apologize for not making that clear in the description, but I had no way of telling.

This is also the first time I've uploaded a "new" show to Dime - my efforts so far have been to re-seed stuff that I've previously grabbed myself - so I'm hoping I've got it right. As always, I welcome any constructive feedback.

Enjoy the show,

Alan.

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THE NOTES ABOVE ARE ADAPTED FROM THE ORIGINAL TORRENT (MOSTLY NOT WRITTEN BY ME)

Seeded on DIME by ak47gg on 2007-04-20
Reseeded on DIME by iggy1 on 2026-02-09
- No audio changes made to FLAC files
- Tagged and renamed files
- Created FFPs
- Added information to info file
- Added photos:
- band photos by Pierre Laurent Croteau from a Facebook post by Patrick Beretzk, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1601662476776722/posts/3939556689653944/
- newspaper review photo plus headline from Gentle Giant Tour History, http://ggconcerts.on-reflection.org/part2.htm

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From Gentle Giant Tour History http://ggconcerts.on-reflection.org/part2.htm:

This was the first concert of the University�s 1972-1973 season and was another gig that Phil says was very successful, even though it was a rainy night. Reviews placed between 1,800 and 2,000 people in the audience, rather low numbers for this venue, but these same reviews said the crowd really enjoyed themselves. One reviewer even remarked this was the best concert he himself had ever seen.

A local comedy/folk duet of Plume Latraverse and Pierre Landry opened this show. It had been assumed the openers were Plume and Cassonade, but that particular lineup came into being a bit later. The crowd erupted with cheers and applause during the Nothing at All percussion break. During this break, the band used their sticks, in sequence, on the drums, the drum stands, the microphone stands, the microphone cables and the floor, before reversing the order, finally returning to the drums. The crowd was again cheering wildly by the end of the show but, like what happened the night before, Giant did not return for an encore.

Le Petit Journal, in its review, did point out how remarkably short Giant�s set was, but blamed that on the fact that the band had a long bus trip from the previous night�s show and were facing another long bus trip to the next show. An existing tape of the concert does show they ended their set with Peel the Paint again done as a separate song, as was done in May, but in a slightly modified version from what was done then. A very brief silent 8mm film clip of the show is also known to exist.

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