Gentle Giant
St. Louis, MO, USA
Kiel Opera House
1975-10-22 (22nd October 1975)

Opening for Rick Wakeman

Audience recording, lineage unknown
Sound quality: good (original seeder's rating), B (re-seeder's rating)

01. unknown
02. Cogs In Cogs
03. The Boys In The Band
04. Raconteur, Troubadour [guitar instrumental version]
05. Knots
06. The Advent of Panurge
07. So Sincere
08. drums
09. Free Hand

Total time: 36:58

Derek Shulman - vocals
Ray Shulman - bass
Kerry Minnear - keyboards
Gary Green - guitar
John 'Pugwash' Weathers - drums

Lineage: FLAC files ripped from CDR I got in a trade with Jack Skelly, back when he was still trading.

As fans of GG will know, seeing the band live was like watching a group of jugglers as they would play each others instruments, even swapping mid song. So the above credits don't really do them justice.

I didn't receive any artwork for this concert. I'd sure like some.

From Jack Skelly's Gentle Giant Tour History site (which can now be found at http://ggconcerts.on-reflection.org/):

"Opened for Rick Wakeman before a crowd of 2,500. During the Excerpts from Octopus medley, the band had some brief technical difficulties right before breaking into The Advent of Panurge. Derek subsequently missed his vocal entrance, leaving Kerry to sing the opening line of the song alone. A tape of the gig exists."

I assume this is from that very tape. It's rather short at 36 minutes and doesn't comply with the known setlist from that time. But I got this from Jack Skelly so...

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

Seeded on DIME by twosheds on 2008-12-24
Reseeded on DIME by iggy1 on 2026-02-02
- No audio changes made to FLAC files
- Tagged and renamed files
- Created FFPs
- Added information to info file
- Added ad from Gentle Giant Tour History

Thanks to Lucifer Burns who identified tracks 4-6 which were mislabeled in the original seeding.

Now for my tale of woe:

I went to the Rick Wakeman "King Arthur" show at the Kiel Opera House in St. Louis on October 22, 1975... but I do not remember Gentle Giant at all!

I remember seeing a poster for this show in a documentary and was stunned to see Gentle Giant listed as the support act. So, 2 possibilities exist: 1) I saw them and don't remember them, 2) I arrived late and missed the opening act. I cannot believe that I would not have remembered them! (I really don't remember ANY opening act.) We did have to drive 100 miles from college for the show and may have been running late. At least Rick Wakeman's show was great!

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