Taking it up to another level, folks.

It just happens that possibly the best band of the 1970s, Gentle Giant, is represented on YouTube in gloriously extravagant fashion. I have no idea why, but extremely high quality videos of these guys have survived. It’s a total anomaly because Gentle Giant was out of the mainstream, and even for those IN the mainstream they did not even have great video recording technology back then, but these are nearly pristine. Unbelievable. Thank Odin.

Here you go, CathyMac. You can pay me back later.

Proclamation, trippy stuff, I hope you can imagine, really entertaining and really hard to play.

On Reflection – crank up the volume and check out the amazing a cappella which begins about 2:10. If you have a kid interested in orchestra, let them watch this. It is  beautiful … and live, bridging orchestra and rock. There have never been any other bands like this one. Nobody else did this in the 70s and nobody’s done it since.

Just The Same. Again, listening to the studio version of this is awe inspiring, such incredible talent – but here is it live and, honestly, there is not any difference. The outrageous music Gentle Giant produced was not technological trickery but a group of really good musicians.

And now you are ready for this. In A Glass House (Experience)

I hope you all enjoy these and listen to them over and over because I sure will. It is like being transported back to 1978. And if you wonder why I might be so high on Gentle Giant – these are all live. It is pretty good musicianship.