7. The Runaway/Experience (live in Dusseldorf 9/23/76) (10:01) 8. In a Glass House (live in Munster 4/5/74) (9:49) 7.
Experience (live in Dusseldorf 9/23/76) (9:43) I'm really speechless. Sometimes, I feel ambarassed by my lack of mind-opening. Once again, after 3 (the magic number) good listen at the album, I do not regret to have purchased this BRILLANT record.
Gentle Giant is a very respectable, yet 'easy listening' prog band. But this time, it's getting crazier. In a Glass House deserves a place in your shelf as Moving Pictures (Rush) or Close to the Edge (Yes) .
Am I crazy you say? THIS IS the classic album of GG with Acquiring the Taste. And Gentle Giant is a band that brought A LOT of innovation and expertise in progressive rock.
But the record is not 'Holy Grail' impossible to find now for a mere 30$, you get bonus live tracks. There's a song (An Intimates Lullaby) about a crazy guy in an asylum who soliloquys in his room, almost a nursery rhyme. The voice feels like it's recorded from a phone.
Way of life, Experience and A Reunion offers lots a 'medieval' approaches that made GG such a joy to experience. This is the kind of record that makes me realize more and more that I was born in the wrong era. God, going to college with GG being an underground extravanganza and even going tho their concerts would have been a real treat.
Anyway, if you can find the record, jump on it, it's an order. This is like the summer in Quebec, catch it while you can, because if you blink it's gone for another year of waiting. Posted Monday, January 26, 2004, 20:31 EST |
If GG had done a tour without brother Phil, buying a Moog to fill-in his parts, it was another thing to do an album without him, but again, this proved to be a non-issue with Derek playing sax and singing as had Phil.
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