Live in Rome 1974 [Live]

live in rome 1974 [live]

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Product Description
Live set for the prog rock act, over 70 minutes in length, tracks include 'Cogs In Cogs', 'Funny Ways', 'The Runaway, Plain Truth and many more. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

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Live in Rome 1974 [Live]

Average customer rating:

Gentle Giant - 'Live In Rome,1974' (Glasshouse) 3 1/2 stars
Not worth the money
Have to give it a 2 out of 5
The band's great, just not the quality
As everyone has already said...

Live in Rome 1974
Gentle Giant
Manufacturer: Glasshouse UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004W3XJ
Release Date: 2000-10-02

Tracks:

Introduction/Giant/Cogs In Cogs/Proclamation
Funny Ways
The Runaway/Keyboard Solo/Experience
Knots/Guitar Acoustic Duet Solo/The Advent Of Panurge/Recorder Quartet Solo
Nothing At All/Plain Truth

Album Description

Live set for the prog rock act, over 70 minutes in length, tracks include 'Cogs In Cogs', 'Funny Ways', 'The Runaway, Plain Truth and many more. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

This Live Album was Recorded in Rome on November 26Th, 1974. This New Officially Authorised Live Album is Digitally Mastered. Tracks: Giant, Cogs in Cogs, Funny Ways, the Runaway, the Advent of Panurge & More.

Customer Reviews:

Gentle Giant - 'Live In Rome,1974' (Glasshouse) 3 1/2 stars.......2007-02-18

Keep in mind this is the very first CD I've ever purchased of Gentle Giant. I remember catching them on late night TV like Don Kirshner way back when. Sound quality of this five track / 70 minute live archive recording is like a very good bootleg album. Which to me, it fine. Show took place on November 26, 1974 at a venue called PalaEur. A decent CD to sit back and thoroughly soak in. Best cuts are "Funny Ways" off their 1970 debut record and the twenty-seven minute progressive epic "Nothing At All/Plain Truth" (also off the 1st lp). Never realized they were putting out albums and touring from 1970-1980. Always thought they didn't come along until 1974. Might possibly appeal to fans of King Crimson, Camel, Strawbs, Yes and Focus.

Not worth the money.......2005-03-25

Being a long time Gentle Giant fan and having everything they've ever done, I was completely disappointed with this CD. The sound quality is so bad, I could barely listen to the whole thing. I play GG on my radio show quite a bit but got several complaints from GG fans on this one. If you want to hear GG playing live, I recommend Playing The Fool or King Biscuit Flower Hour instead. Just one more company trying to make a little money with an inferior quality product

Have to give it a 2 out of 5.......2003-02-21

I love GG! This is a bootleg gone public. Lousy sound quality with extra noises and stuff from the BAD recorder. GG is close to flawless though, which is why it gets a two. On spin? No comment...

The band's great, just not the quality.......2002-04-12

Apparently, this is the bootleg "Giant Steps Forward" digitally remastered and made a legal release, so why didn't they fix the SOUND??? I haven't got anything wrong towards GG's performance on the disc, they were top notch, but the lack of volume leveling and the strange ringing during Cogs In Cogs make this one unbearable at times.

Surely GlassHouse Records had some form of equipment to change the volume levels? Since only Keith Emerson was out of his mind to take a modular Moog synth on stage, Kerry Minnear's way was to put the synth solo (which was overdubbed many times, due to the synth's monophonic capability) onto tape and play the tape in the middle of a song. They also played a bit of "Giant" at the beginning off of tape as well, so the taped selections are louder, while the Giant is somewhat audible. Major lowlight to GlassHouse on that one. If you do any audio editing, it shouldn't be very hard to fix.

There should be a review system on performance and quality, not overall rating, so this fine concert by GG would have more respect.

As everyone has already said..........2002-04-08

This cd is not worth the plastic its printed on. I wish I had read these reviews before I bought it.

Don't get me wrong, the performance is solid and the music is good. The quality is just sooooo poor. I'm usually fairly forgiving when it comes to live recordings, but when I first listened to this, there was so much noise that I thought I had a defective disc. Its that bad.

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