King Biscuit Flower Hour

King Biscuit Flower Hour Artist: Gentle Giant
Label: King Biscuit Flower
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 707108803525
EAN: 0707108803525
ASIN: B000005EJG


Release Date: 1998-01-13

King Biscuit Flower Hour


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Tracks:

  1. Proclamation
  2. Funny Ways
  3. The Runaway
  4. Experience
  5. So Sincere
  6. Knots
  7. The Advent Of Panurge

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  1. The Power and the Glory
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  4. Three Friends
  5. Free Hand

Album Description

This concert captures Gentle Giant at the top of their form and the peak of their fame in the United States, coming off of a Top 50 U.S. chart placement the previous year for The Power and the Glory.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Stark live performance.......2001-12-17

This is a release of a radio concert done during the Power and the Glory tour. This is a good live performance, but not Gentle Giant's best.

On the studio albums, thier sound is usually lush and complex with many over lapping sounds. They used to play that way in concert.

On this album, they have a stripped down sound. It is more straight ahead rock than previous performances. There are some small sections with violin and sax, but this is mostly guitar oriented.

The music is played in a sharp staccato manor. I wouldn't really call it manic like others have. It doesn't have that raw energy. The vocals are also coarse and abrupt.

The album is only 47 minutes long and just a partial concert. Because of the short length and the stripped down sound, it just feels as if something is missing.

This is not a bad performance, I just prefer some of the earlier ones. The best live album by Gentle Giant is the first CD from the two CD set called Out of the Woods. Unfortunately, it is only 35 minutes, and the second CD is really bad.

3 out of 5 stars A great band that just didn't do it for me..........2001-11-25

I am huge 42-yr old fan of progressive rock, and have a lot of that kind of music in my collection. I felt guilty not having any Gentle Giant, so I finally got around to getting this disk to see what they were all about...

First of all, this lead singer should take some lessons! I am very tolerant of all types of singers from thrash metal to Dylan, however this guy just left me wanting to whine 'out of tune' throughout...However, once I got over that, I must admit that the instrumental prowess of this band is VERY impressive. Once I got into that aspect of GG, I thought that this is some very intelligent rock - which it is. Despite that, my overall impression after several listens of this CD is that GG are where they belong - retired in the great prog rock heaven in the sky. Bands like the you-can't-kill-em Yes and some of their contemporaries (Transatlantic, Flower Kings, Spock's Beard) are producing some great music today, and the GG influence is just simply there. Knowing that, I hold this band in high regard. However, I will let them sit as an 'influence' in my mind, as their stuff just did not do anything for me...maybe on the 20th listen I'll see it...we'll see...

5 out of 5 stars GIANT AT THEIR BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2001-10-19

This is one hell of a live album! Gentle Giant were at their peak around the time of this album. The performances are nearly
flawless. Man, these guys could play!! Every song has at least one or two or three things to
recommend about it, but the highlight of this cd is KNOTS AND
THE ADVENT OF PANURGE. Gary Green and Ray Shulman's acoustic
guitar duet is amazing!!
There are also some very impressive vocal rounds on this, along
with a section where 3 or 4 of them play recorders. There is a
very medieval feel to this song! The version of RUNAWAY is much better than the studio version.This song is heavy in a very YES-like way.Also quite en-
joyable is the five man percussion jam on SO SINCERE. Unlike
some of the other prog rock bands, GENTLE GIANT were actually at
their best when they were showing off.I strongly recommend this album; as a
matter of fact, I think it's better than any of their studio
albums!!! A MUST HAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 out of 5 stars The Band of the Bands - LIVE!!!!!.......2000-09-24

Gentle Giant was a hell of a band. They could play more than 30 instruments. There were five vocalists. Their songs were complex, beautiful, sometimes rough, sometimes gentle (this is true!). This one ranks among their best works. Listen to "So sincere" (the best recording of this tune), to "Funny Ways" (this one would make a giant cry), and to "The Runaway", and you will agree with me!

5 out of 5 stars More energetic than "Live Playing the Fool".......1999-06-21

While "Live playing the fool" released in 1976 was a great live record, the energy really hit stride for the second half of the record staring with "the runaway"

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