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From: hall@beta.DEC (Dan Hall)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Gentle Giant
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 09:56:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 09:56:26 1985
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>> Rob Rosen
 > Steve Knight

 
>>       Does anyone know what's going on with these guys?  The last album
>> was put out in 1980 -- I guess I can safely assume that the Giant is dead
>> (a sorrowful pause...).
 
>Gentle Giant did, indeed, split up back in the first part of 1981.  (I
>remember because it was one of the few times the music industry press
>payed them any attention.)  I posted a request a few years back asking if
>anyone knew of what the members were doing (particularly Minnear and the
>brothers Shulman), but received no replies.

Brothers Ray and Derek Shulman can be found credited on a 1983 Polydor
release by a band called `Minor Detail'.  They had a minor hit (pardon my pun)
on MTV with a tune called "Canvas of Life".  The band is comprised of singer/
songwriters John and Willie Hughes, Des Moore and Ray Shulman on guitar,
Paul McAteer on drums and Paul Barrett plays the Fairlight CMI.  Derek Shulman
and Jerry Jaffe are thanked for "their personal contributions".  The album
sounds a bit like `Split Enz' and `Buggles' sometimes, but overall my opinion
is that it is pretty lame.  None of that Gentle Giant "oh-my-gosh-what-time-
signature/s-could-this-little-ditty-possibly-be-in?" type of playing.  Too bad.

If you're interested anyway, the catalog number is Polydor 815 004-1 Y1.


"Now that my life's my own, I leave you behind, leaving you behind."
"What ever made you think I would change my mind, change my mind?"


--Dan Hall
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