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From: todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Gentle Giant...
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 18:04:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 18:04:51 1985
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> >       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.
> -- 
> 	Steve Knight
> 	{seismo,allegra,ihnp4,some other sites}!rlgvax!knight

Gentle Giant made some of the best obscure music of the 70's.
Unfortunately, their last two (three?) albums sounded like
bad attempts at commercial crap. I loved the Giant, but I
wish they had split up before "The Missing Piece."

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