Endless Life [Live, Import]

Gentle Giant | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 4, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1975
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live, Import
• Label: Glasshouse UK
• ASIN: B000086BBU
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,795,069 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Gongs in Gongs

2. Proclamation

3. Funny Way

4. The Runaway Experience

5. On Reflection

6. Excerpts From Octopus

7. So Sincere

8. Plain Truth

Disc: 2

1. Free Hand

2. Just The Same

3. Opening

4. Gongs In Gongs

5. Excerpts From Octopus

6. So Sincere

7. Plain Truth

8. Free Hand

9. Just The Same

Editorial Reviews

From the Artist

Gentle Giant have a solid fanbase who will welcome the addition of these great performances to the band's catalogue, as would any prog-rock enthusiast.

Product Description

Endless Life contains two previously unreleased live concerts by Gentle Giant, who were a great powerful band, live. Recorded on the Free Hand tour of the U.S. in October 1975, the first disc was recorded at Music Hall, White Plains, New York and the second at The Community Theater, Berkley, California. Amongst the highlights is the 15 minute Excerpts From Octopus, which includes Boys In The Band, Knots and The Advent Of Panurge, the amazing violin solo on Plain Truth and the drum solo on So Sincere.

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Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars buyer beware, February 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Endless Life (Audio CD)

Let me start by saying that I'm a huge Gentle Giant fan from the time I was a teenager (I'm now in my late forties). I was so excited to discover a new GG CD of previously unreleased live recordings was soon to become available. Even though the selections had been released previously on other live recordings, I jumped at the chance that I might hear a different arrangement of these wonderful songs. When I received the CD today I could hardly get through the first cut. This CD is full of horribly recored selections. It sounds like a bootleg, and a bad one at that. I only hope the the former members of GG did not authorize this release. Shame on them if they did, and shame on the producer of this recording if they did not!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware: Bootleg!, January 3, 2003

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Dale Chapman (San Ramon, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Endless Life (Audio CD)

The emergence of this disc greatly excited me. This was a very fine year for Gentle Giant (1975), and one of the two shows contained on this 2-CD set was recorded in Berkely, CA (my home away from home). However, I was HUGELY disappointed when I put these discs in my player. Both concerts were recorded with handheld tape recorders from the audience. Translation: these are bootleg recordings. They sound simply dreadful, and are only required for the completists. The first show (From White Plains, NY) sounds better than the Berkeley show, but neither is listenable.

This product should be removed from distribution. Charging a fee for this poor product is criminal. I offer 1 star for this product only because of the brilliance buried under the horrendous sound quality.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars bootleg warning, April 5, 2006

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bill from philly - See all my reviews

This review is from: Endless Life (Audio CD)

i agree with the previous review,as a fan and proud owner of most of GG works,this is a very very poor audience hand held type of recording,unlike the DEAD concerts there appears to be no set area to get good audience recordings.1 star for the music -5 stars for the recording.if you want live GG pick up Playing The Fool.