The day the music died.

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Gentle Giant came up in the shuffle rotation today, and I got thinking how old those guys must be by now... if not gone.

Well, it turns out Ray Shulman, one of the three Shulman brothers that started the band, passed a year ago this month.


Gentle Giant never really saw very big commercial success, always being more "musicians musicians", than "popular musicians". Their claim to fame is more in which more popular prog rock bands they influenced, than any commercial success of their own.

Ray's contribution to the band was mostly violin and electric bass, and he can be seen playing bass in the video above. Listening to this again now, it's funny how much the synth sounds in this tune sound like Stevie Wonder's Innervisions album. Not sure which came first, but I think it was these guys.

And yeah, it's weird. That's what makes it interesting. :D
 
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