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DEAR FRIENDS, AFTER RECEIVING FIVE NOTIFICATIONS FROM DMCA, I HAVE DECIDED TO CLOSE MY BLOGS, SO ALL THIS SHARING-LINK ACTIVITY IS FINISHED. YOU CAN READ THE COMPLETE TEXT I POSTED ON MY PILOT BLOG - - > HERE

FOR THE MANY MANY PEOPLE WHO KEEP ASKING FOR RECORDS: I'M SORRY, I CAN'T FULFIL THEIR REQUESTS, IT ALL CAME TO A POINT THAT'S 'S TOO DANGEROUS FOR ME. I HAD TO REMOVE THE 97% OF THE ALBUMS I HAD POSTED ON THE SERVERS. The few exceptions are: the bootlegs and the few studio albums authorized directly by the copyright owners.


FOR ALL THE OTHERS, Cyrus (who wants to buy some of my vynil records), Maxoom, Caroalt, Jiro, Trolley Dolly, Phil (who wants my copies of the COB albums), Marnie (who wants my copy of the original "Ptooff"), XJ64, Antiamnbient, Arman, Nicolas, Rick, etc etc , please WRITE ME AGAIN WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, AND I WILL ANSWER YOU, OKAY?

LAST: I RE-UPPED THE FOREST'S LIVE ALBUM FOR THREE PEOPLE WHO ASKED FOR IT, SO IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE.

KISSES - YOUR COUNTESS VANESSA

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No pretention of completeness in mind, this blog sees the light with the idea of filling a good number of gaps here and there where I notice that certain music that I particularly like is missing in other blogs. Therefore I will abstain from posting albums that are present elsewhere, except only the cases where I am reported of dirty record scans, incomplete reissues, remixed versions, etc. Other exceptions are cases in which I can offer higher bitrate scans, or also when posting a title is necessary for the completeness of a thread or a discography.

9 Sept 2010

GENTLE GIANT - Playing the foole (Bootleg, rec. 1974)

For long time this remained the only existing bootleg of Gentle Giant. The first further bootlegs will appear not earlier than in the Compact Disc era, I never ever saw any other Gentle Giant bootleg on vinyl. This LP was already enough famous at the time, till the point that the band itself decided to adopt the title for the official double live "Playing the fool" (omitting the final E) that saw the light 2 years later.
This bootleg, despite what stays written on the sleeve,
1 - is not live
2 - wasn't recorded during any "American tour".
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List:
1. Proclamation - 2. Funny ways - 3. Experience - 4. So sincere - 5. The advent of Panurge - 6. Mr. Class & Quality - 7. The power & the glory.
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All the tracks were recorded in studio, but they're all alternate versions of the originals. So many of these re-constructed and variated versions served as a framework for the forthcoming  concerts, because here we have the same arrangements in the way we hear them on the live albums.  Shame for "Mr. Class and Quality" which is suddenly interrupted: it's quite rare to find this song around on bootlegs, the band stopped playing this track live, at least from 1973 on.  I don't know if this bootleg was ever reissued on CD, anyway, as it usually happens by me, this is the vinyl rip - no surprise.  At the end of the album there is "The power and the glory", the original studio track that didn't appear on the same-titled LP, but on single. I didn't take it away, so the bootleg is complete, for purists...  :-)

Enjoy

The COUNTESS

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