My Favorite Live Performance

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Elspode

Dude...right fucking on! I saw two Yes tours in the round, and I saw GG in a 1500 seat hall as warm up for King Crimson.

Gentle Giant was a stunningly original, capable group of musicians. I *still* listen to their stuff on a regular basis. My fave album of theirs is "Octopus". I've got a couple of decent live videos of theirs, FWIW.

In 1978, at college, I saw GG in the field house, sitting on the floor. I was so sure that it would be difficult to get a ticket that at the first opportunity I had to get the tickets, I rushed to get them - it was a whole hour after they went on sale, and I was sure they'd be sold out. I got ticket numbers 00001-00005. Opening for GG was a group called Baby Grand, featuring Eric Bazilian and Eric Hyman, who later formed The Hooters. They were a popular local Philly band who got alot of airplay with "all you zombies" and Robby wrote "time after time" for Cindy Lauper" IIRC.