Caravan sound -> Gentle Giant

[Haible Juergen]

	>   The most incredible organ distortion I have ever heard is on
'Peel
	>   the Paint' from the Gentle Giant Octopus album. Sounds almost
like
	>   a mechanical scraping. Time to warm up Napster!
	>
	> I agree.  (Except that "Peel the Paint" is from "Three Friends".)

Yes. And I thought that organ solo was on "Working all day". Time for me
to hear Three Friends again.
BTW, the last piece of the album, title track "Three Friends" is one of my
favorite prog tunes - something that will go round in your head for a long
time. I mean, in prog rock there is always the adventurous and the
beautiful,
and "Three Friends" falls in the "beautiful" category (like King Crimson's
"Starless").

	>Now I know this is getting off topic because we don't discuss music
	>here and Gentle Giant never used a heck of a lot of synths anyway,
but
	>Gentle Giant was one of the most amazing progressive rock bands
ever.
	>If you haven't head them I highly recommend the albums:
	>  "Three Friends"
	>  "Octopus"
	>  "In a Glass House"
	>  "The Power and the Glory"
	>  "Free Hand" 
	>  "Playing the Fool" (live)

I fully agree with Don, and I'd like to add their self titled "Gentle Giant"
debut
album. It's not as daring as the following ones, but I found it a good
starting
point for getting into the group. At least it was for me.

When you're familiar with the studio albums, check out the recently released
BBC 
sessions "Out Of The Fire".

JH.