Scraping the Barrel

Scraping the Barrel

Infobox Album | Name = Scraping the Barrel
Type = Album
Artist = Gentle Giant


Released = 15 November, 2004
Recorded =
Genre = Progressive rock
Length =
Label = Alucard
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Under Construction"
(1997)
This album = "Scraping the Barrel"
(2004)
Next album =

"Scraping the Barrel" was the second of two box sets of the English progressive rock band Gentle Giant, released in 2004.

This was to collect together all the unreleased material, demos, outtakes and the odd live recordings that were available to the band.

Track listing

*Disk 1 - Total Time 77:49 - Material from "Giant" through to "Free Hand"
#"Giant" - Vocal Mix
#"Alucard" - Derek, Master of Ceremonies
#"Pantagruels Nativity" - Vocal Mix
#"Schooldays" - Piano, Studio
#"Schooldays" - Grand Piano, Studio
#"Working All Day" - Demo
#"Peel the Paint" - Different Solo
#"Mr. Class & Quality" - Intro Bits + Complete Solos
#"Three Friends" - Piano Experiment
#"Three Friends" - Vocal Mix
#"Kerry's Kindness"
#"Think of Me with Kindness" - Studio Outtake
#"Keyboard Concerto" - Plymouth 1973
#"In a Glass House" Intro
#"Runaway/Experience" Segue
#"Way of Life" without Vox
#"Proclamation" - Rehearsal before take
#"Proclamation" - Demo
#"Playing the Game" - Experiment
#"Playing the Game" - Pick'n'Mix
#"Playing the Game" - Alternative Part
#"The Boogie and the Woogie" - Cogs
#"No God's a Man" - Demo
#"No God's a Man" - Vocal Mix
#"The Face" - Demo
#"Valedictory" Starts
#"The Power and the Glory" - Imbetweenies
#"The Power and the Glory" - Demo / Band / Studio Pick'n'mix
#"The Power and the Glory" Second Song
#"With Gentle Giant on KMET" Jingle (10 October 1974 L-A Whisky A-Go-Go)
#"On Reflection" - Rehearsal Chaos
#"Free Hand" Riff
#"His Last Voyage" - Vocal Mix

*Disk 2 - Total Time 74:11 - Material from "Free Hand" through to "Civilian"
#"His Last Voyage" - Demo
#"Talybont" - Special mix
#"Talybont" - Demos
#"Mobile" - Demos
#"Mobile" - Studio Outtake
#"Give it Back" - Guitar
#"Give it Back" - Funny voices
#"Another Show" - M8
#"Empty City" - Studio Outtake
#"Empty City" - Guitar and Rhodes Mix
#"Empty City" - Vocal Mix
#"Timing" - Demo
#"Intro '77"
#"Two Weeks in Spain" - Rehearsal
#"Two Weeks in Spain" - Studio
#"12 bar Warmup + Who Do You Think You Are?" Outtake + Rehearsal
#"Rock Me Baby"
#"As Old as You're Young"
#"Winning" - Band Rehearsal - Odd M8
#"Winning" - Lights Rehearsal - Pinewood
#"For Nobody"
#"For Nobody" - Vocal Mix
#"Friends" - Demo
#"Rock Climber" - Band rehearsal
#"Shadows on the Street"

*Disk 3 - Total Time 76:00 - New recordings, and old solo projects
#"Home Again" (Kerry Minnear)
#"Moog Fugue" (Kerry Minnear)
#"Move Over" (Kerry Minnear)
#"Really Don't Know" (Kerry Minnear)
#"Heaven's Tears" (Kerry Minnear)
#"Flower Arranging" (Kerry Minnear)
#"Living In a Restaurant" (Kerry Minnear)
#"You Make Me Very Happy" (Kerry Minnear)
#"Get Out of My Way" (Kerry Minnear)
#"Wisdom Was Calling" (Kerry Minnear)
#"Good Christian Men Rejoice" (Kerry Minnear)
#"Hava Nagila" (Simon Dupree and the Big Sound)
#"Homeland" (Simon Dupree and the Big Sound)
#"Burn My Working Clothes" (John P. Weathers)
#"On Safari" (Shout: Gary Green, Ray Shulman; with Sally Minnear)
#"Starting Line" (Demo) (Shout: Gary Green, Ray Shulman)
#"Running Away" (Demo) (Shout: Gary Green, Ray Shulman)
#"Our World" (Gary Green)
#"Back To the Front" (Gary Green)
#"Prehistoric Boss Level" (Ray Shulman)
#"Volcano" (Ray Shulman)

*Disk 4 - Misc
#Various MP3 files and visual images.

Personnel

*Gary Green - 6 string guitar, 12 string guitar, 12 string wah-wah guitar, donkey's jawbone, cat calls, voice
*Kerry Minnear - electric piano, organ, mellotron, vibraphone, Moog, piano, celeste, clavichord, harpsichord, tympani, maracas, lead vocals
*Derek Shulman - alto sax, clavichord, cowbell, lead vocals
*Phil Shulman - alto & tenor sax, clarinet, trumpet, piano, claves, maracas, lead vocals
*Ray Shulman - bass, violin, viola, electric violin, Spanish guitar, tambourine, 12 string guitar, organ bass pedals, skulls, vocals
*Martin Smith - drums, tambourine, gongs, side drum
*John Weathers - drums, percussion

Release details

*2004, UK, Alucard ALUGG04, Release Date 15 November 2004, CD


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