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Gentle Giant - Three Friends - 1972 - 24/96 & 16/44.1 UK Vertigo Swirl LP - 6360 070

Posted By : Mister Cee | Date : 04 Oct 2011 12:57:51 | Comments : 16 |
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Gentle Giant - Three Friends - 1972 - 24/96 & 16/44.1 UK Vertigo Swirl LP - 6360 070
FLAC | 24/96 & 16/44.1 | Stereo | 721 MB & 207MB - 5% recovery
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Gentle Giant's third album was their first concept album, as stated in the liner notes:
"The idea of this album came about simply from normal conversations within the group. You know how people often reminisce about old school friends and wonder whatever became of them; or the people who surprise us with their successes or failures. Anyway, the theme in this album is based on three people - friends at school but inevitably separated by chance, skill and fate."
The three school friends grow up to become a road digger (Working All Day), an artist (Peel The Paint), and a white-collar worker (Mister Class and Quality) who can no longer understand each other's lifestyles. But regardless of the storyline, the music is astounding, ranging from raucous rock to exquisite choral work, and ending with the stunningly beautiful title song.


Track List

1 - Prologue
2 - Schooldays
3 - Working All Day
4 - Peel The Paint
5 - Mister Class And Quality?
6 - Three Friends

Musicians

Gary Green - guitars, percussion
Kerry Minnear - keyboards, vibraphone, percussion, Moog, vocals
Malcolm Mortimore - drums
Derek Shulman - vocals
Phil Schulman - sax, vocals
Ray Shulman - bass, violin, 12 string guitar, vocals
Assisted by Calvin Shulman, Ray's son (boy's voice on Schooldays).
Engineer - Martin Rushent
Produced by "Gentle Giant"
Sleeve design - Rick Breach

All titles written by GENTLE GIANT
(Shulman, Shulman, Shulman, Minnear)
All selections © 1972 Excellency Music (ASCAP)

Recording Procedure

Recorded using a Linn Sondek LP12 turntable,
Origin Live power supply,
Linn Ittok LVII tonearm,
Goldring 1042 MM Cartridge,
into Graham Slee Gram Amp 2 Special Edition Phono Stage
Chord Cobra 3 Interconnect
to Juli@ ESI soundcard > wavelab5 @ 24bit / 96kHz wav
Click Repair wav reverse - Declick 15, Decrackle 10
Adobe Audition 3.0 for manual click removal

iZotope RX advanced 1.21 for resampling and dithering to 16bit / 44.1kHz
Traders Little Helper > fix sbe > flac

Dynamic Range = 11

foobar2000 1.1.7 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.0 beta 6
log date: 2011-10-03 19:01:53

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Analyzed: Gentle Giant / Three Friends
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 0.00 dB -15.76 dB 6:12 01-Prologue
DR13 -2.28 dB -20.04 dB 7:34 02-Schooldays
DR11 -0.47 dB -15.38 dB 5:08 03-Working All Day
DR11 -0.52 dB -15.46 dB 7:30 04-Peel The Paint
DR12 -0.99 dB -15.82 dB 5:51 05-Mister Class And Quality?
DR10 -2.20 dB -15.26 dB 3:00 06-Three Friends
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Number of tracks: 6
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 737 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Here's a rip I made a few years ago, I posted it to a few torrent sites but not here, so here it is :)
N.B This vinyl is almost 40 years old, and for the first few years of it's life was played on less then ideal equipment, (remember Dansette? ;)) so there is some groove wear, but overall it's not too bad.

No mirror links please, thanks.

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Posted By: Fran Solo Date: 04 Oct 2011 13:23:17
yeah, yeah, yeah!
Posted By: Overtone Date: 04 Oct 2011 13:25:24
Couldn't be more grateful for this and any other Giant rips you are able to share! Thankyou.
Posted By: Mister Cee Date: 04 Oct 2011 13:30:27
I have Octopus all ready to go but seems to be problems with uploading pictures :(
"Info base We are sorry but not all pictures have been uploaded yet, please wait some time and press "Save" button again"
Posted By: Fran Solo Date: 04 Oct 2011 13:34:36
Mister Cee, be patient, sometimes late, but it's shown.
Regards.
Posted By: ei4ia Date: 04 Oct 2011 14:19:31
Fantastic! My fav GG. Thank you very much!
Posted By: jorgeluiz Date: 04 Oct 2011 14:42:47
Thanks so much again for another gem with cool sound Mister Cee!
(waiting for Octopus and wishing 'The Power and the Glory' & 'Interview')!!! :-)

Can i request one TOO BIG scan of the label of this LP?
(that picture above in the center of the vinyl playing in the turntable...please)
Posted By: Mister Cee Date: 04 Oct 2011 15:17:08
That picture is an old one taken on an old phone, I'll take a new one with my current camera if you wish ;)
Posted By: Fran Solo Date: 04 Oct 2011 15:29:16
That picture is an old one taken on an old phone, I'll take a new one with my current camera if you wish ;)

Is it possible to share vinyl labels outside the envelope?
Thanks in advance!
Posted By: jorgeluiz Date: 04 Oct 2011 15:51:45
great...if you're not busy, i'll appreciate.

no need high resolution(quality)as the Vertigo Swirl is black&white, i'm wishing size of the Swirl only to print one big poster.
i got the scan of 'side 1' that you posted here but lose some parts in the borders.
cheers. :-)
Posted By: hifidelix Date: 04 Oct 2011 16:32:08
Thank you for your GG shares.Octopus is very welcome as well.
Posted By: yerbas07 Date: 04 Oct 2011 18:07:50
Muy agradecido.
Posted By: freedom2 Date: 04 Oct 2011 18:27:22
I want to thank you for including redbook along with the super hifi rip for those of us with very slow "high speed internet", I wish that more of Avax's hifi posters would be so kind.

;-)
Posted By: LX66 Date: 04 Oct 2011 20:50:52
@ freedom2

indeed!
Posted By: PBTHAL VINYL RIPS Date: 04 Oct 2011 22:49:02
Still got that Sex Pistols rips layin around Mister Cee?
Posted By: ProgWizard Date: 07 Oct 2011 12:05:17
Thank you very much for this.
Posted By: Mister Cee Date: 20 Oct 2011 14:00:49
Fresh scan of the label, http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NZLH05VR :)

And yes PVR I have the Pistols rip here ;)
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