Giant Steps

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Wherever I go, I’m always surprised when someone will recognize me in the street, approach me, and say, ‘I love Gentle Giant.’

And really, I’m so pleased when that happens, because their self-titled debut was, on every level, one of the best albums I was ever involved with. There were several progressive rock bands emerging at the time, but my inspiration for doing what I do came from the most progressive rock group the world has known, The Beatles. Fully knowing I wouldn’t knock their producer George Martin off his throne, I said to myself that there must be more Beatles in the UK to discover. By 1970, I had found what I was looking for. They were Gentle Giant.

I needed to work with musicians of that caliber because I studied classical music, I trained hard, and this was very, very challenging. We were working with analog tape and they were doing things that, honestly, you would have required Pro Tools to pull off. And Pro Tools hadn’t been invented. So we did some tricks that were akin to what George Martin and The Beatles were doing with analogue tape, and made a fantastic work of art.

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