Three Friends
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| Studio album by Gentle Giant | ||
| Released | 1972 | |
| Recorded | ? | |
| Genre | Progressive rock | |
| Length | 35:19 | |
| Label | Vertigo | |
| Producer(s) | Gentle Giant | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Gentle Giant chronology | ||
| Acquiring the Taste (1971) |
Three Friends (1972) |
Octopus (1972) |
Three Friends (1972) is an album by the British progressive rock band Gentle Giant. The group's third album was also their first American release to chart, peaking at #197 on the Billboard 200.
It is Gentle Giant's first concept album, dealing with three childhood friends whose lives take them very different places. It was also their first self-produced album. The two former albums were produced by David Bowie and T Rex producer Tony Visconti.
Gary Green's guitar solo on "Peel the Paint" uses an echoplex belonging to Mike Ratledge that Green's brother Jeff, a roadie with Ratledge's band Soft Machine, had borrowed.
[edit] Track listing
- Prologue – 6:13
- Schooldays – 7:37
- Working All Day – 5:12
- Peel the Paint – 7:31
- Mister Class and Quality? – 3:23
- Three Friends – 5:26
All songs written by Shulman, Shulman, Shulman and Minnear.
[edit] Personnel
- Gary Green - guitars, percussion
- Kerry Minnear - keyboards, vibraphone, percussion, Moog, vocals
- Malcolm Mortimore - drums
- Derek Shulman - vocals
- Phil Shulman - sax, vocals
- Ray Shulman - bass, violin, 12 string guitar, vocals
[edit] Miscellanea
For the US release of the album, the cover was the same as that of the band's debut album Gentle Giant.
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| Gentle Giant |
| Derek Shulman | Ray Shulman | Gary Green | Kerry Minnear | John Weathers |
| Phil Shulman | Martin Smith | Malcolm Mortimore |
| Discography |
| Main Albums: Gentle Giant | Acquiring the Taste | Three Friends | Octopus | In a Glass House | The Power and the Glory | Free Hand | Interview | Playing the Fool | The Missing Piece | Giant for a Day | Civilian |
| Other Releases: In Concert-BBC Radio 1 | Out of the Woods | Under Construction | Scraping the Barrel | Giant on the Box | GG at the GG |
