Interview with Derek Shulman [Listen 27:00 min] S02 Ep02 (3 of 4)- Blowing the Whistle on Derek Shulman

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S02 Ep02 (3 of 4) - Blowing the whistle on Derek Shulman

Interview Date: December 15, 2011 @6:30pm EDT

Two Special Guests this week: Audio (Part 1 of 2): Derek Shulman (of Gentle Giant) and Written (Part 3 of 4): Daevid Allen(founding member of GonG).

Derek Shulman was the lead singer and multi-instrumentalist of the influential band Gentle Giant. Since then, he has gone on to change the musical landscape of rock and heavy metal; signing bands like: Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Kingdom Come and has overseen the signings of Slipnot and Nickelback.

Daevid Allen was a member of Soft Machine, GonG, and uN1vER5itY of 3rroR5. Our interview was a written one where I emailed him and he emailed me back the responses. I'm a big fan of his, so it was a thrill for me to have had the opportunity to ask him these questions. To be honest, his answers both surprised me and thrilled me. In my opinion, the GonG concepts were both intelligent and sound in their thinking, and forced me to reexamine my understanding of those classic albums and his work as a whole. I have broken up the interview to coincide with my two Gentle Giant guests Malcolm Mortimore and Derek Shulman. I hope you enjoy it.

The GTV and Daevid Allen Interview (Part 3 of 4)

Q: I was talking to Derek Shulman from Gentle Giant in an interview and he was saying that some of the Gentle Giant lyrics/concept was partly influenced by reading “The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel “(a connected series of five