Scraping the Barrel was the second of two box sets of the English progressive rock band Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant were a British progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980. The band was known for the complexity and sophistication of its music and for the varied musical skills of its members. All of the band members, except the first two drummers, were multi-instrumentalists...

, 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.

Disk 1 - Total Time 77:49 - Material from "Giant" through to "Free Hand"

1. "Giant" - Vocal Mix
2. "Alucard" - Derek, Master of Ceremonies
3. "Pantagruels Nativity" - Vocal Mix
4. "Schooldays" - Piano, Studio
5. "Schooldays" - Grand Piano, Studio
6. "Working All Day" - Demo
7. "Peel the Paint" - Different Solo
8. "Mr. Class & Quality" - Intro Bits + Complete Solos
9. "Three Friends" - Piano Experiment
10. "Three Friends" - Vocal Mix
11. "Kerry's Kindness"
12. "Think of Me with Kindness" - Studio Outtake
13. "Keyboard Concerto" - Plymouth 1973
14. "In a Glass House" Intro
15. "Runaway/Experience" Segue
16. "Way of Life" without Vox
17. "Proclamation" - Rehearsal before take
18. "Proclamation" - Demo
19. "Playing the Game" - Experiment
20. "Playing the Game" - Pick'n'Mix
21. "Playing the Game" - Alternative Part
22. "The Boogie and the Woogie" - Cogs
23. "No God's a Man" - Demo
24. "No God's a Man" - Vocal Mix
25. "The Face" - Demo
26. "Valedictory" Starts
27. "The Power and the Glory" - Imbetweenies
28. "The Power and the Glory" - Demo / Band / Studio Pick'n'mix
29. "The Power and the Glory" Second Song
30. "With Gentle Giant on KMET" Jingle (10 October 1974 L-A Whisky A-Go-Go)
31. "On Reflection" - Rehearsal Chaos
32. "Free Hand" Riff
33. "His Last Voyage" - Vocal Mix

Disk 2 - Total Time 74:11 - Material from "Free Hand" through to "Civilian"

1. "His Last Voyage" - Demo
2. "Talybont" - Special mix
3. "Talybont" - Demos
4. "Mobile" - Demos
5. "Mobile" - Studio Outtake
6. "Give it Back" - Guitar
7. "Give it Back" - Funny voices
8. "Another Show" - M8
9. "Empty City" - Studio Outtake
10. "Empty City" - Guitar and Rhodes Mix
11. "Empty City" - Vocal Mix
12. "Timing" - Demo
13. "Intro '77"
14. "Two Weeks in Spain" - Rehearsal
15. "Two Weeks in Spain" - Studio
16. "12 bar Warmup + Who Do You Think You Are?" Outtake + Rehearsal
17. "Rock Me Baby"
18. "As Old as You're Young"
19. "Winning" - Band Rehearsal - Odd M8
20. "Winning" - Lights Rehearsal - Pinewood
21. "For Nobody"
22. "For Nobody" - Vocal Mix
23. "Friends" - Demo
24. "Rock Climber" - Band rehearsal
25. "Shadows on the Street"

Disk 3 - Total Time 76:00 - New recordings, and old solo projects

1. "Home Again" (Kerry Minnear)
2. "Moog Fugue" (Kerry Minnear)
3. "Move Over" (Kerry Minnear)
4. "Really Don't Know" (Kerry Minnear)
5. "Heaven's Tears" (Kerry Minnear)
6. "Flower Arranging" (Kerry Minnear)
7. "Living In a Restaurant" (Kerry Minnear)
8. "You Make Me Very Happy" (Kerry Minnear)
9. "Get Out of My Way" (Kerry Minnear)
10. "Wisdom Was Calling" (Kerry Minnear)
11. "Good Christian Men Rejoice" (Kerry Minnear)
12. "Hava Nagila" (Simon Dupree and the Big Sound)
13. "Homeland" (Simon Dupree and the Big Sound)
14. "Burn My Working Clothes" (John P. Weathers)
15. "On Safari" (Shout: Gary Green, Ray Shulman; with Sally Minnear)
16. "Starting Line" (Demo) (Shout: Gary Green, Ray Shulman)
17. "Running Away" (Demo) (Shout: Gary Green, Ray Shulman)
18. "Our World" (Gary Green)
19. "Back To the Front" (Gary Green)
20. "Prehistoric Boss Level" (Ray Shulman)
21. "Volcano" (Ray Shulman)

Personnel

• Gary Green
  Gary Green
  Gary Green is a British musician. During the 1970s, he was the guitarist for the progressive rock band Gentle Giant. Green was with the band from the debut album Gentle Giant all the way to the last album Civilian. Green's style was different from most of his peers, being a more "blues" based...
  
   - 6 string guitar, 12 string guitar, 12 string wah-wah guitar, donkey's jawbone, cat calls, voice
• Kerry Minnear
  Kerry Minnear
  Kerry Minnear is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist who played in the innovative progressive rock band Gentle Giant during the 1970s....
  
   - electric piano, organ, mellotron, vibraphone, Moog, piano, celeste, clavichord, harpsichord, tympani, maracas, lead vocals
• Derek Shulman
  Derek Shulman
  Derek Shulman is a British musician and singer, multi-instrumentalist, and record executive...
  
   - alto sax, clavichord, cowbell, lead vocals
• Phil Shulman
  Phil Shulman
  Phil Shulman , was a member of the progressive rock group Gentle Giant from 1970 to 1972 and performed on their albums Gentle Giant, Acquiring the Taste, Three Friends and Octopus....
  
   - alto & tenor sax, clarinet, trumpet, piano, claves, maracas, lead vocals
• Ray Shulman
  Ray Shulman
  Raymond Shulman is a British musician, and the youngest of three brothers in progressive rock band, Gentle Giant.Born in Portsmouth, Shulman's father was a trumpet player in a jazz band, and that was the first instrument he learned to play...
  
   - bass, violin, viola, electric violin, Spanish guitar, tambourine, 12 string guitar, organ bass pedals, skulls, vocals
• Martin Smith
  Martin Smith (musician)
  Martin Smith , was a drummer for Gentle Giant and Simon Dupree and the Big Sound. He played on the first two Gentle Giant albums, Gentle Giant and Acquiring the Taste, before being replaced by Malcolm Mortimore...
  
   - drums, tambourine, gongs, side drum
• John Weathers
  John Weathers
  John Patrick 'Pugwash' Weathers is a drummer, best known for playing with the innovative progressive rock band Gentle Giant.-Early life:...
  
  - drums, percussion

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