Interview with Derek Shulman (lead singer of Gentle Giant)[Listen:31:26 min] – Starting Funny Ways with Derek

Podcast (explicit): Play in new window | Download

S02 Ep02 (4 of 4) - Starting Funny Ways with Derek Shulman

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

Two Special Guests this week:

Audio (Part 2 of 2): Derek Shulman (of Gentle Giant) and Written (Part 4 of 4): Daevid Allen(founding member of GonG).

Derek Shulman was the lead singer and multi-instrumentalist of the influential band Gentle Giant. After breaking the band apart, he has gone on to change the music landscape. He's responsible for signing bands like: Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Kingdom Come, and overseen the signings of Slipnot and Nickleback. In this podcast we talk about the albums S/T, Three Friends, Octopus, In the Glass House, and about going on tour with Black Sabbath. We also get into how he became a record company executive and get into his part in signing Bon Jovi and Nickleback.

Daevid Allen was a member of Soft Machine, GonG, and uN1vER5itY of 3rroR5. Our interview was by written correspondence. 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 they 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 4 of 4)

Q: I kind of think that the Radio Gnome Trilogy also say something about pirate radio. Did you spend time listening to pirate radio stations and what do you remember about them?