S2E15: Derek Shulman
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rockonteurs, Guy and Gary are joined by record executive, singer, songwriter and lead vocalist with Gentle Giant, Derek Shulman.
In a hugely fascinating conversation that ranges from signing bands like Bon Jovi to fronting his group to helping working with Queen, Marc Bolan, Bowie and Tony Visconti, this is a deep dive into the business with some great musicians all sharing their stories, passions and experiences.
Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones and Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Productions.
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| 0:29.8 | Hello Gary. Hey Guy how are you? I'm very, very well. I know that today will be a bit of a fave for you. |
| 0:39.0 | You would, you see, this is Derek Schulman, right, who is the singer and the main guy if you like well one of a few of the three brothers |
| 0:48.4 | Three brothers the Schulman brothers who started the band Gentle Giant and we've mentioned them a lot on the show haven't we over the year? |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah we have yeah sometimes ironically. |
| 1:00.0 | I think they're pop to no because they are the Zenith let's face it they are the zenith, let's face it, they are the zenith of kind of clever Prague and you know. |
| 1:06.5 | They are and yeah, I mean they out Prague Prague don't they? |
| 1:09.7 | They do out Prague Prague. I mean I've been listening to them for the last few days you |
| 1:13.5 | you know try to get my and basically I've kind of had to take a break from my |
| 1:17.4 | head exploding and sort of listening to something simple like Marla. You know I don't want to put the listener off who doesn't know Gentle Giant because they are amazing. |
| 1:27.0 | They are amazing. |
| 1:28.0 | Absolutely and they were one of the bands to have in the quad, you know, growing up as a kid when you were sort of experimenting with |
| 1:34.3 | different musical sounds. |
| 1:35.3 | They were one of the bands. |
| 1:36.3 | Now absolutely, oh but talking about that an interesting thing we had a comment on Twitter, |
| 1:40.7 | Dave Malloy I think it was, who came up with the Rock Ontors checklist about, like, |
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