DESCRIPTION:
Track list:
00:00 - 1. Prologue
06:14 - 2. Schooldays
13:51 - 3. Working All Day
19:03 - 4. Peel the Paint
26:34 - 5. Mister Class and Quality?
32:25 - 6. Three Friends
35:27 - 7. Prologue (Recorded live at the Municipal Auditorium New Orleans, June 1972) [CD Bonus Track]
41:20 - 8. Out-Takes(i- 'Peel the Paint' studio rehearsal, ii- 'Peel the Paint' alternative guitar solo, iii- 'Three Friends' soloed vocal chorus) [CD Bonus Track]

About "Three Friends":
Three Friends (1972) is a concept 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 marked a change in drummers from Martin Smith to Malcolm Mortimore. It is Gentle Giant's first concept album, dealing with three childhood friends whose lives take them very different places. However, each of the three friends are not satisfied with their new lives and eventually reunite into a team to achieve their goals easier. 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. The song "Schooldays" starts off with the sounds of a schoolyard playground in England. Ray Shulman told Songfacts about the song: "We started off using the sound effects of the schoolyard so it would be very nostalgic, and that's a whole song about being at school together, and how these friends went their own different ways. One goes into manual labour, one goes into clerical work, and one is an artist."