Yes, it does look like Playing The Fool will be the last album from Gentle Giant to get the Deluxe Treatment. However, I still think their Debut (which was remixed in 5.1 and released on their Unburied Treasure Box Set) should get a stand-alone release. Maybe SDE could release it as part of their Blu-Ray Audio series.
Or, maybe Steven could revisit it in Atmos for a standalone CD/Blu-ray release...
And redo in Atmos the Power and the Glory for a standalone CD/Blu Ray release.
Both of those ideas would be great. It's too bad that Gentle Giant's other albums fron the '70s (Acquring The Taste, Three Friends, Octopus & In A Glass House) can't get the full treatment in 5.1/Atmos due to each of these albums having multi-track tapes missing from certain songs (not to mention that all the multis for In A Glass House are missing).
On 5.1 Blu-ray edition of GG's Octopus, the multi track tapes for 'The Advent Of Panurge', 'Raconteur Trubadour' & 'The Boys In The Band' couldn't be found so Steven Wilson did upmixes for those songs using Penteo. He did a fine job and indeed, it sounds like nothing is missing when listening to the 5.1 mix of Octopus.
Some posts I've read praise the disc authoring of these releases (by one of the band members, now deceased), and deservedly so for most, except for this title. That live octopus crammed into a jar looks to me to be in total distress, and we are made sit through it while playing the album (or turn off our screens, but the memory is still there). What were they thinking? Surely this ought to be a reportable illegal act?
