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The [[Main page|Gentle Giant Home Page]] was created by, and is still run by, [[Dan Barrett]].

Thanks to [[hall of fame|everyone who has contributed material]]!

== History ==

The GG home page was born on September 4, 1994.  The redesigned site, powered by [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] software, was unveiled on April 21, 2009. The current [[Home|home page]] graphics were added by [[Chad Bruce]] in May 2010.

== The GG Connection ==

The Gentle Giant Home Page is known to all the members of [[Gentle Giant]], who occasionally visit the site, give their support, and give permission to reproduce certain materials found on these pages. How this happened is an interesting story.

In 1995, a British music magazine called ''Q'' noticed the site and printed a picture of the main page. This was noticed by PolyGram Records in the UK, who asked [[Dan]] to help them compile a new [[Gentle Giant]] anthology, which became [[Edge of Twilight (album)|Edge of Twilight]]. While working on the track list, [[Dan]] approached [[Kerry Minnear]] about obtaining unreleased material for the anthology. Although no unreleased material was used, this did get [[Dan]] and [[Kerry]] talking.

Then in 1997, [[Dan]] and 41 other Internet musicians released [[Giant Tracks]], a Gentle Giant tribute album (see ''Keyboard Magazine'', January 1998, for the full story.). This album required more discussion between [[Dan]] and [[Gentle Giant]] concerning rights and royalties, and it also drew the band's attention to the possibility of releasing their own material online. [[Dan]] then worked with [[Kerry]] and [[Ray Shulman]] and fan [[Dan Bornemark]] of Sweden to create [[Under Construction]], a 2-CD collection of unreleased GG tracks, and market it on the Internet.

[[Dan]] has worked with the band on further Internet-related projects, including a Bon Jovi video site in 1997 (remember, [[Derek]] signed them) and some GG-related ideas.  In 2000, he created  an online store for [[Alucard Music]] &mdash; for free &mdash; so they could sell their CDs. (Alucard migrated to a [{{alucard URL}} new store] in 2014.)

== Copyrights ==

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