GG-themed Playing Cards?

Print, play and have fun! 

Each card in each card what ever what ever... 

Ace 

 Hearts - Kerry Minnear (the main composer of the band, the keyboardist, cellist, percussionist, frequent singer in studio, occasional rare singer on stage, PhD in composition at London Royal Academy of Music, the man that was selected instead of Elton John; a very humble, gentle, friendly person; a Christian Protestant believer).

Diamonds - Derek Shulman (singer and as such the frontman of the band). 

Clubs - Ray Shulman (bass guitar, cello). 

Spades - Phil Shulman (winds and some occasional singing; the eldest of the Shulmans, the eldest member in the band, left the band for good very early, but still was the founder and the axis of the band). 

King

 Hearts - Gary Green (guitars, a nice and friendly guy). 

 Diamonds - John Weather (drums, percussions, the drummer you actually see on 75% of their photos and 99.9% of their videos). 

 Clubs - Malcolm Mortimore (drums, played on only one album but that was Three Friends the album!). 

 Spades - Martin Smith (drums, undoubtedly also a nice person that left the band after the two albums where they and thus his playing had yet not reached the extreme heights). 

Queen 

 Gentle Giant (the debut album). 

 Three Firends. 

 The Power And The Glory. 

 Octopus. 

Jack

 Interview. 

 Free Hand. 

 In A Glass House (the first album after the departure of Phil, so it was a crisis for them and they were looking for a new approach, more rhythmic one - therefore, the compositions grew longer and in case of artificially expanded "Way Of Life" it became clear they had not have enough new material; hence my relative dislike of the album). 

 Acquiring The Taste (too monotonous for my taste). 

10 

 Playing The Fool - The Official Live (with all my true respect, it's only concert performances and as such very much the repetition of already made material, and several songs from their concert list had to be cut from this album because of duration limitations). 

 The Missing Piece (for me, As Old As You're Young is one of their all-time classic tunes). 

 Giant For A Day (I find it suspicious that Queen's "I'm Going Slightly Mad" recorded 13 years later, sounds very much alike to the eponymous song from this 1978's album; yeah, and GG's debut also ends with the rendition of The British National Anthem 5 years prior to Queen). 

 Civilian (a new wave attempt, the classic GGiant'ish sound has gone forever). 

9 

 Giant On The Box (DVD). 

 GG At The GG (DVD). 

 Under Construction (2 Audio CD). 

 Scraping The Barrel (3 Audio CD + 1 Data CD incl. mp3's). 

In my comprehension, the suits go high-to-low thus: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades. The black sharp weapon of Spades does not look supreme for me... Too black and too sharptipped, there is. 

So, I tried to rank it all somehow, to my tastes. Kerry Minnear is the greatest one of them all. Their debut album was excellent for its time, excellent due to its incredible versatility. Giant For A Day the album was obviously better genre-wise than Civilian, as for me. 

Unfortunately I could not find the large images for the cards of Two and Three, as of now. I'll try to find them on my PC. 

Unexpectedly, Gentle Giant the band and their output fit putting onto playing cards perfectly!  

There are 8 (2*4) members, overall. Four of them were clearly more equal than the other four - no offence, just pure logics. 

There are 8 (2*4) classic albums in the classic prog style. 

There are 4 more albums in their discography (1 official live + 3 studio). 

There are 2 official DVDs plus 2 outtakes&rarities collections. 

Hardly any other band could play that game called their career that playing cards-alike. 

I am still hoping someday I will be able to produce my set of playing cards. I have recently printed me a set on cardboard sheets. Anybody can do the same, actually. But to make it all on a professional level... I'd like my playing cards to be plastic, thick enough. I used to have a pack of Charlin Chaplin-themed playing cards by Piatnik. Respectable card makers and all that stuff - but the cards were too thin and fragile to actually use them. Just a nice gift, sorts of. 

As for the trading cards that are for sale on GG's merch site, they are excellent, indeed. A superb idea! I haven't bought them though, because I don't like trading cards. When I was a teenager in the 1990s I collected some Mortal Kombat ones, and that's it. 

When I finally complete my project of GG PLAYING cards, I will make all of you people know and possibly (POSSIBLY) send them to you for free. As of now, they are only on screen.