Gong - "Live Etc" (1977)

Gong will always be one of my favorites no matter what anybody says. So here´s an excellent live double LP spanning 1973 to 1975. I have one more Gong LP to post, but I thought this would be a good moment for Live Etc, as it contains tracks from all of the Flying Teapot albums.

Gong - Live Etc.
Virgin, 1977

















The original cover is die cut with two picture sleeves for the records:

















My set is missing one of the sleeves:-(

Album info copied from Wikipedia:
Side one

1. "You Can't Kill Me" (Daevid Allen) – 6:50 – lineup A, 1973
2. "Zero the Hero and the Witch's Spell" (Allen, Christian Tritsch) – 11:08 – lineup A, 1973
3. "Flying Teapot" (Allen, Francis Moze) – 6:28 – lineup A, 1973

Side two

1. "Dynamite / I Am Your Animal" (Gilli Smyth, Tritsch) – 5:44 – lineup A, 1973
2. "6/8" (C.O.I.T.) – 3:53 – lineup A, 1973
3. "Est-ce que Je Suis" (Allen) – 4:12 – lineup A, 1973
4. "Ooby-Scooby Doomsday or The D-Day DJ's Got the D.D.T. Blues" (Allen) – 5:15 – lineup A, 1973 – studio, track omitted on CD edition

Side three

1. "Radio Gnome Invisible" (Allen) – 7:35 – lineup B, 1974 – studio, BBC
2. "Oily Way" (Allen, Didier Malherbe) – 3:20 – lineup B, 1974 – studio, BBC
3. "Outer Temple" (Tim Blake, Steve Hillage) – 1:05 – lineup B, 1974 – studio, BBC
4. "Inner Temple" (Allen, Malherbe) – 5:15 – lineup B, 1974 – studio, BBC
5. "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (C.O.I.T.) – 3:07 – lineup A, 1974 – studio

Side four

1. "Isle of Everywhere" (C.O.I.T.) – 10:24 – lineup C, 1975
2. "Get It Inner" (C.O.I.T.) – 2:31 – lineup C, 1975
3. "Master Builder" (C.O.I.T.) – 5:56 – lineup C, 1975
4. "Flying Teapot (Reprise)" (Allen, Moze) – 1:55 – lineup C, 1975

Source

• Side 1: Edinburgh Festival, Scotland, September 1973
• Side 2 live tracks: Club Arc-en-ciel, Roanne, France, August 1973
• Side 2 studio track: Manor Studio, Oxfordshire, England, June 1973
• Side 3 BBC tracks: BBC Studios, England, January 1974
• Side 3 studio track: Manor Studio, Oxfordshire, England, during You sessions (1974)
• Side 4: Marquee Club, England, September 1975

Personnel

Lineup A

• Daevid Allen – guitar, vocals
• Gilli Smyth – space whisper
• "Bloomdido" Didier Malherbe – flutes, saxes, percussion
• Steve Hillage – guitar, vocals
• Mike Howlett – bass, vocals
• Pierre Moerlen – drums
• Tim Blake – Keyboards

Lineup B

• Daevid Allen – guitar, vocals
• Gilli Smyth – space whisper
• "Bloomdido" Didier Malherbe – flutes, saxes, percussion
• Steve Hillage – guitar, vocals
• Mike Howlett – bass, vocals
• Rob Tate – drums
• Di Stewart – vocals, percussion
• Tim Blake – Keyboards

Lineup C

• Steve Hillage – guitar, vocals
• Mike Howlett – bass guitar
• Pierre Moerlen – drums, percussion
• Mireille Bauer – percussion
• Didier Malherbe – sax, flute, vocals, percussion
• Miquette Giraudy – voices yonic
• Patrice Lemoine – keyboards

"Serious" music fans are always a bit down on Daevid Allen and the "silly Pixie" parts of Gong, but I can´t accept or tolerate this attitude, as you wouldn´t have any other side of Gong without them. This is a quality record, quality musicians, quality songs through and through!!!!


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