New York Ding Dong

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1990

Label: GAS Records

No release date appearing on cover, it appeared for sale on G.A.S. price list 1990.
Known as a David Allen release and how it was stated in the catalogue, but is Mother Gong/Gong side A and New York Gong Side 2
Side 1: (26:47) Side 2: (26:54)

(Introduced as "Mother Gong" and "Gong")

Gilli Smyth (vocals)
George Bishop (sax)
Bill Laswell (bass)
Michael Beinhorn (synth)
Chris Cutler (drums)
Fred Frith (guitar)

New York Gong (introduced as Gong)

Daevid Allen (guitar/vocals)
George Bishop (sax)
Bill Laswell (bass)
Michael Beinhorn (synth)
Fred Maher (drums)
Dennis Weise (synth)
Michael Lawrence (guitar)

PlanetGong website has this info instead: "Allen, Smyth, Cutler, Laswell, Cultreri, and a saxophonist named George Bishop; maybe Beinhorn made some Moonweed noises too, and there might have been another drum kit for Maher".

- N.Y. Intermeadiate Theatre Interview: Daevid announcing the Oct. 8th 1978 "13 hour Zu manifestival".
- Rapist: Mother Gong; a different edit on Gilli Smyth's Live In USA 79 GAS tape. Includes "Brothasista Invocation" poem.
Preceded by polemic speech on Gomelski by Robert Christgau of Village Voice and Daevid's reply.
- People Poem: also on Daevid Allen Live In USA 79 GAS tape. Includes "Ooby Scooby Dooms Day" coda at the end.
- Master Builder: Fades out.
- Isle Of Everywhere: "Cops at the door!" Fades out.
- Improvisation: "Fohat Digs Holes In Space", same version used in Daevid's "Gong ORFT Invasion 1971" collage.
- Dynamite: No info at all. Early "Dynamite", cut early.
- Banana Reggae: no info, it has the usual "Figaro" quote at the end.
- No Other Than The Mother: different mix of "No Other Than The Mother Is My Song" on N'Existe Pas with no clarinet.
- 333: same performance as on N'Existe Pas! but without overdubs.
- I Am The Fool: in catalan. Same backing track used for Gilli's Mother (Moerlen's drum loop). Different on Tape Works.
- 20 & 20 Schoolgirls: Euterpe rehearsal for Paris Reunion. Start and end cut, complete on Studio Rehearsal Tapes 1977.
- Master Builder: Daevid sings in french so this should be from France, Nov. - Dec. 1974. Bruford drumming. Fades out

Tracks 2 to 5 of Side 1 from October 8th 1978 New York City, NY (USA), Zu House (Zu Manifestival)
NY Intermeadiate Theatre Interview, Rapist, People Poem, Master Builder, Isle Of Everywhere can also be found on Alien Going Over The Top GAS tape (1979 first edition only).