Mother Gong Live At Glastonbury

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1979

Label: GAS Records

Original GAS release 1979 with GAs blue/white labels. No inlay card and simple masking tape hand written label on cassette box.

* Gilli - vox. Harry - gtr. Eduardo Niebla - Lead gtr. Dider - woodwind. Mo Vicarage - kbds.
+ Chris Cutler - drums. Dane Cranenburgh - Bass. Gilli - Vocal. Harry - gtr + vocal. Didier - Flutes + Saxes.
Jean - Phillipe Rykiel - Kbds.
Recorded 8/80 at Foel Studios, Powys as a rehersal for the Trondheim Norway Festival 11-17/8/80 Which was
recorded and will eventually be released.
* Sting - lead vox. Steve Hillage - Gtr. Gilli + Harry - vox + Gtr. Mike Howlett - Bass.
Steve Broughton - Drums. Nick Turner - Vox + Sax.
^ Harry Williamson - Gtrs + kbds + percussion. Anthony Phillips - gtrs + syths + Bass.
& Bloom: from Paris - Didier Malherbe sax + vocal + others.
$ Gilli - Vocal. Mark Kramer - Kbds. Bill Laswell - Bass. Bill Bacon - Drums. Harry - Guitar.
Don Davis - Sax + flute.

Notes & details:

- Improv. From Glastonbury: "Flying" ("Wassilissa" Fairy Tales). On Glastonbury 79-81 ("Birds So High").
- Red Alert: with vocal overdubs; same backing track later appeared on Mystery & History Of Planet G**G.
- I Like Men: aka "OK Man This Is Your World" on Gilli's Mother. Mother Gong's version of Gong's "Dreaming It".
- I Am Your Robot (Woman): "Robot Woman", a version which is very similar to the one on "Robot Woman" lp.
- Machine Song: similar to Robot Woman lp version but not identical, both based on Radio Actor's Digital Love.
- Tarka - Excerpts From Mov. 1 - "Charleston For Otters": also on Tarka Music GAS tape and Gypsy Suite.
- Flute Solo: flute loop (4 times repeat). Released as part of "The Pied Piper" (Fairy Tales) with Gilli's narration.
- Tarka - Excerpts From Movement 2 - "Estuary & River": also on Tarka Music GAS tape and Gypsy Suite.
- Bong!: B side of Bloom's Danskorla / Bong! Pathè 1980 single.
- Danskorla: A side of Bloom's Danskorla / Bong! Pathè 1980 single.
- Prostitute Poem: "Street Version". Also on Gilli Smyth's Gilli Smyth Live In USA 79 GAS tape.
- Nuclear Waste: A side of Radio Actors' Nuclear Waste / Digital Love single (Charly 1979 version with Gilli).
Both sides also appear on Nik Turner's Imperial Pompadors Official Bootleg tape.
- Fire: Gilli's "Sea" poem and "Fire" on "Beautiful Country" theme. Audience bit (not "Fire") on Glastonbury 79-81.