STEVE HILLAGE

"Glastonbury Experience"

 

G.A.S.
GAS 9
1979

Cassette-only release
Total time: 58:53

Side 1: (31:00)

1) Intro
2) Electrick Gypsies
3) New Age Synthesis
4) Hurdy Gurdy Man
5) Light In The Sky
6) Unidentified

Side 2: (27:53)

1) Radio
2) Octave Doctors
3) 1988 Aktivator
4) Crystal City
5) Activation Meditation
6) The Glorious Om Riff


Credits on cassette:

GAS

9. STEVE HILLAGE - GLASTONBURY EXPERIENCE

9. Glass


Notes & details:

- Intro: starts fading in.
- Electrick Gypsies: ends with "The Salmon Song" intro.
- Hurdy Gurdy Man: halfway through the song the band messed up a bit.
- Light In The Sky: intro riff, unlike on "Motivation Radio", played twice. "Encounters of the 3rd Kind" quote.
- Unidentified: starts fading in, missing the intro.
- The Glorious Om Riff: due to requests for music to stop at midnight the band had to cut the set short.

Glastonbury Fayre 1979 June 20th to June 23rd
Steve Hillage June 23rd 1979
(Source: UK Rock Festvals website - Also Mother Gong and Tim Blake).

Glastonbury Fayre 1979 June 21st to June 25th
(Source: PlanetGong website - Steve Hillage / Tim Blake).

Musicians:

Steve Hillage (guitar & vocals)
Miquette Giraudy (keyboards & vocals)
Dave Stewart (guitar)
Paul Francis (bass)
Andy Anderson (drums)

(Steve Hillage Band 4 summer '79 - dec '80 - source PlanetGong website)

Glastonbury Experience was released by GAS in 1979 appearing for sale on Essential Gas 1979 list.
This cassette release had no inlay cover, the cassette was housed in a plastic box which carried a handwritten sticker on the spine reading "9. Glass".
Early GAS cassettes had blue or purple labels with bubbles, moon and planets, handwritten titles and catalogue #.
Both blue and purple labels versions of this tape with different handwritten text exist.
Blue label: "9. Steve Hillage - Glastonbury Experience".
Purple version: "Steve Hillage '79 - Glastonbury Xperience".
Scans on this page from my copies.

Glastonbury Experience was never reissued; the material on this tape is not available on any other official release.


"Glastonbury Xperience" - purple labels


Cassette sticker on spine


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