FRED FRITH - ZU -
MOTHER GONG - NEW YORK GONG
1979-04-09 - New York, NY
Tour '79 - "CBGS's Taken Over By Planete Gong"
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1979-04-09 - New York, NY - CBGB's - early or late show? - aud (121m) (2cd)
FRED FRITH: solo?
ZU:
Bill Laswell (probably Michael Beinhorn, Fred Maher, Cliff Cultreri)
MOTHER GONG: Gilli Smyth, Harry Williamson, Bill Bacon, Don Davis, Mark Kramer, Bill Laswell
N.Y. GONG:
Daevid Allen, Bill Bacon, Don Davis, Mark Kramer, Bill Laswell, Cliff Cultreri, Michael Beinhorn

flyer review

Disc 1:

FRED FRITH:
1) ? (5:42)
ZU:
2) ? (6:01)
3) ? (6:25)
4) Sombre Reptiles (1:45)
MOTHER GONG:
5) intro and tuning (1:51)
6) Beautiful Country > Jamimji (8:50)
7) Dogs (3:24)
8) Nuclear Waste (4:49)
9) The Rapist > Brothasista Invocation > Prostitute Poem (7:21)
10) Prostitute Poem (cont.) > Robot Woman (5:30)
11) Flying (6:35)
12) Witch's Song / I Am Your Pussy (5.22)

Disc 2:

NEW YORK GONG:
1) All Is Zero Before The Great One (w/Psycho Killer bass riff) > Something Tells Me > Big City Energy (18:33)
2) introduction and talking (2:03)
3) I Am A Freud (2:41)
4) O My Photograph (8:28)
5) O My Photograph (cont.) > Mr. Long Shanks / O Mother (10:01)
6) Radio Gnome Invisible > Master Builder (15:43)

Source: cassette recordings (probably 1st generation copies) --> Wav --> flac
[NEW YORK GONG - N.Y.C. CBGB's - 9 APR. 1979 (including MOTHER GONG, FRED FRITH, ZU BAND)] Shared as torrent on Dime by Nadir_53.
No SBE's - True lossless source.

Date and venue confirmed by flyer and Planet Gong Newspaper review (above).
Show listed on Calyx.
N.Y. Gong lineup (not announced) taken from
Turning-Groove website. NYG Spring '79 lineup on PlanetGong.
PlanetGong website has other NYG members for these tours: Michael Beinhorn, Fred Maher and Cliff Cultreri. Could any of them be present here? Possibly Stu Martin?


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