GONG
April 1974?
"Chris Cutler Demos"
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April 1974? - "Chris Cutler Demos" - stereo sbd (27m)
Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Didier Malherbe, Tim Blake, Steve Hillage, Pierre Moerlen, Mike Howlett *

1) Flute Salad (2:29)
2) Oily Way (3:19)
3) Outer Temple (2:16)
4) Inner Temple (4:38)
5) Love Is How Y Make It (4:57)
6) I Never Glid Before (6:43)
7) Fire (3:36)

See info file below for track notes.

Info: Traded cdr > wav (eac log included) > retracked & normalized (Adobe Audition) > flac.
[Gong - 1973 - Chris Cutler Demos] Shared as torrent on Dime by Maclen.
No SBE's - TLH analysis - fingerprints

This stereo soundboard recording was possibly a tape given to Cutler so that he could learn the tunes.
It has circulated widely with different titles & dates, often with part of "Greasy Truckers" tape:

- as "Live In Wales 1973" with a bonus "Other Side Of The Sky" from the The 1991 GAS Tape.
- as "Tabarka Festival" with bonus "General Flash" and "drum solo" from Live At Dingwalls Dance Hall.
- with "Glad Stoned Buried Fresh..." from Revelations and "General Flash" from Dingwalls Dance Hall.
- as "Live Paris '73" and "European Radio 1973".

UPDATE:
This tape, originally shared on Dime dated as 1973, appears to be not before April 1974, possibly recorded on a date very near to the "Crisis Concert" tour.
The evidence is the presence of Gilli Smyth's "Fire" poem, her contribution to the "You" preliminary rehearsals in April 1974 (mentioned on Daevid's "Gong Dreaming Book 2") and performed on the subsequent "Crisis" tour; Cutler made his debut with Gong on the last April '74 gigs so this may well be a tape from a show held very shortly before that date.

Useful links:

Calyx chronology.
PlanetGong 1974 show list.


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