MOTHER GONG
1978-10-08 - New York, NY
Zu Concert
A 12 Hour Manifestival Of Progressive Music

Maclen's archive - unreleased live audio - trading only - not for sale!
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1978-10-08 - New York, NY - Entermedia - aud (22m)
Gilli Smyth, Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, George Bishop,
Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn

1) The Rapist # > Brothasista Invocation # > I Am Your Fantasy / The Sea > Dynamite / I Am Your Animal (13:15) *
2) Ok Man, This Is Your World (5:57) **
3) Fire (3:06) ***
Unknown show (probably) Spring 1979:

4) Beautiful Country > Fire > Dogs (8:32)
5) Prostitute Poem (Street Version) (4:29) $
6) Robot Woman (3:03) =
7) Nuclear Waste (2:44) +

* "Dynamite" follows "I Am Your Animal" (inverted order).
** Gilli's own version of "Dreaming It".
*** "That was Mother Gong...Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong".
$ With "Lili Marlen" quote.
= Early version, very different from released version on "Robot Woman".
+ Fades out after bridge.

Source: Aud>cass(? gen)>Peak> Xact>flac
Tracks 4-7 from later Mother Gong lineup (Smyth, Williamson, Bacon, Davis, Kramer, Laswell - US Spring 79 tour).
[MotherGong1978-10-8] S
hared as torrent on Dime (unsigned info).
No SBE's - Trader's Little Helper confirms lossless source.

Date and venue confirmed by show poster (see above).
Show listed on Calyx website (Zu House - Zu Manifestival).
Other acts were Zu, Blinding Headache, Theoretical Girls, Frith/Cutler/Blegvad/Swan and a panel discussing progressive music. More on this show here and here.
# Partly released as "Rapist" on Daevid's New York Ding Dong ("The Rapist" and "Brothasista Invocation") and as "City Glissing" on Gilli's Live In USA 79 GAS tape ("The Rapist" breathing + "Brothasista Invocation").


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