MOTHER GONG & NEW YORK GONG
1979-05-12 Los angeles, CA - Embassy Concert Hall - Manifestival - sbd (150m) (2cd)

Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Harry Williamson, Bill Laswell, Don Davis, Bill Bacon, Mark Kramer, 
Fred Maher

Disc 1:

MOTHER GONG
1) Intro (5:57) *
2) Beautiful Country (2:07)
3) Fire (2:35)
4) Jamimji / I Wish You No Harm (6:36) **
5) Impro (1:38)
6) Dogs  (3:24) ***
7) Prostitute Poem (Street Version)  (3:43)
8) Robot Woman  (5:06) $
9) Nuclear Waste (5:17)
10) The Rapist  (1:40)
11) Brothasista Invocation  (2:04) £
12) I Am Your Fantasy (3:33) #
13) Witch's Song / I Am Your Pussy  (5:49) °
NEW YORK GONG
14) SQ Invocation (9:02) =
15) Sax Impro (4:22) +
16) Poet For Sale (4:59) /
17) O My Photograph / No More Sages (10:44) \

Disc 2:

1) Mr. Long Shanks / O Mother (9:03) ?
2) Radio Gnome Invisible (4:56)
3) People Poem (7:03) ç
4) Big City Energy (2:21) ^
5) I've Bin Stone Before  (5:53)
6) Tropical Fish (12:27) &
7) Master Builder (8:44)
8) You Can't Kill Me (14:31) |
9) Opium For The People (6:47) §

* Harry: "This is the good ship MotherGong standing on you from a great height (...) 1979".
** "I Wish You no Harm" recited over "Jamimji" (with "This Train" riff).
- Gilli: "I want to introduce my friends": (Davis, Kramer, Laswell, Bacon, Maher, Williamson).
*** Includes a theme which appears in "Wassilissa" (Fairy Tales).
$ Early version.
£ Gilli would recite this poem as part of "New Age Transformation Try" with Planet Gong.
# Ends fading.
° Starts and ends fading. Better audio quality than rest of  Mother Gong set.
= "Selene" quote. "You are about to witness a direct transmission..."
+ "Let us go to church and be good looking" and military music quote.
/ [Cut at 4:59 on applause].
\ "O My Photograph": just the ostinato bass riff. "...I am your ego, look at me...".
- "No More Sages": "Ego" quote at the end. [Cut at 10:44 on applause].
? Preceded by sax, glissando and piano improvisation.
ç Very short quote of "Lili Marlene". Drum solo links to "Big City Energy".
^ Aka "Side Windo".
| "The last number (...) dedicated to all reincarnating souls coming down...". W/Gilli.
- Fades at 7:54. "Sweet Mystery Of Life", "Waltzin' Matilda", "Oily Way" quotes. With "Ya Sonne".
§ "Okay, it's a little last taste, little last taste of bad habits out of control".

Source: CDR > wav > retracked (some volume adjustment) > flac.

Another version of this show - an audience recording - is on the tracker.
This is a soundboard recording. Quality varies (NYG sounds clearer than Mother Gong set), some 
parts have a wider stereo image so this might be a composite of different sources. The audience 
ends 5 min. into "Can't Kill Me". Here it's much longer and "Opium For The People" closes the 
show.
I received it in a mail trade. NYG's set sequence was messed up so I got the tracks in the right 
order and retracked the show.

At the end Daevid announces: "Tomorrow night we're doing a kind of an illegal poetry reading 
(...) We're doing one for sure in LA somewhere (...) the 13th".
That show was seeded here previously.

Date and city confirmed by Calyx website.

Maclen Jun 11th 2008 - torrent shared on Dimeadozen. Please keep it lossless.