Daevid Allen + Here&Now = Planit Gong

Live @ Albert Hall, Bolton 8th November 1977.

TDK D90 > Sony Professional Walkman > Audigy 4 Pro > Creative Smart Recorder > HD > CD Architect 
> CDRW > dbPowerAmp > FLAC > YOU.

I'm not sure if the cassette was recorded with Dolby on or off. I left it off as it sounded a bit
dull otherwise.

Track listing, at least as far as I can tell:

cassette side 1.

1. Floating Anarchy
2. I've Been Stoned Before
3. Dynamite / I Am Your Animal
4. ...hmm sounds familiar but I can't think of title
5. Pretty Miss Titty
6. Stoned Innocent Frankenstein
7. ...hmm sounds familiar but I can't think of title

cassette side 2.

8. continuation of track 7?
9. ... Ali Baba...
10. "where the mushrooms grow"
11. Addicted
12. band intro's
Opium For The People
14. 'more'
15. You Can't Kill Me (cut)

When I first posted this, someone posted a message saying the sound was better if speed was 
increased to 106%. This I have done with these tracks and must agree it sounds more like Daevid.

Some of the audienece comments made me laugh. At the beginning someone shouts "don't be shy". 
Part way through "sheep" "lambs" and "tupperware tins". Mushroom Tea anyone?

History:
I was just turned 17 and not used to going to gigs. Born two or three years too late for all the 
music I really love to have seen the bands in their heyday. 
On the night in question the band were late arriving at the venue, busted in Exeter the night 
before I heard. It was due to start at 20:00, they hadn't even arrived by then. Anyway we were 
let in about 21:00, by this time the crowd were pretty uptight.
I met Daevid allen for the first time*, he was just arriving and walked past me unnoticed by 
everyone else it seemed. I asked for his autograph, "why do you want my autograph, I'm no better 
than you..." or words to that effect. At my persistence he did a little drawing on my "program". 
God I wish I still had it, it would probably fetch a fortune on eBay, not that I'd sell it.
Anyway, eventually the concert started at gone 22:00. My girlfriends father had arranged to pick 
us up at 23:00. So I didn't see all of what's on this tape. 

I discovered, well actually I knew it was there, this tape in my loft in December 2006. I was 
spurred into action by someone on DIME to dig out old tapes. I'm quite surpried at the quality of
this recording despite it's age and the equipment it must have been recorded on.

It was recorded by Neil Corkindale, one of Manchesters greatest bootlegers in the early/mid 
seventies. Described, in a Melody Maker artice, by a high court judge as an "evil genius". I knew
him around that time, I wonder what ever happened to him? Then a lad I worked with a few years 
later ended up with all his master tapes when Neil got rid of them in an attempt to not get 
caught, despite there being no connection between the two of them that I knew of. WEIRD. Anyway I
digress. 

I have decided to present this recording without any editing, other than the insertion of the 
track marks. Any cuts or fades you hear are on the tape I have. I decided to do this in case some
master wave editor out there can do a better job. You can't put back what's not there but you can
clean out the crap if need be.

* The second time I met Daevid was on 5th November 2006 at Gong Unconvention in Amsterdam. I 
simply shook his hand and thanked him for all the pleasure his music had brought me over the 
years. It seems now he signs autographs.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

wholefile md5 checksum file generated by Trader's Little Helper
generated on January 27, 2008, at 11:42 am