Sold Date: July 21, 2019
Start Date: July 18, 2019
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       ORIGINAL '70s BRITISH FIRST PRESS
CUSTOM DIE-CUT COVER & PHOTO INNER SLEEVES!
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                      = GonG =                         L.I.V.E.
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Beautiful 42 years ago perfect copy of the scarce 2-LP set.
Elaborate unreleased & essential tracks by early '70s Daevid Allen & Gong.

Original 1977 release of 1973 recordings - exclusive to this release by the famous GonG line up, ya know, Daevid Allen, Gile Smyth, Steve Hillage & the Pot Head Pixies...
DOUBLE LP, sprawling / entrancing creativity gets unfolded throughout.

The prestigious AMG calls this album "essential". And we agree with them: anyone interested in Daevid Allen's Gong can find here a great "experience" within the strange world of Allen and his Gong. Picking up most of the highlights from the 1971-'73 "Planet Gong Trilogy" and featuring some obscure tracks, "Gong Live Etc." serves both as an introduction to newcomers, and a great document to virtually any fan of progressive rock. Surely this album isn't for everyone, but it has enough great moments to please open-minded prog-rockers interested in underground-space-rock tunes. The version of "You Can't Kill Me", which opens this album, is a true rarity: a live track that sounds better than its '71 studio version. "Flying Teapot" features a marvelous guitar solo by Steve Hillage, "Radio Gnome Invisible" shows Didier Malherbe (A.K.A. Bloomdido Bad De Grasse - a great nickname)) at his best, and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" spots Tim Blake playing harmonica on a tune which is surprising bluesy. The percussive talents of Mireille Bauer and Pierre Moerlen are shown at the fantastic "Isle of Everywhere". In a word, this album is plenty of everything that made Gong so beloved by some prog-rockers: musicianship (very few bands had so much great musicians at the same time - Malherbe, Moerlen, Hillage, Blake, Howlett), poetry ... the major fault of "Gong Live Etc." is the lack of song's lyrics -  amid the aural fantasy.  .....

Record one: (42:30)
 You can kill me (5:50)
 Zero the hero & the witch spell (11:08)
 Flying Teapot (6:28)
 Dynamite/I am your animal (5:44)
 6/8 (3:53)
 Est-ce que je suis? (4:12)
 Ooby-scooby doomsday or the D-Day DJ's got the D.D.T. blues (5:15)

Record two: (41:08)
 Radio gnome invisible (7:35)
 Oily way (3:20)
 Outer temple (1:05)
 Inner temple (5:15)
 Where have all the flowers gone (3:07)
 Isle of everywhere (10:24)
 Get it inner (2:31)
 Master builder (5:56)
               Flying teapot (1:55)                
CONDITION: The cover: rated: M- the specially designed die-cut sleeve exposes the colorful live group photos inner sleeves. All intact and firm everywhere. Fragile silver color British-only release. There are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...

The vinyl: Rated: M- all 4 records are clean and smooth ...top audio as first released in the '70s. All four VIRGIN labels are clean
***Both, all four sides of the (two) photos inner sleeves released with this LP are included and in TOP condition! 
                
      A cool addition to anyone's music library!






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