Gong - Live Etc
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Artist: GongEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1990-07-23
Music Label: Blue Plate Caroline
Soundtracks:
- You Can't Kill Me
- Zero The Hero & The Witch's Spell
- Flying Teapot
- Dynamite/I Am Your Animal
- 6/8 Tune
- Est-Ce Que Je Suis
- Radio Gnome Invisible
- Oily Way
- Outer Temple
- Inner Temple
- Where Have All The Flowers Gone
- Isle Of Everywhere
- Get It Inner
- Master Builder
- Flying Teapot (Reprise)
Music reviews of Live Etc
Music Review: Excellent live album, some previously unreleased stuff too
Rating: 4 Stars
I usually scare away from live albums. Many times it's just bands on a huge ego trip doing lengthy, boring, extended versions of their best material or biggest hits. Even as a diehard prog rock fan, although many might disagree, it's really difficult for me to sit through three discs of Yessongs or Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... There are so much tedious and uninspired spots on those albums, but then everyone knows how big the egos Yes and ELP were at that time. To me their studio material was superior. On the other hand Frank Zappa was also able to make fine live albums that equal his studio works. And I was really surprised to enjoy Gong's Live Etc. This album was originally released in 1977. I own the LP on Virgin Records, which comes with a die-cut cover and two inner sleeves which contains collage photos of the band. All the material here was recorded live from 1973-1975, with a couple of previously unreleased studio cuts from around the same time. This is Gong from their classic era: Daevid Allen, Didier Malherbe, Gilli Smyth, Tim Blake, Steve Hillage, Pierre Moerlin, Mike Howlett, so you get excellent live versions of many of their greats: "You Can't Kill Me", "Flying Teapot", "Zero the Hero and the Witch's Spell", "Dynamite: I Am Your Animal", "Oily Way" and so much more. What I admire most is the band gave it their full here, no slacking here like too many other live albums out there. The 1973 material is in fact the earliest Gong recordings to feature then-new members Pierre Moerlin and Mike Howlett, these were recorded in May 1973, same time Flying Teapot came out (which was recorded with a different drummer and bassist), and several months before Angel's Egg. There are some previously unreleased studio cuts as well. One is "Ooby-Scooby Doomsday or the D-Day DJ's Got the D.D.T. Blues", recorded in 1973. The LP states this was Gong's attempt at a Top 40 hit, and it's pretty lame. Gong trying the blues is really a bad idea. There's a good reason why it never got released until '77. The other, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone", from 1974 isn't Gong doing a Pete Seeger song, but another Gong original. It features Tim Blake playing harmonica, and the songs sounds like a precursor to "Hurdy Gurdy Glissando" from Steve Hillage's 1976 solo album "L". The lyrics are different, there are no synths here, and Daevid Allen handle the vocals. Side four of the LP features the Shamal-lineup (Moerlin, Hillage, Howlett, Malherbe, Mireille Bauer, Patrice Lemoine, etc.) performing material from "You". Because Allen is gone, the vocals all-but vanished. And because Tim Blake is gone, a lot of the mystical, spacy electronic atmosphere is gone, replace by a more fusion-oriented sound that the band would do from here on. Mike Howlett's bass sticks out more, and the only vocals you hear is this version of Gong doing "Flying Teapot" (the LP also featured the Daevid Allen version of Gong doing that song too, which was superior). Whatever the case, Live Etc. comes to show that Gong put on great shows, so if you're a fan of their Radio Gnome trilogy, like I am, be sure to pick this album up.
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