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1978 live album by Planet Gong
Live Floating Anarchy 1977
Live album by Planet Gong
ReleasedApril 1978
Recorded6 November 1977
VenueBananamoon Observatory Studio, Toulouse
StudioStudios Ferber, Paris
Length42:39
LabelLTM/Charly Records
Gong chronology
Gong Live Etc
(1977)
Live Floating Anarchy 1977
(1978)
About Time
(1980)
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Live Floating Anarchy 1977 is a 1978 live album by Planet Gong, a combination of Gong's Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth and the band Here & Now. It was recorded in Toulouse on 6 November 1977, apart from the track "Opium for the People" which was a studio recording. It was originally released on the French LTM record label, run by Jean Karakos, who had previously run Tapioca and BYG.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Daevid Allen

Side 1
No.TitleLength
1."Psychological Overture"2:36
2."Floating Anarchy"5:15
3."Stoned Innocent Frankenstein"3:18
4."New Age Transformation Try: No More Sages"12:10
Side 2
No.TitleLength
1."Opium for the People"4:25
2."Allez Ali Baba Black Sheep Have you Any Bullshit: Mama Maya Mantram"15:01

Personnel

  • Prof. Steffy Sharpstrings P.A. (Stephan Lewry) – guitar, lips, glissando guitar, vocal on track 2
  • Keith da Missile Bass (Keith Bailey) – bass guitar and tree trunk
  • Kif Kif Le Batteur (Keith Dobson) – drums and asides besides
  • Gavin Da Blitz (Gavin Allardyce) – synthesizer and pinball flip
  • Suze Da Blooz & Anni Wombat – choir of angels
  • Gilli Smyth – space whisper & pome
  • Dingbat Alien (Daevid Allen) – drongophone, nose, gliss guitar, guitar guitar, bi focal vocals & wordplay
Technical

References

  1. Live Floating Anarchy 1977 at AllMusic

External links

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