Gong in the Fall
Daevid Allen: vocal, guitar
Gylli Smyth: vocals
Steffi Sharpstrings: guitar
Didier Malherbe: sax
Mike Howlett: bass
Pip Pyle: drums

Mama Kin Music Hall
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
October 15, 1996
original broadcast date: December 30, 1996 on WCUW 91.3 Worcester's Glasnost Radio show.
(this broadcast premiere was plagued with bad transmitter problems on this night.)
performance quality: B+
recording quality: B+
source: master audience tape recorded for FM broadcast (with Daevid Allen's permission).
runtime: 144:15 (minutes/seconds) this is a seamless recording.
setlist:
disc 1 65:10 (tracks 1-8)
1: dynamite 18:47
2: tick tock 5:40
3: I am your pussy 12:41
4: I never glid before 7:13
5: prost poem 6:32
6: heaven's gate 6:14
7: ? 3:38
8: flute salad 4:24
disc 2: 79:05 (tracks 9-18)
9: the oily way 3:04
10: outer temple, inner temple 7:07
11: the goddess invoc 2:59
12: om riff 8:09
13: mercury 12:53
14: cycles 10:53
15: get it inner 10:33
16: you are I 8:47
17: band introductions 4:40
18: eat that phonebook 9:39
19: Gilli Smythe radio ID :13
20: Steffi Sharpstrings radio ID :07
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A Glasnost Radio You Are There Production 1996 (not just practicing this time.)
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reseeded in 2014 with track times and a
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comments:
This was the second time I recorded Gong for a WCUW FM broadcast, with the band's OK and made
an audience tape. The setlist came from Daevid Allen himself. I first met Daevid in 1979 at the
"Planet Gong" show in Boston, the subject of the first radio broadcast recording I was ever a
part of (that was for WMFO). The next would not come until over 12 years later, but finally not
once but twice I caught up with the subject of that first fling with ferric oxide fame. Both times
I had mikes on stands straddling the soundboard, above most of the heads of the audience so the
path between mikes and sound on stage is only minimally obstructed and the sound is bright and clear
throughout. With the help of a DATsman for backup, plugged into my setup, I was able to get this
entire show without cutting anything, which can be quite an adventure with these guys especially
when using cassettes that have to be flipped like pancakes. The March show was shorter, and
the band not feeling quite up to their best (still a nice concert I thought) but they must have
tried to make up for it this time through with close to 145 minutes of a solid performance, sadly
the last of 3 times I would get to see Pip Pyle. (1st was with National Health in 1979) He was very
good in all the shows I saw. This is about as long a Gong show as I've heard on this tour, there
may be a few slightly longer, and there is some set differential from the Philly Gong 96 show
So if you heard that and think oh this is just the same show in an aud from Boston, it's not.
I wish I had digital knowledge (and a DAT recorder) when this was broadcasted, because
all the remasters sound better than the originals (levels balanced) So if you heard the broadcast,
on air or by snail trade with some one who has it, this sounds alot better. I like this one
better for the show, but both are worth hearing. The crowd had a good time with this and so will you.
the quality is exactly the same as the March 6th show, same deck/ mikes/ recording position.