HERE & NOW with DAEVID ALLEN + TIM BLAKE

1977-06-18 OXFORD, UK - Polytechnic - audience recording (87m + 45m) (2cd)

HERE & NOW: KifKif Le Batteur, Steffe Sharpstrings, Keith Th' Bass, Twink + Daevid Allen
TIM BLAKE: Tim Blake (solo)

Disc 1:

HERE & NOW with Daevid Allen:
1) jam (21:26)
2) stage (1:10)
3) Help Me See The Light (19:20) *
4) jam (14:53) **

Disc 2:

1) Fredest Air Travels (6:48)
2) Soviet Kommercial Radio (Floating Anarchy) (5:19) ***
3) Nere & How jam (18:46) $
TIM BLAKE:
4) ? (3:33)
5) ? (15:10) =
6) ? (13:00) &
7) ? (13:46) #

* "Ali Baba"'s "arab" final theme is repeatedly played towards the end. [Cut after applause].
** [Cut at 3:48]. Fades out on audience.
*** Early version of "Floating Anarchy".
$ End has theme used on other jams (1977-07-07 Glasto & 1977-08-07 Crymych). [Cut on applause].
= Tim Blake apologizes for the delay.
& [Fade-cut at end].
# [Fade-cut at 0:26]. Fades back in with wobbly tape. Light noises at 8:12, 9:27, 10:43. [Cut].


Source: Traded cds > wav (eac) > Adobe Audition & Magix (editing, normalizing & retracking).

I first seeded this show in 2008 (with an incorrect Feb 2nd 1977 date) leaving the files untouched as they are on my cdrs; this is a rework.

I noticed there was an overlap of more than 30 seconds between the first two tunes so I made a smooth edit; I also noticed that the last two Here & Now tracks (originally separated as last on disc 1 and first on disc 2) flowed seamlessly so I decided to move the last three Here & Now songs (after fade out on disc 1 track 4) on disc 2 as their set needs 2 cds anyway, allowing their last block to flow uncut.

Volume for Tim Blake's set was fixed as right channel was constantly lower than left one.

This was the first time Daevid Allen ever played live with Here & Now; this gig took place less than a month after the Gong Paris reunion at the Hippodrome.
Keith "It was the first time H&N & Daevid played together and it was thusly a somewhat fraught experience for all concerned".

Someone (was it Woodland?) provided this info in one of the comments when this was first uploaded: "Reel to reel tape, with a feed from Annies mics, quality unknown, then copied to cassette with Dolby".

Maclen Feb. 8th 2010 - torrent shared on Dimeadozen. Please keep it lossless.