MOTHER GONG 1981-01-06

Santa Cruz, CA - Kuumbwa Jazz Center - "Clone Woman" - board mix (73m)

Gilli Smyth, Harry Williamson (with tapes)

1) Computer Class (3:31)
2) Tarka (Third Movement) (2:10)
3) Robot Woman (4:37) *
4) Machine Song (3:46) **
5) Searching The Airwaves / Fire (5:49) ***
6) Military Procession (1:08) $
7) Customs Man / The Rapist (4:44) £
8) 1999 (4:17)
9) Prostitute Poem (Street Version) (4:20)
10) Billy Bunker (2:35)
11) Red Alert (3:27) =
12) Stars / Flying (4:36) ?
13) Nuclear Waste (2:50) ^
14) Disco At The End Of The World (3:45) %
15) Tarka (Third Movement) / I Am Your Fantasy (2:21) §
16) The Pied Piper (14:09) &
17) Machine Song (2:13) °
18) Searching The Airwaves (3:41) ç

* [Cut at 4:36 after song end].
** [Cuts in on verse].
*** Unlike on "Robot Woman" lp, "Fire" is recited over "Searching The Airwaves".
$ Different version without Malherbe's theme which is on "Robot Woman".
£ "Customs Man": very different from "Robot Woman" version.
- "The Rapist": vocal by Harry Williamson.
= [Cut at 0:44 after intro].
? "Stars" recited over "Flying" (part of "Wassilissa").
^ "What is coming on? Oh the 2nd part...to do another show..hang on a minute". [Cut on applause].
% "Very different from "Robot Woman" version. [Cut on applause].
§ "I Am Your Fantasy" recited over 3rd Movement from "Tarka", starts with words from "The Sea".
& [Cut on applause].
° Soundcheck: [cuts in on guitar solo].
ç Soundcheck: [cut at 3:40].

Source: Traded CDR (log included) > wav > speed corrected, retracked, normalized > flac.

Date and venue confirmed by show flyer reproduced on "G.A.S. Moving On - free Autumn 1981" mag.

I got this recording from dAS of Big City Orchestrae, longtime Daevid Allen collaborator.
It features Gilli Smyth and Harry Williamson performing the show "Robot Woman" live with tapes; these are very different from the LP, which was recorded a few months later (Summer 1981).
The two final tracks from soundcheck were originally placed after track 3, I decided to place them at the end of the disc so the show is not interrupted.

This scarcely circulated show has not been seeded before on Dime or other trackers. Enjoy!

Maclen Mar 4th 2009 - torrent shared on Dimeadozen. Please keep it lossless.