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Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall

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Released
  
1974

Producer
  
Richard Elen

Label
  
New Rose

Length
  
1:24:00

Release date
  
1974

Genre
  
Progressive rock

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Recorded
  
Camden Town, London,8 October 1973

Similar
  
Gods of Light '73–'75, On the Road 1972, On the Road 1981, On the Road 1982, A Compact Compilation

Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall is a 1974 live double album by various artists recorded at an October 1973 Greasy Truckers concert at the Dingwalls Dance Hall at Camden Lock in Camden Town, London. The concert featured four bands, Camel, Henry Cow, Global Village Trucking Company and Gong, and was recorded with Virgin Records' "Manor Mobile" recording truck.

Contents

Notwithstanding its title, not all the tracks on the album are from the Dingwalls Dance Hall concert. Due to delays in starting the event and a 2am curfew, Henry Cow's set (billed last) was curtailed to 10 minutes, and their contribution here was recorded a week later at Virgin's Manor Studio. An outtake from this session, "Bellycan" was released on the first (re-mixed) CD-release of their album, Legend. The first Gong track was recorded at an open-air festival at Tabarka, Tunisia in June 1973, and the second was recorded live at Sheffield City Hall in Sheffield, England in October 1973.

Greasy Truckers was "a loose organisation of individuals whose ideals were based on those of the Diggers in San Francisco, recycling money into worthwhile causes." This album was the second in a series of two albums recorded at concerts in London organised by Greasy Truckers, the first being Greasy Truckers Party (1972), released via United Artists. All proceeds from the concert and LP sales went to Greasy Truckers.

Track listing

Side one: Camel (19:10)

  1. "God of Light Revisited (parts one, two & three)" (Bardens)

Side two: Henry Cow (21:30)

  1. "Off the Map"
  2. "Solo Piano" (Hodgkinson)
  3. "Trio" (Hodgkinson, Cutler, Frith)
  4. "Cafe Royal" (solo guitar) (Frith)
  5. "Keeping Warm in Winter" (Frith, Greaves)
  6. "Sweet Heart of Mine" (Henry Cow)

Side three: Global Village Trucking Company (23:05)

  1. "Look Into Me"
  2. "Earl Stonham (The Gunslinger)"
  3. "You're a Floozy Madame Karma (But I Love Your Lowdown Ways)"
  4. "Everybody Needs a Good Friend"

Side four: Gong (20:15)

  1. "General Flash of the United Hallucinations"
  2. "Part 32 Floating Anarchy"

Camel

  • Peter Bardens – organ, vocals
  • Doug Ferguson – bass guitar
  • Andrew Latimer – guitar, vocals
  • Andy Ward – drums

    • Henry Cow

  • Chris Cutler – drums, vocals
  • Fred Frith – guitar, violin, vocals
  • John Greaves – bass guitar, piano, vocals
  • Tim Hodgkinson – piano, organ, clarinet, alto saxophone, vocals
  • Geoff Leigh – tenor and soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet, recorder

    • Global Village Trucking Company

  • Jon Owen – vocals, 12 string guitar
  • John McKenzie – bass guitar
  • Mike Medora – guitar
  • Jimmy Lascelles – organ, piano
  • Simon Stewart-Richardson – drums

    • Gong

  • Didier Malherbe ("Bloomdido Bad De Grass") – saxophone, gnomophone
  • Steve Hillage ("Stevie Hillside-Village") – kundali guitar, submarine spiral
  • Pierre Moerlen ("Pierre De Strasbourg") – drums, overdrive
  • Mike Howlett ("Mr T Being") – fingerbass
  • Tim Blake ("Hi T Moonweed") – Cynthia size A, crystal machine
  • Daevid Allen ("Dingo Virgin") – local vocals, glissando guitar

    • The album was mixed and produced at Island Records' Basing Street Studios by Richard G Elen, later a magazine editor, noted alternative technology guru and green activist among other occupations alongside that of sound engineer/producer. His name appeared wrongly as "Elan" on the cover.

    Re-issues

  • The Henry Cow tracks on this album were re-issued on the CD release of their Concerts album.
  • The Camel tracks on this album were re-issued on their 2000 "official bootleg" CD Gods of Light '73-'75.
  • The second Gong track was included on the "Live In Sheffield" CD on Mantra Records.

    • Songs

    1Crystal GnomeGong11:04
    2Radio Gnome I & IIGong7:07
    3Mister PyxieGong5:35

    References

    Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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