Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall

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Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall
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Live album by
various artists
Released1973
Recorded8 October 1973
Venue Camden Town, London
Studio The Manor Mobile
Genre Progressive rock
Length84:00
Label Caroline (UK) GT 4997
Producer Richard Elen
Greasy Truckers chronology
Greasy Truckers Party
(1972)		Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall
(1973)

Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall is a 1973 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' The 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." [1] 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. "Cafe Royal" (solo guitar) (Frith)
  3. "Keeping Warm in Winter" (Frith, Greaves)
  4. "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"

Personnel

Camel

Henry Cow

Global Village Trucking Company

Gong

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.

Sources: Discogs, [3] liner notes. [2]

Re-issues

References

  1. ↑ Lauder, Andrew. "The Greasy Truckers Party (1972)". The Man Home Page. Archived from the original on 7 September 2007. Retrieved 17 September 2007.
  2. 1 2 Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall (LP liner notes). Various. Caroline Records. 1974.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ↑ "Various – Greasy Truckers Live At Dingwalls Dance Hall". Discogs . Retrieved 30 January 2019.
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