''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

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. The concert featured four bands,

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and

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, and was recorded with

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' "Manor Mobile" recording truck. 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

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. An

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from this session, "Bellycan" was released on the first (re-mixed) CD-release of their album, ''

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''. The first Gong track was recorded at an open-air festival at

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, Tunisia in June 1973, and the second was recorded live at

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, 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 ''

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'' (1972), released via United Artists. All proceeds from the concert and LP sales went to Greasy Truckers.

Track listing

Side one:

(19:10) #"God of Light Revisited (parts one, two & three)" ( Bardens) Side two:

(21:30) #"Off the Map" #*"Solo Piano" ( Hodgkinson) #*"Trio" ( Hodgkinson, Cutler,

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) #"Cafe Royal" (solo guitar) (

) #"Keeping Warm in Winter" (

, Greaves) #"Sweet Heart of Mine" (

) Side three:

(23:05) #"Look Into Me" #"Earl Stonham (The Gunslinger)" #"You're a Floozy Madame Karma (But I Love Your Lowdown Ways)" #"Everybody Needs a Good Friend" Side four:

(20:15) #"General Flash of the United Hallucinations" #"Part 32 Floating Anarchy"

Personnel

Camel

Peter Bardens Peter Bardens (19 June 1945 – 22 January 2002) was an English keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel. He played keyboards, sang, and wrote songs with Andrew Latimer. During his career, Bardens worked alo ...

– organ, vocals *Doug Ferguson – bass guitar *

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– guitar, vocals * Andy Ward – drums

Henry Cow

Chris Cutler Chris Cutler (born 4 January 1947) is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of other bands, including Art Bears, Ne ...

– drums, vocals *

Fred Frith Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock ...

– guitar, violin, vocals *

John Greaves John Greaves (1602 – 8 October 1652) was an English mathematician, astronomer and antiquarian. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he was elected a Fellow of Merton College in 1624. He studied Persian and Arabic, acquired a number of old boo ...

– bass guitar, piano, vocals *

Tim Hodgkinson Timothy "Tim" George Hodgkinson (born 1 May 1949) is an English experimental music composer and performer, principally on reeds, lap steel guitar, and keyboards. He first became known as one of the core members of the British avant-rock group ...

– piano, organ, clarinet, alto saxophone, vocals *

Geoff Leigh Geoff Leigh (born 5 October 1945) is an English jazz and progressive rock musician, playing primarily soprano saxophone and flute. He was a member of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow and founded several bands himself, including Red Balu ...

– tenor and soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet, recorder

Global Village Trucking Company

*Jon Owen – vocals, 12-string guitar * John McKenzie – bass guitar *

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– guitar * Jimmy Lascelles – organ, piano *

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– drums

Gong

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("Dingo Virgin") – local vocals, glissando guitar *

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("Stevie Hillside-Village") – kundali guitar, submarine spiral *

Gilli Smyth Gillian Mary Smyth (1 June 1933 – 22 August 2016) was an English musician who performed with the bands Gong, Mother Gong, and Planet Gong and released several solo albums and albums in collaboration with other members of Gong. In Gong, she ...

("Shakti Yoni") – "away at the Bananamoon Observatory keeping the bulge warm and studying new spells" *

Mike Howlett Michael John Gilmour Howlett (born 27 April 1950) is a record producer and teacher based in the United Kingdom and Australia. Career In the late 1960s, Howlett was the bassist in Sydney pop band the Affair, which included vocalist Kerrie Bidde ...

("Mr T Being") – fingerbass *

Tim Blake Timothy Blake (born 6 February 1952, in Shepherd's Bush, London) is a keyboardist, synthesist, vocalist, and composer working with Gong, Hawkwind and his Synthesizer and Light performances as Crystal Machine, with the French Light Artist Pat ...

("Hi T Moonweed") – Cynthia size A, crystal machine *

Didier Malherbe Didier Malherbe (born January 22, 1943 in Paris), is a French jazz, rock and world music musician, known as a member of the bands Gong and Hadouk, as well as a poet. His first instrument was a saxophone, but he also plays flutes, alto clarinet ...

("Bloomdido Bad De Grass") – saxophone, gnomophone *

Pierre Moerlen Pierre Moerlen (23 October 1952, Colmar, Haut-Rhin – 3 May 2005, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, near Strasbourg) was a French drummer and percussionist, best known for his work with Gong and Mike Oldfield and as Pierre Moerlen's Gong. Biography P ...

("Pierre De Strasbourg") – drums, overdrive 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, liner notes.

Re-issues

*The

tracks on this album were re-issued on the CD release of their ''

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'' album. *The

tracks on this album were re-issued on their 2000 "official bootleg" CD '' Gods of Light '73-'75.'' *The second

track was included on the "Live In Sheffield" CD on Mantra Records.

References

External links

*
Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwall's Dance Hall
''Camel memorabilia''.

{{Authority control 1973 live albums Split albums Various artists albums Camel (band) live albums Gong (band) live albums Caroline Records live albums