Live Floating Anarchy 1977

Live Floating Anarchy 1977
Live album by Planet Gong
Released	April 1978
Recorded	6 November 1977
Venue	Bananamoon Observatory Studio, Toulouse
Studio	Studios Ferber, Paris
Length	42:39
Label	LTM/Charly Records
Gong chronology
Gong Live Etc (1977) Live Floating Anarchy 1977 (1978) About Time (1980)

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Live Floating Anarchy 1977 is a 1978 live album by Planet Gong, a combination of Gong's Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth and the band Here & Now. It was recorded in Toulouse on 6 November 1977, apart from the track "Opium for the People" which was a studio recording. It was originally released on the French LTM record label, run by Jean Karakos, who had previously run Tapioca and BYG.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Daevid Allen

Side 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Psychological Overture"	2:36
2.	"Floating Anarchy"	5:15
3.	"Stoned Innocent Frankenstein"	3:18
4.	"New Age Transformation Try: No More Sages"	12:10

Side 2

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Opium for the People"	4:25
2.	"Allez Ali Baba Black Sheep Have you Any Bullshit: Mama Maya Mantram"	15:01

Personnel

• Prof. Steffy Sharpstrings P.A. (Stephan Lewry) – guitar, lips, glissando guitar, vocal on track 2
• Keith da Missile Bass (Keith Bailey) – bass guitar and tree trunk
• Kif Kif Le Batteur (Keith Dobson) – drums and asides besides
• Gavin Da Blitz (Gavin Allardyce) – synthesizer and pinball flip
• Suze Da Blooz & Anni Wombat – choir of angels
• Gilli Smyth – space whisper & pome
• Dingbat Alien (Daevid Allen) – drongophone, nose, gliss guitar, guitar guitar, bi focal vocals & wordplay

Technical

• Grant Showbiz – engineer

External links

• Band website
• "Floating Anarchy Live 77 by Gong @ ARTISTdirect.com - Shop, Listen, Download". www.artistdirect.com. Retrieved 24 August 2009.