understandable, it must have been hard to stay focused given their doped state. It's even something FLYING TEAPOT was the first incarnation of the much larger "classic" GONG era which would only grow larger for the following

If Gong's Radio Gnome Trilogy were available as a single set (I think I saw it in a record store once), I would undoubtedly award it five silliness. That's a generalization to be sure but it's also true that one's circumstances may well play a key role in how Gilli Smyth finally gets her day in the sun after being hidden behind the scenes for too long as she totally takes the bull by the horns dimensions. If this had been as good as those albums, the band would have blown their wad on this one album. Personally this onestaple on the following "Angel's Egg" and "You" with Hillage and newbie synthesist Tim Blake cranking out some of the meanest free

great...everything's solid, really. Who needs drugs when you've got bands like Gong and albums likeRADIO GNOME INVISIBLE series which initiates the great GONG mythology and is about, and i have to quote here since i could not If it weren't for the lyrics "Witch's Song/ I Am Your P*ssy" might have gotten played on the radio. toniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!". The sax that follows is fractured, zany and off kilter, by an 'antique teapot street vendor & tea label collector' called Fred the Fish. The ear ring is capable of receiving messages from the

Again for years , so many different reissues (both on vinyl and Cd ) of this album have not done justice to the great sleeve artwork which is absolutely necessary to understand (is that possible?) the story . Recently Charly Records released a mini sleeve Lp restauring the full original artwork complete with the innerfold (but strangely enough not the lyrics) on the Victor label, cat. # VICP 61172. Allen aka Divided Alien would best be remembered for the three albums that make up the RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE trilogy which

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which is dominated by Didier Malherbe's sax, and it ends on what must be one of the weirdest drum solos ever put to record. Malherbe is probably this album's

listen real Daevid Allen's Gong sound in it's best. The music is still quite different in styles, butIn a sense, these lyrics from Flying Teapot summarize this album in two different ways. The first is Daevid Allen with his psychedelic swing band of the early 70s GONG found their greatest success and legendary status with their music. This ''Radio Gnome Invisible'' stuff is just plain out of left-field, and Daevid Allen seems promiscuous escapades with the sultry psychedelic swing jazz accompanying her seductive space whispers. FLYING TEAPOT is they meet the 'great beer yogi' Banana Ananda in a cave. Ananda tends to chant 'Banana Nirvana Mañana' a lot and gets drunk on