Gong, Dashiell Hedayat Obsolete
1992 Cassette
Psychedelic Rock
Prog Rock

Main image
GAS Records
bass, acoustic guitar Christian Tritsch
drums [here there and everywhere] Pip Pyle
flute, saxophone [bloomdido-saxo], performer [water music] Didier Malherbe
tracks b guitar Pip Pyle
tracks a1, b guitar, soloist Dashiell Hedayat
lead guitar Daevid Allen
lead vocals, keyboards, tape [cut-ups], performer [cosmic-hedayat-rumble] Dashiell Hedayat
vocals Sam Wyatt
tracks a3 vocals William S. Burroughs
vocals [wet pleasure shout & intergalactic whisper] Gilli Smyth
Recorded At Strawberry Studios, France
Distributed By GAS Records (2)
Recorded at Strawberry Studio on May 1971.
This cassette was issued to make available a long deleted album. This is a tape recording of Obsolete from vinyl, identical (also graphic wise) to original release.

The cover has pink inlay card, black lettering and a b&w rectangle stuck on front with part of Obsolete artwork.

No release date appearing on cover.

Dedicated to you anniway al selections were written and composed by Dashiell Hadayat, Autumn 69....
....and finally recorded at Strawberry Studio, May 1971
Gilles Salle engineer.

Personel:
Daevid Allen (courtesy of Byg records) lead guitar
William Burroughs: vocals on Long Song For Zelda
Dashiell Hedayat: solo guitar on track I and IV, all lead vocals, keyboards, cosmic-hedayat-rumble and cut ups
Didier Malherbe: bloomdido-saxo, flute and water music
Pip Pyle: drums, here there and everywhere (oh! also groovy guitar on track IV)
Gilli Smyth: wet pleasure shout and intergalactic-whisper
Christian Tritsch: bass and acoustic guitar
Sam Wyatt: baby song (he is five years old, you know?)

They all express their gratefulness to Chantal Darcy and Bernard Lenoir for the freedom they had.
Credits: Francis Linon, the magick-echoer - Gong Management - Mary Beach of course - Don't forget thanks for the slight use of Giulietta Degli Spiriti soundtrack by Nino Rota, an old C.A.M. record - Wwwooowww girls were Gilli, Marlyse, Tasmine, Pamela abd Dunja - Tea and tenderness: Sidney I did what I could B
Cover:Benjamin Baltimore and Dashiell Hedayat

Warning: This recording must be played as loud as possible, must be heard as stoned a impossible and thank you everybody.



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