Original Silver Machine recording

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

yep - Gong too - virtually all of it NOT Glastonbury.
Andy Garibaldi.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Pearson" <ceres at SIRIUS.COM>
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Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: Original Silver Machine recording


> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:34:26 +0000, Tigger <Tigger at PUDDYTAT.FSNET.CO.UK>
> wrote:
> >Yes, and the solos are overdubs - it's puzzled me for years that it's
> >supposed to have been recorded at the Roundhouse on the same day as
> >Greasy Truckers but the Glastonbury version is obviously the one that
> >provided most of the material (Except overdubs) for the single.
> >Now I'm puzzled as to why it's on the Glastonbury album if it wasn't
> >recorded there.
>
> As I understand it, Hawkwind's performance at Glastonbury was deemed
> unreleasable, partially because Dave Brock was "incapacitated" and unable
> to play at the event (Tom Crimble of Skin Alley filled in for him).
Wheras
> they (obviously) had a good quality tape of the Greasy Truckers'
Roundhouse
> gig that wasn't entirely used on the double-LP, so ...
>
> Note that many of the performances on the 'Glastonbury Fayre' triple LP
> were NOT recorded at Glastonbury.  In addition to Hawkwind, that's
> definitely the case for the Grateful Dead track, and obviously the studio
> recordings by Bolan / Bowie / Townshend.  OTOH, I'm quite certain that the
> Pink Fairies & Broughton tracks were recorded at Glastonbury; I'm not as
> sure about Gong, Mighty Baby, Skin Alley & Brinsley Schwarz ones.
>
>     -Doug
>      ceres at sirius.com