Flying Teapot (album)

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Flying Teapot is an album by Gong, originally released in 1973. Co-titled "Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1", it is the first of the Radio Gnome Trilogy of albums, and was followed by Angel's Egg and You. The Trilogy forms a central part of the Gong mythology.

Recorded at The Manor, Oxfordshire, it was produced by Giorgio Gomelsky and engineered by "Simon Sandwitch 2 aided by Tom Zen" (presumably Simon Heyworth and Tom Newman).

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Radio Gnome Invisible" (Allen) 5:30
  2. "Flying Teapot" (Allen / Moze) 12:30
  3. "The Pot Head Pixies" (Allen) 3:00
  4. "The Octave Doctors & The Crystal Machine" (Blake) 2:00
  5. "Zero The Hero & The Witch's Spell" (Allen / Tritsch) 9:45
  6. "Witch's Song / I Am Your Pussy" (Smyth / Allen) 5:10

[edit] Personnel

The original personnel listing is as follows:

  • PON VOICEBOX Dingo Virgin & Hi T Moonweed the favourite
  • ORGONE BOX & SPACE WHISPER the Good Witch Yoni
  • VCS 3BOX CYNTHIA SIZE A & CRYSTAL MACHINE by hi T Moonweed (the favourite)
  • SPLIT SAX ie tenna & soprasax & so flooth by The Good Count Bloomdido Bad De Grass
  • GITBOX Stevie Hillside (spermguitar & slow whale) The Submarine Captain (sideral slideguitar & Dogfoot) Dingo Virgin & others (aluminium croonguitar & stumblestrum)
  • VCS3 FERTILISED ELECT PIANO & LEFT BANK UPTIGHTRIGHT PNO & SHAKESPERIAN MEAT BASS: Francis Bacon
  • DRUMBOX KICKS AND KNOCKS Lawrence the alien
  • CONGOX by Rachid Whoarewe the Treeclimber
  • ROAD CREW & TRUX Venux De Luxe SWITCH DOCTOR Wiz De Kid LIGHTS & Duke

Which boils down to: