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Flying Teapot is the third studio album by the progressive rock band Gong, originally released by Virgin Records in May 1973. It was the second entry in the Virgin catalogue (V2002) and was released on the same day as the first, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells (V2001).
Apr 19, 2017 · Hello everybody, The whole Internet is full of the crappy shortened 11:52 version of Flying Teapot, but the original song once was 12:30 long. Can somebody tell me what's on the missing 48 seconds? Did they shortened a part of the song or did they cut out an instrument solo or the intro respectively the outro?
Explore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1) by Gong. Compare versions and buy on Discogs.
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The first chapter in Gong ’s so-called Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy, Flying Teapot did much to establish the wayward mystique of this most idiosyncratic of bands, giggled and imagined into...
In March 1973, exhausted by Gong's 1972 tour and the recording of Flying Teapot, Allen and Smyth left Gong and returned to Deià to take care of their baby Tally. Then drummer Laurie Allan and bassist Francis Moze also decided to depart.
Masterminded by frontman Daevid Allen, the trilogy features plenty of psychedelia, space prog and jazzy instrumentation. Lyrically speaking, it is an absurdist and tongue-in-cheek look at the ...
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Dec 7, 2023 · With lyrics that sang of pothead pixies and flying teapots, Gong’s skipping, skittering music was suffused as much by jazz rock as it was by mind-altering substances. And beyond the theatricality and whimsy was a band that could hit warp speed to reach the furthest reaches of the cosmos with brilliantly extended space rock grooves and wig-outs.
