Various Artists - Greasy Truckers Party (3CD 2007 Remaster) (1972) [FLAC]

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Various Artists - Greasy Truckers Party (3CD 2007 Remaster) (1972) [FLAC]
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Technical Information
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Artist...............: Man, Brinsley Schwartz, Hawkwind
Album................: Greasy Truckers Party
Year.................: 1972 (2007)
Genre................: Progressive/Psychedelic Rock
Type.................: Live
Duration.............: 3:24:13
Number of Songs......: 35
Artwork..............: Included

Audio Format.........: Lossless
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008
Encoder..............: FLAC 1.1.2
Hz...................: 44,100
Channels.............: Stereo
Reader...............: LiteOn iHAS524
Source...............: CD (not my rip)


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General Information (courtesy of Wikipedia)
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Greasy Truckers Party is a 1972 live album by various artists recorded at a February 1972 Greasy
Truckers concert at the Roundhouse in London. The concert featured three bands, Man, Brinsley
Schwarz and Hawkwind, and musician Magic Michael. Originally a double vinyl album, in a limited
edition of 20,000 and sold at just £1.50, it rapidly sold out, and became a collector's item.

In the world of British underground rock, the Greasy Truckers Party looms about as large
as the Monterey International Pop Festival does in American rock lore; it wasn't the biggest gig
ever played by the bands involved, but for reasons of exposure, and resulting word-of-mouth, and
the excerpted live album that followed, it came to define what they were capable of.

—Bruce Eder, Allmusic

Greasy Truckers were "a loose organisation of individuals whose ideals were based on those of
the Diggers in San Francisco, recycling money into worthwhile causes." This album was the first of
two albums recorded at concerts in London organised by Greasy Truckers, the second being Greasy
Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall (1974). All proceeds from the concert and LP sales went to
Greasy Truckers' project to build a hostel in Notting Hill Gate

The concert was due to run from 3PM until midnight and include performances by Byzantium and others,
but wage disputes between the unions and the government had led to frequent power cuts, one of
which occurred in the early evening, giving an unusual album track "Power cut".

The fire brigade asked the audience to leave, but when power was resumed, and the audience
re-admitted, hundreds more people came in. In defiance of the Fire Brigade, many people stayed
inside, temporary lighting was set up and the audience was entertained by eccentric folk band
Skinner's Rats who did not require amplification. They started with the opening of Richard Strauss'
"Also Sprach Zarathustra" before breaking into a medley of reels and being joined on stage by a
troop of Morris dancers - the Blackheath Foot and Death Men.

The power cut had affected Hawkwind's synthesisers, which were very temperamental, leading to
their apologies, and having to restart their act after a breakdown.

*NOTES*

Previously released as a double live album, here's a 2007 remastered edition with all three
bands' performances restored to their original length (including the power cut during Hawkwind's
first song) and each given their own disc.

Took me fourteen months (yes, 14!) to download this sucker from IsoHunt back in 2008. A lone
seed left me dangling after I downed 67%, and for some reason I kept the torrent in my client and

checked ever so often until 720 days after starting the download, another lone seed showed up and
I was able to reel-in this fish. As a result, I kept the torrent open for another six months, but
no takers appeared. My immense gratitude goes to that lone fellar who came to seed after 14
months.

As with most of my downloads, I kept the original files on hard drive and present them here to
you without any changes, bar the filling-out of the tags in a (to me) proper fashion.

Full artwork is included, as well as the original .cue files and EAC logs.

Enjoy!

JJ


Tracklists:

Disc one (Man):

01 "Spunk Rock" – 22.22
02 "Many Are Called But Few Get Up" - 10.13
03 "Angel Easy" – 5.50
04 "Bananas - Early Instrumental Version" – 14.46
05 "Romain" – 11.29

Time: 1:04:44

Disc Two (Brinsley Schwartz):


01 "Intro" – 1.05
02 "Country Girl" – 3.12
03 "One More Day" – 3.02
04 "Unknown Number" – 2.46
05 "She's Got to Be Real" – 3.34
06 "Home Work" – 2.54
07 "Nervous on the Road (But Can't Stay at Home)" – 5.11
08 "Range War" – 2.25
09 "Silver Pistol" – 3.38
10 "Going Down the Road" (Trad Arranged Brinsley Schwarz) – 6.02
11 "Midnight Train" (Trad Arranged Brinsley Schwarz) – 4.22
12 "Private Number" – 3.52
13 "It's Just My Way of Saying Thank You" – 6.34
14 "Wonder Woman" – 4.22
15 "I'm Ahead If I Can Quit While I'm Behind" – 4.25
16"Surrender to the Rhythm" – 4.03

Magic Michael

17 "Music Belongs to the People" – 9.44

Time: 1:11:21

Disc Three (Hawkwind):


01 "Announcement/Apology" – 1.57
02 "This is Your Captain Speaking (Breakdown)" – 1.37
03 "This is Your Captain Speaking" – 2.42
04 "You Shouldn't Do That" – 10.12
05 "The Awakening" – 6.07
06 "Master of the Universe" – 8.35
07 "Paranoia" – 5.01
08 "Earth Calling" – 3.23
09 "Silver Machine" – 4.26
10 "Welcome to the Future" – 3.35
11 "Born to Go" – 9.07
12 "Brainstorm (Jam)" – 9.51

DJ Andy Dunkley

13 "End Announcement" – 1:49

Time: 1:07:58