RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 1 - FLYING TEAPOT

While the whole Flying Teapot and Pot Head Pixies idea may have sounded like a stunning idea, once medicated with a headful of good acid and average weed, the end result is something of an anti climax. Under developed is one way to put it while ill advised another, or even not advised at all as those free reigned days of the seventies would seem to have had it. Luckily the whole concept/charade is, to a point, saved by some good solid and fluid musicianship which emerges sporadically throughout the entire exercise, especially the interplay between guitarist Steve Hillage and the synth work of Tim Blake. The whole narrative of the Pot Head Pixies does becoms cumbersome, even Allen sounds tired or is simply lost in a haze of dope smoke while lacking a depth of thought as he scrapes the barrel to make it interesting to take the parts somewhere? His voice, and definitely words, certainly grate on this listenerand never becomes amusing. The concept would get better with the following two efforts, but had they become a strictly instrumental act at this stage the album may have even garnered more response and respect. Surely a few of us could easily have envisioned the entire P.H.P thing with rich layers of psyche fused and charged music and no narrative? Daevid Allen seemed to have thought otherwise, so...