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TRACKS

LISTEN The Venerable Beads—Gong Hits!
MP3 1. Imaginary Gong Hit 0:8
MP3 2. Turn Me On 2:57
MP3 3. Yo' Good Love 3:27
MP3 4. The Vamp 3:22
MP3 5. Planet Texas 3:52
MP3 6. There for Me 3:26
MP3 7. Cash in My Chips 6:23
MP3 8. Butt Naked 2:27
MP3 9. Superfices 3:36
MP3 10. Butt Naked 0:3
MP3 11. Falling 3:07
MP3 12. Big Cow Blues 2:36
MP3 13. Gone for the Gold 5:56
MP3 14. Kentucky Crabgrass 1:54
MP3 15. Pastoral Sorbet 0:40
LISTEN I.Q. Bonehead—On the Gong
MP3 16. Got To Have You Here 3:11
MP3 17. Roadtrippin' 3:00
MP3 18. Going Nowhere 3:29

MUSICIANS

The Venerable Beads—Gong Hits!
Dave Turnbow—guitar, vocals, bass, melodica & recorder
Pete Kassal—drums, vocals & percussion
Fred Shepard—guitar & vocals
Pete Rubens—bass, guitar, accordion & organ

I.Q. Bonehead—On the Gong
Dave Turnbow—guitar, bass & vocals
Fred Shepard—guitar, vocals & most guitar solos
Pete Kassal—drums & vocals

GUEST MUSICIANS

The Venerable Beads—Gong Hits!
Stacey Dye—violin on “Superfice” and “Kentucky Crabgrass”
Cliff Dannon—raga bass on “Superfice”

I.Q. Bonehead—On the Gong
Larry Ruhl—bass on “Going Nowhere”

SONG CREDITS

The Venerable Beads—Gong Hits!
All words and music by David Turnbow except:
“Falling”—by Mark Thompson & David Turnbow
“Roadtrippin’”—words by David Turnbow & Fred Shepard
“Got to Have You Here”—music by Trey Walpole & David Turnbow

I.Q. Bonehead—On the Gong
All words and music by David Turnbow except:
“Falling”—by Mark Thompson & David Turnbow
“Roadtrippin’”—words by David Turnbow & Fred Shepard
“Got to Have You Here”—music by Trey Walpole & David Turnbow

THANKS

…to Dr. Robert Carl and the Hartt Music Technology department (The University of Hartford) for the use of their digital sound-editing facility.
Other Credits
Borrowed Instruments: steel-string acoustic guitar (Jamie Sherwood); congas and cowbells (Ed Fast); “Willie” guitar (Janet Willets)
Cover art by Christie Teasley
Typography by Cristina Neuman

RECORD INFO

The Venerable Beads—Gong Hits!
recorded at Studio .45 (Hartford, CT); produced by David Turnbow with Mike Deming
I.Q. Bonehead—On the Gong
recorded and edited at the Hartt School (West Hartford, CT)

LINER NOTES


I.Q. Bonehead—On the Gong
Tracks 16–18 originally from Barely Almost (1992), under the band name at that time: I.Q. Bonehead. This was a “four-track plus vocal overdubs,” self-produced, 12-song project, recorded and edited at the Hartt School (West Hartford, CT). The lineup was the same as the Gong Hits! sessions, except without Peter Rubens on bass. Larry Ruhl played bass on “Going Nowhere.”