Performer: Various
Title: Big Ego
Country: US
Catalog Number: GPS 012-013
Label: Giorno Poetry Systems
Released: 1978
Style: Modern Classical, Comedy, Spoken Word, Experimental
Rating: 4.4
Votes: 093
1 | –Helen Adam | Apartment On Twin Peaks | 5:42 |
2 | –Anne Waldman | Light & Shadow | 6:10 |
3 | –Claes Oldenburg | June Was / Panodramdra | 1:15 |
4 | –Ted Greenwald | Friends | 2:08 |
5 | –Robert Wilson & Christopher Knowles | A Letter To Queen Victoria: The Sundance Kid Is Beautiful (Excerpt) | 8:00 |
6 | –Anthony J. Gnazzo | Hisnia & Hernia | 4:44 |
7 | –Joel Oppenheimer | Cities, This City | 2:45 |
8 | –Ishmael Reed | Sky Diving | 2:19 |
9 | –Robert Ashley | Interiors With Flash | 3:07 |
10 | –Otis Brown | Boneless Chicken | 1:43 |
11 | –Ron Padgett | No Title | 1:28 |
12 | –Ed Sanders | The Fugs: A Monologue | 2:12 |
13 | –Joe Johnson | Fly Ho | 0:37 |
14 | –Meredith Monk | Education Of The Girlchild, 1972: Biography | 8:00 |
15 | –Steve Tropp & Gloria Tropp | Snow White | 1:03 |
16 | –Patti Smith | The Histories Of The Universe | 7:46 |
17 | –Philip Glass | A Secret Solo | 2:17 |
18 | –Larry Wendt | How To Cook A Duck | 4:44 |
19 | –John Giorno | Grasping At Emptiness | 9:45 |
20 | –Laurie Anderson | Three Expediences | 3:00 |
21 | –Mona DaVinci | The Sacred Wood Of Art: The Last Supper Of Mona DaVinci (Excerpt) | 2:50 |
22 | –The Fugs | Saran WrapWritten By – Ed Sanders | 1:15 |
23 | –Lorenzo Thomas | Wonders | 1:50 |
24 | –Kenward Elmslie | The Woolworth Song | 2:30 |
25 | –William S. Burroughs | Naked Lunch: The Laboratory Has Been Locked For Three Hours Solid (Excerpt) | 2:14 |
26 | –Harris Schiff | 15 Years Passes / Dollar Bill | 1:45 |
27 | –Steve Hamilton | Promise | 3:25 |
28 | –Denise Levertov | Homage To Pavese: Woman Alone | 3:33 |
29 | –Jackie Curtis | Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas | 2:27 |
30 | –Frank O'Hara | Poem / PoemRecorded By – Eugene Brooks, Jerry Newman | 1:45 |
31 | –Michael Lally | All Of The Above (Excerpt) | 6:17 |
32 | –Eileen Myles | Tuesday Brightness | 0:50 |
33 | –Robert Lowell | Ulysses & Circe (Excerpt) | 9:40 |
34 | –Bernard Heidsieck | Canal Street No. 19 | 2:25 |
35 | –Jim Brodey | Homeward BoundSitar – Colin Wolcott | 1:52 |
Comes in a gatefold-sleeve.
Subtitle is "The Dial-A-Poem Poets LP"
Engineered at ZBS Media.
A1 and A5 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Jan.1, 1975.
A2 recorded at Big Apple Studios, New York, Apr.29, 1977.
A3 recorded at ZBS Media, Fort Edward, New York, Jun.9, 1978.
A4 recorded at ZBS Media, Fort Edward, New York, Feb. 1978.
B1 recorded at WBAI, New York, May 15, 1976.
B2 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Jan.18, 1978.
B3 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Feb.23, 1977.
B4 recorded in San Jose, California, June 1976.
B5 recorded at Town Hall, New York, Nov.9, 1976.
C1 recorded live at the Fillmore East, New York, Jun.1, 1968.
C2 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Apr.9, 1977.
C3 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, May 18, 1977.
C4 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Oct.26, 1977.
C5 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Oct.6, 1976.
C6 recorded in New York, 1965.
C7 recorded at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Apr.19, 1976.
C8 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Apr.20, 1977.
C9 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Apr.27, 1977.
C10 recorded in Oakland, California, Jan. 1975.
C11 recorded at WBAI, New York, Dec. 1977.
C12 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Mar.31, 1976.
C13 recorded at Mills College, Oakland, California, May 14, 1978.
D1 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Dec.7, 1977.
D2 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Jan.5, 1977.
D3 recorded at Naropa Institute, Boulder, California, Jul.30, 1974.
D4 and D6 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Jan.29, 1977.
D5 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Mar.2, 1977.
D7 recorded at WBAI, New York, Jan.29, 1978.
D8 recorded in Bloomfield, New Jersey and at St. Marks Church, New York, Oct.9, 1974.
D9 composed 1973, recorded 1976 in Paris, France.
D10 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Dec.22, 1976.
D11 recorded in New York, Sept. 1963.
D12 recorded at St. Marks Church, New York, Feb.8, 1978.