There is a live recording of Tried So Hard out there. It is available on CD and vinyl on The Mystery And The History Of Planet Gong (various labels) and also on a cassette recording from GAS entitled Live At Angers 1972. A warning though; while the song is available on the single CD The Mystery And The History..., it is not available on the expanded double CD entitled The Histories and Mysteries Of Planet Gong (Voiceprint). However, there IS a double CD with Tried So Hard on it, and this is on The History And The Mystery Of Gong (on the Burning Airlines label), which also has Mother Gong on the second CD. Pretty confusing but par for the course when it comes to early Gong/Daevid Allen recordings. Perhaps the planned boxset will have this track on it - or even the full Angers concert from 1972.
I agree that the Unconvention CD is very good. Fleshing the band out with Miquette Giraudy and Theo Travis helped I think and, as Steve Hillage mentioned on his recent interview here on PE, there was quite a bit of rehearsing that went into the whole weekend.
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