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Rashikal

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Topic: The Official Gong thread
Posted: April 22 2006 at 22:06

i love gong

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 22:05

Gong is amazing. Steve Hillage and Daevid Allen are awesome.

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Posted: April 20 2006 at 16:46

i really like the trilogy , camemberte electrique and floating anarchy ,
Even magik brother is good. I havent got any of their other albums
though. It does seem like the production of their records wasnt great
quality though which is a bit of a shame. I like the humour and style of
their music despite its "cosmik" sound it seems very down to earth and
lacking pretence that other bands often have. GREAT STUFF.

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Posted: April 20 2006 at 16:05

I love my GONG-albums! I have "You", "Live Etc. (great!!)" and "Gazeuse". I
will buy "Angels Egg" too in the future. I read this is Gong's best album.

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Posted: April 20 2006 at 14:30

Gong is one of my favourites... I think that "Radio Gnome", "Flying Teapot" and "You" are three of most awsome albums that I ever heard... Psychedelic, ironic, joyful, amazing arrangements... all you can ask to any band you can find it in these albums and in Gong's career mostly... Ah! His live album is awsome too...

Anyway I also like Pierre Moerlen's Gong and Daevid Allen, Shaktu, Tim Blake and Steve Hillage solo careers...

BUT YOU CAN'T KIIIIIIIILLLL MEEEEEE!!!

... E N E L B U N K E R...

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Posted: April 16 2006 at 21:29

Gong are my favorite!!!!!!!!! Daevid Allen did the coverart for my CD... And I am really looking forward to the 2006 Event in Amsterdam! Anyone else here going? (I will be doing a set in the theater room too!)

I am really excited about seeing Steve Hillage play with Gong in November,and in the Steve Hillage band too!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted: April 16 2006 at 13:33

Dr Know wrote:

I was thinking about getting some Gong this week. The guy at the shop showed me the CD cover of Acid Motherhood which looked completely hideous.

Well I shouldn?t judge a book by it?s cover I suppose LOL but that cover was just too much!

I thought that album cover was awesome, A pregnant Daeved Allen is straight from the land of the pothead pixies! its a good album too, great throw back the radio gnome era while remaining quite contemporary (*see the manipulated GW Bush samples) Kawabata Makoto and Allen are kindred spirits,

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Posted: April 15 2006 at 21:44

BaldFriede wrote:

Gong had a lot of top-notch musicians - drummer Pierre Moerlen and sax/flute player Didier Malherbe are second to none, and Steve Hillage on guitar and Mike Howlett on bass aren't slouches either.

this thread was not complete without the baldfriede's post! Big smile

i prefer the fusion-era of gong: albums like shamal, expresso , 2 and downwind...

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Posted: April 10 2006 at 16:49

Although i've yet to listen to many Gong albums fully, I believe them to be a combination of truly astounding musicians

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Posted: April 10 2006 at 07:39

Gong had a lot of top-notch musicians - drummer Pierre Moerlen and sax/flute player Didier Malherbe are second to none, and Steve Hillage on guitar and Mike Howlett on bass aren't slouches either.

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Posted: April 10 2006 at 06:50

Bj-1 wrote:

Gong = Excellent! Though I like their Jazz-Rock stuff better than their space-fusion stuff.

Gazeuse is my favorite by them!

+ Espresso II

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Posted: April 10 2006 at 06:38

Aaron wrote:

i have a DVD of them from 1990, it's great but does suffer from early 90's lameness. I would love to see a video of them live in the 70's, anyone ever seen one, anyone here seen them live, what was it like

Aaron

I still didn't find yet any 70's concert from them, but my friend Christophe owns a little gem on VHS tape, he recorded from a french TV about 10 years ago. "L'oeil du cyclone".
This short extract -5 minutes ?- shows a piece of a 1973 french report in the Gong commune!!!

There's a Daevid Allen interview in the kitchen in the early morning where he smokes a big pipe. We can see familiar plants growing outside!!

Bloomdido is playing saxo in the woods.

The most amazing moment is Angel's eggs repetitions in studio!!!!
It lasts only one minute maybe, but what a kick!!!
Tim Blake doing his synthe effects, Captain Capricorn singing with its strange look and make up...

Another funny moment is when they interview the old peasants who live in the community's village, about their weird neigbours: "They are not like us, are they interested in "Le tour de France""? I don't think so!

It means that a full TV broadcast exists, from which this extract was coming from. One day will be released on DVD maybe!

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Posted: April 10 2006 at 06:38

It took a while for me, but I've "seen the light". Especially Angel's Egg is a brilliant album.

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Posted: April 10 2006 at 06:33

when a young robert wyatt was only 14, his parents let two beatniks crash at there house for a while. one of which was daevid alllen, who greatly influenced the teenager and eventually got him into music.

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Posted: April 10 2006 at 06:23

listennow801 wrote:

I just wanted to add/2nd something you mentioned above: a few months ago I got Floating Anarchy... [if you don't have it, get it! It's a frigging amazing disk!] & heard it for the 1st time. I was amazed at the very blatant punk often prevalent in it! I wanted to say 'precursor,' but actually punk was happening in '77. Do you think there was any relation of influences, or was it just chance that these things were happening at the same time?

Cleo

Here and Now were a regular fixture on the free festival circuit in the 1970s and lived in a squat in Ladbroke Grove. Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth teamed up with them in 1977 and the idea of marrying Gong's anarchic philosophy with the energy and back to basics ethos of punk was the main idea. They took the punk ideal further than most by travelling and living in a converted bus and playing for free wherever possible, and the original vinyl version of the album had the following message to potential purchasers on the cover: "Pay no more than 2.25, but better to rip it off if you can!" - at the time this was just under half the price of an LP in the UK. Daevid Allen followed up the punk connection a couple of years later with NY Gong featuring Bill Laswell. Here and now released a few other albums without Daevid Allen and members of the band also cropped up in touring versions of Gong in the 1980s and 90s, and they have sporadically reformed and toured in their own right over the intervening years.

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Posted: April 09 2006 at 20:32

I was thinking about getting some Gong this week. The guy at the shop showed me the CD cover of Acid Motherhood which looked completely hideous.

Well I shouldn´t judge a book by it´s cover I suppose LOL but that cover was just too much!

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Posted: April 09 2006 at 20:24

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Posted: April 09 2006 at 20:15

Have Cambert and The Trilogy, and it is awesome. By far some of the trippiest and wackiest music ever recorded. Every member of the band had a unique and wacky personality that was part of the music's equation. Anyone wan't to share stories about the band? I heard their Saxaphonist lived in a cave, and they found him there.

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Posted: April 09 2006 at 20:09

They're pretty good.

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Posted: April 09 2006 at 20:05

i love the songs magdalene, wise man in your heart and the pot head pixies got most of their albums very cool stuff they ought to be discussed more!!!

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