Best Steve Hillage Album

I voted for Angel's Egg but Live Herald is my real favourite.

Damn hard call, as I have all on that list to ponder. Fish Rising, Green, Khan or L (Live Herald is the live option). Go with L because of the two stupendous Kasim Sulton on bass forays . Brrrr!

off the topic-please dont shoot me!  btw, i  will  never understand why "Shamal",  one of the best (studio) prog albums ever,  is pissing off by  99% of progheads?

Edited by zicIy - June 02 2008 at 03:34

zicIy wrote: off the topic-please dont shoot me!  btw, i  will  never understand why "Shamal",  one of the best (studio) prog albums ever,  is pissing off by  99% of progheads? ok, i understand that, for example, Camembert Eletrique, or Continental Circus, are coming from more, let´s say, "romantic" time (they were recorded these albums in France, very few people in UK were knowing for the band, Camembert Eletrique went issued in UK much later, in 1974, etc), i know how they were great at the stage coz i own "Glastonbury Fayre" (various artists album) - but one great produced, complexity, musicaly perfect studio album as "Shamal" to be so much pissed off - i can´t understand.  it looks to me same like if almost all the prog fans are going to say that only great albums from Genesis are "From Genesis To Revelation" and "Trespass" and because of that -"Selling England By The Pound" - sucks!   or "Yes Album" is great, CTTE suck, "This Was" only, f**k TAAB etc...please don´t try to explain to me this phenomena about "Shamal" coz i will never understand that.

Nothing wrong with Shamel i think its very very good album  in fact its one of my Fav Gong Albums 
Babbooji and the title track are Top tunes  i also saw that Line up Play live they were really really good , I also saw Gong at the Reading festival in 76
with this line up of
Pierre Moerlen: Drums
 Didler Malherbe: Sax & Flute
Mireille Bauer: Percussion
Benoit Moerlen: Percussion
Francis Mose: Bass
Allan Holdsworth: Guitar
and still to this day is one of the most memorable gigs , its the only time i have ever seen the whole audience at a Big Festival like that when headliners are playing that everyone sat down even right at the front, it  created amazing atmosphere  , and they played a Blinding   set    Holdsworth was on fire that night.
 and some of the Percussion playing was simply amazing , and the  Jam they did for encore still sticks in my mind all these years later,   I Love  all the Stages of the Different   GonG    from the early years through the Trilogy   years and beyond ,  vive la Gong  


Edited by Hawkwise - June 03 2008 at 11:37

Gong sans Allen is a different band playing different music and I don't think they're very good. The sense of humour is missing and the music seems exactly the same as all the other jazz-rock that fails to interest me.

A B Negative wrote:   There's an interview with Steve Hillage in this month's Guitar and Bass Magazine. He calls Fripp a "c**t" for saying that Hendrix wasn't a musician.

How about favourite albums of which Hillage was the producer but don't feature him as the lead musician of the recording? I would go for Rachid Taha's

Fish Rising - total hippy freak-out

Personally Live Herald is my favourite (but it isn't listed) as I had a copy when I was so so young (before I even knew Steve Hillage was in Gong!) - so it has a sentimental meaning to me

      By the way , Tszirmay was right about Shamal , this album was the best achievment of GONG , and the world Shamal is an arabic word , means Left .  But still ,  Fish Rising was the best release since 1970 , as a studio album , and Live Herald as live recording ...............................      Tracks Toni