Gongs
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Topic: Gongs
Posted By: echocharlie
Subject: Gongs
Date Posted: November 24 2006 at 20:02
| anybody into GONGS out there in progland? |
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: December 03 2006 at 21:14
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hell yeah -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 07:08
| Why is GONGS capitalized? Are you talking about a group? Anyway, since this is techy talk, "gongs" can really round out and complete even the smallest drum kit. I used to have a 22" Zildjian gong behind me to get that Bonham or Palmer effect whenever I wanted / needed it. I also use one inverted 16" china to get that crisp, thrash sound. You know, Mosley uses it all the time on Marillion tunes, and Peart uses it (them?) to great effect as well. So, if this is about using "gongs" with your trap set or as auxiliary percussion, I am all for it. (But, if you're talking about a group, forget all I just rambled on about...) |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 14:09
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When I say Pierre Moerlen's Gong in the mid 80s as a teenager he played on a huge gong tree that had about 40 gongs in it.
-------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 14:10
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Real question: Is Mike Portnoy ever going to hit that gong he forces his roadies to cart all over the world? ------------- What? |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 14:14
Youshould really check out the album '2 Gongs' by Rhys Chatham. 2 gongs, 1 hour of minimalistic lunacy... ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
echocharlie wrote:Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 10 2007 at 03:53
Only if & when he sees Neil Peart use one, so he can try to emulate him  ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: nightlamp
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 14:03
Definitely! There's nothing more beautiful sounding than a deep, resonant gong ageng (the largest gong in a gamelan orchestra). I want to buy one and set it up in our kitchen, so dinnertime can be announced by that low, near-subsonic THRUMMMMMM.... I'm a big fan of Stockhausen's works featuring amplified tam-tam and live electronics: Mikrophonie I, Kurzwellen, Prozession, etc. If you like gongs, you need to hear these! It's also really cool to hear gongs used as ride cymbals by drummers like Fredy Studer, Pierre Favre, Terry Bozzio, et al. And, of course, GONG (the band) are among the greatest in the universe... RIP, Pierre, we miss you! |
Posted By: 3243
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 01:16
One hour of pure Space.
 And I also love hearing the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart adding those gong washes to many a 1969 "Dark Star," "Morning Dew," or "Feedback."
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 11:44
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saw Pierre Moerlen's Gong in the 80s, and they had a huge gong tree with somewhere between 20 and 30 gongs in it on stage. Pierre played on it for 2 tracks
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: SpaceMonkey
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 19:26
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