Gong: killing the hardcore scene dead for 40+ years.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Sunday, 14 October 2012 11:43 (eleven years ago) link
Touring the UK this autumn, but in a new "re-incarnation": Daevid, Gilli, Daevid's son Orlando, and bunch of new members.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 14 October 2012 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
i'm surprised (but pleased) to hear gilli is still touring. she was looking really frail last time i saw them although she hadn't lost her magical space whisper at all.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 14 October 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU1ZZW0oyqY
― stirmonster, Sunday, 14 October 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
I've never followed Gong very closely, but for me Hillage earned his place in music history for helping Rachid Taha put together Made in Medina. Songlines' reviewer said when he heard it, he glimpsed what Page and Plant were going for w North African musicians. Yeah, seems like this is the realization and then some, to put it mildly. Anyway, more on Made.. should prob be for another thread--what's the deal with New York Gong? The genesis of Material, right? Is the album good?
― dow, Monday, 15 October 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
i've grown to really like the new york gong album over the years after completely dismissing it when i first bought it but whether you'll like it or not really depends on whether or not you dig daevid allen's schtick. the laswell hook up came via the notorious jean karakos who moved his celluloid label from france to new york and had gong connections going way back. material probably took the name from the "materialism" track on it and put their first album proper out on celluloid shortly after this came out.
― stirmonster, Monday, 15 October 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
:(
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/05/gong-founder-daevid-allen-has-six-months-to-live
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Oh no! Somehow thought he'd still be going well past his 90s, perhaps becoming the oldest pixie ever.
― Bob (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
fuck
saw him maybe 10 years back with his band (Universal Error?), they were so good
there's an interview w/Terry Riley that was linked in the Riley thread, it had a lot of great detail about Allen's early days in paris
― parakeetal pancreasface (sleeve), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
I can only hope that during this journey, I have somehow contributed to the happiness in the lives of a few other fellow humans.
You contributed to mine, sir, and I thank you. So sad I was never able to see him.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
beautiful dude, godspeed good buddy
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
― example (crüt), Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
I had just put "Cos You Got Green Hair" on a mix CD that I'm giving to someone today
― example (crüt), Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
Sad news. Gong put out an album last year called I See You, and it did feel like a valedictory statement. Glad I got to see Daevid performing on the last Gong UK tour.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 6 February 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link
Man. I hope there's an afterlife and it's floating anarchy.
― master shammer (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 6 February 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
Lived a long, interesting love and recorded tons of amazing music. I wish him the best.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 6 February 2015 13:35 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2nCvX8ciCY
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 6 February 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link
It's being reported that he's just passed, according to the head of MoonJune records. RIP Daevid.
― nickn, Friday, 13 March 2015 04:28 (nine years ago) link
:-(
― no lime tangier, Friday, 13 March 2015 04:38 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT6RXJ3gh7Y
― no lime tangier, Friday, 13 March 2015 04:41 (nine years ago) link
RIP
― the late great, Friday, 13 March 2015 04:49 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/13/gong-founder-daevid-allen-has-died-aged-77
boo to illness and death :-/
― no lime tangier, Friday, 13 March 2015 09:02 (nine years ago) link
I read the news this morning while sipping tea from a Flying Teapot mug, which feels like an appropriately cosmic coincidence.
https://mikeatkinson.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/1503956_895831757104476_5877979512532075573_n.jpg
― mike t-diva, Friday, 13 March 2015 09:46 (nine years ago) link
His last public appearance, last month - surrounded by his family, aware and accepting of what lay ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpySrjS5RCI
― mike t-diva, Friday, 13 March 2015 09:47 (nine years ago) link
RIP, PHP
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 March 2015 11:09 (nine years ago) link
RIP Bert :(
― Walking Close to Melton Mowbray (Tom D.), Friday, 13 March 2015 13:36 (nine years ago) link
see u in the ether, Daevid
― sleeve, Friday, 13 March 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
have been listening to gong all day long: floating anarchy 1977, gong est mort, you, magick brother <3<3<3
― we reward the hake (NickB), Friday, 13 March 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
i've been listening to exactly those same records! camembert next. mr. allen changed my life for the better.
― stirmonster, Friday, 13 March 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
I can't think of what possessed me to sell my copy of Gong est Mort years ago, but that's what's in my earbuds at work at the moment. Thanks youtube!
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Friday, 13 March 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
Didn't realize they'd released another new one just a few months ago. RIP
― totally unachievable goals and no incentive to compromise (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 13 March 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
RIP!
― example (crüt), Friday, 13 March 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
Neither did I. Is it any good? The Acid Mothers Gong album was pretty decent.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 13 March 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
I respected more than liked what I heard of '2032' from '09. I haven't heard 'I See You'.
― totally unachievable goals and no incentive to compromise (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 13 March 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Idk really that much about Gong but Im gathering the Iimpression that Daevid was really prolific Will probably try to find a way to listen to the New York Gong album this weekend
― Jesus will return for global integrity (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 14 March 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Always liked this video, Gong makes full hippie work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6IPIr8mQiE
― nickn, Saturday, 14 March 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
YOU is a great albumRIP
― nostormo, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
I really like the live stuff from around '74 and the Gong Dreaming 2 book, wish I'd got hold of the 1st volume too.Did Flying Teapot get remastered, or just the other 2 volumes of the trilogy?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
Will probably try to find a way to listen to the New York Gong album this weekend
The album he did after that in New York, also with Bill Laswell - Divided Alien Playbax 80 - is worth hearing too and also the Alien In New York 12" where he approximates the Contortions and has a bash at doing mutant disco too.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for the heads up, stirmonster!
― Jesus will return for global integrity (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 15 March 2015 03:33 (nine years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10251952_901115633242755_4798129672666044223_n.jpg?oh=1a2005a618f5ab39ad1aadf2ddbe5ee5&oe=55B4DB9B&__gda__=1434123693_7059305a85e1e9a95cd2b0cb898b3506
― nickn, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
Hadn't realised the individual lps from the Flying Teapot trilogy were being released separately as 2cds as well as on the box set. Somebody mentioned picking one up on another list so I looked them up and they came out last Friday.Wouldn't mind getting the box set but it seems a bit too expensive for me right now. But these have one cd of teh remastered lp and one of a contemporary live set.Not sure what is left not released from the box set if you get things this way, presumably things like book and other visual stuff?& that does cover the lp after Daevid Allen left too i think.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 29 September 2019 09:55 (four years ago) link
I'm streaming the new Flying Teapot deluxe edition on Spotify, and it's astonishing how much better it sounds than the previous remaster, which has always sounded like a murky third-generation cassette dub. Not expecting as much improvement on Angel's Egg and You, which sounded great on the Virgin CDs.
― J. Sam, Sunday, 29 September 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
Oooh, I need to check it out
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
This is so great -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFmh3xihyNk
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
Recent post on Dangerous Minds had it that Sherman "George Jefferson" Hemsley was a pretty major Gong freak.
― henry s, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:18 (four years ago) link
Yeah, we had that discussion several years back.
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
Also a huge Yes fan, right?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
huge gentle giant fan for sure i know
― Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 01:27 (four years ago) link
He included a short Nektar clip as the soundtrack in the show once.
― nickn, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link