where is the love for GONG?

Man. I hope there's an afterlife and it's floating anarchy.

Lived a long, interesting love and recorded tons of amazing music. I wish him the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2nCvX8ciCY

It's being reported that he's just passed, according to the head of MoonJune records. RIP Daevid.

:-(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT6RXJ3gh7Y

RIP

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/13/gong-founder-daevid-allen-has-died-aged-77

boo to illness and death :-/

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

His last public appearance, last month - surrounded by his family, aware and accepting of what lay ahead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpySrjS5RCI

RIP, PHP

RIP Bert :(

see u in the ether, Daevid

have been listening to gong all day long: floating anarchy 1977, gong est mort, you, magick brother <3<3<3

i've been listening to exactly those same records! camembert next. mr. allen changed my life for the better.

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!

Didn't realize they'd released another new one just a few months ago.
RIP

RIP!

Neither did I. Is it any good? The Acid Mothers Gong album was pretty decent.

I respected more than liked what I heard of '2032' from '09. I haven't heard 'I See You'.

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

Always liked this video, Gong makes full hippie work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6IPIr8mQiE

YOU is a great album
RIP

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?

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.

Thanks for the heads up, stirmonster!

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

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.

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.

Oooh, I need to check it out

This is so great -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFmh3xihyNk

Recent post on Dangerous Minds had it that Sherman "George Jefferson" Hemsley was a pretty major Gong freak.

Yeah, we had that discussion several years back.

Also a huge Yes fan, right?

huge gentle giant fan for sure i know

He included a short Nektar clip as the soundtrack in the show once.

Who I note are back on tour now. Regrouped? Never broke up? Original lineup? I don't know.

Yes, that Bremen is so good, except for the bit about two thirds in when they fanny about a bit too long, but then I guess that is such a Gong-esque thing to do. It doesn't sound like Pierre Moerlen is drumming on this.

I don't mind the mucking about, I'm guessing what was going on was very visual anyway, the drummer was Laurie Allan who was only in the band for a short time, notably fucking up the squiggly sections of "I Never Glid Before", but even Bruford struggled with that.

Yes, you are totally right, I imagine it was very visual and either way I'd have loved every millisecond of it had i been there. Cheers for the Laurie Allen info.

I mean Allan, no relation. :-)

currently digging -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5RvJ3lZG8

Who I note are back on tour now. Regrouped? Never broke up? Original lineup? I don't know.

the current lineup of Gong is pretty much all new guys, led by Kavus Torabi who I assume most people posting in this thread are familiar with

I've heard the one they released this year, it sounds like it could've come out right after You, though the sound quality is obviously better. the fact that there aren't any original members never really occurs to you, they've definitely done their homework

I was referring to Nektar.

You has impeccable sound quality.

Yeah, You is an amazing sounding record.

When I sold off most of my prog rock vinyl back in the punk rock daze, I kept You because it didn't really seem like prog to me. Cosmic hippie stoner space jazz rock I can hang with.

ok 'better' is definitely the wrong word, but you can tell they're more modern even if the music & instrumentation is similar

...and I had no idea there was a new Gong record this year. Checking it out now and it's pretty cool!

It is!

I was referring to Nektar.

― nickn

kavus torabi is probably in nektar now too