Gong?

As for the other stuff, I reckon your mileage may vary depending on how much you buy into the whole Planet Gong mythos that the classic trilogy (Flying Teapot, Angel's Egg, You) explores, but they're worth it if you dig Camembert...

Think I might give You a nostalgic spin before bed...

RIP Daevid Allen

Gong est mort. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3k99VgLSo

Is this the only RIP thread for him? Havent yet listened to Gong or any of his AMT collabs but he was p prolific! Halfway tempted to dig out the New York Gong album which I guess was him teaming up with Material to take on no wave avant funk

where is the love for GONG?

http://www.cargo-records.de/en/item/89208/katalog_art.123.html
just heard of this today cos I sawa review in a copy of Viva la Rock'n'Roll I was leafing through in a local newsagent.
Been hoping for a remastered edition of Flying Teapot for years.
& the Camembert Electrique remaster earlier this year was a nice thing to get.

Apologies for potentially spoiling things but you may want to wait, Steve Hillage released this statement a while back:

OFFICIAL BAND STATEMENT

We, the surviving members of Gong, do not support Charly Records upcoming reissue of the Radio Gnome trilogy.
None of the surviving members of the lineups that created those recordings
were ever signed to Charly Records.
The truth is that during the making of Flying Teapot in January 1973, the band learned that the record company - BYG Records (also known as Promodisc) - had gone bust, it's Paris office stripped bare, no phones working. The band was abandoned at the Manor Studios midway through the album. Virgin - at the time just a chain of record stores and The Manor studios - was about to launch their record label.
Faced with an unpaid recording bill, they decided to cut their losses and release Flying Teapot as the second release on the new Virgin Records label. That's the true story.
The booklet advertised as accompanying the Charly/BYG Release is full of untruths, lies and falsehoods claiming to represent Charly and BYG Records as some sort of poor victim of Virgin's wickedness. The truth is that none of the musicians on those recordings has ever received a penny of royalty payments for the Charly/BYG releases, or even a statement. This is understandable because we NEVER signed to BYG or Charly Records as Gong.
Meanwhile, forty years later, we still receive statements from Virgin and, for those of us who cleared our advances, royalty payments, even though Virgin has since been sold to EMI and now is owned by Universal Records.
We know and can confirm as a 100% corroborated fact that the Original Masters of these albums reside in the Virgin Records Archive, and that Charly has never at any time been given access to them, so Charly's claim to have used the Original Masters is false.
Charly has been brazenly abusing our rights as artists for decades. None of us are rich or powerful enough to sue them. All we can do is to let you, our lovely Gong fans, know that we do not support this release. We will be supporting a new boxed set to be released by Universal in a few months with our full collaboration.

DO NOT BUY THIS RELEASE

yeah had only heard about the set today and was thrilled to hear that but just had the complaint pointed out to me.

Hope this Universal thing happens in the new year or whenever that means though. Just want listenable versions of those cds.

was actually just going to post that link to the statement you posted when I saw that you had posted it. Had just done so to the reissues thread where I'd also posted the news.

Where is Sherman Hemsley when you need him?

Was the article linked here where David Allen visited Sherman Hensley in his crazy home/ drug lab?

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/weezy_get_me_some_lsd_when_sherman_hemsley_met_gong

farewell, space whisperer. gilli smyth rest in peace.

aw

Yeah read that elsewhere this morning. Sorry to hear she's gone but I'm sure she lived a full life.

Was wondering if there had been any update on the band sanctioned official release of the Flying Teapot Trilogy since none of them were happy about the Charly box.

RIP Shakti Yoni ;_;

Only a few weeks younger than my mum!

RIP, Space Whisperer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKP5pz9jMQI

RIP