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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 13:03
I can't believe no one has recommended Dashiell Hedayat's Obsolete yet!
Sure this is a French guy's solo album, but Gong were effectively his band at the time. For my money, it's up there with the very best of Gong releases. You also get to know just how wonderful Daevid Allen is on a wah wah pedal.

Allright I'm off again to the land of confusion where everyone you encounter hand you forms and charts to fill out..... uhm yummy bureaucracy.


Oh and before I forget about it - here are some tracks off of this fantastic 1971 psych album:








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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 18:33
I'm pretty fond of Daevid Allen's solo album Good Morning!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2013 at 04:28
so from all these posts it seems I should just check out any Gong I can hehe. Thanks for the reccs guys, I'll get through em 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2013 at 04:35
Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

so from all these posts it seems I should just check out any Gong I can hehe. Thanks for the reccs guys, I'll get through em 
It doesn't take much to notice (that aside from Shamal) you've already tried the best they have offer so anything else is either because you're a die-hard completist fan or a glutton for punishment.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2013 at 08:33
Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

so from all these posts it seems I should just check out any Gong I can hehe. Thanks for the reccs guys, I'll get through em 
 
I wouldn't do that. You could be wasting your money and truly not even wake up to that reality until months after owning certain titles by Gong that you begin to slightly dislike, developing boredom,..and contemplating if you should sell them whatever? It depends on you as a fanatic style person. I went fanatical over Gong and years later felt the need to understand what I disliked about their later releases like GONG 2000. It's a great effort with a modern sound/style and I don't play it often because I am stuck in the original Gong trilogy period. The very early days of Gong and the period just after "YOU" are also magical. You can't beat yourself up over issues like wasting money, but in the future you may realize that the money you spent on Gong albums which eventually become lack luster to you ...could have been spent on something else with finer results. I still own about 10 Gong cd's and respect their work.  I probably sold about 10 of their cd's. I have spent a fortune on Gong over the last 4 decades. The fan owning 10 cd's by Gong which are timeless is a very tuff goal for any band to accomplish . There was a complex nature about their compositions." A Sprinkling Of Clouds" which I used to count 1-2-3-4-5 (three times), and 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 was such an atmospheric Jazz/Fusion type of piece. I love this band! 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2013 at 09:20
If you like Gong then you must check out Here and Now and maybe Kangaroo Moon. 

Here and Now's  Give and Take is a Must have album for any Gong Fan  along with Live Floating Anarchy .

And visit  



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2013 at 09:25
Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

so from all these posts it seems I should just check out any Gong I can hehe. Thanks for the reccs guys, I'll get through em 
Sounds good, just do mine first Cool
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2013 at 09:41
Must-have:


KHAN's Space Shanty   - featuring Steve Hillage and Dave Stewart. Late incarnations of this band worked out the "Fish Rising" stuff; it might be that some of Hillage's 1973-74 Gong ideas also stem from un-used Khan sessions.

In my opinion Steve never was better. Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2013 at 11:18
Originally posted by Hawkwise Hawkwise wrote:

If you like Gong then you must check out Here and Now and maybe Kangaroo Moon. 

Here and Now's  Give and Take is a Must have album for any Gong Fan  along with Live Floating Anarchy .

And visit  


Thumbs Up Exactly what I recommended. Hawkwise, If you also enjoy that Floating Anarchy concert you should try Here & Now - Gospel Of Free concert. It's quite similar and very good.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2013 at 08:30
steve hillage - arzachel (1969)

daevid allen as a guest     http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=8495

gong live - 1971 - 1974 - the peel sessions
                 - 1971 - Glastonbury Fayre
                 - 1973 - Live au Bataclan
                 - 1974 - Oslo, Norway
                 - 1969 -  Haunted Chateau  live
                 - Gong - Live Etc
                 - Gong - In the 70s
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