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Don't forget Gong Expresso - Decadence. Another album from the Gong family, released in 2017.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m0DKWPEV9g9x3s-fFORE6v6vhwCiUmF5U&playnext=1&index=1
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

^No need for sorry. I just like to razz you for your tastes, sometimes.

It's thanks to You I remembered to include Allan Holdsworth in this blog. Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Don't forget Gong Expresso - Decadence. Another album from the Gong family, released in 2017.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m0DKWPEV9g9x3s-fFORE6v6vhwCiUmF5U&playnext=1&index=1

Thanks. I just added Gong Expresso to the long list on the previous page. I knew there'd be someone I'd missed out. Smile
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4 stars 2023: Gong - Unending Ascending - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mA7TRk7vVBFZat5tMioV8YuhFqvO7_dtY

We've already put the clocks back an hour, but it's not too late for this stunning  song and video from Gong's brand new album. Thumbs Up
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Gong but not forgotten.....

4 stars 1971: Dashiell Hedayat & Gong - Obsolete - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6YBfvPTdMU

Dashiell Hedayat - Hey Mushroom, Will You Mush My Room? Smile
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Also, Gong "Est Mort" 1977. https://youtu.be/DJVaOrHpQrM
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Originally posted by wiz_d_kidd wiz_d_kidd wrote:

Also, Gong "Est Mort" 1977. https://youtu.be/DJVaOrHpQrM

Thanks. I'll add Gong Est Mort to the list. Vive La Gong! 


Gong - I've Been Stoned Before (although I didn't inhale) Smile
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My Gong journey started with Camembert Electrique courtesy of Branson marketing the album for the price of a single (55p) back in 75.  Loved it.  I eventually got to see all the classic line up - listed when first seen:

Daevid Allen (Brixton Fridge with Gongmaison, 1991)
Gilli Smyth (Leeds Irish Centre, 1994)
Didier Malherbe (with Gongmaison above)
Tim Blake (Hawkwind, Leicester De Montfort, 1979)
Steve Hillage (Leicester University, 1978 plus Pip Pyle playing in National Health)
Mike Howlett (Manchester University, 2009)
Pierre Moerlen (Leicester University, 1979 - PMG line up: Benoit Moerlen, Hansford Rowe, Bon Lazoga and Francois Causse)
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

My Gong journey started with Camembert Electrique courtesy of Branson marketing the album for the price of a single (55p) back in 75.  Loved it.  I eventually got to see all the classic line up - listed when first seen:

Daevid Allen (Brixton Fridge with Gongmaison, 1991)
Gilli Smyth (Leeds Irish Centre, 1994)
Didier Malherbe (with Gongmaison above)
Tim Blake (Hawkwind, Leicester De Montfort, 1979)
Steve Hillage (Leicester University, 1978 plus Pip Pyle playing in National Health)
Mike Howlett (Manchester University, 2009)
Pierre Moerlen (Leicester University, 1979 - PMG line up: Benoit Moerlen, Hansford Rowe, Bon Lazoga and Francois Causse)

I haven't seen any Gong-related acts live and the only concert I've ever attended in Leicester was Rainbow at Granby Halls sometime in the early 1980's when Ritchie Blackmore somehow managed to get through an entire show without smashing up his guitar. Tongue
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^ Not had chance to see the current incarnation of Gong but I hear good reports.
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

^ Not had chance to see the current incarnation of Gong but I hear good reports.

Gong's new Space Rock album is one of their best ever, soaring to new orbital heights of ascendency. Thumbs Up
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Gong has more branches than a family tree! It's not for nothing that it's nicknamed "family." My favorites are Angel's Egg and You. When I first heard them, I felt they were ahead of their time. I understood John Zorn and Naked City, which hadn't come out of nowhere. They have different dynamics, because while Angel's Egg develops with short, intertwined themes, You has long jams where they develop other moods. I love Allan Holdsworth, who would later appear, but I'm especially a fan of Steve Hillage, who, along with Didier Malherbe and the mystical madness of David Allen, gave their music an aura that I later missed. It's more or less like the difference between McLaughlin's first Mahavishnu Orchestra and the second lineup.
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Originally posted by Fercandio46 Fercandio46 wrote:

Gong has more branches than a family tree! It's not for nothing that it's nicknamed "family." My favorites are Angel's Egg and You. When I first heard them, I felt they were ahead of their time. I understood John Zorn and Naked City, which hadn't come out of nowhere. They have different dynamics, because while Angel's Egg develops with short, intertwined themes, You has long jams where they develop other moods. I love Allan Holdsworth, who would later appear, but I'm especially a fan of Steve Hillage, who, along with Didier Malherbe and the mystical madness of David Allen, gave their music an aura that I later missed. It's more or less like the difference between McLaughlin's first Mahavishnu Orchestra and the second lineup.


I saw the Apocalypse tour ...which was outstanding...however many hard-core supporters of Mahavishnu Orchestra were quite letdown in the 70s when the first incarnation disintegrated.

I discovered Gong in 1974 when I found YOU in a cut-out bin for $1.99. By that point in time I had to special order their back catalog as imports.

I ended up buying all solo projects and various Gong bands on LP throughout the years.

I liked Camembert Electrique but disliked Glastonbury Fayre 71' The performance felt a bit over the top and the Glastonbury Fayre album was interesting to look at ...but imo not thrilling to listen to.

In the 70s and 80s I met one person that collected Gong. It was rare to run across people that were fans of Gong. It wasn't a style of music to be widely accepted...therefore far from ever being commercially viable in the long term and was treated as such by the industry...as a band that was unheard or unwanted.

In the early 80s Daevid Allen walked into Third Street Jazz And Rock record shop on 3rd and Market St in Philadelphia...carrying boxes of Gong albums. He set them on the counter and said: "Here's my music"..."Please sell it"
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I remember when Daevid Allen discussed a book he was writing ...this was most likely in 1976..possibly 77'? I remember him saying " It may take a long time to finish this book...because I've already written about a thousand pages and I haven't quite gotten to Flying Teapot yet."

Around the time of GOOD MORNING Daevid Allen was producing a more gentle sounding style of music...whereas Gong had become this kind of muscular type of band. The gymnastic style of playing on YOU was an indicator that Daevid Allen and Gong were moving in 2 separate directions.

On the Oslo show in 74' you can hear how it could have worked...if Allen had stayed. Daevid Allen performs a more gentle and spacey style ...Steve Hillage performs material that ended up on FISH RISING...Bill Bruford on drums ..A strange show!

Daevid Allen claimed he left Gong because he couldn't get on the stage. Gong had a routine of entering the stage 1×1 and playing the "OM RIFF" By the time he was expected to enter the stage he couldn't get through because there was an invisible rubber curtain that was preventing him. The rest of the band were on stage and had started with the "OM RIFF" and he just couldn't get through because there was an invisible force field that was preventing him...Thats actually how he left Gong because he couldn't get on the stage...
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