Conference marvin::uk_music

    You're not the guy with the teapot flag who was at Reading at the
    weekend are you?
    
    An invisible Gnome.

    
    Yeah! count me in, I'm a confirmed Gong fan, and the proud owner
    of an original 'Angels Egg', (not the re-vamped, re-issued one with
    the sticker over the you-know-what)
    
    		Gnome=gnome+1

    I only have a cassette-recording of the Invisible teapot album and
    a CD which is called (I think) Electric Camembaert.
    
    Does anyone know of any other Gong CDs?
    
    Nick. (I want your pussy).

    Re. last,
    
    The album is Camembaert Electric. The only other CD I've seen about
    is a comp. of the best bits from Shamahl, Guzzers (sp?) and one
    other album who's name escapes me.
    
    There's a few CDs out by Allen Holdsworth who played guitar on a
    number of the later albums and also plenty of material by Here &
    Now who back David Allan on the Live 77(Floating Anarchy) album.
    
    Nice to see some fellow Pot-Head Pixies out in DECland
    
    Have a cup of tea.......
    
    Jez 

    Does anybody know what Gong are doing now or if they are still
    together?
    
    Nick (beebly  beebly  beebly  ladies underware).
    

	Hmmm...there's a lot more of you out there than I thought !!

	P1

    
    I remember seeing a review in Q for Gong's new LP. The title had
    something to do with 'The Hisory of the Planet Gong'. Has anyone 
    got it? 
    
    Does anyone know the history of Gong as a group. I am a Mike 
    Oldfield fan and only came into contact with Gong's music 
    through Mike's work with them. Is it still Pierre Moerlin's Gong?
    
    Scott (I want your pussy!!) 
    
    

    What is this about Mike Oldfield and Gong?
    
    Nick. Hari supermarket.....

    Hey 
    
    here is another Gong fan materialised from mother nature!!
    
    
    The other >CD< is Magik Brother which is pretty dam good,  I have
    some old gong bootlegs of thier gigs in 72.  Do you know Daevid Allan
    is doing some meditation weekends for selected few, but funny enough
    he does not talk about Past Gong antics.  I luv Angels Egg and Flying
    Teapot albums and most of thier other stuff, the band itself has
    split up but they are doing thier own material.  
    
    Some of the old gong albums go for a lods a mony,  I know this matey
    who is even more crazy about gong than myself, who has all the albums
    and bootlegs and CD's the lot...
    
    Do you know the Gong Trilogy??
                                                            
    
    One Radio Gnome tuning off and flying to Planet Gong!!
    Via the flying teapot with the pot-head Pixies
    
    Peter
                       z
    
    

> re. Note 487.9 by SUBURB::GOODWINP


	Did 'Magik Brother' appear before or after, 'Camembert Electrique' 
	and 'Flying Teapot' ????

	P1    
    

.10�	Did 'Magik Brother' appear before or after, 'Camembert Electrique' 

    And isn't it's full title "Magik brother, mystick Sister"
                                                       
    I think it appeared after both 'Flying Teapot' and 'Camembert'
    
    			Have another one..

    re a few back.
    
    I wasn't aware that Mike Oldfield had actually been a member of
    Gong at any time, but there is a connection there. At one time Mike
    was a member of Kevin Ayers' group, The Whole World. At a later
    time, Kevin Ayers toured using Gong as his backing group. 
    
    Both this version of Gong, and the band that recorded Camembert
    Electrique were in the days before Steve Hillage was part of the
    group.
    
    Bob

.12�    Electrique were in the days before Steve Hillage was part of the

    Ah! there's a name...anyone remember "Fish Rising..."...great album.
    
    			Si

    Re -1 . Right again Bob. I don't know when Mike Oldfield played with
    Gong as I thought he went solo after leaving Kevin Ayers. Was the Kevin
    Ayers/Gong band called Archibald? 
    
    One ex-Gong member I used to know was Brian Davison (ex Nice amongst 
    others). Can't remember any discs he may have been on, but it was 
    around '76-77.
    
    Thinking back, didn't Virgin release a Gong album for 50p years ago? 
    Come to think of it, I may even have it....being a vinyl junkie makes
    you a sucker for that sort of bargain.
    
    Ken
                  

    Ken, I think the Virgin reissue of Camembaert (originally on the
    Byg label) was a cheapie, it's probably that one.
    
    re Archibald - Kev's bass player from about 1972 on was called Archie
    Leggett, could you be thinking of him?
    
    Talking of really cheap lps, does anyone remember/own that other
    classic Virgin release, The Faust Tapes?
    
    Bob

    re -.1
    
    yes , I remember the Faust Tapes (the one with that great cover!!).
    I never bought it, but I still see it quite often at record fairs.
    
    H

    re -.1
    
    Yes, and I'll wager it sells for more than the original asking price
    of 49p, too.
    
    BTW, the cover is a painting by Brigit Reilly. If you really want
    to make your eyes go funny, her works full size are on canvasses
    of anything up to about 20 feet long by six high!
    
    Bob

> re. Note 487.13 by TMCUK2::MOXLEY "The Wild Heart"
>                             -< Hillage the hippy >-


	'And Not Or' is my fave !!!

	P1

    Re: .13
    
    I rate "Fish Rising" as one of my favourite albums.
    
    Re: Where are they now?
    
    I heard that Daevid Allen (sp?) was doing some work under the Gong
    name, but nothing like the old stuff. Haven't heard any of it yet,
    though.
    
    Paul
    ----

    
    Re: .19
    
    Daevid Allen is working on his workshops at the present, these are
    places where you go and study meditation or astral projection and
    stuff like that..  really weird but seems quite interesting!!
    
    I know for a fact that he did a tour last year or was it earlier this
    year didn't go and see him though, heard he was pretty good.
    
    Does anyone belong to the Gong Fan club??
    It is quoted in the club that if you see any flying teapots write
    and tell them about the sighting and you get a free t-shirt!!
    
    Has anyone seem Ozric Tentacles?? they play Gongy stuff.  One amazing
    band!!!!!
    
    
    
    See yer 
    
    Peter
             

> re Note 487.20 by SUBURB::GOODWINP
>
>    Has anyone seem Ozric Tentacles?? they play Gongy stuff.  One amazing
>    band!!!!!
    
	Sounds interesting.....any gig info anyone ????


	P1

    Mike Oldfield plays on the "Downwind" and "Live"
    albums by Pierre Moerlen's Gong, and PM plays on Mike
    Oldfield's "Exposed" (and possibly "Incantations"?)
    
    nick
    

    What's the address of the Gong fan club then?  I MUST join this
    one as I would love to get a tee-shirt and find out more about them.
    
    Nick (I'm sure I DID glid before).

I like GONG!

  *
-(�)- Matt "The Pea"
_/ \_

    Great concert Friday night, eh?
    
    Richard.

    Hi,
    
    I'm in America, and years ago I had the European pressings of _Camembert
    El�ctrique_, _Angel's Egg_, _Continental Circus_, _Fish Rising_, 
    _Flying Teapot_, and _You_.
    
    All I have now is the _Angel's Egg_ CD, and it's great! A lot of the
    detail that I never heard on vinyl really comes out...GOOD JAZZ!
    
    In "I Never Glid Before" Allen is in both channels. In the right he's
    the proper, bourgeois gentleman saying things like "I COULD have glid
    before...I don't think I ever...what is 'glidding,' anyway?"
    
    Yeah, what IS glidding?
    
    In the left channel he makes puns ("before...three-four, five-four,
    six-four...aummmmmmmmmmm....").
    
    "It's a hassle you know, to make rocket ships go to infinity."
    
    (Followed by scale fuzz guitar solo from Hillage.) 
    
    I really like Hillage's work on this one; excellent solo on "Glid." 
    
    "Prostitute Poem" is good also; part of it is spoken in French...followed
    by a cheap pub song...good contrast there between the complexity of the
    prostitute and the cheapness with which she's viewed. Gong could be
    serious at times, I think. I find them really funny and incredibly
    unique, at least when Allen was in the band. 

    'Glidding' is a kind of spaced out slide guitar technique. The
    bottleneck is used to create notes or chords of infinite sustain, not
    unlike a less frantic version of some of the wild stuff Syd Barrett
    used to do.
    
    Bob

    I thought that was "glissando"? Oh well, I'm sure you're right.

    Well, officially it would be glissando in real musicians terms, but as
    Gong were a bunch of drug-crazed hippies, glidding had druggy
    connotations, too.
    
    Bob

> re. Note 487.29 by WELMTS::GREENB "Apache Twins - If it ain't stiff......"

	Blab, did you know that Ebbers was thought to be one of the
	original Pothead Pixies...

		p1

    I'd love to find _Continental Circus_ on CD. That one was on 
    Phillips, though; not on Virgin. I'm glad I have the vinyl. 
    
    "Time is your life...time is your world...just you and your bike...and
    you're all alone..."
    
    And there's a cool "voice collage" with motorcycle sounds mixed in
    with glissando guitar. Allen really rocks out on that one! 
    
    Anyone ever see the film? (Supposedly, CC is a film soundtrack.)
    
     

    
    Hi Folks,
    
    have just read the Gong Note. I do like this band a lot.
    There are the following albums, I can remember:
    
    Expresso I
    Expresso II
    Downwind
    Leave It Open
    Live
    Time Is The Key (the best?)
    Breakthrough
    
    There're a lot more older ones, I can't remember and I didn't have.
    
    Pierre Moerlen's Gong splitt up in 1986. Pierre, than joined a Swedish
    Band called TRIBUTE (one of the best bands, I think). They did two
    fantastic albums and propably one Live Album, which I haven't seen yet.
    
    I have seen Gong a few times. And I've seen Tribute a few times more.
    
    In 1989 Gong was reformed with Pierre on Drums, Percussion and
    Keyboards. There are also all Tribute musicians on the Breakthrough
    album. So it sounds a little bit like Tribute. But very good.
    
    In 1989 Tribute splitt up. I do not know why. And I haven't any news
    since the Breaktrough album and the followed tour.
    
    All in all Gong is a great band (if they still playing together) and
    Tribute was also shaped by Gong's music through Pierre Moerlen's
    influence.
    
    |PETER|
    

    There are two Gong CDs I'm curious about: 
    
    HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE PLANET GONG
    
    THE OWL AND THE TREE
    
    Anyone know what's on these? 
    
    

    I just read a review in a local newspaper (The Boston Globe),
    describing a review of a band called "Mother Gong."
    
    Gilli Smythe is the leader of this band, and their performance was
    described as something like "music, poetry, and a celebration of the
    femininity and earth mother spirit in both men and women." 
    
    A rotund Mother Gong buddy, a poet called "Tom the Poet" opened for 
    them. They played in a small, small venue in Cambridge, MA, a church 
    or something. 
    
    I take it they're called "Mother Gong" 'cause Gong is still around. 
    
    Oh, BTW Bobby Calvert plays the sax for Mother Gong. He played with the
    space-rock band Hawkwind for a while. 
    
    Their sound was described as "jumpy at times, yet also spacey and
    cerebral," with guitar and synth effects. "Uplifting for the mind and
    the spirit."
    

    Whoops...the article _does_ mention a Robert Calvert on saxophone, but
    I was told that a Robert Calvert of Hawkwind has been deceased for a
    few years. The article didn't mention Hawkwind, so this has to be
    another Robert Calvert. :-) Either that, or the reporter was given
    bogus information...
    

	
	I think the last time Mother Gong were in Boston was in '79.  I 
    	wasn't really familiar with them but I heard a bit of them on 'ZBC 
    	and I ran across some folks at In Your Ear records who suggested not
	missing them.  Speaking of Hawkwind I anticipated a sound similar
	to them but just the same I enjoyed them.  They said they'd be back 
    	next year.  They played at <forget name> church across from Mystery 
    	Train records in Cambridge.

	I can't recall the local story teller who also opened for them who
	was quite interesting too.

	- Jim
    

GONG!

Yes! I've not got any of their stuff, but my mate played me some the other day, 
and I thought it was rather good.