Stephen Piper
Veteran
- Location
- Romney Marsh, Kent
Some tremendous players have been in gong, even ex stones guitarists. I think I like angel's egg the most.
Daevid Allen joins the great gig in the sky
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I saw Gong, but was too young for Soft Machine concerts, but knew their music.
We had a friend who worked for Virgin and often got to hear up and coming stuff at his house... he was taking the tracks around the radio companies and trying to gain air play.
I think that we are blessed (as old fogeys!) in these musicians were exploring new boundaries, new instruments, new electronics and themes in away that was not possible before or since.
I doubt that any of the modern bands, and the manufactured bands will ever have a a legacy as strong or as marked as Daevid Allen, and others of his ilk
We had a friend who worked for Virgin and often got to hear up and coming stuff at his house... he was taking the tracks around the radio companies and trying to gain air play.
I think that we are blessed (as old fogeys!) in these musicians were exploring new boundaries, new instruments, new electronics and themes in away that was not possible before or since.
I doubt that any of the modern bands, and the manufactured bands will ever have a a legacy as strong or as marked as Daevid Allen, and others of his ilk
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Very true... although i have high hopes for Let's Eat Grandma... forever may they avoid the mainstream like the plague, remain virtually unlistenable and be massively imaginative. It's the sort of brilliance that goes over almost everyone's head.
Sorry to hear this. Camembert Eleqtrique was played at many strange parties I attended in my youth. This track summed up them live perfectly.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWak6bfPS_U
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWak6bfPS_U
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
we once drove from Lancaster to High Wycombe to see Planet Gong in 1990-91ish (at a pub called The Swan i recall)... brilliant gig... then we drove back to Lancaster when it finished at around 11pm.
220 miles to see a band, and 220 miles back home, that's dedication!!!
edit... I also packed in a job to go and see Hear & Now in Leeds.
