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Night Watch
Sunday July 19th, 2020 with Dav Fot
The Gong Show

Put together a little retrospective on Gong, Daevid Allen side projects, etc. With almost 50 years of material and constant recording, 3 hours is scarcely enough... but this might be a good primer. Bookended the show with full-album-drops of their 2nd LP and latest. Enjoy!!
In September 1967, Australian singer and guitarist Daevid Allen, a member of the English psychedelic rock band Soft Machine, was denied re-entry to the United Kingdom for 3 years following a French tour because his visa had expired. He settled in Paris, where he and his partner, London-born Sorbonne professor Gilli Smyth, established the first incarnation of Gong. Perhaps the best known parts of the original Gong phase is the 'The Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy (1972–74)'... which we only put a passing nod to, as it's so well-known. In Apr 1975 Allen refused to go on stage, claiming that a "wall of force" was preventing him from doing so, and he left the band. The others decided to carry on without him Under the guise of Pierre Moerlen's Gong. Allen Smyth went on to many projects, like New York Gong (1979) (comprising Allen and the American musicians who would later become known as Material), solo LPs, Acid Mother's Gong (with members of Acid Mother's Temple). After re-vamping Gong in the late-90's, and putting more LP's Allen died in Byron Bay, Australia, aged 77 on 13 March 2015, and Gilli Smyth died on 22 August 2016, aged 83. An LP recorded to be released pothumously, 'Rejoice, I'm Dead' was released... and an LP recorded with no original members (The Universe Also Collapses), but ordained by Mother Gong was released in 2019.
Radio Gnome Prediction
Gong - Camembert electrique
You Can't Kill Me
Gong - Camembert electrique
I've Bin Stone Before
Gong - Camembert electrique
Mister Long Shanks, O Mother, I Am Your Fantasy
Gong - Camembert electrique
Dynamite: I Am Your Animal
Gong - Camembert electrique
Wet Cheese Delirium
Gong - Camembert electrique
Squeezing Sponges Over Policemens Heads
Gong - Camembert electrique
Fohat Digs Holes in Space
Gong - Camembert electrique
And You Tried So Hard
Gong - Camembert electrique
Tropical Fish: Selene
Gong - Camembert electrique
Gnome the Second
Gong - Camembert electrique
Zero The Hero And the Witch's Spell
Gong - Live Etc
Flying Teapot
Gong - Live Etc
Inner _ Outer Temple
Gong - Live Etc
Master Builder
Gong - You
Black September
Gong - New York Gong - About Time
Shadows of - Part 1
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Expresso
Shadows of - Part 1
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Expresso
Chandra
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Shamal
Dedicated to PQ But She Couldn't Hear It
Brainville 3 (Daevid Allen, Chris Cutler, Hugh Hopper) - Trial By Headline
Trial By Headline
Daevid Allen & The Magick Brothers - Live At The Witchwood
Dim Sum in Alphabetical Order
Daevid Allen Weird Quartet - Elevenses
The Latest Curfew Craze
Daevid Allen Weird Quartet - Elevenses
When God Shakes Hands With the Devil
Gong - I See You
The Eternal Wheel Spins
Gong - I See You
Zion My T-Shirt
Gong - I See You
Forever Reoccurring
Gong - The Universe Also Collapses
If Never I'm and Ever You
Gong - The Universe Also Collapses
My Sawtooth Wake
Gong - The Universe Also Collapses
The Elemental
Gong - The Universe Also Collapses
Flying Teapot (reprise)
Gong - Live Etc
I Am My Own Roadie
Daevid Allen & The Magick Brothers - Live At The Witchwood
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