I remember reading Robert Wyatt saying that he and his mates of the time were largely jazz-heads when they met Daevid Allen who was a true beatnik (or hippie, I forget which term he used). Y
I read a lot of books (Upanishads, Castaneda, the Bible etc.). The main thing in a brain is fantasy!!! If you are unable to imaginize you are very poor.
The drugs are only the doping for that kind of sports.
@jan1035 yes i read castaneda,s books ..most people think that its the drug that fuels the hit ,all it actually does is connect one neural pathway with another (like a transistor) and rewires the way the brain perceive,s information .so its the brain that produces the hit.its strange how nature provided organic alkaloids and simultaneously receptor sites in the brain.terrence m;kenna(food of the gods)thinks this has something to do with leaps in human evoloution.we never really come down!
Wow ... I bought Camembert Electrique on the Virgin 50p release in 1973 (original release '71) when I was sweet 15 and into Floyd, Ash, etc...
Remember sitting in my mum's living room (her off working) summer school holiday, stoned on vodka and the pack of Gitanes left behind by my boyfriend (too young and suburban then to have access to acid or even decent weed !) and listening to this first time, loud ...
Formative experience, was it really almost 40 years ago ?
If only there was good proper LSD available readily here in NZ.Then if one can find, its 30-50$ each!!!I DIG this song-haven't heard it for approx 22 years.Fuck yeah-good sounds-good memories
@joejoejoe1964 alas i do.I have not had any good acid for 20 years.Sad state of affairs here but it is who you know and if you can get it through customs without being caught-and via prohibitionist policy, face possible prison time for something that was legal 40 years ago and should still be legal with all other drugs in my opinion.
Bloomdido Bad de grasse...aka Didier Malherbe, the super flutist from the original Gong lineup.. mal herb means bad herbs, so Daevid Allen played with it and came up with the nickname
Best track on the LP - I still have my 50 p LP that Virgn' distributed in the early '70's, bought it at that tiny corner 'Virgin' records store that used to be on the NE corner of Sloane Square
fohat is right to dig holes in space, i mean how can there be a hole in space? Can i see behind the hole? is it like a whirpool? The more i think of black holes the more perplexing they become. fohat where are you, help me here
@thePatnolan Ten Shillings? Shillings were history by Feb 71. I remember that Gong priced their albums very cheaply - I thought it was 25p retail, about the same price as a 7" single? I could have been hallucinating at the time though...
@ManchesterGuitarTech - the coinage might have gone but the word hasn't. I'M only 40 and still think in shillings (5p)... it wasn't until my late teens that I stopped using guineas (back conversion from decimal curency). my dad still feels more comfortable thinking of a pound as 240 pence to this day. Thrupence, tuppenny piece, 10 bob.. all still used and still alive.
@thePatnolan Ten Shillings? Shillings were history by Feb 71. I remember that Gong priced their albums very cheaply - I thought it was 25p retail, about the same price as a 7" single? I could have been hallucinating at the time though...
after a gig in lower manhattan, Daevid told me he coulnt have made it without didier i couldnt have either... I never met didier but all my assistants or friends have... maybe its better like that. God bless them.
Sometimes when a person is stoned (I'm speaking from personel experience) they might not realize that they're getting on a person's nerves. I think that's why sometimes people don't like hippies. And alot of people are jealous of a person who is truly happy, and has found peace.
Psytrance in 60's..Except these bands show a Lil more talent," compared to some of the artist that take other sounds from other artist records without coming up with anything new, and DJ a party and take the credit for something they did not create or make themselves.Psychedelic is all about experimental creative
Live at the Watchfield Free Festival in the 70's tripping wasn't bad either.......Hawkwind were there too but didn't play. They preferred getting stoned with us in our DOME.
I remeber having a bad trip on mushrooms to this when I was 17.Great Album,it wasn't at the time though.I remember having to count my elbows and realising that I had 2 on each arm.Freaky shit,and this sounded like Napalm Death.
Quite simply mesmerising.... and the great thing is that try as you mightt, it's impossible to stay on top of EVERYTHING the Gong family STILL puts out each year. A lifetime of listening and happiness.
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I remember buying this album in the early seventies, because it was going for 50p, which even then was way cheap for an album. I also had friends who told me that Gong were amaaaazing, maan.
And then I realised it was stupid hippie shite, and gave it away. I have never regretted that decision, except briefly when I considered that certain stupid latterday hippies might be willing to pay significantly more than 50p for an original copy.
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u think its all hippies, remember hippies will stab ya just as quick as any thug, its all politics m8, hawkwind gong, the shit goin on in europe, riots etc, or u had pop music to numb ya,,. was that u? top of the pops or did u dare to challenge?
Helper In Promoting Peaceful Individual Existence,although according to the Oxford Dictionary it's hippy1
(also hippie) • noun (pl. hippies) (especially in the 1960s) a young person associated with a subculture which advocated peace and free love and adopted an unconventional appearance.
I love the 'unconventional appearance' angle...Just look at the average teenager of the 2000's...Christ but they even scare ME,and I've got dreads that almost reach my waist!
@Dreddloxx Hippies are hated because they questioned the "establishment" or the "established culture". And recently, I've been considering the absurdity of the notion, as our country is still new and establishing its culture. I mean, our country hasn't even retained its current form for even 100 years. European countries, established thousands of years ago, continue to change. How can there be an establishment in the states? Hippies were also identified with drugs. Hence the drug war.
@Dreddloxx Because we are different and regard ourselves as FREAKS but in a good way. People are scared of what is different and what they don't understand. Also we are outside of society. PATTY SMITH ROCK N ROLL NIGGER. BRILLIANT SONG.
@Dreddloxx Just congratulating you on seeking out an alternative to the valium induced trance that the masses are fed by the people who wish to control your life.
@Dreddloxx A Hippie is :- Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle. Hated because of a jealousy of their freedom. Fear of their threat to change established culture and attitudes.
@Dreddloxx I think a hippie is someone who believes in creating peace through loving action. That ends up being an indictment of all the haters, who in turn hate the hippies. Which is natural. They do that anyway.
@Dreddloxx very good question. John Lydon coined phrases like "Kill all hippies" and "never trust a hippy" when he was with the sex pistols, The word Hippy seems to derive from the slang word "Hep" Hep Cat or Hepster, Hep meaning "the one in the know"
Mankind has often demonstrated how it has a propensity to kill or destroy that which challenges him, or that which he fears, often because it reflects a truth within himself
@Dreddloxx People who profess to "hate" hippies don't have a fucking clue about shit let alone hippies, the generalised term and the ethos behind the sensationalist and steretypical myths.I was in the 70s and socially it was a far better time than now with greed being less of a problem for starters and children had more respect and manners generally.The LSD was better quality but the pot nowdays, though not the nice classics of old, are tastier and better in many ways.
i have much in common withb slint 242. got into hawkwind first, then gong, and then, tim blake. odd cos theyre all connected thru the members of the bands. love the genre of music they all do.
I don't think he did have a serious drug problem but cocaine damages the heart in subtle ways. It is amazing how many people who dabbled that drop dead in later life of undiagnosed and unsuspected heart problems. Gong certainly dabbled with coke at points although of course I do not accuse anyone of anything a-moral. Thankfully Coke didnt float my boat but I do admit to a single line. It may of course have nothing at all to do with cocaine but I do feel that a study would confirm what I say.
Absolute classic one of my favorite albums, ( i have 19 gong vynl albums plus cds) sadly the camembert vynl has worn out but the cover remains intact. Saw the original line up for their 25th birthday gig early 90s blew me away, i would love to shake davieds hand and tell him thanks and of course gilly too. its now 25 years since i first heard gong and here iam listening to gong on you tube. Incedentaly at the same time i was introduced to gong i heard hawkwind astounding sounds album check itout
@SLINT242 Tim Blake played with Gong, and created the whole synth experience we listen to on PHP 1 onwards. He left Gong and joined Hawkwind doing the same thing. His first solo album which you may like was "Tim Blake's New Jerusalem" I understand he is also the great grandson of William Blake
I bought the vinyl of this when I was in college. There was a store called Papa Jazz in Columbia, SC that sold used vinyl and I bought this album based on another track that I used to hear them play there... My rap/rnb buddies thought I was out of my mind until one night we twisted something and listened to this track....Great stuff!!
It ain't just the drugs, ya'll. Daevid and Gong were creative geniuses. The Grateful Dead have done more drugs than you can shake a stick at, and they still haven't made a Sgt. Pepper or done anything like Camembert Electrique. The PLANET GONG!!!!!!
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Well you might hope so but sadly the mix was always awful even on this Gong's only really good recording..shut up daevid your a bad influance and you know it.
hey hipster floating anarchy was the first gong album i heard too when i lived with these strange hippy types when i was 17 i am now 43...i was a punk at the time what a great gateway to all that followed...kerpow!!!!
I can imagine (how much acid?) I was right with you there and then but now I wish I'd never heard of the little green planit and the pot head pixies and all the guff that D.A. push's on you. Take a little time and wonder who you really are...yea right davied I am you.
The first album I heard by these guys was "Live: Floatin' Anarchy:1977"... That was in around 1982... It started the boosters... "Camembert Electrique" which I first heard in around 1983 sent me into hyperspace...
yeah, it was dead cheap. I remember the lead out groove of the vinyl had sound on, and when it reached the end it just kept repeating over and over...
Yeah,they all did that, but by that stage it would take 20mins to notice.Nice touch, and not unintentional. Better than havin' it scuff across the Label, Ha Ha, no-one deserves that!
Gong is a progressive/psychedelic rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock. Other notable band members include Allan Holdsworth, Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage, Mike Howlett and Pierre Moerlen. Others who have, albeit briefly, played in Gong are Bill Bruford, Brian Davison and Chris Cutler.
I was reading the booklet to this CD, and it turns out, there's a yang to Gong's yin. apparently they competed with a band called Magma. I looked it up on youtube, and i don't know how it was considered a competition. Magma couldn't hold a solar-powered candle to Gong's talent!! yu keep rockin, Daevid!!!!
As someone who loves both bands, I'll say that they were, at their best, equal in talent. Magma's output has been far more consistent because Christian Vander is a better composer (though Daevid Allen is a better songwriter) and a far more autocratic leader. Don't use YouTube to judge music, especially when that music extends for 35-45 minute compositions as a fair amount of Magma's output does.
this is one of dave's best. i think the first bit drags ever so slightly, but other than that, 5 star material!! u rule, Daevid! keep streamin strong!
Virgin released Camembert Electrique for 50p in a cheap edition (along with the Faust Tapes), but the orginal gatefold BYG edition is the one to get a hold of (if you can) & the alt. versions on Continental Circus are pretty cool too. The best I've heard is the April 26th 1972 footage elsewhere on YouTube... This is Gong as it should be - with Daevid at the healm, before he began to delegate to Hillage. When has Hillage ever played guitar like Daevid? His solo at 5.11 slays me to this day.
Gong is One and One is You.
slagrajag 2 months ago
I remember reading Robert Wyatt saying that he and his mates of the time were largely jazz-heads when they met Daevid Allen who was a true beatnik (or hippie, I forget which term he used). Y
dantean 3 months ago
I read a lot of books (Upanishads, Castaneda, the Bible etc.). The main thing in a brain is fantasy!!! If you are unable to imaginize you are very poor.
The drugs are only the doping for that kind of sports.
The music is....how said E.A.Poe.....like poetry.
It´s like a key to your fantasy
kujo839 4 months ago
great stuff happy days
Humaneering 4 months ago
Je sui un Camenbert? Now this YouTubers is totally brilliant,Canines Gonads,but you don't need me to tell you that do you?
GBPaddling 5 months ago
hippys are pioneers of the discoverys of organic chemistry?
assinomen 5 months ago
@assinomen No but they were the practitioners
jan1035 4 months ago in playlist muziek
@jan1035 who were the pioneers in your opinion ?maybe i should have said aleister crowley .i was paraphrasing him .. or de quincey?im curious?
assinomen 4 months ago
@assinomen I was referring to Don Juan and Carlos Castaneda and other mexican brujo's. And a little bit to my own experience :))
jan1035 4 months ago
@jan1035 yes i read castaneda,s books ..most people think that its the drug that fuels the hit ,all it actually does is connect one neural pathway with another (like a transistor) and rewires the way the brain perceive,s information .so its the brain that produces the hit.its strange how nature provided organic alkaloids and simultaneously receptor sites in the brain.terrence m;kenna(food of the gods)thinks this has something to do with leaps in human evoloution.we never really come down!
assinomen 4 months ago
@jan1035 thank you for your invite i accidently deleted it as i am not used to it ..if you could reinvite me i will try to get it right next time
assinomen 4 months ago
Camebertt Electrique Supertrique . Still have original vinyl.......
havanakim 6 months ago
mirror mirror on the wall
havanakim 6 months ago
zzzzzzzzzooooommminnn shhhuussh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mmmmmmmm
havanakim 6 months ago
real hippies were dirty
Lushhdog11 6 months ago
Shroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmssss
greaghreafen 6 months ago
the best tripping tune of all time! Eat shrooms, get high, get lost in the woods! What a way to go XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
admiraldillthethird 7 months ago
This is the kind of track to come down to when you just don't wanna come downnnnnnnnn
UKGoodBuddy 7 months ago
just beyond brilliant ...
jonjuliecat 7 months ago
They don't eat cats...they ARE cats man!
CaterpillarSmoke 8 months ago
Epic!
CaterpillarSmoke 8 months ago
gong are special,and if you want to say otherwise ill pinch your nose and kick your bollocks you cunt
soulshadow0001 8 months ago
Fantastic!!
Bonshikadors 8 months ago
An excellent cut from an excellent album!
spager 9 months ago
Wow ... I bought Camembert Electrique on the Virgin 50p release in 1973 (original release '71) when I was sweet 15 and into Floyd, Ash, etc...
Remember sitting in my mum's living room (her off working) summer school holiday, stoned on vodka and the pack of Gitanes left behind by my boyfriend (too young and suburban then to have access to acid or even decent weed !) and listening to this first time, loud ...
Formative experience, was it really almost 40 years ago ?
One of fave albums ever !
lauraevab1 9 months ago 12
If only there was good proper LSD available readily here in NZ.Then if one can find, its 30-50$ each!!!I DIG this song-haven't heard it for approx 22 years.Fuck yeah-good sounds-good memories
mike666nz 10 months ago
@mike666nz YOu don't need drugs to get high Mike <3
joejoejoe1964 10 months ago
@joejoejoe1964 alas i do.I have not had any good acid for 20 years.Sad state of affairs here but it is who you know and if you can get it through customs without being caught-and via prohibitionist policy, face possible prison time for something that was legal 40 years ago and should still be legal with all other drugs in my opinion.
mike666nz 10 months ago
Bloomdido Bad de grasse...aka Didier Malherbe, the super flutist from the original Gong lineup.. mal herb means bad herbs, so Daevid Allen played with it and came up with the nickname
Zehnuss 11 months ago
@Zehnuss thanks man! malherbe-bad de grasse! BRILLIANT!!
gus960 11 months ago
bloomdido bad de grasse???
gus960 11 months ago
@gus960 Venux Deluxe
TimWalker 11 months ago
Utterly trippy. Tnx for sharing.
needledropdamagedone 11 months ago
One of the best songs on the album.
TheMatgee 1 year ago
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Amazing album, recorded pretty much bang on the day I became.
Thanks Mr Shawshanks, piles are great, didier than what ? hillaged
If you don't have this album.Make something similar and send it to me at burgerooski@gmail.com
Thanks mate. :)
BevisFriend2010 1 year ago
ha oué purement psychedelique !!!!!!!!!! du bon son
bndrpz 1 year ago
This is one of my all time fav albums, cheers for the upload :D
kinkyjinks 1 year ago
Amazing trippy sounds
thoomoo 1 year ago
I got high on this without geting drugs
vomitronic 1 year ago 14
Best track on the LP - I still have my 50 p LP that Virgn' distributed in the early '70's, bought it at that tiny corner 'Virgin' records store that used to be on the NE corner of Sloane Square
CanadianCockney 1 year ago
I saw Gong at Chatham Central Hall, I was tripping all day....I have never come down. Just listening takes me away again.
eppist 1 year ago
does fohat eat meat?
xneilp 1 year ago
fohat is right to dig holes in space, i mean how can there be a hole in space? Can i see behind the hole? is it like a whirpool? The more i think of black holes the more perplexing they become. fohat where are you, help me here
halvaman3 1 year ago
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Schubertwist 1 year ago
yeah !
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Daevid Allen with Andrea Bartelucci - Magick Brother
(1996) - Time: 8:17 - Download VBR MP3
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Daevid Allen with Andrea Bartelucci - Magick Brother
(1996) - Time: 8:17 - Download VBR MP3
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andreabartelucci 1 year ago
I've always digged Fohat digging holes in space. Well help me, help me sing this song.......................
twiggers23 1 year ago
The best wheel of cheese EVER
mynameisnotalfredo 1 year ago
really kicks in at 4:08... :D
milander007 1 year ago
bloomdido bad de grasse!!
gus960 1 year ago
GONG, YOU BEAUTY!!
englishnbloodyproudo 1 year ago
I bought this Album for 10 shillings in those days........still got it too. Magic.
thePatnolan 1 year ago
@thePatnolan Ten Shillings? Shillings were history by Feb 71. I remember that Gong priced their albums very cheaply - I thought it was 25p retail, about the same price as a 7" single? I could have been hallucinating at the time though...
ManchesterGuitarTech 1 year ago
@ManchesterGuitarTech - the coinage might have gone but the word hasn't. I'M only 40 and still think in shillings (5p)... it wasn't until my late teens that I stopped using guineas (back conversion from decimal curency). my dad still feels more comfortable thinking of a pound as 240 pence to this day. Thrupence, tuppenny piece, 10 bob.. all still used and still alive.
milander007 1 year ago
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@thePatnolan Ten Shillings? Shillings were history by Feb 71. I remember that Gong priced their albums very cheaply - I thought it was 25p retail, about the same price as a 7" single? I could have been hallucinating at the time though...
ManchesterGuitarTech 1 year ago
after a gig in lower manhattan, Daevid told me he coulnt have made it without didier i couldnt have either... I never met didier but all my assistants or friends have... maybe its better like that. God bless them.
Rakifatso 1 year ago
DIDIER MALHERBE IS GOD & daevid's guitar rocks the fuck out here. Immortal.
jacksmiley53 1 year ago
DIDIER MALHERBE IS GOD & daevid's guitar rocks the fuck out here. Immortal.
jacksmiley53 1 year ago
i was born in 1962 and i remember the first time i saw a guy with long hair, 1968 probably, and i said to my dad - that lady's got a beard!
craigleithdavid 1 year ago
Sometimes when a person is stoned (I'm speaking from personel experience) they might not realize that they're getting on a person's nerves. I think that's why sometimes people don't like hippies. And alot of people are jealous of a person who is truly happy, and has found peace.
velyogendra108 1 year ago
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complete rubbish
pimpdaddysimpy 1 year ago
im fifteen and i love this band thanks to my dad xD along with bob dylan, pink floyd etc. :)))
justineceeface 1 year ago
sorry
TheMaxlow 1 year ago
Its only bands like GONG and EARTH CULTURE that really have something to say!!!
sexyEmma4u 1 year ago
I have aso read that it is to do with the ones who smoked opium and lay on their hips whilst smoking.
chrishove123 1 year ago
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TheMaxlow 1 year ago
@TheMaxlow BOLLOCKS you have no idea what you are on about
chrishove123 1 year ago
Camembert? Eleqtrique? Tres bon. Mais oui. Sascre bleu. Psychedelic madness, nice. Cheers mate
julesplym 1 year ago
Psytrance in 60's..Except these bands show a Lil more talent," compared to some of the artist that take other sounds from other artist records without coming up with anything new, and DJ a party and take the credit for something they did not create or make themselves.Psychedelic is all about experimental creative
dannyhood66 1 year ago
Quanti viaggi....... :)
nobileogami 2 years ago
GONG and EARTH CULTURE are the best bands around!!!
vom1966 2 years ago
pip pyle? Pierre Moerlen?
thrawnsean 2 years ago
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@thrawnsean pip pyle was the drummer on camembert..
TheTribalDog 1 year ago
Pip Pyle
R.I.P
What a drummer ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ ٩(●̮̮̃•
TheTribalDog 2 years ago
ahh nostalgia
TheTribalDog 2 years ago
Live at the Watchfield Free Festival in the 70's tripping wasn't bad either.......Hawkwind were there too but didn't play. They preferred getting stoned with us in our DOME.
Paddy
thePatnolan 2 years ago
I would love to play with this band even if it meant dingalinging the triangle...
TheRusskinruss 2 years ago
Ahahah Theosophy. You made my day!
Huge flashbacks to the early '90s & my acid-munching 'seeker' mates n me...
=]
zarathustra2k1 2 years ago
Fohat comes from Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine I think.
Apuleius23 2 years ago
I remeber having a bad trip on mushrooms to this when I was 17.Great Album,it wasn't at the time though.I remember having to count my elbows and realising that I had 2 on each arm.Freaky shit,and this sounded like Napalm Death.
simonfrederickson 2 years ago 2
Oh no ! I only have one elbow on each arm . Makes em easier to count I suppose....
ilikezappa 2 years ago
What is Freedom Baby ?????????
Free 2 get Wasted?
Live in a Drug Reduced Reality..
....those holes in space are far to big for any to live with 24 7 only Fohat can truely dig them Man.
RadioPsiHAWKlogCent0 2 years ago
this is the first song that tipped me over the edge.....nice one...
noiseovshadow 2 years ago 3
I just love that part between 4.04 and 5.15! It's fantastic, so uplifting and positive. But at 5.15 things go sour.
thereisnobypass 2 years ago
Quite simply mesmerising.... and the great thing is that try as you mightt, it's impossible to stay on top of EVERYTHING the Gong family STILL puts out each year. A lifetime of listening and happiness.
scouserfourteen 2 years ago 3
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I remember buying this album in the early seventies, because it was going for 50p, which even then was way cheap for an album. I also had friends who told me that Gong were amaaaazing, maan.
And then I realised it was stupid hippie shite, and gave it away. I have never regretted that decision, except briefly when I considered that certain stupid latterday hippies might be willing to pay significantly more than 50p for an original copy.
God, I loathe hippies.
jjdecani 2 years ago
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u think its all hippies, remember hippies will stab ya just as quick as any thug, its all politics m8, hawkwind gong, the shit goin on in europe, riots etc, or u had pop music to numb ya,,. was that u? top of the pops or did u dare to challenge?
gunsanddrugs 2 years ago
What exactly IS a hippy? I grew up in the 70's and remember (vaguely...) that they were all 'peace and love'(which can't be all bad in retrospect...)
Why do peaople hate them so much?!
Dreddloxx 2 years ago 38
There are quite a few definitions.The word itself comes from an acronym.H.I.P.P.I.E. : There's a few definitions knocking around.:-
Highly,Intelligent,People,Pursuing,Infinite,Enlightenment
Helper In Promoting Peaceful Individual Existence,although according to the Oxford Dictionary it's hippy1
(also hippie) • noun (pl. hippies) (especially in the 1960s) a young person associated with a subculture which advocated peace and free love and adopted an unconventional appearance.
simonfrederickson 2 years ago 3
I love the 'unconventional appearance' angle...Just look at the average teenager of the 2000's...Christ but they even scare ME,and I've got dreads that almost reach my waist!
Dreddloxx 2 years ago
People hate what they can't deal with in themselves.
Peace, Love and Light :-)
SimplisticSusans7o67 2 years ago 2
@Dreddloxx Hippies are hated because they questioned the "establishment" or the "established culture". And recently, I've been considering the absurdity of the notion, as our country is still new and establishing its culture. I mean, our country hasn't even retained its current form for even 100 years. European countries, established thousands of years ago, continue to change. How can there be an establishment in the states? Hippies were also identified with drugs. Hence the drug war.
andhemills 1 year ago
@Dreddloxx It's not necessarily a rational hate. For example, I hate them instinctively, I don't know the reason, I just find them very repulsive.
fingerprint211b 1 year ago
@fingerprint211b So you hate Jimi Hendrix Gong HAwkwind etc.
chrishove123 1 year ago
@Dreddloxx Because we are different and regard ourselves as FREAKS but in a good way. People are scared of what is different and what they don't understand. Also we are outside of society. PATTY SMITH ROCK N ROLL NIGGER. BRILLIANT SONG.
chrishove123 1 year ago
@Dreddloxx A hippy is someone who, like you, asks who, what, where, when and why.
hmsmagpie 1 year ago
@hmsmagpie Just trying to work out if your comment is a dig at my questioning nature or just an explaination...;-)
Dreddloxx 1 year ago
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hmsmagpie 1 year ago
@Dreddloxx Just congratulating you on seeking out an alternative to the valium induced trance that the masses are fed by the people who wish to control your life.
That's what hippies did.
hmsmagpie 1 year ago
@Dreddloxx A Hippie is :- Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle. Hated because of a jealousy of their freedom. Fear of their threat to change established culture and attitudes.
spasus 1 year ago 2
@Dreddloxx because they did not had a total absolute devotion for money maybe ? :D
carmencru 1 year ago
@Dreddloxx
because realism caught up with'em/us.
Serethen 1 year ago
@Serethen
Or you simply gave up hope
floodgear 1 year ago
@floodgear
Well yeah, that sort of hope.
You can't just go around hoping and saying, you got to be doing.
Hippies exist because the current high human development of western society is sustained by people who go to work in the morning.
Hope is worthless unless it leads to - doing something about it.
Hippies are spoiled besserwissers that don't seem to be actually doing anything other than talking.
Sitting in a drum circle and hoping don't cause peace in Somalia, it's simply not that easy.
Serethen 1 year ago
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@Serethen or they/you simply gave up hope
floodgear 1 year ago
@Dreddloxx we just don't care about how people look at us, we are happy as pigs in shit xxx
sharoonatic 1 year ago 2
@Dreddloxx I think a hippie is someone who believes in creating peace through loving action. That ends up being an indictment of all the haters, who in turn hate the hippies. Which is natural. They do that anyway.
MellowCricket 1 year ago
@Dreddloxx very good question. John Lydon coined phrases like "Kill all hippies" and "never trust a hippy" when he was with the sex pistols, The word Hippy seems to derive from the slang word "Hep" Hep Cat or Hepster, Hep meaning "the one in the know"
Mankind has often demonstrated how it has a propensity to kill or destroy that which challenges him, or that which he fears, often because it reflects a truth within himself
joejoejoe1964 10 months ago
@Dreddloxx People who profess to "hate" hippies don't have a fucking clue about shit let alone hippies, the generalised term and the ethos behind the sensationalist and steretypical myths.I was in the 70s and socially it was a far better time than now with greed being less of a problem for starters and children had more respect and manners generally.The LSD was better quality but the pot nowdays, though not the nice classics of old, are tastier and better in many ways.
mike666nz 10 months ago
@Dreddloxx ...well I,m sad to say that most people are wannabe's and some people just love to be haters cause they are not evolved as beings.
whitehottoddy 9 months ago
@Dreddloxx they eat cats
eyewoodsay 8 months ago
@Dreddloxx
coz manson and his family brought an end to the hippies
scottytoonarmy 5 months ago
i have much in common withb slint 242. got into hawkwind first, then gong, and then, tim blake. odd cos theyre all connected thru the members of the bands. love the genre of music they all do.
mrcrappyguitarist 2 years ago
u sir, are correct! thats what its al about..! getting away from the norm.. expanding the brain..!
gunsanddrugs 2 years ago
I don't think he did have a serious drug problem but cocaine damages the heart in subtle ways. It is amazing how many people who dabbled that drop dead in later life of undiagnosed and unsuspected heart problems. Gong certainly dabbled with coke at points although of course I do not accuse anyone of anything a-moral. Thankfully Coke didnt float my boat but I do admit to a single line. It may of course have nothing at all to do with cocaine but I do feel that a study would confirm what I say.
burgersoft777 2 years ago
Strong and streamin' mate! Would you like some tea...?
Timebandit720 2 years ago
my favourite Gong track, along with You Can't Kill Me.
LaxATivvzProductions 2 years ago 2
I don't want to count how much acid I did to this and the trilogy albums over the years
lynus111 2 years ago
too much? I did. . .
astiagogo 2 years ago
I bought this album when I was 11 years old in 1971,still have it and it plays fine.
This band shaped my life,I love Daevid and Gilli. x
double531 2 years ago 3
Absolute classic one of my favorite albums, ( i have 19 gong vynl albums plus cds) sadly the camembert vynl has worn out but the cover remains intact. Saw the original line up for their 25th birthday gig early 90s blew me away, i would love to shake davieds hand and tell him thanks and of course gilly too. its now 25 years since i first heard gong and here iam listening to gong on you tube. Incedentaly at the same time i was introduced to gong i heard hawkwind astounding sounds album check itout
SLINT242 2 years ago 9
@SLINT242 Tim Blake played with Gong, and created the whole synth experience we listen to on PHP 1 onwards. He left Gong and joined Hawkwind doing the same thing. His first solo album which you may like was "Tim Blake's New Jerusalem" I understand he is also the great grandson of William Blake
joejoejoe1964 10 months ago
Pip Pyle R.I.P
TheTribalDog 2 years ago 5
What happened ?
LeBabouin 2 years ago 2
not sure he died August 28th 2006, apparently died in his sleep in a hotel room....sad though he was a great drummer.
TheTribalDog 2 years ago 4
Sadly cocaine has long term consequences, his heart stopped.
burgersoft777 2 years ago 2
Was that the official cause of death?
I wasn't aware he had a serious drug problem.
GalaxyRover1020 2 years ago
Lovely tune. Fohat? Is that from Madame Blavatsky?
Apuleius23 2 years ago 2
This is such a BNP song!
roksancastle 2 years ago
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you are a fuckin nugget
zenhen 2 years ago
I bought the vinyl of this when I was in college. There was a store called Papa Jazz in Columbia, SC that sold used vinyl and I bought this album based on another track that I used to hear them play there... My rap/rnb buddies thought I was out of my mind until one night we twisted something and listened to this track....Great stuff!!
Bips69 3 years ago
I bought it cos it was 99p. Then I realised it was genious
moncrieff0010 3 years ago
It ain't just the drugs, ya'll. Daevid and Gong were creative geniuses. The Grateful Dead have done more drugs than you can shake a stick at, and they still haven't made a Sgt. Pepper or done anything like Camembert Electrique. The PLANET GONG!!!!!!
pazzensutra 3 years ago
Bought the vinyl, bought the CD. Still fantastique!
jh271055 3 years ago 4
Fantastic Album!
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago 2
softheadburger you do not know of what you speak
mavismoog 3 years ago
In Stereo that would be rather good...wouldnt it ? 5* for posting
SWELLTECHNO 3 years ago
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Well you might hope so but sadly the mix was always awful even on this Gong's only really good recording..shut up daevid your a bad influance and you know it.
burgersoft777 3 years ago
check out UTubeTechno for this one
swellmusik 3 years ago
dont talk bollocks
ROBBYX08 2 years ago
just listen to it?
burgersoft777 2 years ago
Wot about if i do a space vid to this ???
SWELLTECHNO 3 years ago
hey hipster floating anarchy was the first gong album i heard too when i lived with these strange hippy types when i was 17 i am now 43...i was a punk at the time what a great gateway to all that followed...kerpow!!!!
mikey1965uk 3 years ago
I can imagine (how much acid?) I was right with you there and then but now I wish I'd never heard of the little green planit and the pot head pixies and all the guff that D.A. push's on you. Take a little time and wonder who you really are...yea right davied I am you.
burgersoft777 3 years ago
trance music before there was trance music
ROBBYX08 3 years ago 16
The first album I heard by these guys was "Live: Floatin' Anarchy:1977"... That was in around 1982... It started the boosters... "Camembert Electrique" which I first heard in around 1983 sent me into hyperspace...
Love these guys.
hipster1966 3 years ago 3
yeah, it was dead cheap. I remember the lead out groove of the vinyl had sound on, and when it reached the end it just kept repeating over and over...
jetmip 3 years ago
Yeah,they all did that, but by that stage it would take 20mins to notice.Nice touch, and not unintentional. Better than havin' it scuff across the Label, Ha Ha, no-one deserves that!
KarmicAnarchist 3 years ago
I bought this album in Rumbelows, Lancaster UK for 50 pence in 1976. Its a fucking classic.
xxxChrist 3 years ago
:-) 50P! That was deal even by 1976 standards! Loved the LP and LOVED this track
CanadianCockney 3 years ago
This is like an ascending pyramid building step by step up to the pinnacle. what a cool climax, draws you in, takes you by surprise, brilliant!
Halvaman 3 years ago
How can the intro be too long? It's like the rythem of life itself... Woa too many shrooms doodz.
ToyoCelica1 3 years ago 3
You`ll never blow yer trip for ever
andyhitler 3 years ago
Gong is a progressive/psychedelic rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock. Other notable band members include Allan Holdsworth, Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage, Mike Howlett and Pierre Moerlen. Others who have, albeit briefly, played in Gong are Bill Bruford, Brian Davison and Chris Cutler.
alargedog 3 years ago 2
I was reading the booklet to this CD, and it turns out, there's a yang to Gong's yin. apparently they competed with a band called Magma. I looked it up on youtube, and i don't know how it was considered a competition. Magma couldn't hold a solar-powered candle to Gong's talent!! yu keep rockin, Daevid!!!!
TwistedAnvil 3 years ago
As someone who loves both bands, I'll say that they were, at their best, equal in talent. Magma's output has been far more consistent because Christian Vander is a better composer (though Daevid Allen is a better songwriter) and a far more autocratic leader. Don't use YouTube to judge music, especially when that music extends for 35-45 minute compositions as a fair amount of Magma's output does.
jackal59 3 years ago
fair enuff.
TwistedAnvil 3 years ago
You said it! Though I too, prefer Gong above Magma.
I love the Kobaïan language, how much effort has been put into that, to create and to memorize!
expoonation 3 years ago
this makes me wanna go pick some mushrooms. roll on october
DonLoganUK 3 years ago 3
Dreamy days indeed; dope parties, trippy music and deep & meaningful stoned converstions...brings it all back.
Timebandit720 4 years ago 4
I'm livin' 'em. Hope they never end.
genocommand 3 years ago
this is one of dave's best. i think the first bit drags ever so slightly, but other than that, 5 star material!! u rule, Daevid! keep streamin strong!
TwistedAnvil 4 years ago 2
yes, the beginning does drag out a bit.
braincloth 4 years ago
That's the foreplay, it makes the end bit so much more enjoyable!
DaGeBu 3 years ago
As often happens here, Youtube put my reply in the wrong place, I was responding to briancloth's comment that the intro drags on a bit!
DaGeBu 3 years ago
yeah, they need to sort that out.
TwistedAnvil 3 years ago
Virgin released Camembert Electrique for 50p in a cheap edition (along with the Faust Tapes), but the orginal gatefold BYG edition is the one to get a hold of (if you can) & the alt. versions on Continental Circus are pretty cool too. The best I've heard is the April 26th 1972 footage elsewhere on YouTube... This is Gong as it should be - with Daevid at the healm, before he began to delegate to Hillage. When has Hillage ever played guitar like Daevid? His solo at 5.11 slays me to this day.
sabrinaeden 4 years ago 2
Realeased for 50p or Free If you were lucky i
When other Albums were in the 2 POUND mark.
Peace
slimanshamen 4 years ago
tan fresco y emocionante como hace 32 años cuando lo descubri
abelisaurius2 4 years ago 2
y mi hace 14