GONG LIVE 2000

[GhibliFan1]

I want to adopt Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth as my honorary grandparents.

[MLOI18775]

LSD maintains them alive!!

[glynnt54]

Gilly could still hit the highs back then...... awesome!!! And Didier...... along with Elton Dean, the best two reed blowers in the business!!!!!!



[Cozmicloon23]

<3 <3 <3 <3 Been into Gong since the early 70s and the love continues adinfinitum <3 <3 <3 <3

[keith904A]

Is that a VCS3 analogue synth in the background? Woudn't surprise me with this band? Great version of this track.

[kaciotron]

temazoooooo



[ZARTJAZZ]

great bands! 

[and3583]

Is that Didier Malherbe? Looks well young if it is??

[MrAaronAardvark]

Drop acid and Bongs!!



[clumpft]

Much love and respect for the immortal eternal Gong!!

[dermotoblong]

daevid allen. massively underated



[bfgfhell]

great, but one big trip haha

[gman8648]

OMG a white George Clinton and the Funkadelics!! Man this is GOOD!! These guys have been around since the '70's...it's true musicians get better with age. Thanks for the post, peace out.

[skiamakhos]

Funky thing is the old fella on the guitar & the vocalist went on to form System 7, a seriously excellent rave outfit, who in turn inspired the Orb, Orbital & dozens of top-ranking DJs. Hugely creative people.

[Spillage66]

@skiamakhos Er... NO. You're mistaking Daevid Allen, (Who's about twenty years older than...) with Steve Hillage!

[skiamakhos]

@Spillage66 Ah, I did wonder - thanks for clearing that up.

[mrphic69]

alors ceux là vivent en Ardèche , fument de l'herbe et mangent des pousses de soja, époque révolue, mais que c'est bien!

[codkid94]

they must be high o.O

[twinsmm1]

Awesome!

[pfaffman100]

He does this glissando guitar thing....brilliant.

[ZiraStarfollower]

Holy cow, what a trip.

Also, poor Gilly, her part is so short, and then she's just left to dance around while everyone makes awesome.

[noisivision7777]

Planet ......Goooooooong



[baggiebloke652000]

was this bilston gig at the robin2 ?

[avrocca20]

GONG (banda)

Legendaria banda anglo-Francesa de rock progresivo de Psicodélico y, a partir de los años 70, tocar en vivo en un club de una canción del álbum "You " llamado "Master Builder".

GONG: Banda de rock anglo-Francesa de Psicodélico y progresivo,

Este fue el primer concierto de su come-back, con los miembros de la alineación original: David Allen, Smith Gilly, Didier Malherbe y Mike Howlett ...

Adolfo Vásquez Rocca

[sexyEmma4u]

Its only the likes of such bands as the GONG and EARTH CULTURE that know how to make such great kick ass music!!

[willem5616]

I "ve seen this band in the late seventees in Vlissingen the Netherlands and this gig still lingers in my memory.

It's been one off the best live performeses I had ever seen in that town and this band had a very skilled sound crew, it stood as a house.

[vom1966]

Its only bands like GONG and EARTH CULTURE that restored my faith in real music!

[drsmithi]

Still crazy after all these years. Genius!

[drsmithi]

Still crazy after all these years. Genius man!

[jamfen]

love it ....can hear "the glorious om riff" by steve hillage through it ...superb stuff

[nargargole]

Reminds me of smoking some home grown and visions of Hokmah's wheels, so good,

[ipoogray]

GONG forever!!!!

[internalcream]

Still brilliant after all these years.

[dickdiddley]

If I remember correctly, and the remains a very large question, the album "You" was my favorite one. I put this on for my friend a few years back en route to a Hot Tuna concert and found the experience disturbing on some bizarre level. If you think about it, perhaps that was the point of it... I am still not sure.

[newageworld]

yes gong

[keithmotty1]

I still have their album on vinyl lol... Hey is that Gandolf

[antonjjok]

great guitar solo!!! Much much better than nowadays Hillage's.

[MegaSqrl]

not bad at  all

[Flash946]

Holy Shiznit... the dude from the SAW movies is the lead singer of GONG!!!! Check him out at :59.

[wilster200]

Amazing

[summerysle]

lez mcqueen !

[cornholio1962]

old hippies never die ,they just get old

[FA0508FA]

génial, peut etre un peu moins bon qu'à Valence le 22 septembre 2010. Gong se bonifie avec le temps sans perdre son fil conducteur

[thewordofgord]

the classic hippie rock band, totally unique and unrepeatable. God bless 'em for sticking to their guns.

Dedicated to all those who think the sixties never actually happened. Actually they never stopped happening, you just changed the channel.

wordofgord

[MrLaurence19]

Does Sun Ra come into mind? This is so great!

[theoriginalwallace]

Saw them live in 2002 at the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen & they were still bloody amazing!!!! Pretty damn good considering they were all nearly their 70's at that time!!

[nap1056]

trippy....

[albalbpale]

Good Jove, what a bloody rubbish. Incredible, especially the lady in an African dress, and the chap all in white, and the "music". Good Jove.

[darksideofdarkness]

@albalbpale Let me introduce them: they are Daevid Allen and his wife Gilli Smyth... :-)

[Teelarock07]

@darksideofdarkness Ex-wife Gilli Smyth... I am Daevid Allen's son. :)

[amfanmagician]

@albalbpale You just don't have a clue do you, or no-let me guess- you're a bored troll! Yeah. Find something to do with yourself.

[neddysegoon]

Wonderful memories of a time when things were just a blur.

[MOONST0MP]

Doesnt really work in the year 2000 does it?

[russthelegend57]

@MOONST0MP don't you think so? I think this music is excellent - practically timeless!

[MOONST0MP]

@russthelegend57 Yes mate, the music is good, i just ment it isnt goin to be the same as it was in the 70s now is it?

[russthelegend57]

@MOONST0MP I think I know what you mean - there's an element of nostalgia which wasn't there originally?

[ami2evil]

...eeezzzaaahoooommmaaaeeeezza­aahooommmaaa. [repeat]



[katumracingteam]

drop acids not bombs

[earinsound]

great, great...Ms. Smith is so amazing...daevid sounds like lucifer...

[condican]

Great Progresive/Psychedelic Rock Band, one of the first band that signed with Sir Richard Brandson on Virgin Records.

[jocsboy]

clearly "The Verve"were wrong...the drugs DO work!!

[mitzjob]

sense...of humor...I suck too...jon

[mitzjob]

Pierre Moelin's Gong bored me to poison tears...Like the band Brand X...noodling without a since of humor is soporific crap...Give me Davied Allen's Gong any day...jon...screw U...

[1016siobhan]

Really????????????????????????­???????????

[GeezerDookey]

Awesome

[jonsilence]

Oh, this is the STONEY/GOOFY Gong....I was looking for Pierre Moerlin's band.....

[scotta1265]

WARNING: This song can cause LSD flashbacks...

[scotta1265]

Proof that hippies never die... they just trip away...

[sobakayuta]

Viva Canterbury !!!

[coy0te9]

Gilli Smyth (born June 1, 1933, London, UK) belated happy birthday!

[WalksWithTurkeys]

Weird, trippy, and absolutely awesome.

[MrToby180]

Yes, absolutely superb.

Prob the best mushroom tune of all time!

[mokomojoko]

halleleulliah!

i will remember this

[TheRobby596]

grazie di avermi ricordato questa musica che ascoltavo da jovane visti dal vivo in Italia molto tempo fà!tky bay

[warriorc10]

la weá hippie!!!

[GwydionRhys]

saw them once, not an easy thing in California, music to melt your mind

[chanctonbury63]

I saw them play around `77 in a half full Hammersmith Odeon. They were superb.

[telemacherT2]

Bloomdido Glad de Brass !!!

[springcafe]

Yeah! Hot Stuff!

[Fraser4317]

This video makes me feel so young. I'm NOT young, but ooh..........

[MrLaurence19]

@Fraser4317 only in your mind am sixty and still love this!

[jazzminton1]

Heh hey! Brings all them very funny and crazy yet peaceful memories back from many years ago...............

[KarmicAnarchist]

Was this at the Assembly Rooms, at Glastonbury?

[noz911life]

Thanks i aint been in that head for a long time .... wondering now if The Banana moon Observatory in the french Alps is still going !.

[dooley169]

he 1st acid band...saw these YEARS BACK in my 20's, now 41. ...mushrooms rule

[Ragnemalm]

Remember this is live. The sound quality can't capture the suggestive feeling that they are building. "Master builder" is a fabulous piece in the studio version. (Not to mention the other tracks...)

[smoovegittar]

God Bless 'em! The darlings of the Canterbury scene, and one of the founding members of the 'oft so machine!

Thanks for posting!

[bongalist]

oh well, exactly because its 2010, and this music was written and performed 40 years ago, is the reason why you cant really diss GONG over any of the new stuff....as nothing is as original or creative. big up daevid allen and the granny for keeping it real!!!!

[zheffner666]

ive never heard a more trippier band then gong.

Listening to them stoned puts the beatles, floyd, the dead, zepplin, airplane and all others to shame.

[dooley169]

too true love listen to them on mushrooms

[mutoless]

来日しないかなぁ

[bbandon]

never did much for me in the 70s.

i guess i hear differently now.

Awesome.

[choppersimon]

Yep, it's a Hohner guitar, and the white one from the latest tour is a Hohner - 3 mini switches, I looked up close - this black one looks like it has the big block "Hohner" logo. Steve's is a real composite GL though. They really do the job.

[tanzohneende]

really great stuff !!!

[bongalist]

its always been a hohner :)

[Stumblestrum]

There nothing sad about this at all. Daevid must be about 60 something in this vid now and he is still going strong and enjoying himself . Very fetching outfit he is wearing as well!!

[aaszx1]

where are masses like that?

[suitkees]

Free your mind and your ass will folow!

[Ultrasteve1969]

this is what happens to you when you have taken alot of drugs all your life.

sad.

[suitkees]

You are just afraid of brilliant creativity, that's all. Has nothing to do with drugs!

[Ultrasteve1969]

brilliant creativity? LOL come on dude... stop being a fool. put away your hash pipe, its 2010.

[larethdf]

You mean a half century of making great music? Yes, very sad to still be a rock star at the age of 71, right? Anyway, Daevid quit doing drugs in 1974, and makes quite a point about telling everyone they are not needed.

[Ultrasteve1969]

If he is telling everyone drugs are not needed, then he is spreading a good message.

[1SampaSampa]

Love them! What´s the drummer´s name?

[Gwyo]

@1SampaSampa Chris Taylor

[GONZOM1]

nice

[serianis]

people pleose who can tell me a torrent so that i could download them?

[soundsbuzzme]

Bloomdigo bad degrass, best blower ever, ;) :) :)

[soundsbuzzme]

Love this band still, after all the changes, OMFG they still hit my spot :):):)

[gadafgadaf]

speaking in crazy tongues, wow are these guys new age hippie evangelists?

[DLWJohn]

Does anyone know what kind of guitar that is that Daevid has?

[adamg709]

It's either a Steinberger 'GL' (the original ones-made of composite materials) or more likely, a later licensed copy called the Hohner G3T - made from wood. The one he's playing here looks like a Hohner but I have seen him playing a white one in another vid and that looks like an original Steinberger.

[joejoejoe1964]

you never blow your trip forever :)

[snafutube]

oh my gawd... i am old, & they were old when i was young .... 100 year old hippies! ..... fair play to them!

[kavro666]

Wow! From the 70's!!! wow! long time ago! and this guys are amazing!

[glynnt54]

All thats missing is Steve, Mirielle, and Tim. Their absence really shows.

[GrayVproductions]

Ozric Tentacles!

[leesawford]

thats exactly what i thought

[anonymusum]

Would be nice if they could tune their instruments next time ...... xxxD

[russkinruss]

why take drugs when you have Gong..Surely do they not take you to another place spiritually..

[rorqualcommun]

Je decouvre GONG à l'instant même! Superbe! Je veux un thé, tout de suite...

[galgoazul]

The years do not pass for deavid it he has the same spirit of them 70's brilliant(genial)!! ItHe, continues this way

[Alexm799]

this is about as out there as you can get :D

[eagledynasty81]

this has to be the biggest lcd trip song I have ever heard.

[uanzo]

too stoned...GREAT!

[eyewoodsay]

sounds like hawkwind..black september....the sax is a bit irritatin...goin seein em in manchester...

[jeromeitzler]

i saw this band i friend took acid an he go CRAZZY!!!!

[Bonsangmaiscbiensur]

L S D traces (LOL)

tyvx

[Ancient12Tree]

LSD  i.e disorganisation of the brain . disgusting noise

[Casiogrind]

omg! die guck ich mir mal sowas von an heut abend auf der Zappanale

[ThouTubeth]

Die waren der Hammer! Ich hab jede Minute genossen! Ich freu mich schon jetzt auf nächstes Jahr :)

Kommst du aus Bad Doberan?

[JohnBrembo]

zappanale 2009! ich, Gong und vielleicht Du?

[Miloseb12345]

when are they touring the U.S. I heard Daevid Allen is putting a gong record with steve hillage, first one since You!

[double531]

This is available on dvd........complete with a person dressed as an elephant in the audience.

Been into Gong since '71.

[WiredWitness]

I love this groups music. I listened to Gong You Remixed Phase I and the second disc Phase II all the way through college.

[darmaster92]

where i can found the discografy??? please could you give me a torrent??

[adisgruntledhuman]

WTF !!!!!!! I suppose some "music"  doesnt have to make any sense !

[maxime2009i]

vu hier soir au Dour music festival 2009- Belgique- EXCELLENT !...

[skillofra]

Try listening to Hadouk Trio, Didier Malherbe's project.

[Gwyo]

Hadouk Trio - absolutely! Brilliant band.

[OriTheEep]

Enjoyed that!

Is there any more :)

[JOHNYNOW]

wow...just like i was back in my teens...tripping my brains out ..on what they used to make...i think it was called....l.s.d.......to bad they don't make it anymire..oh they do...and here it is....cuz it's not the drugs that got me high...it was..this music that made me trip out...just like now...that i am sober

[laffdailysugar]

yeah , i remember that stuff too lsd : @

what ever happened to it ? weekends have just never bin the same .

[twinsmm1]

Totally entrancing!

[zadigx]

ahahah mitici ficchettoni

[p43b4c]

discovered these at Glasto this year too !

[ceridawn]

i just seen these at glasto, had never heard of them b4 but they were so incredible, mesmerising, entrancing, and they looked about 100 years old, the crowd were totally in the moment!!

[yapludenomdispo]

i want the same kind of mushroom they had!!

[timminananda]

saw them in San Juan Capistrano on this tour after waiting 30 years to see them.

it was too loud at points, but I got to meet them all after the show. 

check the use on Mike Howlitt's bass!!

[thething00]

They're coming to the Big Chill festival this year. You gotta love the big chill.

[lixoli7]

it was..better..with awsome..pierre moerlen..

[Spillage66]

Pierre was only in his early 20s when he brought this classic to a frenzy with his immaculate drumming. No one else has managed it! Good comment! ;)

[tapaz4]

great concert in FASANO (south east italy! )!!!

[p1nutcho]

just seen in fasano jazz festival(italy)

WOOOONDEEEERFUUULLLL CONCERT

GOD BLESS YOU DAEVID!!!!!

[skullbarf]

theyr coming to Trondheim, Norway SOON(beginning of juli? i think. på blæst)). but NOBODYS buying tickets, why?........... COMEalong to the freakshow, great music, great people, the Feeling of tha people!

[wakanobacca]

there touring england in november going to see them at sheffield leadmill cant wait

[Jpeg13759]

This is from "Gong Subterania Gig" 2000

Available on DVD

[skiingrhino]

Nicely Done !

What an awesome jam !

[Thrashacre]

fucking crazy beautiful

[acidhead1001]

they're going to tour the states this summer!

[Pighood]

NEARfest only....that's the extent of their "tour."

[pazzensutra]

Why wasn't Steve Hillage there, I wonder.

[Miloseb12345]

Steve HIllage stopped playing with them after You.

[acidhead1001]

but now his again within the gong family!!!

[martinoc126]

Contractual obligations.....Ahem! However, take a look at the "Gong Est Mort" album cover & you may just notice a "defaced" face in the pic's there....;)

[pazzensutra]

Man, those old synths were the best. You know, all those trips Daevid makes to our planet gotta be wearing on his health.

[ViolaFromBelgium]

Sax,Bass,....la totale,

j'adore

[54spiritedwill54]

Wow! Five Stars.

[arthursdad]

Was in high school in the 70's when I first turned on to Gong. One of my first trips. Gong is one and one is you.

[anniedartmoor]

Used to play this to my son to help us both sleep, awesome. Shame I wasn't old enough to see them live! x

[skiingrhino]

Nicely Done !

That's a nice jam for sure !

[SOLFOROSO]

gong eccezionali! una grande band con didier malherbe al sax fenomenale! dal 1975 li seguo con interesse immutato e david allen è sempre un grande spirito libero!

[Sunchild333]

Can anyone tell me what's the sound effect Daevid is using in the intro(chant)???

[FlamencoPassion]

I'm pretty sure its an octaver or something that doubles his voice an octave lower

[burgersoft777]

Its most likley a vocoder of some sort. This is only half bad.

[AlbePetrucci]

daevid allen the bionic man

[ZnPb]

who is the guitar solo player??

[countdumas]

He is steffi sharpstrings and he first joined Gong in about 1977. He was in a band called the here and now band and they joined with gong for an album which I cant remember the name of now. He has also played with Eat Static in concert. Eat Static is an offshoot of another great trippy band called Ozric Tentacles.

[KarmicAnarchist]

The Album was called "Floating Anarchy, live 1977".

One side of the Album was Here & Now (was there & then) and the other side was Gong. It's on the Charly Label, and is still available.

[MrRuss2112]

hey karmic that was and still is a superb album..Nice to hear that you still have your musical knowledge about yah...I salute you....

[whillop]

Meeeya Testeeeseeeyaas are Blowinnnnnghieeyas Into your wholeasses wholeasses !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! phugya PHUGYA !!!!!!!!!! UPYEASSSEZZZZZZ!