Gong 2000
The Gong family, including old members like Gilli Smyth, Didier Malherbe and of course Daevid Alien/Allen, celebrated their first gig of the new millennium on April 2000, in a London club called the Subterania. This is how the event is described in the sleeve notes of the DVD from which I've ripped these videos off:
It was the beginning of a new cycle for Gong. A new album, a new label, a new drummer, a new sinthesizer wiz, and a new agency with the potential for a fresh management vision. This was our first gig of the 2000 naughty naughties & aside from three thoroughly distracted rehearsals we hadn't played together for five months. To add to the pressure the gig was going out as webcast and eventually would become a DVD & live CD.
Somehow when the day came we forgot all this & it all morphed into a huge fluorescent fancy dress party with a bunch of our old tribal pals & friends old & new in a club in Portobello Rd. - for years the epicentre of our London lifetimes.
They were promoting the new CD Zero 2 Infinity, but these are brilliant versions of two great classics from their old repertoire.
Take a look at Gilli on You Can't Kill Me, it seems to me that she was under the effect of something. What do you think?
Gong - You Can't Kill Me (2000)
Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible (2000)
Password: http://musicforyoureyes.blogspot.com/
See you
Mirco
It was the beginning of a new cycle for Gong. A new album, a new label, a new drummer, a new sinthesizer wiz, and a new agency with the potential for a fresh management vision. This was our first gig of the 2000 naughty naughties & aside from three thoroughly distracted rehearsals we hadn't played together for five months. To add to the pressure the gig was going out as webcast and eventually would become a DVD & live CD.
Somehow when the day came we forgot all this & it all morphed into a huge fluorescent fancy dress party with a bunch of our old tribal pals & friends old & new in a club in Portobello Rd. - for years the epicentre of our London lifetimes.
They were promoting the new CD Zero 2 Infinity, but these are brilliant versions of two great classics from their old repertoire.
Take a look at Gilli on You Can't Kill Me, it seems to me that she was under the effect of something. What do you think?
Gong - You Can't Kill Me (2000)
Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible (2000)
Password: http://musicforyoureyes.blogspot.com/
See you
Mirco
5 Comments:
Thanks for this video, Mirco. Gosto muito do Gong. Eles fazem um rock psicodélico com bons toques progressivos.
Gilli is under the influence of pixies, man....PIXIES!!! Thanks for these two great clipzzz
Mi ha fatto piacere vederli e rivederli,mille grazie e ciao
Absobloodylutely superb!!
Thank you very much for these.
Thanks, I will note down this word: Absobloodylutely ;-)
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