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Gong - can we take them seriously.....?
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Gong - can we take them seriously.....?
Lord Rother wrote:And there was me thinking you'd say "Fair enough, you have a point Bob".
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Re: Gong - can we take them seriously.....?
Of course , so much to love.
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Re: Gong - can we take them seriously.....?
Well I'm not sure they took themselves seriously which in my eyes made them more open to ideas and made them a legendary band.
What era you talking about anyway? I'm assuming your talking about their humor and early 70's albums general silliness. However, mixed in was fantastic musicians, great jams and excellent meditative music. LAter they got extremely serious when Pierre took over the band and turned them into a fusion band and at the same time Daevid brought in a semi punk attitude to his Gong band. Gong were always changing and loved it all. Plus the multiple bands that are part of the Gong family.
Hell in 2006 I jumped on a plane to Amsterdam for this
then there is this:
and this
What era you talking about anyway? I'm assuming your talking about their humor and early 70's albums general silliness. However, mixed in was fantastic musicians, great jams and excellent meditative music. LAter they got extremely serious when Pierre took over the band and turned them into a fusion band and at the same time Daevid brought in a semi punk attitude to his Gong band. Gong were always changing and loved it all. Plus the multiple bands that are part of the Gong family.
Hell in 2006 I jumped on a plane to Amsterdam for this
then there is this:
and this
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Re: Gong - can we take them seriously.....?
Can we take Gong more seriously than bands that took themselves too seriously?
Yes.
Yes.
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They weren't a joke.
No, they weren't a joke.
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No, they weren't a joke.
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Re: Gong - can we take them seriously.....?
Bill Bruford seemed to think they were a bit of a joke, in his memoir.
I think the problem was just that he didn't get it.
I think the problem was just that he didn't get it.
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Re: Gong - can we take them seriously.....?
I'm only taking seriously what Coan takes Seriously.
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Snarfyguy wrote:
I think the problem was just that he didn't get it.
Correct
They were genius
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Lord Rother wrote:And there was me thinking you'd say "Fair enough, you have a point Bob".
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Yes x
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Re: Gong - can we take them seriously.....?
Hightea wrote:
There's a side to hippy culture that just seems very silly now and not very attractive. Guess you had to be there.
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The Modernist wrote:Hightea wrote:
There's a side to hippy culture that just seems very silly now and not very attractive. Guess you had to be there.
robust stuff!
Something a bit more modern
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Lord Rother wrote:And there was me thinking you'd say "Fair enough, you have a point Bob".
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The Modernist wrote:Hightea wrote:
There's a side to hippy culture that just seems very silly now and not very attractive. Guess you had to be there.
Funny critics always pick on bands that are too serious (mostly prog band BS) and not having fun and now we get the comment that silly is not good either? Personally I prefer this to the BS punk bands get praised for.