NOW it is 1924
'The First Manifesto of Surrealism' by André Breton emerges
NOW it is 1974
'YOU,' the third album of the 'Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy' emerges
NOW it is 2024
100 years since the First Manifesto, 50 since YOU.
NOW is the happiest time of your life!
What strange wonders will emerge this year?
Keep 'em peeled.
Like a banana.
That's an introduction, of sorts.
This blog is a celebration of Gong in all its guises and offshoots, launched on what would have been the 86th birthday of Dada Ale, the Divided Alien Daevid Allen - Gong but not forgotten (*gong sound*).
I'll be posting episodic mixes of Gong Family music, rarities and interviews. I would also like to open the floor to any Gong fans who have rarities, photo's, images, stories, memories or memorabilia about the Gong Family that they'd like to share. It's an idea, anyway, let's see what happens. Speak to me at wyrd.daze@gmail.com
Without further ado, I present the first episode of 'Wizard of the Keys'
Happy Birthday Daevid, living NOW on Planet Gong on this day, January 13th 2024, on what would have been his 86th birthday.
1 Daevid Allen Interview 1975 Clive Williamson
2 Radio Gnome Direct Broadcast: BBC Radio 1 Sessions And
Edinburgh Live
3 A P.H.P.'s advice / Magick Mother Invocation
4 Master Builder (Gas Tape 004 - Alien Going Over the
Top) / Master Builder
5 Daevid Allen & Gilli Smyth - Wonderland World (Excerpt)
Gas Tape 001: Deya Daze
6 Love Is How You Make It (Vocal Mix)
7 Model Village
8 Daevid Allen / François Bayle - La belle cérébrale
9 Daevid Allen - People Poem (Gas Tape 004 - Alien Going
Over the Top)
10 Mother Gong - Rat Rock Instrumental
11 transmusicairwaves interview
12 Gong - Flying Teapot
13 Message from Tom (1991 GAS Tape)
14 Daevid Allen interview 1975 Clive Williamson
15 Bombooji
16 Dog-o-matic / Spirit With Me
17 Portal