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In 1990, the Gong name was revived for a one-off U.K. T.V. appearance with a line-up featuring Allen, Smyth and Malherbe, plus early 70s drummer Pip Pyle and three members of Here & Now (band): Stephen Lewry (lead guitar), Keith Bailey (bass) and Paul Noble (synth). In April 1992, Gongmaison became Gong permanently with the combined line-up of ...
Gong's influence has been seen in artists such as Ozric Tentacles [54] [55] and Insane Clown Posse, whose member Violent J listened to Gong's music for inspiration during the recording of ICP's 2009 album Bang! Pow! Boom!. [56] Gong's music has also found fandom in the ambient music scene. [57]
Members of the progressive rock band Gong, as well as the offshoot Pierre Moerlen's Gong. Pages in category "Gong (band) members" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Gillian Mary Smyth [2] (1 June 1933 – 22 August 2016) was an English musician best known for co-founding the psychedelic rock group Gong with her partner Daevid Allen in 1967. She also released music with spinoff groups Mother Gong and Planet Gong as well as releasing several solo albums and albums in collaboration with other members of Gong. [3]
Timothy Blake (born 6 February 1952, in Shepherd's Bush, London) is an English keyboardist, synthesist, vocalist, and composer, who is known for working with Gong, Hawkwind and his synthesizer and light performances as Crystal Machine, with the French Light artist Patrice Warrener.
A project with his son, Orlando, and members of Acid Mothers Temple led to Acid Mothers Gong and the 2004 album Acid Motherhood, as well as an improvisation outfit entitled Guru And Zero. In November 2006 a Gong Family Unconvention was held in Amsterdam , which included a reunion of many former Gong members from the "classic" early 70s line-up.
Pyle also played in Miller's band In Cahoots from 1982 to 2001, appearing on Cutting Both Ways, Split Seconds, Live 86-89, Live in Japan, Recent Discoveries, Parallel and Out of the Blue. His last projects were his group Bash!, featuring the French guitarist Patrice Meyer , Fred Baker on bass and Alex Maguire on keyboards, and a Hatfield and ...
The live album "Pierre Moerlen's Gong Live" was released in 1980, followed by another studio album, Leave It Open, in 1981. By this point, Pierre Moerlen's incarnation of Gong scaled back its activity greatly, not releasing another record until 1986's Breakthrough, featuring members of the Swedish band Tribute. Second Wind followed in 1988. The ...