Gong live @ Herzberg 2009, Germany

Photo from Leaky Sparrow – Gong – Herzberg Music Festival – July 17, 2009 - More pics here

After Crosby, Stills & Nash (with our without Young) who is the best band ever? Gong… yes, Gong! You know this pataphysical freak out band that rose 40 years ago with a magisterial album called Camembert Electric… I hope you had the chance to hear it almost once in your life. I’m not gonna tell you here the story of Daevid Allen and Gong from the beginning to now. Please go on Gong page or on some well informed sites. I just want to say few words about there performance during the Burg Herzberg Music Festival held last week-end in Germany.
It was the first time that I went to Herzberg, believe me it’s the coolest place to go in summer to hear good music and to be amongst wonderful people. This festival is also known to be the biggest “hippie” convention held in Europe each year. Well, Gong fit well there. And it does despite a heavy rain that never stopped during the concert, thousands of fans where there to hear once again the story of the Pot Head Pixies as well as some new song from 2032 (read below) stood in the wet and the cold. Daevid Allen and Gilli Smith were there of course, Miquette Giraudy too but the most important was that Steve Hillage was also on stage. A wonderful show! Those guys are still young and gave to the crowd everything that it was possible to offer in such circumstances. And I was the lucky guy too, I had the chance to talk to the band backstage after the show… but I will keep it secret for the moment… it’s a long story to tell… Ok, what I want to say now is that they are still touring until the end of the year, don’t miss them and run to get 2032 as soon as it is possible.
Gong has already produced a brand new forward-looking album called 2032 - Yes that's the year 2032 - the year that the Planet Gong makes full contact with the Planet Earth - and a major new chapter in the continually evolving Gong mythology. The album is due to be released in September 2009.

Website: planetgong.co.uk

Gong - The Pot Head Pixies .mp3 from Flying Teapot (1972)

And from "Continental Circus (Original Soundtrack)" LP (Philips) 1971 (France) Gong - What Do You Want? .mp3 via Siblingshot.blogspot (nice post by the way…)