daevid allen on the radio
Interesting Alternative Show, 2012-10-01
Interstellar Nihilism, 2012-05-28
Radio Valencia : host Ure Thrall
WKSU Cleveland (1980)
Q&A
Recorded in a discarded bean tin beside a busy airport runway on a hot summer day in a city famed for having its river repeatedly catch fire, daevid goes on about gamelan music, history, drugs, ritual, comparative religion, mysticism, cult super-stardom, Charlie Records, what he is and isn't doing, with and to whom, where and why. Hosted by Jeff Wootton.
Gong history lesson
Mistake Club, Cleveland (1980)
Divided Alien Clockwork Band USA tour, 1980-07-08 : - includes bits of radio interviews, studio recordings, live concerts. Gong History 101 performance/lecture + audio 'illustrations' in which daevid touches upon : What Gong Was (and wasn't) All About; The Switch Doctor; The Power Vision; The Soft Machine; Radio Gnome; Gong Cosmologistix; The Trilogy; Floating Anarchy; The Invisible Church of YOU; Zero the Hero; T Being; Fred the Fish; Banana Ananda; The Invisible Opera Company of Tibet; flying teapots; octave doctors; dope.
WKSU Cleveland 1979-04-29 studio interview
table of discontents
hosts Paul Liminero and Jeff Wootton- Topics include
- The Universality of Gong
- Balinese music
- The Mythology of Gong
- The Seed Vision
- Glissando Guitar
- Cult Heroism (Zeroism?)
- Fairy Tales
- Improvisation
- The Symbolism of Teapots
- Gong's music, and Gong offshoots
- The 1977 Gong Reunion in Paris (gig poster available as a download)
- The Goodness of Bad (and the Badness of Good) Reviews
- Dope
- Gurdjieff
- 'Canterbury' Music
- Punk
- Feminism
- Cults
- Bananas
SoundArchives (1977)
10m07s
Clive Williamson interviews daevid about the mythology of Planet Gong and recording his solo album 'Now is the Happiest Time of Your Life' at his studio in Deya. Sponsored by Symbiosis Music.