RIP Daevid

[MrGongGong]

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/13/gong-founder-daevid-allen-has-died-aged-77

[Beef Oven!]

A huge figure in my formative world of music. RIP

[MrGongGong]

With funked up Duduk

[Richard Barrett]

Here he is lending electric guitar sounds to one of the pieces from François Bayle's L'Experience Acoustique (not many people know that)... sorry I never met him, he seems by all accounts to have been an inspiring and all round generous spirit. I hadn't realised he was so old, but thinking of it the only time I actually saw him play was something like 37 years ago and that was already after the band that played the Radio Gnome trilogy of albums had split up.

[MrGongGong]

Thanks for that Richard
Its been interesting to see many folks who I would usually think of as a bit 'hardcore' when it comes to electroacoustic music say what an influence Daevid Allen was.

(more much interesting use of the VCS3 than on the usual JMJ guff IMV )

[Richard Barrett]

Its been interesting to see many folks who I would usually think of as a bit 'hardcore' when it comes to electroacoustic music say what an influence Daevid Allen was.

I think the thing is that during the 1960s and 70s there was a lot more intermingling between the more "experimental" end of rock music and those involved in more composition- or free improv-related fields than there is now that (due to the dictates of the "industry" more than anything else) genres have become mutually exclusive except for a few so-called "crossovers". Back then people just got together and did things because they were interested in each other's different creative directions. It was possible to be completely open to anything while pursuing a coherent vision, without being "eclectic" in an attention-seeking way. Well, it still is; but there's a lot less of it around.

[Beef Oven!]