DESCRIPTION:
Probably the very first Gong recording ever made.
A part from an Interview I did with Daevid in 2005
Udi: "I read somewhere that the first gig was attended by Yoko Ono & Ornette Coleman and that a TV crew filmed the show. Is there any footage of that?
Daevid:
I would love to find it. its worth remembering that Yoko & Ornette were doing performance art upstairs on the main stage & we were down in the newly christened & very avant garde psychedelic cellar. We didn't play together. Gilli was subsequently offered a role in the sound track as orgasmic special fx but the film was pretty standard & boring.
Aymeric Leroy - Calyx website - "Early 1968 Gong residency at La Vieille Grille restaurant French TV programme Le Petit Dimanche Illustré
Personnel:
daevid allen: guitar and vocals
Gilli Smyth: vocals
Ziska Baum vocals
Loren Standlee: flute
http://calyx.perso.neuf.fr/gong/chrono.html