abstract
| - Psychedelic rock band formed by [a10354] and [a258438] in France in 1969. Gong became pioneers of a new brand of psychedelia/space-rock/trip-rock - with a conceptual ethos involving aliens and alternative realities. An international outfit, increasingly linked to other bands of the Canterbury scene, many musicians came and went. Without Daevid the band continued with [a4452] as leader for a short while, and then in various incarnations as the more jazz-rock styled [a323088]. There have been many other versions of Gong over the years, and many reformations since 1990.See also band offshoots (in chronological order of existence) : Paragong, Planet Gong (2), Pierre Moerlen's Gong, Mother Gong, New York Gong, Gongmaison, Gongzilla, Gong Matrices, Gong Global Family, Acid Mothers Gong, etc.
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