I believe at one point in the concert (I just remembered it was after Rita Mae), Clapton introduces him and says "he's gonna steal the show".Well, you know, it's right there--all you need to do is press the play button.I'm recalling this all from memory from a video I haven't seen in like 20 years, btw.
It was almost me, but I didn't have the energy. Actually, the Stockhausen piece I mentioned uses a tam-tam, that's actually how I learned the difference between the two when I was a teenager, from reading the liner notes of the old DG LP release of the Mikrophonie pieces, then looking tam-tam up in a musical instrument encyclopedia type reference book.
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I've got the official VHS release that Rhino put out sometime in the late 80's or early 90's. Actually, it's the second half of the concert, starting with Jeff Beck's set through to the end of the show, plus a few interview bits. If I remember correctly, they put it on two separate VHS tapes, the other tape had the Clapton/Winwood portion of the show. Then later, I saw a version that had the entire concert (or most of it, I think the Jeff Beck portion is missing at least one song) on one tape.
I actually remember staying up late and watching the concert on MTV, who also showed it across two nights. I think that might have been the first time I ever saw someone use a bottleneck up past the fingerboard (Beck does it during Star Cycle) on the guitar.
I remember Guitar Player did a big piece on that concert, it being a big deal that Beck, Page and Clapton were playing together for the first time. They went into all the details about the guitars each of them used, etc, and also how someone broke into the dressing room and stole Page's metronome, but apparently walked right past without touching this huge array of cool guitars that the various guitarists used for the concert.
I couldn't have told you by now what channel it was on, but back in those days before TV was in stereo my cable co. would provide a splitter and converter so that you could run a coax over to your stereo and feed the audio through an unused FM channel. I believe I had MTV and HBO available, and recorded the ARMS show, KC's Live in Japan and Roxy's 1982 concert using this setup.
Several mentions of the Who but no mention that "Love Reign O'er Me" features a gong...
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
[Nah , THIS is the best gong EVAR! (at 0:22 )]
Still not better than the beginning of this track.
Of course, the person who made the video used the previous incarnation of Mahavishnu Orchestra. But the first four minutes of this piece simply SMOKES! Particularly at the 3:00 mark when John goes acoustic. Walden's drums are amazing!
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I did the same thing! I had the first part of the ARMS concert on cassette, but for some reason not the second part, as well as the heavily edited Crimson concert, I remember MTV showing a Night Ranger concert from Tokyo, there were probably a few others I recorded that way. I remember HBO showing a Fleetwood Mac concert and also the heavily edited Who Rocks America video (last night of the 82 tour, in Toronto, which most of the best songs cut out, but I wouldn't know that until like a decade later, when I'd finally get to see the VHS release of the concert). I can't remember if it was HBO or Showtime that aired some sort of multi-artist festival sometime around 84 or 85, it might have been the Montreux Rose Festival. I think I also had a couple cassettes where I just recorded the audio feed when they were showing videos, the same as you'd do taping stuff off a regular radio station. Somewhere I got a tape with a bit of an interview with Trevor Rabin on MTV, I think.
That was a relatively short lived period, though, because finally in 1985, we got a VCR (a Betamax!), so I just started taping everything in mass off MTV (albeit in mono).
Several people have posted that Daevid Allen's Gong never used a gong, but there's one on "APH.P.'s Advice" from You. It's at the end, leading into the opening drone of "Magick Mother Invocation".
And there are several fantastic gong smashes on the re-arranged "House of the King" from Jan Akkerman's Tabernkel. In fact, the gong gets kinda overused there. And then there's one beautiful hit on "Lammy" from the same album.
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The last instrumental track (can’t remember the title offhand) from the debut Starcastle album opens with a gong hit.
Post-Daevid Allen, but I believe one of the tracks on Shamal actually features tuned gongs.Several people have posted that Daevid Allen's Gong never used a gong, but there's one on "APH.P.'s Advice" from You. It's at the end, leading into the opening drone of "Magick Mother Invocation".
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