The Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy

This is more like it. I challenge anyone to explain to me the difference between faeries, star people, angels, or whatever and Gong's Radio Gnome Invisible. There have been long running epic movies and major world religions (+ wars) based on much lesser stuff. Gong is one-of-a-kind. Enjoy!

"The story begins on the album Flying Teapot (1973) when a pig-farming Egyptologist called Mista T Being is sold a "magick ear ring" by an "antique teapot street vendor & tea label collector" called Fred the Fish. The ear ring is capable of receiving messages from the Planet Gong via a pirate radio station called Radio Gnome Invisible. Being and Fish head off to the hymnalayas of Tibet where they meet the "great beer yogi" Banana Ananda in a cave. Ananda tends to chant "Banana Nirvana Mañana" a lot and gets drunk on Foster's Australian Lager.

"Meanwhile, the mythology's central character, Zero the Hero, is going about his everyday life when he suddenly has a vision in Charing Cross Road. He is compelled to seek heroes and starts worshipping the Cock Pot Pixie, one of a number of Pot Head Pixies from the Planet Gong. These pixies are green with propellers on their heads, and they fly around in teapots.

"Zero is soon distracted by a cat which he offers his fish and chips to. The cat is actually the Good Witch Yoni, who gives Zero a potion. This concludes the first album of the Radio Gnome Trilogy." -- Wikipedia

Gong: Flying Teapot (73)

01 Radio Gnome Invisible
02 Flying Teapot
03 The Pot Head Pixies
04 The Octave Doctors And The Crystal Machine
05 Zero The Hero And The Witch's Spell
06 Witch's Song - I Am Your Pussy

"The second album Angel's Egg (1973) begins with Zero falling to sleep under the influences of the potion and finding himself floating through space. After accidentally scaring a space pilot called Captain Capricorn, Zero locates the Planet Gong, and spends some time with a prostitute who introduces him to the moon goddess Selene.

"Zero's (drug-induced) trip to the Planet Gong continues, and the Pot Head Pixies explain to him how their flying teapots fly (a system known as Glidding). He is then taken to the One Invisible Temple of Gong.
Inside the temple, Zero is shown the Angel's Egg -- the physical embodiment of the 32 Octave Doctors (descendants of the Great God Cell). The Angel's Egg is the magic-eye mandala that features on much of the band's sleeve-art. It is also a sort of recycling plant for Pot Head Pixies.

"A grand plan is revealed to Zero. There will be a Great Melting Feast of Freeks which Zero must organize on Earth. When everyone is enjoying the Feast, a huge global concert, the Switch Doctor (the Earth's resident Octave Doctor, who lives near Banana Ananda's cave, in a "potheadquarters" called the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet (C.O.I.T.) and transmits all the details to the Gong Band via Bananamoon Observatory) will turn everybody's third eye on, ushering in a New Age on Earth." -- Wikipedia

Gong: Angels Egg (73)

01 Other Side Of The Sky
02 Sold To The Highest Buddha
03 Castle In The Clouds
04 Prostitute Poem
05 Givin' My Love To You
06 Selene
07 Flute Salad
08 Oily Way
09 Outer Temple
10 Inner Temple
11 Love Is How You Make It
12 I Niver Glid Before
13 Eat That Phone Book Coda

"In the third installment You (1974), Zero must first return from his trip. He asks Hiram the Master Builder how to structure his vision and build his own Invisible Temple. Having done this, Zero establishes that he must organize the Great Melting Feast of Freeks on the Isle of Everywhere, Bali.

"The event is going well, and the Switch Doctor switches on everyone's third eyes except for Zero's. For Zero is out the back, indulging in Earthly pleasures (fruitcake).

"Zero has missed out on the whole third eye revelation experience and is forced to continue his existence spinning around on the wheel of births and deaths and slowly converging on the Angel's Egg in a way which, to a certain extent, resembles Buddhist reincarnation." -- Wikipedia

Gong: You (74)

01 Thought For Naught
02 A P.H.P.'s Advice
03 Magick Mother Invocation
04 Master Builder
05 A Sprinkling Of Clouds
06 Perfect Mystery
07 The Isle Of Everywhere
08 You Never Blow Yr Trip Forever

Flying Teapot + Leary's "How to Operate Your Brain"


Daevid Allen at his 70th birthday party!!!