Phil was awful cute back then... Met him in NYC, when on your with National Health, in '79, in November, along with Alan and Pip, and they stayed where I was while between gigs. I found Phil to be rather aloof, especially compared with Pip and Alan, who were completely engaging, especially Pip, a bit of a party animal, who was more than happy to share in my Whippets (N2O) and we enjoyed a good laugh, as Alan looked on, then we discussed his American jazz influences, and how he didn't care for the Grateful Dead's improvisations and meandering noodling... I asked Pip about his time in Gong. He said it was fun on the French commune, that there was much hash and psychedelics being consumed, and it was pretty much a blur, his recollections...
@@aymericleroy8500 that's amazing! when was this? And where did you get the footage of Richard and Phil? (early footage some sort of interview perhaps) Thank you very much for sharing!
All in all, I was somewhat disappointed at Phil's standoffishness, especially as he was my favourite guitarist, even over the speed & flash of Holdsworth, (whom I also loved... He was also mostly indifferent to my duo track,A Minor Detail ( which was in A Minor, of course which I made with my good friend, Bob Stearman,of Phoenix's own Pocket Orchestra, and avant- prog band in the vein of Henry Cow and RIO... I know Dave New house of the Muffins really liked the track, because he complemented me on it... I had just wished that Phil, who I really looked up to, had liked it, what with me splitting the difference between him and Steve Hillage, but he was like "ehh"... Little more than a year after, I ended up recording a guitar solo with Gilli and Harry W (Mother Gong, and they were satisfied with my to Hillage-esque playing...
Thanks for these interviews. .was crazy about Canterbury jazz as a teen in the 70's.
Great archive
Awesome footage
Phil was awful cute back then... Met him in NYC, when on your with National Health, in '79, in November, along with Alan and Pip, and they stayed where I was while between gigs. I found Phil to be rather aloof, especially compared with Pip and Alan, who were completely engaging, especially Pip, a bit of a party animal, who was more than happy to share in my Whippets (N2O) and we enjoyed a good laugh, as Alan looked on, then we discussed his American jazz influences, and how he didn't care for the Grateful Dead's improvisations and meandering noodling... I asked Pip about his time in Gong. He said it was fun on the French commune, that there was much hash and psychedelics being consumed, and it was pretty much a blur, his recollections...
i will ALWAYS love that pic of richard 2:43
Could this be Delivery
Thank you very much for this amazing footage. Are you maybe thinking of interviewing Ryan Stevenson of Zopp soon?
What is this from please?
An interview I did with them.
@@aymericleroy8500 that's amazing! when was this? And where did you get the footage of Richard and Phil? (early footage some sort of interview perhaps)
Thank you very much for sharing!
@@aymericleroy8500 We'll live with That!
All in all, I was somewhat disappointed at Phil's standoffishness, especially as he was my favourite guitarist, even over the speed & flash of Holdsworth, (whom I also loved... He was also mostly indifferent to my duo track,A Minor Detail ( which was in A Minor, of course which I made with my good friend, Bob Stearman,of Phoenix's own Pocket Orchestra, and avant- prog band in the vein of Henry Cow and RIO... I know Dave New house of the Muffins really liked the track, because he complemented me on it... I had just wished that Phil, who I really looked up to, had liked it, what with me splitting the difference between him and Steve Hillage, but he was like "ehh"... Little more than a year after, I ended up recording a guitar solo with Gilli and Harry W (Mother Gong, and they were satisfied with my to Hillage-esque playing...