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KING GONG

Drummist / Percussioner

About Me


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I'm really enjoying my weekly improv sessions with KWIC ! They're a great bunch of folks, extremely talented, and they have great taste in percussionists! ; )

Still available for the odd jam...

That's me drumming on that tune by the ASS MOLES (the tune that automatically plays when you enter this page). I'm blessed to have hooked up with a creative talent like Art Carcass, you betcha.

I like an eclectic mix of music, and I'm versatile in terms of style. You can also hear (and see) my work in my videos section.

I'm also featured on two tunes ("Bloodbath" and "Road Pigs" on The Exalted Piledriver MySpace page !

I have a MySpace Music page GONGADIN where I post some solo improvised gong compositions...

MY UNOFFICIAL BIO: I was unearthed during a trip to rice fields in Bok Champ, Thailand. Don't look it up, it doesn't exist any longer. I was raised by an elder hostile worker in Ving Ding Ray, Venezuela. Don't look that up either. I was in the whelping box with Cappus Casing, a cardboard box manufacturer.


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My Interests

Stereo Photography, Sterno, Sir-amics, Syrrah, Steakums, Seared Sheep Shit, Sushi, Sand Blasted Anything, Shit-eatin' Grins, Searsucker Suits, Sweet Jeezus, Spokes Folks....pretty much anything that starts with an 'S'...

I'd like to meet:

Drummists and Percussioners, Practitioners of The Pummel, Creatures Of The Beat.

Get Your Own Lurker Glueboard!

Music:

Anything well-done (IMO) that resonates with me, encompassing a wealth of genres and ethnicities. Various factions of Rock, Killin'-Hard-Luck Country songs of killing, alcoholism, adultery, drug-addiction (i.e. Porter Wagoner), Klezmer, Rembetika, '20s 78rpm Treasures, Tuba Features, all things Zappa, Unpretentious Prog (is that an oxymoron?), Psychedelic, Improvised Eclecticism, Jazz in most of its incarnations...

Movies:

Silent-era, and any HAMMER films with Barbara Shelley. "The Bad Seed" (1958) and "The 3 Godfathers" (1936)...yes, I know...I'm a sap...please take away my fuckin' TCM!!

Television:

"Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares", Anthony Bourdain's "A Cook's Tour", "Sin Cities 3", "Pushing Daisies" & "DEXTER".

Books:

T. Correghessan Boyle, Tom Robbins, Mickey Hart's "Drumming at the Edge of Magic"; old percussion instrument catalogs. Stuart Ross' poetry!! (Is it Stuart Ross' , or Stuart Ross's ??) Befriend Stuart Ross on MySpace, you illiterate fucks!

Heroes:

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My Blog

April Is Officially Poetry Month!!

April is officially Poetry Month.  In honour of Poetry Month, I plan to feature a number of my favorite poems by poets that aren’t Stuart Ross.  Stuart Ross is my favourite poet, and y...
Posted by KING GONG on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:06:00 PST

Reality TV, Really!

He hastened over, fast and furious."Please tell me you rented some porn movies, please!"  It was the frostbitten reality TV cameraman, remaining anonymous due to the nature of his inquiry."Naw, I...
Posted by KING GONG on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:52:00 PST

BOB, YOU ARE A FUCK!

How the fuck can you sleep at night, Bob?  Bob Upsell, Lawyer, Mouthpiece, Defender of the People?  That's not a fucking person you're defending, Bob.  It's a fucking animal.  A fu...
Posted by KING GONG on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:21:00 PST

Connectivity And Random Mammalians

'Zoy!  It was a choice between blogging, or viewing completion of the rather lukewarm, insipid "A Date With The Falcon" (1941) starring a not-yet-too-bored George Sanders.   L...
Posted by KING GONG on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:05:00 PST

Offline

Hi! I'll be offline and unavailable until November 19th.  No computer.  Just sketchbooks!  On the 19th I hope to have the second installment of Sir Frederick Gas ready to post.  To...
Posted by KING GONG on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:09:00 PST

Sir Frederick Gas - An Introduction

Today Earl would've been 88.  Each of his years would've taken up one key on a piano.  On October 4th of this year, my twenty-year friendship with Earl Bennett, a.k.a. "Sir Frederi...
Posted by KING GONG on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:59:00 PST

A Wall Sconce Resurrected

On the way back home from Montreal today, Ken phoned to let me know that "Gramps" was ready for pick up....and that the operation was a complete success! "Gramps"...it's a temporary moniker to be sure...
Posted by KING GONG on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:28:00 PST

What's Fucked.

Recently, what's fucked; The little 1925 mummified baby in the ceiling....a recent, sensational news item (different times back then in '25....was the birth out-of-wedlock?)...yes, that's fu...
Posted by KING GONG on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:59:00 PST

I'm Worried About My Ass!

For those of you who haven't yet hit the ripe ol' age of 40, a word of caution.  When you turn forty, your yearly physical exams hit a "hole" new plateau.  The "probe 'n' poke", as you know ...
Posted by KING GONG on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:57:00 PST

Awakening The Sleeping Giant

"Yes, hello...I read your Tri-Ad advertisement, and I noticed you had a 'C.C. Conn' saxophone for sale....""Yes, it's one of my Father's instruments - he collected many instruments!""Fine, fine...coul...
Posted by KING GONG on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:28:00 PST