i hope that someone out there was at the faust gig around 1974 so to prove i didnt dream it.faust brought an album out called the faust tapes and it cost 49p i think.it was full of german experimental music which at times sounded like half a dozen vacuums hoovering the carpet.anyway i went to see them and gong were the support.before the gig,gong were outside giving felt pens away,i can remember them telling people to go and paint the sky with them!!when on stage i can recall the front man saying that the next song was about a clock made of ham!!! cant remember anymore stuff about gong.faust came on stage in total darkness,no stage lights,the only light came from the tvs and pinball machine(i think) that were on stage with them.
suddenly came an horrendous noise like an alarm clock going off,absolutely deafening and after some more bizarre noises they got booed off.the house lights came on and there was a big lump of rock with a pneumatic drill in the centre of the stage-hence the noise like an alarm clock!
the bass player was still on stage sat in an armchair and said he was gonna play a song that consisted of one note and lasted 15 minutes-he got booed off rather sharpish...can anyone add anything to my recollections!! i hope so even though it was over 30 years ago..

lol sounds brilliant :P

i love gong, seen em a few times and used to have about 30 albums
i also love that faust tapes album, wikkid avent gard weirdness :P

I remember gong from the early 70s, I can remember buying their album (camambert electrique) at a cost of 50p, I still have it today.

i hope that someone out there was at the faust gig around 1974 .

Yep, I was there too, and it was pretty much as you recollected. To call it Avant Garde would be to sell it short.
The bit about the pneumatic drill is a story I have told many times, and no-one believes me, so I now have back-up.
Afterwards we went in to the pub at the back of the City Hall (Red Lion?) and tried to work out what it was all about.

Mind you, I did go to a worse gig. "Dagger" (or maybe it was "Daggers") at the Black Swan 1975. Three guys, thought they were Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
They weren't.
Their magnum opus was a 7 hour version (or so it seemed) of The Who's "I Can See For Miles". Give me root canal surgery any day