Chords for Mad Daevid Allen Interview 1975

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_ _ [Bb] It's [Ab] been rumoured for some time [Gb] now that you've [Eb] been thinking of leaving Gong.
What's actually [N] brought it about at last?
Well, it's not my choice.
_ You know, it's not me that makes the decisions.
It's [Bb] not anybody [A] in the band or anything like [G] that.
_ _ [C] We [B]
get our [A] instructions by radio, you know, _ _ telepathic pirate radio.
_ They just show up in the head.
And at a certain given moment it [E] became obvious that this was it, I had the signal.
_ If I'd [A] been my decision, I would have left a long time ago. _ _
But I had to wait until I [Bb] got my instructions. _ _
Well, I wanted to split about two years ago.
In fact, there was a moment, there was a crisis of splittingness.
I was in France, it was the end [B] of the Camembert Electric [G] _
band, [A] the band which made that record.
And I really wanted to split, [G] but I just couldn't do it.
I don't know, [A] something was_
You know, [G] I'd go away, I'd split, we'd stop playing.
I went away to France, I went into retirement. _ _
And George [C] Gumowski and Bob Bonanno, we both came down, the both of them one [Ab] day, when it was raining.
_ And [G] I had to come inside, I was working outside.
I had to [Ab] come inside because it was [Bb] raining and they cornered me and they took me in to [G] go to London and stuff.
I went to London and when I got there I went to Lady June's.
I think I was [A] staying there or [Gm] something like that.
And _ [A] this guy came up to me and said,
Oh, I've just heard Bonanno Moon and I think that we've got something in common.
And [B] this guy invited me round his place to [F] play on the estate recorder with him.
And his name was Steve Hilledge.
_ _ And this was the guy, yep, this was the guy that I was supposed to meet.
Because it was pretty obvious to _ the boys on Planet Gong that I really wanted to take off and do something else.
So they sent Stevie.
How well do you think he'll fit in with the band in his new role as leader now that you've gone?
Oh, he's not the leader.
[B] See, I mean, that's the whole thing.
There ain't no leaders in Gong.
_ He just happens to be_
I was a [D] guitarist and I also wrote songs.
And he happens to be a guitarist and he also writes songs.
The only one rule with Gong, Gong going forever,
because the only one rule [Cm] with Gong is that if you want to split, you have to find a replacement.
If you don't do that, _ _ you're having some pretty [A] heavy weather.
Speaking of people [Abm] leaving, I noticed a bit in the Melody Maker the other day about Tim Blake having [D] left hurriedly.
Why was that?
What?
Moonweed split?
[G] _ Moonweed!
_ Moonweed, come back!
_ _ _ Oh, he's gone, all right.
There's no doubt about that.
[E] He's gone.
Oh, look, there's no synthesizer there.
I [A] set up just [D] about everything else.
I can't really see any synthesizer. _
Well, how do you think the band will get on without the synthesizer?
[Gm] It seems to become [D] pretty much part of the sound of [E] Gong. _
[G] _ Ah, yes, but the_
_ [D] changes.
And it changes all the time.
Without synthesizer, there's space, there's silence.
[Gm] And you can't have music without silence.
And in the silence, there are holes.
And then, you know, Flohut digs holes in space.
You jump down them like Alice Down Under will, turning over and over.
You finally land in another country with another music.
And you find you're underwater, and here is the submarine captain.
_ Submarine captain Spillage.
And, submarine captain Spillage, tell me, what is your message to the underwater?
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_ _ _ _ _ _ It is not [G] Spillage.
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Spillage.
_ What about future [D] recording plans [G] now you're actually splitting the group?
Are you [D] planning any solo albums or working with anyone [Gm] else?
_ _ Well, I [G] have a very nice little contract, which is made up for me by this Virgin Record Company.
Now, this Virgin Record Company, emailed for me to go to a faraway country.
I live in [A] a house a long, long way away.
And he paid me for this, to keep me away, away, [Gm] away, long, way away in the desert.
And taking _ [G] _ as my criterion, my philosophy of life, the statement,
a student of rock music must learn to waste time commercially.
And finally, I will send forth an asher fort from the desert.
The most _ extraordinary missiles, which may be swallowed by the Pyrrhic Republic.
_ [Gm] You can't really just go on tour the rest of your [D] life, can you? _
_ [D] _ Down the M1, [A] meeting Sporgy C and _ Eurypteria [G] Pyrrhiculosa.
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[A] It's monotonous.
_ _ [G] It's true what Robert says.
He says_ _ _ _ _ _
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