Pulled from ‘Angel’s Egg’ and captured live in 1973, Gong’s “I Never Glid Before” is exactly the kind of performance that turns casual curious viewers into lifelong devotees, a swirling, space-jazz, psychedelic free-for-all anchored by Daevid Allen’s unclassifiable energy and Pierre Moerlen’s extraordinary drumming, and with 1.7 million YouTube views the comments section alone tells the whole story: people keep stumbling onto this and immediately losing their minds in the best possible way.
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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.
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