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[Henderson Keith]

> Did Bruford last long enough to play on any gong albums?

>I wouldn't mind knowing that either; presumably he fitted in
>between Pyle and Moerlen, or was he post-_Angel's Egg_? Except that
>Moerlen's on _Fish Rising_ so presumably didn't fall out with anyone major
>just then.

Is there a Gong family tree by Pete Frame?  Maybe I dreamed that, but I seem
to remember it with Bruford's name in there.  Oh wait...maybe it's the one
Daevid Allen drew himself in that "Mystery and History" CD booklet?  Look in
there for Bruford's name, somebody who has it close at hand (my copy is in
the states).

>It's important after all as Bill Bruford connects you to absolutely
>everyone, and otherwise we have to take a longer route (such as
>Simon House [Japan] Richard Barbieri [Porcupine Tree] Steven Wilson
>[Bass Communion] Robert Fripp...)

Shorter route...Simon House [David Bowie] Adrian Belew [King Crimson]

Grakkl (FFA)*

*alright, this whole acronym business forced me to do some research and
learn that my phony acronym affiliation has been all wrong from the
beginning.  When I saw 12 Monkeys for the first time, I incorrectly
remembered the acronym as "FAA" and the name of the organization (that
fronted the Army of the 12 Monkeys) as "Friends of the Animals Association."
As so that seemed appropriate following Mike Holmes' Friends of Fernando
Po(o) (which I believe comes from Wilson's "Illuminatus"? oder?).  But then
I soon (but too late) "learned" that it was "Free the Animals Association"
or "Freedom for the Animals Association."  Or so I *thought* (until today).
*Now* after having found the actual "12 Monkeys" script online, I realize
that it isn't even FAA, but instead FFA, and it stands for "Freedom *for*
Animals."  So now I'll get it right, even though this is nothing like FoFP
in form except that it starts with F.  And now I realize that there's a
*real* FFA organization in Toronto that's been making a big stink about some
cat-snuffing movie or something at that Toronto film festival, so I gather
they're radical beyond-PETA-types (?).  So I want it to be known that I only
claim allegiance to the fictional FFA that let the giraffes loose onto the
"Short"kill Highway.  :)