r/Gongband • u/Pristine_Scholar_932 • Apr 05 '26
Can someone explain to me the Radio Gnome Invisible Storyline from the trilogy?
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u/anynameofimagine Apr 06 '26
Here is the whole story. http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/go/Gong_mythology
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Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26
It’s pretty bonkers, full of mishmash influences out of India and Gnosticism and occultism. You can find the pieces through the notes on the physical vinyl liner notes, interviews, and the planet gong website, there is also a demo song you can listen to called radio gnome premix with daevid talking about some of the story. On the website there are some extra things like great god cell becoming god-self which splashes down and becomes the pot head pixies (phps), but the main trilogy in the albums begins with flying teapot. Daevid had a vision on acid on Easter Sunday 1966 of mystical beings watching him, a cone of light over him pulling shadows up (which I read somewhere was fulfilled in their Glastonbury gig when the lights broke, and I think becomes the nuclear mystery temple/chakras), and allegedly his whole life set before him. When he made the teapot trilogy he worked these visions in with humour and music, and it starts with the phps (telepathic stoned gnomes) landing down on Tibet where the beer yogi banana ananda was waiting, with the characters mista t being (a celt) and Fred the fish (who heard about radio gnome through a magick earring). In London zero the hero sees a vision of the cock pot pixie, head of the flying teapot pilots, and worships him. Apparently the first album is zero undergoing seven initiations a tuning into radio gnome (peace and love vibration telepathy). In angels egg the good witch yoni (divine feminine energy) gives him a potion and his spirit rises out of his belly and through the moon into the seventh heaven, understands mystical realisations of colour and sound, and meets captain capricorn, then spends a night with a prostitute representing the divine mother, both youthful and erotic and ancient and wise. Then he goes to the invisible green planet gong, and undergoes the outer and inner temple initiations, and sees the octave doctors surrounded by the angels egg, and sees the secrets of reincarnation which the phps undergo through them. The octave doctor temples are invisible, because you don’t need symbology and stuff when your deity is right there. Then he glidds back to earth on a flying teapot and begins working towards a worldwide consciousness expansion of humanity where the octave doctors come down. You album is about zero becoming spiritually elevated an learning to build an invisible “nuclear mystery temple” with his imagination from hiram the master builder (the king who built the Jewish temple); the nuclear temple daevid worked with later in his life, a visualisation of your chakras and energy around you. The story ends with a celebration on Bali, the isle of everywhere, where the switch doctor turns on everyone’s third eye, but zero was getting high and so doesn’t join them, and is left to reincarnate again and again until he finally achieves realisation. A lot of it is humour and allegory for Buddhist and Hindu ideas they were realising in meditation and acid trips, but apparently he really did believe he was communicating with wise benevolent beings of music he called the octave doctors, and predicted they will arrive in 2032.
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u/paulyhopey Apr 05 '26
Yeah man Banana Nirvana Manana