The Glissando Guitar Orchestra (with Daevid Allen) - '7 Drones' (excerpt) - MAC - 18/5/13

8 guitarists assembled at the Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) to participate in the only performance anywhere in the world this year of '7 Drones' - based on the idea of a 'glissando' guitar ensemble first conceived by Daevid Allen and Steve Hillage in the mid-70s.
'7 Drones' is a continuous slide up the heptatonic scale starting at C and ending with B - each note played for 7 minutes. In an interesting introductory prologue, Daevid Allen explained the concept of linking each note to the Hindu Yogic chakras.
This excerpt (the entire performance takes 49 minutes!) shows the transition from F (heart chakra) into G (throat chakra) and briefly into A (3rd eye). Performance poet Jackie Juno timed the intervals.
The Glissando Guitar Orchestra were: Daevid Allen (Gong); Brian 'Zero' Abbot (The Invisible Opera Company of Tibet); Andy Bole (Tang); Steve Pond (Krankshaft); Steve Bemand (The Timelords); Dani Speakman (The Timelords); Will Greenwood (Kaputniks); Kev Hegan (Nukli)

[@ceetarya]

great to see and hear Will. I miss him so much... :(

[@GhibliFan1]

Luckiest woman in the world. Being personally serenaded into a meditative state by The Divided Alien and a glissando orchestra.

[@3lueant347]

... and the time is now.... and I am saying LOVE

[@hattysnakes]

was a brilliant gig

[@MrTeapotpilot]

FLY HI DAEVID. OM.

[@djangobole]

More please

[@TheJohnnyh61]

I was there and top stuff it was too

[@pagancidergod8840]

Somehow I didn't know about this gig. I would have loved to have been there, and indeed I could have been. There must have been some sort of break in the brain to brain trance-missions I guess.

[@FaithAndKarma]

I love this stuff but I cannot help but be reminded of one of those gang bang videos, all of those guys standing around the girl fiddling with their instruments awaiting their turn lol

[@martinclayton7260]

I've been trying to find out what they use to play glissando guitar, but I can't find any information?

[@andyspeak3917]

I think it's modulation, chorus and delay effects pedals and vibrate the strings with a metal stick

[@nickmastro6870]

According to Daevid Allen, the original prototype was the metal handle of a "'female gynecological device" th-cam.com/video/kVSsWDkIOVo/w-d-xo.html

[@ozricness]

Meditative