Comments on: George Jefferson: World’s Biggest Gong Fan?

By: Sherman Hemsley « letsnotgetcarriedaway

Sherman Hemsley « letsnotgetcarriedaway — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:10:17 +0000

[...] Read the crazy story about founding Gong member Daevid Allen meeting Sherman as first printed in Magnet. [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:25:03 +0000

I think this may be the coolest story I’ve ever read…

By: A Little Prog Rock on The Jeffersons | Up the Downstair

A Little Prog Rock on The Jeffersons | Up the Downstair — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:14:52 +0000

[...] Daevid Allen has a good story about meeting Hemsley back in the [...]

By: Theremin

Theremin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:09:41 +0000

Just watched an episode of “The Jeffersons” where Lionel was on the couch listening to the radio. George comes in and starts dancing to it. It was Nektar’s “Show Me The Way” from the 1974 album “Down To Earth”. I said WTF!

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Mon, 09 May 2011 20:01:29 +0000

[...] you know…that Sherman Hemsley (aka George Jefferson) apparently had a “den of iniquity” that allegedly included “an LSD lab, a harem of naked girls and crack/freebase depots [...]

By: Music Routes » Blog Archive » Sherman Hemsley

Music Routes » Blog Archive » Sherman Hemsley — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:23:17 +0000

[...] music blogosphere (such as it is) recently went atwitter over a year-old article reporting that Sherman Hemsley, star of The Jeffersons, is also a keyboardist who is a big fan of Daevid Allen and …. The actor who portrayed George Jefferson apparently had a special fondness for Gong’s [...]

By: klimperei

klimperei — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:44:20 +0000

& a scoop : klimperei is – slowly – working with daevid allen !!!!!! tagada !!!!
see :
http://klimperei.blogspot.com/2006/11/projects-works-in-progress.html