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Gong also weirdly started some spinoff projects that had nothing to do with the original band except for some involvement of Daevid Allen in their formation. In particular, the ‘Zu Band’ organized by Giorgio Gomelsky became New York Gong for a performance at Zu Manifestival, joined by Allen and his colleague Chris Cutler. Allen went back to Europe soon after, while the band toured North America playing Gong's stuff, and then were on tour in France for two months, discovering that “they couldn't stand the European way of life” and parting ways with Allen.
The band then became Material, members of which were involved in NYC's 'downtown scene', and which launched decades-long and very productive careers of producers Bill Laswell and Michael Beinhorn, musicians Fred Maher and Mark Kramer, and engineer Martin Bisi. Particularly, Laswell and Beinhorn are known for producing Herbie Hancock's ‘Future Shock’ album and ‘Rockit’ single (the latter almost entirely made by them), Timezone's ‘World Destruction’, Public Image Ltd.'s ‘Album’, and Material's own ‘Seven Souls’ with William S. Burroughs — aside from Laswell's over two hundred releases centered on his bass guitar.