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Hemispheres
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Topic: Daevid Allen Posted: January 02 2006 at 09:49 |
Why isnt Daevid Allen in the Archives i just got bananamoon and thats an amazing album its up there with camembert electrique i say we put him in
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Winter Wine
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 12 2005 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 1140 |
Posted: January 02 2006 at 09:56 |
That the guy from gong? never heard any of his solo stuff but i'm becoming a big gong fan!
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 02 2006 at 09:59 |
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Hemispheres
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Posted: January 02 2006 at 10:01 |
yep hes that crazy hippy from gong |
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Morandar
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Posted: January 02 2006 at 10:54 |
Did you check out those strange session cds you can find at some
stores? From what I understood, they are nothing but strange studio
chat or similar. Are they worth (in a Gong-fan prospective, obviously!)?
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Certif1ed
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Posted: January 02 2006 at 10:56 |
If wacky and wierd = Prog Rock, then Allen's in. I'm a bit amazed that he isn't already. Most of "Bananamoon" is plain daft; it's not a favourite album of mine - especially that version of "Opium for the People". "Now is the Happiest Time of your Life" has no Prog Rock on it, but it does have DA's kids talking about Pot Head Pixies and Flying Teapots... they're obviously as mad as he is. I've seen him live a few times doing his solo stuff, and he's a great entertainer - but his folksy style doesn't even come close to Prog. even though it does have the obvious Gong angles. Prog related, because of Gong, but almost nothing else. "Poet for sale - a real live one..." Says it all, really... |
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oliverstoned
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Posted: January 02 2006 at 11:08 |
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The Wizard
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 18 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 7341 |
Posted: January 02 2006 at 11:55 |
Wasn't he in the Soft machine?
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oliverstoned
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Posted: January 02 2006 at 12:40 |
He was even founder of SM!
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Syzygy
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Posted: January 02 2006 at 13:02 |
He was a seminal figure in the early Canterbury scene and his contributions to prog with Gong are essential. I've only recently started getting into his solo stuff, which is very erratic but much better than I'd thought it would be. I think prog related is the best category for him, simply because most of his solo output only has a tenuous connection to prog, but definitely should be included.
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PROGMAN
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Posted: March 23 2006 at 14:50 |
Yes he was a founder of Soft Machine alongside Ratelege, Wyatt and Ayers, maye he is worthy of an inclusion.
He is now in University of Errors, no not a college a band!! |
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ANDREW
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 21 2005 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 3064 |
Posted: March 23 2006 at 15:03 |
I agree, he should be included!!! |
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BaldFriede
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 02 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10261 |
Posted: March 23 2006 at 15:14 |
Some of his solo albums are prog pure, in my opinion, like "N' Existe Pas" or "Divided Alien Playbax". But I agree not all of his albums fall into the prog category. Yet he should definitely be included, and Jean had already been working on it before we had the accident. He published a lot of collaborations with other artists, some of which even we don't own. The reason for that is nobody ever writes about him (except on the Gong homepage). So during the time before we went online a lot of his short-lived projects passed us by unnoticed.
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salmacis
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Posted: March 24 2006 at 04:54 |
I thought 'Bananamoon' was a load of old hogwash!Psychedelic silliness that lacked the musical suss of Gong, to my ears anyway. Not heard much else mind...I do own a book, however, which seems to be pre Soft Machine, even, of poems by Daevid Allen called 'If Words Were Birds'. Can anyone shed any more light on this, as I've had it a few years and know little about it, bar it was reissued in the 80s by 'The Gong Appreciation Society'...
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