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Daevid Allen

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Topic: Daevid Allen
Posted By: Hemispheres
Subject: Daevid Allen
Date 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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Posted By: Winter Wine
Date 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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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 09:59
Bilden “http://www.sweelee.com.sg/Images/Paiste/Paiste%2028%20Symphonium%20GongEnlarge.jpg” kan inte visas, då den innehåller fel.

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Posted By: Hemispheres
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 10:01

Originally posted by Winter Wine Winter Wine wrote:

That the guy from gong? never heard any of his solo stuff  but i'm becoming a big gong fan!

yep hes that crazy hippy from gong



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Posted By: Morandar
Date 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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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date 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...



Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 11:08


Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 11:55
Wasn't he in the Soft machine?

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Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 12:40
He was even founder of SM!


Posted By: Syzygy
Date 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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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date 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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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 23 2006 at 15:03

Originally posted by Hemispheres Hemispheres wrote:

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

I agree, he should be included!!!



Posted By: BaldFriede
Date 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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Posted By: salmacis
Date 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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