Part one of Daevid
Allen’s amazing autobiography:
From Soft Machine to the Birth of Gong
For forty years Gong, and their enigmatic leader Daevid Allen, have been at
the forefront of psychedelic music, with seminal albums such as Camembert
Electrique, Angel’s Egg and Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt1: Flying Teapot.
Originally published as a very limited subscription edition in 1994, Gong
Dreaming 1 depicts the early years of Daevid Allen’s path to England in the
Sixties, through the formation of the legendary Soft Machine and on to the
conception of what was to become his life’s work: Gong. Covering his years
in playing at the legendary UFO club, the first US tour with the then almost
unknown Jimi Hendrix, the Paris student riots and much more, the book offers
a rare insight into the hippie dream.
The original edition sold out before it was published, and copies are now
highly sought after collector’s items.
Gong Dreaming 1
Daevid Allen
Publication date: November 2006
A Deluxe Hardback original
248 x 174mm, 144 pp
UK £16.99 US $24.95
100 B&W photographs & illustrations
ISBN: 0-946719-82-9
Previous edition: 1 899475 00 1
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GONG DREAMING 1
Daevid Allen
The launch will be at a Gong-based festival event in Amsterdam in
November 06 celebrating 40 years of Gong and their collaborators,
featuring many like-minded artists.
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