Daevid Allen
Poet, trickster, shaman, imp, faerie, author, hipster, Krautrocker, hippie, muse, beatnik, provocateur, prog-rocker, protopunk, magician, pothead, acidhead, headhead, gnome: Daevid Allen has been all of it and more, in a sprawling, kaleidoscopic array of bands, collaborative efforts, collectives, performance-art troops, and hazy, gauzy, pixie-dust bafflements. He ran around with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, Byron Gysin and the like at Paris’s notorious Beat Hotel; he, with the equally legendary Robert Wyatt, co-founded the band Soft Machine, arguably the greatest prog-rock ensembles of the 1960s (take that, Pink Floyd); he descended to Earth from mythical Planet Gong to save us miserable Earthlings from ourselves. He has, quite possibly, inhaled.... Read More
- City Of Origin:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Genre:
- Rock, Progressive, Jazz, Fusion, Psychedelic
- Birthdate:
- 01/13/1938
