Gerald, my 'walking musical encyclopaedia' mate from Melbourne wrote:
>Hey John, don't forget that Daevid Allen, founder of >both Soft
Machine and Gong, originally came from >Melbourne. Do you reckon we
can we still
>claim him as an Aussie ?? Do you think the Australian >Tourist Bureau
would want to ???
While I think you're right about the Australian Tourist Bureau,
Gerald, I think we can (and should) claim Daevid Allen as an Aussie.
I was pleased to see that Ian McFarlane gives him quite a sizeable
entry in his excellent encyclopaedia of Australian rock music. Allen
returned to Australia for a number of years during the 1980s, before
heading back to Britain and forming another version of Gong that's
still touring. He is a really interesting musician IMO. Even spent
time with William Burroughs in Paris in the early 1960s at the famous
Beat Hotel!
Cheers,
John (in Sydney)
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