daevid allen being a maniac for 9 minutes

Daevid Allen (1938-2015) was a Australian/English/French experimental musician, guitarist and performance artist. He is best known for founding the progressive/psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong.

In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered while working in a Melbourne bookshop, Allen travelled to Paris, where he stayed at the Beat Hotel, moving into a room recently vacated by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. While selling the International Herald Tribune around Le Chat Qui Pêche and the Latin Quarter, he met Terry Riley and gained free access to the jazz clubs in the area. After meeting up with William S. Burroughs, and inspired by philosophies of Sun Ra, he formed free jazz outfit "The Daevid Allen Trio", which included his landlord's son, 16-year-old Robert Wyatt. They performed at Burroughs' theatre pieces based on the novel The Ticket That Exploded. In 1966, together with Kevin Ayers and Mike Ratledge, they formed the band Soft Machine.

Following a tour of Europe in August 1967, Allen was refused re-entry to the UK because he had overstayed his visa on a prior visit. He returned to Paris where he formed Gong along with his partner, Welsh musician Gilli Smyth. The two took part in the 1968 Paris protests which swept the city, handing out teddy bears to the police and reciting poetry in broken French; he was often scorned by other protesters for being a "beatnik". Fleeing the police, they made their way to Deià, Mallorca, where they had once lived for a time. In October 1971, Allen, Smyth and the rest of newly formed "Gong" moved into an abandoned 12-room hunting lodge called Pavilion du Hay, near Voisines and Sens, 120 km south-east Paris. They would be based there until early 1974.

NOTE: I own none of the clips used in this compilation, they were obtained from the official Daevid Allen archive and other miscellaneous clips on YouTube.

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