Daevid Allen: The original anti-establishment hippie remembered

The founder of Gong and Soft Machine was a man who beat his own path, regardless of the bizarre directions in which he found himself travellingHow best to explain Daevid Allen to an outsider?People loved Daevid Allen: he was warm, friendly, vibrant, lively. The original anti-establishment, anti-capitalist hippie. He was given to exotic, wild flights of psychedelic fancy that took in the warp and woof of the Western esoteric condition as preached by the poet Robert Graves, and moved them into inn