Gong Dreaming: From Soft Machine to the Birth of Gong: v. 1

Originally self-published in 1994, Gong Dreaming 1 has been sought after by collectors and fans ever since. This is a very personal vision quest through a group experience shared by many in the late 1960s. It is not an attempt at a historical documentation of the time but of one person’s visions and hallucinations sewn together with personal memories. Why? I am well aware that there are better singers, guitarists, storytellers, and songwriters than I surrounding me wherever I go. Yet there is no one but myself who can relate the inner journey that has taken me through 25 years of minor celebrity as father of two of Britain’s seminal cult psychedelic bands, born from the cultural and social revolution that began in 1967.—Daevid Allen