Fricke's Picks Radio: Remembering Daevid Allen, the Guru of Gong

My first live encounter with Daevid Allen — a founding guitarist of the British band Soft Machine and the singer-guru of Anglo-French-galactic dada-rock institution Gong — was his New York debut: in October, 1978, when Allen headlined a marathon festival of progressive rock, free-improvising and No Wave bands, the Zu Concert at…