1967. Pete Sears with Sam Gopal Dream. Happening 44 Club. London.
1967. Pete Sears playing his red Gibson EBO bass with Sam Gopal Dream, at one of the main psychedelic music clubs in 1967 London.
1967. Pete Sears playing his red Gibson EBO bass with Sam Gopal Dream, at one of the main psychedelic music clubs in 1967 London.
1967. “Sam Gopal Dream” getting ready to play at the 14-Hour Technicolor Dream” at Alexandra Palace” in London. We started our set at 5:00am. I scanned this photo from a book T‑Bone Burnett gave me called “I Was There…Gigs That Changed The World”. I had no idea this photo of the band existed until […]
This band was called “Sam Gopal Dream”. The original band that was all instrumental…I played bass and B3 (on the left), Mick Hutchinson played ragas on guitar (on the right), and Sam Gopal (center) played Tablas. We played all the Psychedelic London clubs including the “UFO Club” in Tottenham Court Road, “Happening 44”, “Electric Garden” later “Middle Earth” in Covent Garden, we played the 14 hr Technicolor Dream at “Alexander Palace” (our set began at 5am…John Lennon was there that night), “Christmas on Earth Continued 1967” with Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Fairport Convention, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic. We all played the same clubs.