Sam Gopal

Sam Gopal (originally known as Sam Gopal's Dream) were an underground British psychedelic rock band who formed in 1966 and released their first album, Escalator, in 1969.
The band was formed under the name Sam Gopal's Dream, named after its founder, Sam Gopal. Born in Malaysia and coming to England in the early 1960s to study,Gopal played tabla, a northern Indian percussion instrument, from the age of seven, which replaced drums in the band. The band's first line-up was Sam Gopal on tabla, Mick Hutchinson on guitar, Pete Sears on bass guitar and keys, and (towards the end) Andy Clark on vocals and keyboards.
Lemmy, who later became part of Hawkwind and Motorhead was the singer of the Sam Gopal band during their second line up in 1968.
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==Links to Peel==
Peel saw the band perform at gigs in the late 60's and mentioned on his International Times article, published in January 1968 that if he had his own record label (he later did with Dandelion Records), he would issue records by Sam Gopal and many others. After the 60's, Sam Gopal's music was largely forgotten by Peel on his radio programmes and on his 23 September 1985 (BBC World Service) show, he mentioned receiving a letter during the week from Sam Gopal who was in Kathmandu, Nepal. He went on to say that he used to fairly regularly see Sam Gopal's Dream band perform at the end of the 60's and said that he was recently listening to their Escalator LP, which he considered a bit of a collector's item. 
==Shows Played==
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*05 January 1969: Escalator (album - Escalator) Stable
*26 January 1969: Escalator (album - Escalator) Stable
==See Also==
*Gigography 1967
*Gigography 1968
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists