Thursday, May 22, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HIDES

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
Last night I sat down and started to read Pam Windo's spellbinding memoir of life with her late husband Gary. It is a fascinating read, but - to my surprise - what she reveals about herself is even more interesting than the music business anecdotes involving her husband. It is a painfully honest and emotionally naked story of a young woman coming to terms with both the cultural mores of the British hippy movement, and her own psychology and sexuality. It is a completely breathtaking book, and - Pamela, if you are reading - it is your fault that I feel so groggy today; I was up until 5:30, sitting in my favourite armchair, eating olives and reading your book.
I am also getting somewhat worried about the Weird Weekend. We have sold some tickets, so - unlike several other conferences this year - we are not going to have to cancel for that reason. However, we have not sold as many as I would have liked, nor have we sold enough to stop me worrying and fretting continually about it. So, please boys and girls, if you are intending to come, please buy your tickets now in order to allay my fears and lower my blood pressure.
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Eric Burdon & War - Paint it Black
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/gonzo-track-of-day-eric-burdon-war.html
SOME PINK FLOYD NEWS FROM THOSE JOLLY NICE FELLOWS AT NEPTUNE PINK FLOYD
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/some-pink-floyd-news-from-those-jolly.html
‘He’s doing a great job’: For mixer Billy Sherwood on Jon Davison
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/hes-doing-great-job-for-mixer-billy.html
Folk-rock favourite Dave Swarbrick talks about the shock of reading his own obituary
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/folk-rock-favourite-dave-swarbrick.html
Just in case you missed it, the latest issue of Gonzo Weekly can be seen now at www.gonzoweekly.com. It features an interview with Barbara Dickson, an exclusive glimpse at the creative process of Roger Dean, Clepsydra remembering their collaboration with H R Giger, The National live, we welcome Friday Night Progressive to the Gonzo Web Radio family, and there are also new shows from the peculiar multiverse of Sub Reality Sandwich (this week they are in outer space making scatological jokes about Uranus) and from the multitalented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and Victorian flues (OK, no 19th Century heating ducts, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
The full list of artists in #78 is: H.R. Giger, Morrissey, Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward, Black Sabbath, Roger Daltrey, Wilko Johnson,  Mick Harvey, Judy Dyble, Michael des Barres, Sleepyard, Fish, Gong, Magick Brothers, Pink Fairies, Barbara Dickson, Dave Bainbridge, Erik Norlander, Eric Burdon, Liz Lenten, Auburn, Merrell Fankhauser, Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mary Stewart, Patrick Woodroffe, Ernie Chataway, Nash the Slash, Morning Glory Zen-Ravenheart, Jean Philippe Rykiel, Joey Molland, David Jackson, Rene van Commenee, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Clearlight, Planet Earth Rock ’n’ Roll Orchestra, Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, Galileo 9, Paul Rogers, Radio Moscow, Tinariwen, The National,  Hugh Hopper, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Roger Dean, Trevor Rabin, Jon Anderson John Lennon, The  Beatles, Titled Planet Press, Bay City Rollers, Cliff Richard, Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, Chief Raoni, Tribal Hybrid Concept, Matte  Handerson, Salem, My Eternel, Sepultura, Oakenshield
All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
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*  The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at  jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...

*  The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 54 who - together with an orange kitten named after a song by Frank Zappa puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange kitten?
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