Sunday, June 15, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS ON THE WARPATH

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
 
I slept for nearly fourteen hours last night
and no, I promise I wasn't tight
as an owl or off my head on pills
and I wasn't even particulqrly ill
 
Just tired, and sleeping the sleep of the bless'd
and I'm not gonna bore you with the rest
but sufficient to say that my life last week
wasn't particularly pleasant for this particular freak
 
and I have some hard decisions to make
which is why it was best not to be awake
so I stayed in bed and cuddled the dogs
which is why I'm so late with the sunday blogs
 
And finally just because I can
here are love and blessings for Dave McMann
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#82) is here and is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has the Wally Hope on the front cover and features an interview with Dean Wally, who is the current custodian of his ashes. There is an exclusive review of Yes on the Cruise to the Edge, with previously unpublished pictures. There is news of Mick Abrahams' new album which features guest appearances by a Stone, a Mann, and a Whitesnake, and there are pictures of Genre Peak in the studio. There is an in depth look at a new book about the idiosyncratic 4AD records, and a drunken ramble about Rik Mayall that dictated at 4:00am the other day with the best part of a bottle of bourbon inside of me. There are also new shows from the peculiar multiverse of Sub Reality Sandwich, from Canterbury Sans Frontières, from Friday Night Progressive, and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and Gilbert's Potoroos (OK, no specimens f Australia's rarest mammal, 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 covered in this issue is: Yes, Rick Wakeman, Billy Sherwood, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, Alan White, Jon Davison, Jon Anderson, Wilko Johnson, John Lydon, Elvis Presley, Lemmy, Daevid Allen, Patrick Campbell-Lyons, Paul Whitrow, Dead Fred, Martin Birke, Genre Peak, Mick Abrahams, John Ellis, Paul McCartney, Lana Del Rey, Morrissey, Canterbury Sans Frontieres,  Strange Fruit, Sub Reality Sandwich, Friday Night Progressive, Rik Mayall, Alan Douglas, James Victor “Jimmy” Scott, James “Jim” Keays, Donald Davis, Lee Hyla, Clearlight, Rocket Scientists, Aviator, Clepsydra, Ant-Bee, Steve Hillage, Erik Norlander, Wally Hope, Dean Phillips, Jack White, Hawkwind, Brian Wilson, Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Page, Spice Girls, The Osbournes, One Direction, Slipknot, Iggy Pop, Weird Weekend, Pleonexia, Shepherds of Cassini, Iced Earth, Lover Under Cover Folk Metal Jacket
 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
 
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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: http://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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