The Gonzo Daily - Saturday
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What
are you doing up so early? I hear you ask. Well, I don't but I can imagine you
doing so. Neither Corinna or I have been to bed yet. I was recording with Mike
Davis until late last night, and then the latest issue of Gonzo Weekly kept on
throwing curveballs at us, the most recent being the untimely death of Bobby
Womack. On top of that the boiler at my house in Exeter is leaking as is our
bathroom ceiling here in Woolsery, and we have to finish the magazine before we
can do much else. So I doubt whether either of us will actually get more than a
couple of hours hurried kip until tonight.
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#84) will be here
imminently to read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has Mick Abrahams
on the front cover and features an exclusive interview with this legendary
guitarist who amongst other things founded both Jethro Tull and Blodwyn Pig. It
also has a letter from Daevid Allen in hospital, Echo and the Bunnymen live, an
archive chat between Tim Rundall and Mick Farren and Keith Levene remembering
his days as guitarist in The Clash. There are also new shows from Friday Night
Progressive, and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and boxing kangaroos (OK, no
pugilistic marsupials, 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 featured is: Mick
Abrahams, Yes, Jon Davison, Rick Wakeman, ABWH, Jon Anderson, Allman Brothers,
Lana del Rey, Kurt Cobain, Frances Bean Cobain, Prince, Iron Maiden, Bruce
Dickinson, Robert Plant, Daevid Allen, Michael des Barres, Hunt Emerson, Keith
Levene, Auburn, Liz Lenten, Atkins-May Project, Clepsydra, Renaissance, Galahad,
Eric Burdon, Elvis Presley, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Felix
Dennis, Eli Wallach, Gerry Conlon, Teenie Hodges, Bobby Womack, Clearlight,
Rocket Scientists, Aviator, Ant-Bee, Steve Hillage, Erik Norlander, The Ghost of
a Sabre Tooth Tiger, Neil Young, Echo & the Bunnymen, Mick Farren, Hawkwind,
Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Beatles, Erasure, Osmonds, One Direction, Spice
Girls, Ozzy Osbourne, Monkees, Alice Cooper, Weird Weekend, Gazpacho, Subject to
Thoughts, The Symphony of Screams, Nine Treasures
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* 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?
Jon,
