The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
So life continues apace. I have been helping one of
my students with her coursework about zoonotic diseases, counselling no less
than three friends with big problems in their lives, putting the finishing
touches to two major cryptozoology books that will be published in the next few
weeks and listening to the new Leonard Cohen album. Not bad considering the fact
that I didn't get up until gone midday after a late night with the Cornish ghost
hunters followed by a session of OCD recording which went on until gone four!
The Cohen album is particularly impressive. I enjoyed the previous one which was
basically him reciting poetry over a musical backing, but on this one he is
singing again and often sounding like Frank Zappa. The tone is much darker, and
more to my taste. It is gloriously bluesy, and I have to wonder whether the
reviewers who have described it as a folk album have actually listened to the
bloody thing! In other news, I wuld just like to say that being a grandfather is
awesome!
Ageing Hipsters, rock and roll historians, Led
Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Gong fans and all
sorts of other people, had better look out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly
(#97) will soon be available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has me being totally seld indulgent with a
picture of my first grand-daughter (born a few days ago) on the cover, but
features an interview with the legendary Freddy Bannister, promoter of festivals
at Bath and Knebworth amongst others. He talks about Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa,
The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd amongst others. Doug Harr goes to see Tears
for Fears, and Jon is surprisingly reassuring about the future of the music
business. There are also new shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange
Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the massively talented
Jaki and Tim are back with their submarine and Maisie the cow. There is also a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and Mollucan palm cockatoos
(OK, no weird pink parrots, 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!!!
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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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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?
