The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
Tamara did all sorts of things yesterday, mostly
things that I am now too crippled to do. Changing the tortoise substrate was a
great success; they are much more active now. A couple of months ago I bought a
copy of Steinberg Wavelab Elements, but couldn't work out how to use it. Last
night Martin Eve came round, clutching a bottle of wine, and replete with
terrible puns, and showed me how to use it. Now I am beginning to get my head
around it, it is a remarkable bit of kit, and I reckon will not only prove very
useful but will also completely get in the way of what I am supposed to be
doing...
Judge Smith, Peter Hammill, Edgar Allan Poe fans,
Wings fans, Carl "Blue" Wise fans, Hawkwind fans, Gong fans and all sorts of
other people, had better look out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#99) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has Judge Smith on the cover, and features an
article by him about the latest performance of his celebrated opera based on
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher". There is also an interview
with him about it. But there's more! We have an interview with Carl "Blue" Wise
about Denny Laine, Wings, Joey Molland, Badfinger and playing alongside some of
the sopul stars of Stax records (amongst other things). Doug Harr goes to see
King Crimson, and Jon asks whether repackaging and remixing and remastering
music is morally acceptable. The new album by Aphex Twin is critiqued and there
are exclusive words Hunter Ayling is backstage at Hawkwind's Hawkoktoberfest.
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 a new show from
Canterbury Sans Frontières, but sadly it will be the last for a while. There is
also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and doves making coos
(OK, no musical members of the Columbinidae, 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!
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want
to write for us, please contact me at
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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 infantile orange cat 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 infantile orange
cat?
