The Gonzo Daily - Monday
And so another week begins. I am only here until
Thursday morning because I fly off to Bonnie Scotland for a gig at the Scottish
Paranormal Festival on Friday morning. I fly back on Sunday. I am not sure how
Brian Allan managed to talk me into agreeing to do the gig, because I hardly do
any shows anymore apart from the Weird Weekend, and am happy to keep it that
way. I think I was feeling particularly full of bonhomie that day (and no that
doesn't mean I was drunk).
I also wonder how the assembled audience will take my assertion that
the words 'Paranormal' and 'Supernatural' are both redundant and both mildly
irritating to me at least. As far as I am concerned this stuff (monsters,
ghosts, UFOs etc) is perfectly natural and perfectly normal, and more common
than many people like to think. However, they are all governed by rules of
physics that we don't understand as yet. That all maked perfect sense to me, but
some of the 'I want to Believe' brigade treat it as the most dreadful
apostasy.
There are several people at the festival that I am looking forward to
meeting in the flesh, and at least two others that I would like to avoid. I
sould make for an interesting weekend. We shall see.
Jack Bruce's death over the weekend has saddened us
all. He was a remarkable musician and songwriter, and will be sorely
missed.
Tommy James, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, Scott
Walker, Queen, Merrell Fankhauser and Daevid Allen fans had better look out! The
latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#101) is now available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has Tommy James on the cover, and features an
interview with him about his life, work, political campaigning back in the 1960s
and what it was like having a manager with more than a few links to the Mafia.
But there's more! There is a message from Daevis Allen, and Merrell Fankhauser
responds to some strange signals off the Malibu coast. ET? One never knows. Doug
Harr critiques the new Queen DVD, we send Thom the World Poet to a Desert
Island, and Jon discusses the new Scott Wakler/Sunn o))) coillaboration and much
to his surprise finds that it is Scott's best work for decades. Carl Portman is
outr guest book reviewer, and he takes a look at the new Ozzy Osbourne
biography. 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 turtles having a
snooze (OK, no soporific chelonians, 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!!!
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responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest
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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several
others) is an old hippy of 55 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?
