The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
I know that I often say that my days get weirder
but yesterday most certainly did. I found myself interviewing a veteran record
producer who was the bloke responsible for 'I'd Like to teach the World to Sing'
back in the day. I also found myself dealing with a famous Afro rock singer
interested in UFOs, and helping to solve the mystery of a giant duck in Iceland.
Max sent me a strange version of Dick Dale doing the 'Aquarium' from
Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. It is totally awesome, so I am surprising
everyone in the house by listening to the whole suite at a time you usually hear
something much more raucous. Add to that the fact that Martha the baby pigeon is
still being handfed, and she shouldn't be, so Beth is coming over later to teach
Graham and Corinna how to teach her to peck, (which seemingly involves them
miming pecking motions with their heads while they feed her) and you might
agree. Life is weird and getting weirder.
Adrian Belew, Frank Zappa, Rocket Scientists, Peter
Banks, Empire, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better
look out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#105) will soon be available to read
at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download
at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has Adrian Belew on the cover, and features an
interview with him by Doug Harr. Peter Banks was the original guitarist with
Yes, and after leaving the band had two bands of his own; 'Flash' and 'Empire'.
Gonzo have just released a classic slab of Empire music, and we interview Billy
James about working with Peter, and Mark Murdock, the drummer with Empire, about
his memories of the band. Erik Norlander tells us about the new album from
Rocket Scientists. But there's more! There is news about Daevid Allen. And we
send rising star 4th Eden to a desert island. There are also new shows from the
multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night
Progressive. 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!!!
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
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:
www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
* 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 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?
