CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: THE GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN MAY WELL BE

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday

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A chance observation led Luigi Galvani (1737-98) to discover animal electricity in 1871. When the nerve of a frog that Galvani's wife was preparing for soup was accidentally touched with a knife a muscle contraction occurred despite the frog not being connected to an electrical machine. Galvani investigated the cause and discovered contractions were excited when two different metals touched.

http://www.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/featured/galvani.cfm

Why am I telling you this? Because yesterday I found out how the frog might have felt when I went to the hospital for Electromyography (EMG). This is an electrodiagnostic medicine technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles, and involved being given a series of small electric shocks and seeing how froglike I twitched. I joked that all I needed was an orange jumpsuit and I could be in Guantanamo Bay, and the doctor performing the operation tried not to laugh.

It was surprisingly tiring, so I came home and immediately fell asleep. So if you were one of the people who was supposed to get something from me yesterday afternoon, now you know why you didn't get it.

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_3.html
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jean-Philippe Rykiel
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-jean-philippe.html
HACKETT: GABRIEL AND I WERE BOTH IN HELL
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/hackett-gabriel-and-i-were-both-in-hell.html
Karnataka review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/karnataka-review.html
YES: 2015 - The Year For Steve Howe Fans
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/yes-2015-year-for-steve-howe-fans.html

The Gonzo Weekly #132
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Daevid Allen, Gong, Blancmange, Grateful Dead, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!

The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#132) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Daevid Allen on the front cover together with a thirteen page account, written by the man himself, of one of his last excursions outside Australia. He sent it to us for the blog three years ago, and when I had posted it I promptly forgot all about it....until now. There is a look at Blancmange live with some excellent pictures by Doug, Jon examines a book about The Grateful Dead, and muses on an exciting new direction in music retail, Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. Xtul shudders towards a climax, and there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and two from theose jolly nice chaps at Strange Fruit. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses trying to snooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials having difficulty getting to sleep, 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!!!

This issue features:
David Crosby, Garry Johnson,Eric Clapton, Noel Gallagher, Steve Hackett, Genetics, Marillion, Edison's Children, System 7, Steve Hillage, Karnataka, Friday Night Progressive, Sam Zaman, Mick Abrahams & Sharon Watson, Tommy James, Hugh Hopper, Third Ear Band, WMWS, David Peel, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Eliza Carthy & Jim Moray,The Boomtown Rats, Midlake, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Yes, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Wyrd, Martin Eve, Xtul, Elvis, onkees, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Ozzy Osbourne, Keith Richards, FängörN

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!

You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
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* 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?

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Jonathan Downes,
Director: Centre for Fortean Zoology
Director: CFZ Publishing Group
Editor: Animals & Men
Editor: Gonzo Weekly magazine
Editor: Still on the track
Editor: CFZ Blog Network
Editor: Gonzo Daily (Music and More)
Presenter: On the Track (Of Unknown Animals)

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