Wednesday, August 05, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN SINGS

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
Good Morning Campers, I am actually in a remarkably good mood this morning.
As many of you will be aware I have long been interested in the cryptozoology of dogs. Indeed, I have carried out three trips to southern Texas in search of the truth behind the enigmatic blue dogs which have appeared ever since the first one was shot by a rancher near San Antonio over a decade ago. I have been writing a book on the subject in a desultory manner for the last five years, and it is one of my intentions, once this Weird Weekend is out of the way to sit down and finish the bloody thing.
However I learned with interest a few days’ ago of revolutionary changes within the accepted taxonomy of the Caninidae the Specific status of jackals in parts of North and West Africa has been cast into doubt. Now, however, it seems that all the ’golden jackals’ on the continent of Africa are actually wolves they have been named the African golden wolf, however many authorities, including your truly, suspect that they are actually a viable sub-species of the grey wolf which is one of the most successful species in the world. I know that this has nothing to do with progressive rock music, or any of the other things that I’m suppose to be writing about, but I find this totally fascinating.
The Gonzo Weekly #141
www.gonzoweekly.com
Rick Wakeman, Yes, Camel, Spirit, Shack, Soft Machine, Canterbury Sans Frontières, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#141) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Rick Wakeman on the front cover together with an interview with him inside. Doug goes to the Ramblin' Man festival, he also remembers a very special gig featuring Rick Wakeman and his family, John B-G talks about Spirit, and Jon and Doug and Graham take mother down the pub. Lee remembers a band called Shack. The story of Xtul comes to an end for now at least. Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. And there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and one from those jolly nice chaps at Strange Fruit, and our monthly visit to Canterbury Sans Frontières featuring an insanely rare slice of Soft Machine. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons with books to peruse (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials in a literary mood, 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:
Morrissey, Damon Albarn, Janis Ian, Keith Richards, Nile, Chic, Marillion, Badfinger, Steve Ignorant, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Buddie Emmons, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Norbert Schwefel, Eddie Hardin, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Camel, The Scorpions, Blue Oyster Cult, Lee Walker, Shack, John Brodie-Good, Spirit, Roy Weard, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Alan White, Steve Hackett, Steve Howe, Xtul, Neil Nixon, Moe Barbari, Ozy Osbourne, The Beatles, Tony Bennett, Jerry Garcia, Stormtide

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:
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/
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* 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, and a small kitten totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, 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, and the adventurous kitten?
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