The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
Its Sunday so I do my best to write the blogs in
rhyme
cos it amuses me to write doggerel, and I would do it all the
time
but if I did it would piss people off more than I already do
so I
just do it on sundays now just like I wanted to
Yesterday was a strange old day with lots of ups
and downs
I spent the evening with Mike and Marianne and Martin recording
sounds
which I think are quite groovy songs, but the weekend would have been
barren
except for the generosity of a girl I know called Karen
She gave us a donation which will pay my staff's
week's wages
it was unexpected as it was welcome and should be commemorated
in these pages
thank you my dear from the bottom of our hearts for your
generosity
your friendship means a hell of a lot to both Corinna and to
me
It is nice to know that once in a while someone
gets what we do
and rather than mocking or knocking or nagging decides to
help us through
and in a world full of self serving idiots, there's something
that's worth knowing
There's people like Karen out there, and that's what
keeps us going.
Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream, John Lydon, Grateful
Dead, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look
out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#115) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Edgar Froese from Tangerine Dream on the front cover. As you may know he
died about ten days ago. Inside there is a retrospective by Doug Harr and Rob
Ayling remembers his relationship with the man who defined electronic music. I
critique the extraordinary new John Lydon autobiography, and also burble on
about The Grateful Dead. We have news about the Drones for Daevid concert in
Brighton next week, and we send the legendary Roy Weard to a desert island. Xtul
are on the road to Norwich, and there are shows from the multi-talented Neil
Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the
titular submarine dwellers are still lost at sea. There is also a collection of
more news, reviews, views, interviews and southern dibblers wearing new shoes
(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials in search of snazzy footwear, 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!
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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?
It occurred to me that the blog has not been written for a long time and that it was time to start again. So much has happened since I last wrote, but I thought it would be good to start with a beautiful picture of the lake on this cold frosty morning. The geese are swimming around in a small patch which is the only part of the lake which is not frozen.
