The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
I was actually a damn sight more nervous yesterday
than I wanted to admit. However, the good news is that I do not have Parkinson's
Disease, not yet at any rate. However I do have something and the best guess is
that it is either related to my diabetic neuropathy or is a side effect of one
or more of the various bits of medication I am on. More tests loom. But having
seen my father in the horrific end stages of Parkinson's you don't know what a
relief it is to know that this is not the fate that awaits me. Many thanks and
much love to everyone who wrote or telephoned yesterday with messages of
support. It means a hell of a lot.
Clepsydra, Zenit, Eels, Jethro Tull, Valentina
Blanca, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson,
and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#129) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Clepsydra on the front cover together with an interview with Andy Thommen
inside. There is a look at Eels live by Doug, and Richard Stellar looks at a new
film interwoven with one of Jethro Tull's most poignant songs. Jon examines the
British X Files, and presents a political parable whilst breaking the law at the
Polling Booths, whilst the legendary Roy Weard starts a regular column.We send
the lovely Valentina Blanca to a desert island, There is a peek at some rare
Hawkwind and Yes memorabilia, Neil Nixon reports on an even stranger album than
usual, Wyrd goes into the stone age, Xtul gets even more peculiar, and there are
radio shows from Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive,
and the legendary Canterbury Sans Frontières is back. There is also a collection
of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons trying to choose (OK,
nothing to do with small marsupials having difficulty in making choices, 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:
The Who, Stuart David,
Belle and Sebastian, Adele, Noel Gallagher, Dave Bainbridge, Iona, Karnataka,
Joni Mitchell, Galahad, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans
Frontieres, John Tout, Rutger Gunnarsson, Craig Gruber, Errol Brown, Guy
Carawan, Ruth Rendell, Mick Abrahams & Sharon Watson, Tommy James, Hugh
Hopper, Third Ear Band, WMWS, David Peel, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Eliza Carthy
& Jim Moray,Clepsydra, Andy Thommen, Eels, Richard Stellar, Roy Weard,
Hawkwind, Valentina Blanca, Yes, Chris Squire, Tony Kaye, Alan White, Rick
Wakeman, Steve Howe, Wyrd, Mike Davis, Organik Reflektions, Xtul, Neil Nixon,
And The Native Hipsters, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, The Monkees, The Beatles, The
Dave Clark Five, The Grateful Dead, The Ramones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards,
Therion
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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write for us, please contact me at
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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?
