The Gonzo Daily - Monday
Today is another one of those days when it really
would have been nice to have stayed in bed, or at least not given up smoking. I
am inundated with stuff that I really would rather not have had to deal with,
and everybody seems to want a bit of me. On top of that, I am afraid that it
looks as if none of the axolotl tadpoles have survived despite our having
provided the appropriate food for them. There may be one or two left in the
bowels of the tank, so I will carry on for a few days, but I strongly suspect
that later in the week, Tammy will clean the tank out, and the two adults camn
go back into their normal quarters.
David Peel, John Lennon, Gryphon, Lester Bangs,
Malachite, Britannia Potts, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion,
Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#130) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has David Peel on the front cover together with the intriguing story of how the
FBI got him and John Lennon confused inside. There is a look at Gryphon live by
Doug, Jon examines a new collection of Lester Bangs' writings, and talks about a
very weird weekend, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column.
We send Nigel Hewlett-Beech to a desert island, There is a peek at some rare Yes
memorabilia, and a look at the story of Silver Machine, Neil Nixon reports on an
even stranger album than usual, Wyrd meets Britannia Potts, Xtul gets even more
peculiar, and there are radio shows from Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at
Friday Night Progressive. 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:
Liam Gallagher, Yoko Ono,
Ringo Starr, Kurt Cobain, Slash, Malcolm Young, AC/DC, Weird Weekend, Kim
Kardashian, Bear Grylls, Steve Ignorant, Slice of Life, Steve Hackett, Elvis
Presley, Eliza Carthy, Tim Eriksen, Galahad, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, B B King, Mick Abrahams & Sharon Watson, Tommy James, Hugh
Hopper, Third Ear Band, WMWS, David Peel, Strawberry Alarm CLock, Eliza Carthy
& Jim Moray, Magic Michael, David Peel, John Lennon, Jerry Rubin, Abbie
Hoffman, Jon Wiener, Gryphon, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Nigel Hewlett-Beech,
Malachite, Yes, Steve Howe, Palos Verdes, Alan White, Rick Wakeman, Lester
Bangs, Xtul, Neil Nixon, And the Native Hipsters,Rolling Stones, Paganini,
Grateful Dead, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Dalriada
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 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
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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?
