The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
Dear friends,
Once again I need to come to you cap in hand in
search of knowledge. As many of you know for some years we have been syndicating
the collected CFZ blogs, the Gonzo blog, and the Wyrd records blogs to both
Facebook and Twitter. We had always used a Facebook app called network blogs but
when they stopped working and became a pay service called ‘Symphony’ we moved
over to a lovely little app called ‘RSS Graphite’. Now, that too, has gone the
way of all flesh, and whilst some of the blogs are still registered to the old
network blogs free service the newer ones aren’t. is there anybody out there who
can recommend a free, or very cheap alternative that a silly old sod like me, or
my sparky young assistant Jessica can use without going madder than we already
are?
I am very glad that Graham and Danny managed to get
the tents down yesterday, and that Corinna and Jess have tidied away, bagged up,
and labelled, all the Weird Weekend stuff. Because, yesterday was a beautiful,
balmy day of the sort that English summers are supposed to produce. Today,
however, is cold, wet and gray, and there is a leak in the bathroom ceiling.
Ho hum!
Billy Sherwood, Prog Rock History, Michael Raz,
Free Festival, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon
Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#143) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Billy Sherwood on the front cover together with an interview with him the
day after his first show as bass player of Yes inside. Jon muses about Princess
Diana, Irish extremists and Weird Weekends whilst reviewing the hippest new
comic. Doug reviews a book on the history of Prog Riock, John B-G talks about
his memories of Free Festivals, 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. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and water opossums with something to lose (OK,
nothing to do with small marsupials planning to pray to St Anthony of Padyua for
an intercession, 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:
Zombies, The Faces, Stevie Van Zandt, Darlene Love,
Nile Rodgers, Galahad, Friday Night Progressive, Keith Richards, Don Kent, David
Nobbs, Eddie Cusic, Stephen Lewis, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman,
Billy Sherwood, John Brodie-Good, Roy Weard, Michael Raz, Ted Nugent, Frank
Sinatra, Davey Jones, Carole King, Beatles, Louis and Bebe Barron, Neil Nixon,
Hagbard
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!
* 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, 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?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
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