The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
At the beginning of this year I promised that my task for 2015 was to get
things back on track with our publishing schedule. So far, we are doing
reasonably well. We have published 3 issues of Animals & Men with a fourth
one due just before Christmas, which means that we will have hit our publishing
target of being a courtly for the first time since 2003.
But what of the other things that have fallen by the way side? Well we have
good news there as well. ‘On the Track’ will be returning earlier in the new
year, co-presented by me and the lovely Charlotte Phillipson, whom Weird Weekend
regulars will remember as the young lady who put Ronan’s head in a bag. And,
finally the CFZ members newsletter that I have been promising for months starts
next month. We have compiled a data sheet of all the e-mail addresses that we
can find for CFZ members. If you do not receive one, and think that you should
have done, please e-mail us at: jon@eclipse.co.uk .
In Gonzo news, we are pleased to announce the advent of several new regular
contributors to the magazine, starting off with the legendary AJ Smitrovitch of
the ‘My Dad’s LPs’. I also hope that my old friends Richard Freeman and Nick
Redfern will be joining the Gonzo Weekly family on a regular bases fairly soon.
So its all looking rather good here in the potato shed.
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Alexis Korner - Honky ...
YES: John Lennon remembered by Alan White, Joey Mo...
Grandmothers of Invention Zappa The Scene
THE GREATEST LEAST SUCCESSFUL RECORD OF ALL TIME
Gonzo Weekly #152
www.gonzoweekly.com
4th Eden, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Hard Meat, Transmetropolitan, Patto,
Steely Dan, Little Feat, Neil Young, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch,
That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, and Yes fans
had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#152) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has 4th Eden on the front cover together with an interview with him inside, Doug
goes to see David Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall, Jon muses on Patto and rock
and roll archaeology. We review volume one of Transmetropolitan, and Xtul are
back in the deep woods. Neil unearths a hidden gem, Thom waxes all poetical
like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column, C J Stone
does his, and Mr Biffo has more of his regular slices of insanity from the world
of Digitiser 2000, and there is a radio show from Strange Fruit, one from Friday
Night Progressive and another from our latest addition to the team Mack Moloney.
There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and
pademelons wanting a snooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who stayed
up too late last night, 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:
Patto, Hard Meat, Damon Albarn, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, James Dean
Bradfield, Sting, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, Guy Garvey, Steve Hackett,
ELO, Frank Zappa, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's
Mystery Hour, Smokin' Joe Kubek, John Russell Murphy, Steve Mackay, Carey
Lander, Ronald Gordon Honeycombe, Robert Cooper Phillips, Robbin Thompson,
James "Jim" Diamond, Michael Hugh Scully, Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Brand
X, The Raz Band, Johnny Winter, Alexis Korner, 13th Floor Elevators, Nucleus,
Spirits Burning, The Pirates, Martin Eve, 4th Eden, David Gilmour, John
Brodie-Good, The Allman Brothers, Steely Dan, Little Feat, Neil Young &
Crazy Horse, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Xtul, Hawkwind, Yes, Billy Sherwood,
AndersonPonty Band, John Lennon, Rod Stewart, Grateful Dead, The Osbournes,
Chris Bell, Tuatha de Danann
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 151 (Corky Laing)
Issue 150 (Roger Dean)
Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)
Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
Issue 139 (Raz cover)
Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
Issue 135 (FNP cover)
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:
SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock
journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos
please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.
* 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 56 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?