The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
The other day I wrote about the then forthcoming Psychedelic Britannia
documentary on BBC iPlayer, Dave McMann replied:
"That doc' was watchable, but very predictable and mostly dealt with the
mainstream/straight/popular BBC radio friendly bands of that era. Far too much
on Pink Floyd and the Beatles, where were the real bands? It was all the
manufactured crap brainwashing the 'hip young things' into buying clothes from
Granny has a shit or wherever.
It could have been so much better."
I watched it last night, and agreed with Dave. There were a lot of bands,
even mainstream ones, that should have been included. Where was Traffic?
Nirvana? in fact where were the vast majority of bands signed to Island or
Vertigo? And Daevid Allen and Mick Farren were horribly conspicuous by their
absence. And the folk from London were terribly snotty about those from the
provinces.I can think of worse ways of spending a Sunday evening in Autumn
though.
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Tangerine Dream -- Ph...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
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Ahmet Zappa: 'Dad had super hearing powers'
Yes Steve Howe complete interview
Gonzo Weekly #153
www.gonzoweekly.com
Martin Barre, Jethro Tull. Marbin, Gail Zappa, George Harrison, Joe
Deninzon, Stratospheerius,Transmetropolitan, 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 (#153) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Martin Barre on the cover and an interview with him inside. As well as
Doug’s
interview with the famous Jethro Tull guitarist, he also
interviews Joe Deninzon from Stratospheerius,Jon
interviews Dani from
Marbin, John B-G
celebrates the life
of Gail Zappa, and
Corinna sneers at
some more tacky pop memorabilia,
Mack meets
Nick Redfern,
plus we
welcome
A J Smitrovitch
as a regular
contributor.... We review volume two 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 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:
George Harrison, Tom Jones, Rod Stewart, Black Sabbath, Blur, New Order,
Gong, Marillion, System 7, Steve Hillage, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Cory Wells, Frank Watkins, John Edward
Jennings, Brand X, The Raz Band, Johnny Winter, Alexis Korner, 13th Floor
Elevators, Nucleus, Spirits Burning, The Pirates, Martin Barre, Joe Deninzon,
Stratospheerius, Dani Rabin, Marbin, John Brodie-Good, Gail Zappa, Andrew May,
Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Sea Shepherd, Dave
Brock, Xtul, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Mark Laff, Generation X, Robbie
williams, Michael Jackson, Hacienda Club, Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne, Uriah
Heep, Ray Davies, The Mamas and Papas, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones, Bobbie Gentry,
Yes, Billy Sherwood, Steve Howe, Alan White, Joey Molland, Tony Levin, John
Lennon, Neil Nixon, Virginia Belmont's Famous Singing & Talking Birds,
Kartikeya
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 152 (4th Eden)
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!
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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 young lady called Jessica. 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. 