The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
I know that I have sad habit of repeating myself in these columns. I quite
often write that “today is a weird day”, but today is. I was woken at about half
past seven by a flamboyant young man from the BBC wishing me to comment on some
breakfast show or other about allegations in one of the tabloids that Bigfoot
had just been photographed in Sussex. Well, as regular readers of my drivel will
know, sightings of British man beasts are of particular interest to me. I have
even seen one myself – at Bolam Lake, Northumberland back in 2003. Such things
are, of course, zoologically impossible but these grotesque oddities turn up now
and again, and I admit that I do find them fascinating so, despite being half
asleep, I decided to do the interview, and stayed awake for half an hour. I wish
I hadn’t, because after the spooky music and the chatty nonsense of the
presenter I was only on air for about a minute before I was cut off mid sentence
so they could go to another story. I then went back to sleep and over slept. The
BBC are not top of my friends list today.
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Gong - Witch's Song, ...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE ANIMALS' ERIC BURDON STARS IN SAINT LAURENT CA...
Chris Squire remembered
Steve Hackett, St David’s Hall, Cardiff
Gonzo Weekly #155
www.gonzoweekly.com
Pink Fairies, Dungen, Frank Zappa, Beach Boys, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Mack Moloney, A J Smitrovich, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion,
Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#155) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has the legendary Pink Fairies on the cover and in depth coverage of their
recent London and Wolverhampton gigs inside. Doug goes to see Dungen,Jon
critiques a fascinating new Biography of the Beach Boys, Dave McMann looks at
the new Frank Zappa Roxy movie, and Corinna sneers at some more tacky pop
memorabilia. 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, A J Smitrovich continues thumbing through his Dad's
LPs, 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 antechinuses wanting poos (OK, nothing
to do with small marsupials who are slightly constipated, 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:
Nelson deMille, Pink Fairies, Noel Gallagher, One Direction, Glenn Frey,
Keith Richards, Quadrophenia, Tom Jones, Barbara Dickson, The Velvet
Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Tom Wilson, The Byrds, Roger McGuinn, Pete
Seeger, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Mihai Alexandru, Constantin Ignat, Adrian Rugena, Vlad Telea, Lauentiu Varlan,
Tommy Overstreet, Raul Rekow, Nucleus, The RAZ band, Mark Murdock, Brand X,
Alexis Korner, 13th Floor Elevators, The Pink Fairies, Tim Rundall, Jeremy
Smith, John Brodie Smith, Dungen, Frank Zappa, Dave McMann, Neil Nixon, Roy
Weard, A.J. Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Dave Brock, Dead Fred,
Ian Abrahams, Xtul, The Beach Boys, Antoine-Joseph “Adolphe” Sax, Wham!, Sex
Pistols, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave, Morrissey, Prince, The Beatles, Kiss,
Yes, Billy Sherwood, Tony Kaye, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, AndersonPonty, Rick
Wakeman, Geoff
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
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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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 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?
