The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
As I believe I mentioned the other day, I have recently become mildly
obsessed with the videos on the YouTube channel for the Alternate History Hub. I
have been a fan of the concept of alternate history for many years, first
discovering it through one of the ‘juvenile’ novels of my favourite author –
Robert Heinlein. the idea that events on a quantum level can change the entire
course of human history is both a useful plot device in speculative fiction and
an interesting philosophical idea.
I have been working my way through these videos like a dose of salts, and –
even this morning, while Jessica was switching on her computer – I watched a
speculative video which wondered what the world would have been like if the
Russian revolution had not happened.
I do not agree in all of their extrapolations, but I find the whole thing
fascinating in the extreme, and wholeheartedly suggest that you check it
out.
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Gonzo Weekly #159
www.gonzoweekly.com
Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, Counting Crows, Tommy James, Adele, Änglagård,
David Bowie, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Jaki Windmill, Tim Rundall, Roy Weard, Mack
Moloney, A J Smitrovich, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes
fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#159) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Jon Anderson and Matt Malley on the cover and interviews with them both
inside. Jon muses on David Bowie, we interview Tommy James, Doug talks about
Änglagård and Corinna sneers at some more tacky pop memorabilia. John talks
about Adele and Stereaming, 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, and Tim and Jaki are back with a new show. 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:
David Bowie, Sinead O'Connor, Tom Jones, Keith Richards, Stevie Wonder,
Steve Lamacq, Joy Division, Morrissey, Paul McCartney, Mary McCartney, Stella
McCartney, Keith Levene, Ringo Starr, Steve Ignorant, Strange Harvest, Friday
Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jaki Windmill, Tim Rundall,
Scott Richard Weiland, Wayne Bickerman, Alex Cooley, Carols Jesus "Buddy"
Moreno, Ronald David "Ronnie" Bright, Anthony Valentine, Johnny Winter, 13th
Floor Elevators, Spirits Burning, The Pirates, Michael Jackson, Dee Palmer,
Freddie King, The Selecter, Ducks De Luxe, Alexis Corner, James Brown, John Lee
Hooker, Anglagard, Tommy James, John Brodie-Good, Adele, Roy Weard, A.J.
Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr. Biffo, Hawkwind, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills, Nash
& Young, Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, The
Monkees, The Bee Gees, Yes, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Alice Cooper, Rick
Wakeman, Matt Malley, Neil Nixon, Black Sweden, Gwydion
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)
Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)
Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)
Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)
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!
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
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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.
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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.co.uk
* 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 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?
