I am finally firing on all four (well, three anyway) cylinders for the
first time in weeks, and I sincerely hope it will remain like this for a while.
All the hundreds of good people (four actually) who were good enough to buy my
new single, be assured tha+t I signed them, and Corinna posted them this
morning. A few minutes ago according to: http://tinyurl.com/3kw8txv the world
population was 7,412,095,840 which means that there are 7,412,095,836 of you who
have not bought my extraordinary new record. If you wish to rectify that just
follow this link:
While I am in the process of flogging stuff, check out this year's Weird
Weekend tickets at:
http:www.weirdweekend.org
I would also like to thank Andrea for sending me this interesting article
which suggests that sivatherium existed much more recently than was thought: http://tinyurl.com/hby2tju
The article is potentially misleading because it calls them unicorns, which
strictly they were. But they were not horselike, and like the article says we
cannot tell whether these ancient rhinoceroslike creatures had blood with:
"magical properties". I suggest for. by the way, that for fantasy unicorn lore
it would be best to check out T H White rather than J K Rowling.
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jack Lancaster - Kilt...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
ZZ Top On what they learned from Freddie King
Frank Zappa - Various TV Interviews, 1980's
Barbara Dickson interview @ Beverley Folk Festival...
Gonzo Magazine #175
Once again we were taken over by events as Garry Shandling died yesterday.
Garry Shandling, Larry Sanders Show, Larry Carlton, Soft Machine, rock mocie,
John Etheridge, Paul McCartney, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary
Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
We say goodbye to the insanely funny Garry Shandling, creator of the Larry
Sanders Show. Doug writes about rock movies, while we review a book about Paul
McCartney. John goes all jazzy with Larry Carlton and the Soft Machine
Experience, Biffo looks at a lavatory themed restaurant. We send Dani from
Marbin to a desert island. There are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Canterbury
sans Frontieres, and Mack Maloney, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul,
and columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Neil Nixon and the
irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views,
interviews and pademelons ouyside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials
who have escaped from captivity, 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:
Madonna, Elton John, Dave Grohl, Kesha, Guns N' Roses, David Bowie, Lorde,
Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger, Barbara Dickson, Marillion, Frank Zappa, Strange Fruit,
Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Garry Emmanuel
Shandling, Reuben David Egan, Adnan Abu Hassan, Melvin Barry Hines, Malik Isaac
Taylor, Martin James Norman Riley, Gregg Kofi Brown, Billy Cobham, Kevin Ayres
featuring Ollie Halsall, Country Queens, Robert Calvert, Greg Harris, The
Kentucky Colonels, Michael Jackson, Leonard Cohen, Michael Livesley and
Brainwashing House feat Rick Wakeman, Neil Innes and Susie Honeyman, Marbin,
Dani Rabin, Roy Weard, Bristol International Jazz & Blue Festival, Larry
Carlton, The Soft Machine, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul, Paul McCartney,The Beatles,
Robbie Williams, Elvis, Neil Nixon, Broadcast, Silent Stream of Godless
Eleg
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)
Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
Issue 172 (4th Eden)
Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
Issue 165 (David Bowie)
Issue 164 (Free Festivals)
Issue 163 (Lemmy)
Issue 161-2 (The Christmas Double Feature)
Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)
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)
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.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 two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?
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