The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
And, once again, another week has stumbled to an end. I am only too aware
that I have written that “this has been a strange week” or something of that
nature, here so many times, and this is probably because I have a fairly non
standard life. But even in my non-standard life, this has been a particularly
non-standard week. I have talked about my ailments elsewhere and have no
intention of doing it again because I don’t want to bring either you (the
reader) or me (the fat bloke with what feels like a red hot boiled egg in the
middle of his back) down, but I would like to say thank you to all of you who
have been so kind and helpful whilst I have been in extremis.
Firstly dear Doug Harr—thank you my friend for all your help, and also for
keeping me cheerful. The only reason I didn’t take you up on your offer to write
this week’s editorial was because I had already done it whilst tripped out on
codeine and flucoxicillin. I hope, after all that, that it is still vaguely
cogent.
Secondly Amy Phillipson aka Nursey. A nurse, herbalist and all round clever
girl who made me a remarkable soothing balm gunky thing which smelled delicious
and actually soothed me to the extent that after four nights I actually got a
proper night’s sleep.
Thirdly Mama-in-Law who babied me when I needed to be babied and brought me
cups of tea. Fourthly my stepdaughter Shosh who did much the same. And finally
AND IN BLOODY BIG LETTERS THE MOST OF ALL my darling, long suffering and
ever-so-slightly peculiar wife who really deserves a medal for putting up with
me under normal circumstances, let alone when I am reduced to a needy ball of
pain and woe.
Thank you my Darlings. I truly do appreciate it all...
Eric Burdon - Interview - (1982)
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Frank Zappa - Dinah Mo...
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Arthur Brown interview at the Acorn Theatre in Pen...
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if
you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy my single:
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
but the CFZ 2016 Yearbook:
Gonzo Magazine #178
Osibisa, Gregg Kofi Brown. Prince, Record Store Day, Harper Lee, Beatles,
George Harrison, Ken Campbell, Robert Anton Wilson, Discordianism, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better
look out!
After what has been a long and peculiar week, this issue - dedicated to the
memory of Poppy McGregor - features an interview with Osibisa star Gregg Kofi
Brown, who also says
goodbye to Prince, a long chat about
George Harrison and
Beatles minutiae
with author John Blaney,
Doug goes to see Steve Hackett,
John talks about Record
Store Day and Hawkwind,
Alan muses on Harper
Lee, and we visit a
festival of Discordianism,
and there
are radio shows from Strange Fruit and Mack Maloney, as well as the return
of Friday Night Progressive, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and
columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, 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:
Prince, Paul McCartney, Ve, Brian May, Brian Johnson, Allen Toussaint, Tony
Hawk, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Dave Bainbridge, Sally Minnear, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Floyd August "Gib"
Guilbeau, Pete Zorn, Lonnie McIntosh “Lonnie Mack”, Phil Sayer, Gareth Daniel
Thomas, Victoria Wood CBE, Captain Beefheart, Brand X, Osibisa, Pink Fairies,
Gram Parson's The International Submarine Band, Gib Guilbeau, Sneaky Pete
Kleinow, Sons of Fred, Percy Jones, Norman Wisdom featuring Rick Wakeman,Gregg
Kofi Brown, John Blaney, Steve Hackett, Alan Dearling, Harper Lee, Ken Campbell,
Roy Weard, Record Store Day, John Brodie-Good, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Jill Calvert,
Dierks Bentley, The Beatles, The Monkees, The Runaways, Neil Nixon, Tim Buckley,
Dvalin
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 177 (David Gilmour)
Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)
Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)
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:
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journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos
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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
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* 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?
