THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS SECRETLY RELIEVED

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday

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And so the great dance continues. I want to say a big thank you to everyone who has been so kind to me whilst I am laid low. Particularly to Nursey whose clever voodoo gunk is soooo soothing on my poor beleaguered back. I think that I am still likely to be fairly elusive for a few days, cos I still feel pretty horrid. A big thank you also to Doug for his help and sympathy. And, just in case there was any doubt, of course there will be a magazine this weekend, although it might be a little smaller than usual.

 

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Al Stewart - The Night...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-gonzo-track-of-day-al-stewart-night.html

Arthur Brown - Windsor 1967 Interview

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/arthur-brown-windsor-1967-interview.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html

Barbara Dickson Show (Part One)

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/barbara-dickson-show-part-one.html

Dave Brock and Mr Dibs Hawkwind Interview March 20...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/dave-brock-and-mr-dibs-hawkwind.html

 

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:

http://tinyurl.com/gmo6axf

buy my single:

http://tinyurl.com/zoex4d4

buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:

http://tinyurl.com/jnkehwx

but the CFZ 2016 Yearbook:

http://tinyurl.com/zkn3cju

 

Gonzo Magazine #178

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

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)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo175.html

Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo174.html

Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo173.html

Issue 172 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo172.html

Issue 171 (Keith Levene)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo171.html

Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo170.html

Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo169.html

Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo168.html

Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo167.html

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.html

Issue 165 (David Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo165.html

Issue 164 (Free Festivals)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo164.html

Issue 163 (Lemmy)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo163.html

Issue 161-2 (The Christmas Double Feature)

http://www.flipsnack.com/…/gonzo-161-21-yer-festive-double-…

Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo160.html

Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo159.html

Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo158.html

Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo157.html

Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo156.html

Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo155.html

Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo154.html

Issue 153 (Martin Barre)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo153.html

Issue 152 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo152.html

 

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:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

 

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?