THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS ENCOURAGING

I have been working - on and off - for a couple of years on a book written by author Jane Cann with the ex-Head Teacher of the village school, about the men from the village who fought in the First World War. Most of the family names in the book are totally familiar to me because I went to school with their grandchildren. However, this isn't a state of affairs that would take place today. Yesterday I was chatting to my adopted nephew Max, (now in his early twenties) and he told me that on his recent visit to his hometown, all his schoolfriends had left. They went away to University and never returned. Now,much has been written about the scandal of higher education; the way that every young person leaving Uni is likely to be thirty grand in debt. But I had never thought of the fact that the now almost universal higher education brought in by Blair et al to massage youth unemployment figures is also doing more than a bit to break up long standing communities. I never did like that man! THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_17.html Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Belgium TV http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/crazy-world-of-arthur-brown-belgium-tv.html THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Eric Burdon - Good Tim... http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/the-gonzo-track-of-day-eric-burdon-good.html Barbara Dickson - interview 2008 http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/barbara-dickson-interview-2008.html Frank Zappa BBC Documentary 1993 http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/frank-zappa-bbc-documentary-1993.html Gonzo Magazine #182 http://www.gonzoweekly.com/ Wally, Rick Wakeman, Goblin, Grateful Dead, KLF, Ve, Gerald Durrell, Bill Drummond, Canterbury Sans Frontières, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out! This issue is dedicated to Dave McMann who died this morning. Rest in peace you mad old bugger. Wally was/is one of those bands that really should have made it, but despite support from Bob Harris and Rick Wakeman, they didn’t. In this issue we talk to Stuart Rhodes, the author of a retrospective coffee table book about the band. John looks at how the world has changed in the past four decades, Alan reviews a book on American psychedelia, we talk to Ve, and discuss Bill Drummond, and Biffo makes fart jokes about American politicians.  It doesn’t get much better than this! And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit and Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive, and we send the presenter of Canterbury Sans Frontières to a desert island. We also have 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: Gerald Durrell,  Arthur Lee, Love, Joe Bonamassa, Liz Lenten, Auburn, Ozzy and Sharon Obsourne, Sex Gang Children, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Isao Tomita, Peter Behrens, Joe Temperley, John Stabb, The Beatles, Osibisa, Billy Cobham, Wayne Kramer at the Pink Fairies, Al Stewart, The RAZ Band, The Flying Burrito Bros, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rick Wakeman, Wally, Stuart Rhodes, Suspiria, Goblin, Alan Dearling, Ve, Roy Weard, John Brodie-Good, Mr Biffo, Matthew Watkins, Hawkwind, Xtul, Bill Drummond, The Who, Elvis, Genesis, Neil Nixon, Burzum, Les Batards du Nord                                                                                    Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly: Issue 181 (Beatles) http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo181.html Issue 180 (Beltane) http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo180.html Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown) http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo179.html Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall) http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo177.html 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 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?