The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
I felt particularly peculiar yesterday afternoon. This blasted cold has not
yet gone, and I have had it all year. My Mother used to say that she would get a
cold in October and it would last until April. I always thought that was
hyperbole, but now I'm not too sure. I am currently working with the legendary
Tony Palmer on a new edition of his book on Yehudi Menuhin which is
interesting.
Our heartfelt condolences go to our friend and colleague Richard Freeman,
whose Grandmother died today. Our love and best wishes also to his
Grandfather.
Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.
Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Henry Scott Holland
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Gonzo Weekly #168
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David Bowie, Rick Wakeman, Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson
Starship, Beatles, Dixie Dregs, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary
Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
Following the overwhelming response to Rick Wakeman’s piano tribute to
David Bowie, Rick has recorded new piano versions of both Life on Mars and Space
Oddity with royalties going to Macmillan Cancer Support. Pete Sears pays tribute
to his old friend Paul Kantner as does John Brodie-Good. Doug writes about the
Dixie Dregs, while Jon gets all intense about positivity, and for once finds a
Beatles book that he DOESN'T like. There are radio shows from Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, and Mack Moloney, the latest installment of the saga
of Xtul, and columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich,
Mr Biffo and the irrepressable 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:
Lady Gaga, Colin Vearncombe, Primal Scream, Yoko Ono, Status Quo, ELO, Ozzy
Osbourne, David Bowie, Daevid Allen, Daevid Allen Weird Quartet, Barbara
Dickson, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Signe Toly Anderson, Jon Bunch, Francis "Frank" Finlay, CBE, Sir Michael Terence
"Terry" Wogan, KBE, DL, Maurice White, Joe Dowell, Inner City Unit, Brand X,
Gregg Kofi Brown, Nucleus, Captain Beefheart, Third Ear Band, The Selecter,
Genre Peak, Mick Farren and Jack Lancaster, Rick & Adam Wakeman,A Dixie
Dregs, John Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, Dave Bainbridge, Roy Weard, A J
Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Yes, Hawkwind, Pete Sears, Xtul, The
Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Elton John, Neil Nixon, Ross Bolleter,
Tengwar
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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)
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)
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Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is
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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
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