The Gonzo Daily – Friday
And so we come to the end of another week. I have spent much of this week
working with legendary film director Tony Palmer on a new edition of his
biography of famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin which has been a gruelling if
interesting process. One of the things that I discovered is that last year one
of Menuhin’s sons, Gerard, write a book of Holocaust Denial, which truly must be
unprecedented as the Menuhin family are—of course—Jewish. I am very curious to
read the book, but I don’t want to give twenty five quid to a bunch of right
wing nutters (as his publishers very much appear to me to be) nor do I want my
credit card details to appear in their database. This also precludes me from
asking them for a review copy, because although I write about all sorts of weird
and wonderful things in these pages, I don’t think that a book on Holocaust
Denial can really be one of them.
For the record, I am not one of those people who subscribes to the idea
that the extermination of the Jews and others in Nazi occupied Europe didn’t
happen. My Grandfather was half Jewish and also had Roma blood, so when you
combine that with my mental and physical disabilities, I would certainly have
been a goner under the Nuremburg Laws. But I do find myself intrigued to find
out how the scion of a well known Jewish family can buck the cultural trend of
his people so completely.
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Sgt.Fury - Sensational...
CORKY AND KOFI
COMING TOMORROW
The Raz Band Review
Gonzo Weekly #169
www.gonzoweekly.com
It's the Outsider Music special! Wild Man Fischer, Peter Gabriel, Outsider
Music, Record Fair, Pink Fairies, Paul McCartney, Veep, Dr Who, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better
look out!
Wild Man Fischer is on the front cover, together with an interview with
Neil Nixon about Outsider Music in general and Fischer in particular inside.
John Brodie-Good writes about Record Fairs and the forthcoming Pink Fairies
album, whilst Rob Ayling was behind the scenes of a recent PF rehearsal, camera
in hand. Doug writes about Peter Gabriel, while Jon gets all intense about an
American political comedy, and reviews a book about Paul McCartney. There are
radio shows from Strange Fruit, and Mack Maloney, 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:
Dr Who, KLF, Ken Campbell, Tony Shiels, Kelly Osbourne, Brian Wilson, Bruce
Springsteen, David Bowie, Duncan Jones, Paul McCartney, Donovan, Elton John,
Frank Zappa, Rick Wakeman, Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Corky Laing, Strange
Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Daniel Ivan Hicks, Joseph Francis "Joe"
Alaskey III, Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell, Inner City Unit, Brand X, Gregg Kofi
Brown, Nucleus, Captain Beefheart, Third Ear Band, The Selecter,
Genre Peak, Mick Farren and Jack Lancaster, Neil Nixon, Wild Man Fischer,
Peter Gabriel, John-Brodie-Good, Pink Fairies, Richard Muirhead, Roy Weard, A J
Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul,The Who, Elvis, Rolling
Stones, Grateful Dead, Pat Boone, Cultus Ferox
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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)
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)
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!
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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?
