The Gonzo Daily - Monday
There is more than a little catching up to do. My computer packed up last
Friday morning, and so, even though I had already written the bulk of the
material for last week's issue, it was nearly six in Saturday morning before
issue #171 was out. Over the years, whenever I have had a computer mishaps, the
digital Job's comforters have always carped on about how I should have made
backups of my data, and I never had. But last year, high speed broadband came to
the village, and I discovered a special offer for unlimited storage with one of
the cloud drive people, and I now back up anything of any importance. So it
appears, so far at least, that I haven't lost any data at all. It has just been
a pain in the arse dealing with it all.
But it has meant that I have had a little more time than usual to rest and
recuperate whilst waiting for the new computer to arrive. I would like to
publicly thank Richie and Naomi West for their kindness in making a very
generous donation to the CFZ which will more than cover the cost of a new
machine. Thank you very much my dear friends.
In the meantime, I am using my studio machine which doesn't have most of
the day to day software I need. So if you want to contact me it is better to do
it via my dear spouse on corinna@cfz.org.uk. And apologies from me if blog
coverage for both CFZ and Gonzo is a little patchy this week. Now to change the
subject completely. Richard Freeman is just about to embark for Tasmania, for
the third CFZ Australia Thylacine expedition. Godspeed old friend.
# THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jack Lancaster - Kilte...
# GONZO WEEKLY #171
# THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
# Corky Laing - Drugs, Death & Felix Pappalard
# PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit 150 – Sloppy Seconds of P...
Gonzo Magazine #171
Keith Levene, PiL, The Clash, PFM, Ryley Walker and Danny Thompson,
Goosebumps, Summer's End, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden
Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
The legendary Keith Levene is on the front cover, together with an
interview with him inside. Doug writes about PFM, John gets enthusiastic about
Ryley Walker and Danny Thompson, while Jon gets all intense about the media
fascination with the 1950s, and reviews a book about the Summer's End festival.
Biffo goes to The Brits and Rosie goes to see Goosebumps. There are radio shows
from Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres 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:
Lorde, David Bowie, Duncan Jones, Axl Rose, Slash, Richard Ashcroft, Tom
Waits, Frank Zappa, Marillion, Barbara Dickson, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, John James
Chilton, James Hugh Loden, Frances Sokolov (Vi Subversa), Inner City Unit, Brand
X, Gregg Kofi Brown, Nucleus, Captain Beefheart, Third Ear Band, The Selector,
Genre Peak, Mick Farren and Jack Lancaster, Rick and Adam Wakeman,Keith Levene,
Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), Ryley Walker and Danny Thompson, John
Brodie-Good, Rosie Curtis, Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo,
Hawkwind, Xtul, The Who, Ritchie Valens, Phil Collins, The cure, Rolling Stones,
Neil Nixon, The Boredoms, Grimner
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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)
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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* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine
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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
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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?
