The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
Apologies to anyone who is finding me more than usually elusive today. I
have a bloody great abscess on my back and it hurts like crap and I am on
hardcore antibiotics which make me feel peculiarly and unpleasantly stoned.
However, I have achieved a few things: The CFZ 2016 Yearbook, for example is
finished and available for preorder at this link:
http://tinyurl.com/zkn3cju and features
seventeen separate papers on a wide selection of subjects from British wombat
sightings (honestly) to mystery South American elephants and a veterinary
examination of some alleged chupacabras carcasses from the Ukraine, and features
authors such as Dr Karl Shuker, Richard Muirhead, Richard Freeman, Ronan Coghlan
and yours truly. And to preorder its less than a tenner. Go on boys and girls,
you know it makes sense.
Brand X interview with Phil Collins & John Goodsal...
Interview: Barbara Dickson
Dave Brock Interview
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Gong - Flying Teapot
Gonzo Magazine #178
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)
Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)
Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)
Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)
Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
Issue 172 (4th Eden)
Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
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)
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:
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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.
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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?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
