The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
I am pleased to say that Dave McMann's hospital treatment appears to be
less drastic than we had at first feared, which would seem to be good news.
Talking of Daves, my dear nephew Dave B-P telephoned me yesterday evening from
his honeymoon telling me that he has a bottle of brandy left from the bunfight
bar, which he intends to come over and drink with me, and that the newly wed Mrs
B-P will drive him home. I have trained the dear boy well.
Nw, a technical question for you all. I pay for the premium Spotify
account, and I stream it to my hifi with an Apple Airport. I have always had the
settings on my iPad to the highest possible quality. But yesterday I was messing
around with the settings and I found that it sounds considerably better on a
lower, or average setting. Now, taking into consideration that I am slightly
deaf, and so I have to listen to things relatively loudly. What the blinking
flipis going on?
Finally, my new assistant started yesterday. A charming young lady called
Chloe. And she is picking it all up very well. Welcome to the madhouse
baby.
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Badfinger - Baby Blue ...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Hawkwind Interview (Backstage at Planet Rockstock ...
Eric Burdon Interview
"Chris Hillman & Peter Noone Interview" - 1980's
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if
you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy my single:
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
buy the CFZ 2016 Yearbook:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Mick Farren - Play Wit...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
GONZO PEOPLE: Dave McMann
Arrival of The Flying Burrito Brothers in The Neth...
GERMAN BRAND X REVIEW
Gonzo Magazine #181
Beatles, Neil Nixon, Elton John, KLF, Bill Drummond, Bob Calvert, John
Russell, Star Wars, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion,
Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
This issue features Neil Nixon tells us about his new book covering the
Myths and Legends of The Beatles, we
talk to 4th Eden about his
new Atmospherik Mekanisms project, Alan talks to John Russell, guitar
improviser extraordinaire, John remembers the Bob Calvert Tribute Concert, Doug
muses on Elton John’s finest hour and Biffo asks Star Wars actors whether they
had ever smuggled a possum inside their costumes,
and there
are radio shows from Strange Fruit and Mack Maloney, Friday Night
Progressive, and as it was full moon last week, Canterbury Sans Frontières. 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:
Bill Drummond, The Who, Octopus Syng, Radiohead, David Bowie, Corky Laing,
Mountain, Marillion, Arthur Brown, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mac
Maloney's Mystery Hour, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Phil Ryan, Lars
Olof «Olle» Gustaf Ljungström, Doug Raney, 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, Neil Nixon, Elton John, John Russell,
Alan Dearling, 4th Eden, Martin Eve, Roy Weard, Bob Calvert, John Brodie-Good,
Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul, Elvis, Barbra streisand, Abba, Nikola Tesla,
ArcAttack, William Burroughs, Ocelon
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 180 (Beltane)
Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)
Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)
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)
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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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?
