The Gonzo Daily - Monday/Tuesday
I am feeling remarkably good this morning. I rose early and came downstairs
for a few hours solitude and headspace before the day begins. For years I used
to get up, and be in the office doing my daily emails, or the blogs, or whatever
was on my plate, as I ate my breakfast. Well as part of my ‘Keep Jon alive a few
years longer campaign’ my medicos advised me to cut down on stress, and I
realised that although I couldn’t (or at least didn’t want to) stop doing the
thing that I do, I could stop doing them in such a self destructive way. So a
few hours of coffee, pottering, and finishing off the latest Nelson deMille
thriller which I got for my birthday, has paid off and I am ready to start the
day feeling remarkably relaxed.
By the way, on Friday I appealed for anybody out there reading this who has
any knowledge or experience of setting up a succesful Patron campaign. Of course
I meant Patreon. Someone help me pleeeeeeease.
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:
And now for the news................
Cropredy Blog 2015: Ric Sanders and Chris Leslie (...
Alex Harvey interview Bob Harris
Eric Burdon - Interview 2010
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Erik Norlander - Fanfa...
Gonzo Magazine #198
Alan discovers how Steve Ignorant - a motormouthed punk icon - swapped
the Tourette’s rage of Crass for a life as a Punch and Judy Professor. He also
has a very Weird Weekend. Jon, however, muses on Al Stewart and reads about Miss
Peregrine and her Peculiar Children. John says goodbye to Gilli Smyth of Gong
and Doug gets a whiff of Perfume!
Good ‘ere innit?
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive and Canterbury Sans Frontieres. We also have columns from all
sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible
Corinna. There is also a thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul.
There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and
pademelons outside 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:
Al Stewart, Charles Manson, Mike Love, Dennis Wilson, George Harrison, Pink
Floyd, Prince, John Lennon, Mark David Chapman, Gregg Kofi Brown, Bruce
Springsteen, Ozzy Osbourne, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury
sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Dwane "Hoot" Hester, Gene Wilder,
Martin Stephenson, Jeff Wayne/Radio Luxembourg, Dee Palmer, Arthur Brown, Rick
Wakeman, Pink Fairies, Captain Beefheart, Joe Cocker, Rick Wakeman and Mario
Fasciano, Rick Wakeman and Brian May, Barbara Dickson, Alan Dearling, Steve
Ignorant, Perfume, Gilli Smyth, Weird Weekend 2016, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard,
Hawkwind, Paul Rudolph, Bob Calvert, Xtul, The Monkees, Judas Priest, The Doors,
The Beatles, Neil Nixon, David
Cassidy
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)
Issue 196 (Paul May)
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
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:
SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock
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.
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to
write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and
want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at
gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as
widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as
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 57 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?
