The Gonzo Daily - Monday/Tuesday
This morning I got up early because I had a doctor's appointment for my
annual meds review. I got up considerably earlier than usual so that I made sure
that I didn't oversleep. At just before nine there was a telephone call from the
surgery to remind me. This has never happened before, so my paranoia was working
overtime and by the time I got to the surgery I had convinced myself that there
was terrible news that they just had to tell me in person. Of course there
wasn't and I had put myself through all sorts of horrors for nothing. It just
goes to show that thinking is not always a good thing to do.
This afternoon Chloe was here and managed to organise me into some sort of
efficiency, so the day was not all lost. This evening, however, after a
conference call at sevenish I intend to hide with the new Focus album and some
pudding. I think I deserve it.
And now for the news................
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Steve Hillage - Solar ...
ROGER DEAN AND MORE
GONG REVEAL THE UNSPEAKABLE TO STEVE DAVIS
Wild Man Fischer – An Evening with Wild Man Fische...
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:
Gonzo Magazine #201
The spirit of the blues is alive, well and living in the Northeast of
England: we meet Auld Man’s Baccie, Jon burbles about Deep Purple, Doug talks
to Happy the Man drummer Michael Beck, Alan goes to Strummerville to discover
the legacy of Clash guitarist Joe Strummer, and we discover the frightening
dystopian world of G P Ching, and say goodbye to Bob the Mbuna cichlid.
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, Friday Night
Progressive. and 'cos there has just been a full moon Matthew at 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:
Deep Purple, John Ellis, Datura4, The Embrooks, The Prophet Hens, Gorillaz,
Damon Albarn, David Bowie, Elton John, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Canterbury san Frontieres, John D Loudermilk, Jerry
Corbetta, Carlos Walker, 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,
Auld Man's Baccie, Michael Beck, Alan Dearling, Joe Strummer, Strummerville, Mr
Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Hawklords, Xtul, G P Ching, The Beatles, The Who,
Pink, Neil Nixon,
Chinga Chavin
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 200 (Deep Purple)
Issue 199 (Yes)
Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)
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!
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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 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?
