The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
Last night I popped off a Facebook IM to an ex girlfriend of mine whom I
haven't seen in the flesh since just after my Mother died in 2002. It consisted
of four words: "Leonard Cohen has died". This morning I received a five word
answer: "I know, I'm really sad". There truly was nothing more to say for either
of us. She and I never actually broke up, we just sort of fizzled out, but we
always spoke to each other on Facebook whenever there was a new Leonard Cohen
album. Most recently when 'You Want it Darker' was released a few weeks ago.
Today the world seems a darker and more ugly place. There is a new and
frightening President Elect on his way to the White House, and we don't have
Cohen, Bowie or Prince to help us deal with it.
My heart is truly heavy today.
And now for the news................
COMING THIS WEEKEND
Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen dies aged 82
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Leonard Cohen - Famous...
Eric Burdon interview
Gonzo Magazine #207
In this extraordinary issue, Alan goes to Tibet and discusses this much
misunderstood country and its spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Doug goes to see
Alice Cooper and Jon waxes lyrical on The Divine Comedy and Mike Love of The
Beach Boys.
Fun Fun Fun for all the family!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, but Friday
Night Progressive takes a break this week. We also have columns from all sorts
of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna.
Xtul and Neil Nixon also take rainchecks this week. 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:
The Divine Comedy, Spirits Burning, Clearlight, Gong, Roger Daltrey,
Prince, Paul McCartney, Marillion, Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Claude "Curly" Putman, Jr., Robert Coull "Bobby" Wellins, Molly Rose, Spirits
Burning and Clearlight, Vangelis, Al Atkins, Atomic Rooster, Rick Wakeman,
Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Archie Fisher & Barbara Dickson, ARW,
The Pink Fairies, Alice Cooper, Alan Dearling, Tibet, The Invisible Opera
Company of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Martin
Springett, The Gardening Club, Mike Love, The Beach Boys, One Direction, Rolling
Stones, The Beatles, Sting, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Manson
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 205 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 204 (Gas Tank)
Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)
Issue 202 (Gong)
Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)
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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responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest
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* 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?
