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The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

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I was woken early by dear Richard Freeman who had just arrived in London after flying back from Tasmania. Apparently the fourth CFZ Thylacine expedition was the most successful yet, although he didn't have one of them with him, hissing and spitting in a makeshift cage on Paddington Station. Then, three hours later, we had a visit from Jeremy Smith late of the Strange Fruit Radio Show with Neil Nixon. A pleasant couple of hours talking about obscure rock music followed, and then at three Professor Jon's Academy for Young Ladies opened its campus doors and the student body came flooding in. OK I am indulging in hyperbole. The entire student body is in fact a fourteen year old young lady called Charlotte here for an English lesson and pizza.

 

Quite a day really. No wonder I am tired.

 

Hey ho.

 

And here is the news:

 

Al Atkins Spanish review translated

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/al-atkins-spanish-review-translated.html

SPIRITS BURNING Canadian review

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/spirits-burning-canadian-review.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jah Wobble and Keith L...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-jah-wobble-and.html

André Previn: How Lucky I Am Now

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/andre-previn-how-lucky-i-am-now.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_25.html

 

Gonzo Magazine #218

THE ART FOR ART'S SAKE ISSUE

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Mark Reiser, veteran space rock artist died last year, and the Real Music Club have put together a tribute album for him. Alan meets Australian artist Mookx, Jon burbles about The Beatles and reviews a book about Frank Zappa, John critiques the new Pink Fairies album, Doug goes to see Midge Ure, and Kev continues his eclectic reviews. Biffo, however, is scathing about Star Trek merchandise. And listen up kiddies.....

 

It’s all free!

 

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive as well as Jeremy Smith's new project The Seven Deadly Sins. We also have 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 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 Beatles, Shirley Evans, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Nicks, George Michael, Flaming Lips, Sid Vicious, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly Sins,  Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Yanni Alexis Mardas, Lance d'Boyle (Gary Lance Robins), Colo, Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan, Franz Jarnach, Thandi Klassen, Greg Trooper, Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, Richie Ingui, William Onyeabor, Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Loalwa Braz, Steve Wright, Absolute Elsewhere feat Bill Bruford, Al Atkins, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Atomic Rooster, Lord Buckley, Tony Ashton & Jon Lord, Adrian Legg, Mark Reiser, Pink Fairies, Midge Ure, Alan Dearling, Mookx (aka Brendan Hanley), John Brodie-Good, Kev Rowland, Miss Peach and the Travellin' Bones, La Torre Dell Alchmista, Taylor's Universe, Bauda, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, Mr Biffo, Frank Zappa, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Hard Rock Cafe,  Elton John, Bo Diddley,

Nat King Cole

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 217 (Dig Doug Harr)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo213-4.html

Issue 215-6 (New Year 2017)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo215-6.html

Issue 213-4 (Yule 2016)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo213-4.html

Issue 212 (Greg Lake)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo212.html

Issue 211 (Phil Collins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo211.html

Issue 210 (Nico)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo210.html

Issue 209 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo209.html

Issue 208 (Leonard Cohen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo208.html

Issue 207 (Tibet)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo207.html

Issue 206 (Raz)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo206.html

Issue 205 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo205.html

Issue 204 (Gas Tank)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo204.html

Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo203.html

Issue 202 (Gong)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo202.html

Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo201.html

Issue 200 (Deep Purple)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo200.html

Issue 199 (Yes)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo199.html

Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo198.html

Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo197.html

Issue 196 (Paul May)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo196.html

Issue 195 (Dave Brock)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo195.html

Issue 194 (Auburn)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo194.html

Issue 193 (Genre Peak)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo193.html

Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo192.html

Issue 191 (Karnataka)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo191.html

Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo190.html

Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo189.html

Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo187-8-the-summer-holiday-special.html

Issue 186 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo186.html

Issue 185 (Judge Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo184.html

 

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:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

 

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.

 

 

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* 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 a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown 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 Archie and the Cats?