THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN DOES HIS OWN INIMITABLE THING

The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

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Today, I am very proud of my countrymen and women, of my friends, and of the disparate collection of people whom I am in contact with on Facebook. The events in Manchester the other night were, of course, despicable, but the aftermath – in general – showed the people of this country up in a good light. People from all across the social, ethnic, and political spectrum flocked to help, but it was the reaction of the people I know on Facebook that particularly moved me.

 

Now, before I go any further, I would like to stress that, I have no idea who the vast majority of my ‘Facebook friends’ actually are. I have well over a thousand people in that category, and although I exclude people that are obvious scammers, I accept every other friend request that I get to facilitate the greater community of both the CFZ and Gonzo.

 

I was expecting rants and tirades of bitter, xenophobic nonsense, and angry written attacks on the British Muslim community at large. Yes, a few of the people that I was expecting to come out with such reactionary bullshit did exactly that, but the vast majority of people that I know exhibited deep veins of compassion and sensibility, and just as happened in Manchester the other night, the community online pulled together in a positive, empathic fashion. And for once, even a dyed in the wool misanthrope like me is proud of his fellow men. As somebody who is usually full of bile about the human race, that is pretty damn good.

 

And before I leave, just let me wish my old friend Rob Ayling, the Gonzo Grande Fromage, a very happy 50th birthday. I have known the dear boy for 30 of those years and I am terribly fond of him.

 

And now, here is the news:

 

The Real John Lennon 2000 (full documentary)

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/the-real-john-lennon-2000-full.html

RICK WAKEMAN IN THE NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/rick-wakeman-in-news_24.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_24.html

HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY TO THE BIG CHEESE

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/happy-50th-birthday-to-big-cheese.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: For the Big Cheese

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/the-gonzo-track-of-day-for-big-cheese.html

 

Gonzo Magazine #235

THE HOLY BROTHERS ISSUE

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Dan Wooding writes about Jon Anderson and his brother who is in Holy Orders. Alan reviews a book about The Band, John muses on the Summer of Love demi-centennial, Richard waxes lyrical about TRADarr and Jon searches in vain for the Lost Lennon Tapes...

 

And listen up Kiddies: It’s all free!

 

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive,and Strange Fruit. 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:

 

John Lennon, Yoko Ono, The English Folk Dance and Song Society, Paul McCartney, Giles Martin, Morrissey, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Tom McClung, Keith Mitchell, Powers Allen Boothe, Chris Cornell, Kevin Stanton, Rosa Nell Powell, Derek Poindexter, Mary Hopkin, This Misery Garden, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Jon Anderson, Tony Anderson, Alan Dearling, The Band, Summer of Love, John Brodie-Good, TRADarrr, Kev Rowland, Karda Estra, Labyrinth, Lichtgestalt, Loathe, Mammoth Mammoth, Markus Reuter, Sandy Huskisson, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, Elvis, Nsync, 98 Degrees, Beatles, Bob Marley, Neil Nixon, Ivor Cutler

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 234 (Al Atkins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo233.html

Issue 233 (Richard Strange)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo233.html

Issue 232 (Roy Weard)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo232.html

Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo231.html

Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo230.html

Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo229.html

Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo228.html

Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo227.html

Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo225-6.html

Issue 224 (Hibernal)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo224.html

Issue 223 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo223.html

Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo222.html

Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo221.html

Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo220.html

Issue 219 (Martin Stone)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo219.html

Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo218.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.

 

 

* 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 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?