The Gonzo Daily: Thursday
Yesterday, after a lot of banging about, Charlotte, Graham and I finally
finished episode three of our relaunched OTT,featuring Javan Tigers, Giant
Sharks, and Cornish Werewolves as well as a whole bunch of other groovy things.
The link is below. On my personal playlist this week is the new album from
Yusuf/Cat Stevens. Its title is a reference to one of Cat Stevens' earlier hits,
"The Laughing Apple" that was included in his 1967 album New Masters.” All very
well, and it is wonderful to hear Paul Samwell-Smith back at the controls
again. What he does here is as excellent as one would have wanted it to be. WITH
ONE EXCEPTION And yes, the capital letters are intentional. Because there is one
big thing that I truly don’t understand about this blasted album. The opening
track is a splendid scene setter for the album, with gorgeous swirling
soundscapes. But the drums.GOOD LORD, THE DRUMS
I cannot remember ever having heard such a horrible drum sound. I have
played it to various other people on various other devices, and each time we
play it it sounds worse. Please go check it out and tell me what you think.Then
see if you can explain it to me.JUST TELL ME WHY, YUSUF!
Forgive me for banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot to me,
and I would be grateful for an many people as possible to see it, and spread the
tidings of it far and wide:
But now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Liberace and the Lond...
LEONARD COHEN NEWS
1983 MTV Yes Jon Anderson + Chris Squire Interview...
STONEHENGE FESTIVAL CAMPAIGN
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #255-6
THE FALL OF LOVE DOUBLE ISSUE
Tony Palmer, remembers when he first met John Lennon and talks about his
film The Beatles and WW2, John provides an epilogue to the Summer of Love plus
50 celebrations, Alan goes to the Southdowns Folk Festival and critiques The
Stone Tapes, Richard visits The Girl from the North Country, and Jeremy goes to
Soho Rising: The Muses Invade Manette Street with the Doctors of Madness and
also goes to see the Flamin' Groovies (Look, I spelled it right this
time).
Wooooot!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, and Friday
Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy
Weard, C J Stone, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is
also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and common planigales
who have cooked some stews (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have
been culinarily creative, 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:
David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Dweezil Zappa, Roger Waters, Bruce Springsteen,
Wolf Alice, Florence Welch, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack
Maloney's Mystery Hour, Thomas Earl Petty, Azra Kolakovic, Allan Thomas "Tom"
Paley, Ellis CeDell Davis, Robert "Apex" Dickeson, Mary Hopkin, Barbara Dickson,
Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Rachmaninoff, Benjamin Britten, Tony Palmer, The
Beatles, Alan Dearling, The Stone Tapes, M. Peach, K. Beem, Grey Malkin, Jeremy
Smith, Flamin' Groovies, Theatre Royal, Southdowns Folk Festival, Wriggle
Jigglers, Edgelarks, Charcoal Burners, The Cheer Up Mollys, Megson, The Alistair
Goodwin Band, Homeservice, Skerryvore, John Brodie-Good, Summer of Love, Steve
Miller Band, Peter Frampton, David LaFlamme, Richard Foreman, Girl From the
North Country, Bob Dylan, Doctors of Madness, Richard Strange, Lilybud, Jeremy
Reed, Gingerlight, Kev Rowland, The Pilgrim, Rage, Rings of Saturn, Russkaja,
Siiilk, Mr Biffo, Paul Rose, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Dr Alex Durig, Rick
Parfitt, Elvis, Charles Manson, Dennis Wilson, The Beach Boys, Derek Taylor,
Jimi Hendrix, Neil Nixon, Karen Elson
Issue 254 (Mr Biffo)
Issue 253 (Dana Gillespie)
Issue 252 (Cropredy)
Issue 251 (Scott Walker)
Issue 250 (Jamms)
Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)
Issue 248 (The Selecter)
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
Issue 243 (Galahad)
Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)
Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)
Issue 239 (Miss Peach)
Issue 238 (Hawkwind)
Issue 237 (Hawkwind)
Issue 236 (Manchester)
Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
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Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is
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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an
old hippy of 58 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?
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