THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS FRAGILE

The Gonzo Daily: Thursday

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Yesterday we filmed, today I am magazining. But don't ask me, ask Victor Starbuck (1867-1935):

 

They did not know that the moon had shone

All night across my face:

And they marvelled why I wandered alone

Picking up acorns and pebbles of stone

In a solitary place.

How should they know I had dreamed all night

With the moonbeams on my eyes

Of a goddess slender and tall and white

Who walked in a garden of strange delight

In the regions of Paradise?

 

They wondered why I was rapt and pale,

Haggard and ill at ease;

For they did not know I had watched a sail

Like a shimmering mist where the dream-winds fail

On magical, moon-bright seas.

And they questioned, " Why does he linger there

Where the grass is withered and dead,

With dry leaves tangled among his hair,

And fingers that tremble, and eyes astare?

"He is mad, quite mad," they said.

 

They could not know of the songs I heard

In the fair Moon-Gardens; nor why

I listened there for a whispered word,

And started at pipe of a sudden bird

Or wept when the wind went by.

 

Forgive me for always banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot to me, and I would be grateful for as many people as possible to see it, and spread the tidings of it far and wide:

 

EP 84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7rDGbLdYxc&t=3s

EP 83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9lr_j2Ij8Q

EP 82 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iP_Pii7ZF8

 

But now, here is the news:

 

HAWKWIND NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/hawkwind-news.html

YES NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/yes-news.html

A ROUNDUP OF LEONARD COHEN NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/a-roundup-of-leonard-cohen-news.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_2.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Dolly Parton - Jolene ...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/the-gonzo-track-of-day-dolly-parton.html

 

Gonzo Weekly #258

THE ALL HALLOWS ISSUE

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In a sort of Samhain issue we talk to Neil Nixon and unlock the secrets of The Devil’s Jukebox, and Biffo launches the Trojan Arse Project. Alan investigates John and Yoko’s conceptual country of Nutopia, and waxes lyrical about Phaselock whereas Jon is reading Ransom Riggs and the immortal Robert Anton Wilson and expanding his own reality tunnels.

 

Wooooot!

 

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Harvest 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 long nosed potoroos who have done lots of poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have been at the laxatives, 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:

 

Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Marillion, Genesis P-orridge, Morrissey, Jonny Greenwood, Ian Gillan, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Larry Ray (Larry Ray Piekutowski), Alberto Nelson Sanchez, Scott Mitchell Putesky, Martin Eric Ain (Martin Stricker), Boris Karl Lennart Lindqvist, Eamonn Campbell, Philip Paul Miller, Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr., Mary Hopkins, Man, Arthur Brown, Tony Ashton and Jon Lord, Martin Springett, Third Ear Band, Benjamin Britten, Neil Nixon, Owen Wilson, Alan Dearling, Nutopia, Kev Rowland, Monster Magnet, Quiet Riot, Ric Sanders, Rafaelsenra, Quantum Fantay, Carol Albert, Jonathan McGowan, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard,  Bob Hedger and Pascal Vaucel, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, Ransom Riggs, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Status Quo, Lionel Richie, David Bowie, Roky Erickson and the Aliens

 

Issue 257 (Judge Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo254.html

Issue 255/6 (John Lennon)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo255-6.html

Issue 254 (Mr Biffo)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo254.html

Issue 253 (Dana Gillespie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo253.html

Issue 252 (Cropredy)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo252.html

Issue 251 (Scott Walker)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo251.html

Issue 250 (Jamms)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo250.html

Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo249.html

Issue 248 (The Selecter)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo248.html

Issue 247 (Don Airey)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo247.html

Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo246.html

Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo244-5.html

Issue 243 (Galahad)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo243.html

Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo242.html

Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo241.html

Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo240.html

Issue 239 (Miss Peach)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo239.html

Issue 238 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo238.html

Issue 237 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo237.html

Issue 236 (Manchester)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo236.html

Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo235.html

Issue 234 (Al Atkins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo234.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

 

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 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?