The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
Monday morning starts not with a bang, but with a whimper. I went to the
podiatrist on Friday and although the ulcers on my feet that where causing so
much concern before Christmas have heeled up quite nicely (no pun intended).
However, I have a particularly nasty one that has developed on the back of my
ankle which will require me to go to my GP tomorrow. Whilst on the subject of
ulcers, poor prudence had one on each eye. They are being treated, but we are
all very worried about her. On top of that, as I may have told you last week, I
managed to delete a whole bunch of stuff from my Dropbox. It was completely my
fault, but not being able to blame it on anybody else didn't really make me feel
any better. Life sucks sometimes!
Hey ho.
And here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: 1969 Liberace Show Boo...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
AL ATKINS: Polish review (Translated)
BBC: Rick Wakeman's Key to Keys
Arthur Brown interview @ HRH Prog Festival 2013
Gonzo Magazine #215-6
THE SUPER DUPER 2017 WTF IS GOING ON DOUBLE ISSUE
In this bumper issue, Jon muses about the return or otherwise of the
Justified Ancients of MuMu, Doug remembers one hell of a year gigweise in words
and pictures, so does John, Jeremy rants righteously, Alan spends 24 hours in
London, revisiting the Jazz Age, going to parliament and hearingabout RAF
offiocers who don't like Man, Jon reviews a delightful book of short stories and
there is a competition to win ARW tickets.
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive. 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:
KLF, The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Rick Wakeman, Kurt Cobain, Ozzy
Osbourne, U2, Richard John "Rick" Parfitt, OBE, Betty Loo Taylor, Debbie
Reynolds, Carrie Frances Fisher, George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos
Panayiotou), Alphonse Lee Mouzon, Vera Cooper Rubin, Richard George Adams, Piers
John Sellers OBE, Mick Zane (born Michael Landauer), Frank Murray, Allan Richard
Williams, William Christopher, Mark Reiser, Richard E. Aaron, Deddie Davies
(born Gillian Davies), Tilikum, Absolute Elsewhere feat Bill Bruford, Al Atkins,
Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Adrian Legg, ARW, Steve Hackett, Sting/Gabriel, The
Cure, David Gilmour, LCD Soundsystem, ELO, Coldplay, Adele, The Who, Alice
Cooper, Bad Company, Rodger Hodgson, Styx, Ambrosia, Atomic Rooster, Lord
Buckley, Tony Ashton & Jon Lord, Alan Dearling, All-Party Writers' Group,
1920s Jazz Age and South Bank, John Brodie-Good, Danny Thompson, Ryley Walker,
Paul Kantner, Steely Dan, Arthur Brown, Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle, Soft Machine
Legacy, Nigel Kennedy, Pink Fairies, Jeremy Smith, Mr. Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul,
Martin Srpingett, Richard Foreman, Madonna, Wham!, Cher, Pink Floyd, Toscanini,
Neil Nixon, Alice Cooper
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 215-6 (New Year 2017)
Issue 213-4 (Yule 2016)
Issue 212 (Greg Lake)
Issue 211 (Phil Collins)
Issue 210 (Nico)
Issue 209 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 208 (Leonard Cohen)
Issue 207 (Tibet)
Issue 206 (Raz)
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
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?
