The Gonzo Daily: Thursday
If we are fortunate,
we are given a warning.
If not,
there is only the sudden horror,
the wrench of being torn apart;
of being reminded
that nothing is permanent,
not even the ones we love,
the ones our lives revolve around.
Mark Rickerby
And now, here is the news:
ITALIAN BILLY JAMES INTERVIEW
YES NEWS
Album review: RICK WAKEMAN & TONY ASHTON – Gas Tan...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Barbara Dickson - MacC...
Gonzo Magazine #225/6
RITES OF SPRING ISSUE
Welcoming in the Rites of Spring with Barbara Dickson, Rick Parfitt of
Status Quo, Music of Turkey, the mellifluous keyboard talents of Roger King,
Grateful Dead man Phil Lesh, Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, a look at the
Jefferson Family in 2017, the launch of Mr Biffo’s Found Footage, and all sorts
of other things. A wilder ride than you can imagine!
Groovy huh?
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:
Adam Cohen, Michael Jackson, George Michael, James Mangold, Bruce
Springsteen, Yes, Sean Lennon, Black Sabbath, Phil Lesh, Graham Lesh, Strange
Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Vince, Kalika
Prasad Bhattacharya, Lars "Dille" Diedricson, Robbie Hoddinott, Valerie Carter,
Fitzroy Edwards, Misha Mengelberg, Thomas Alden "Tommy" Page, Lyle Joseph Ritz,
David Joseph Valentin, Tony Ashton with Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Bernie Marsden,
Micky Moody, Neil Murray, John Entwhistle, Zak Starkey (Ringo’s son), Z,
Gastank, Lutz Ulbrich featuring Nico, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Atomic
Rooster, Mary Hopkin, Roger King, Alan Dearling, Baris Keskin, Duman, Yeni
Turku, Baris Manco, Cem Karaca, Erkin Koray, Mogollar, Mercan Dede, Ahmet
Ertegun, Nesuhi Ertegun, A Capella Bogaziçi Longa, Verka.Serduchka, Olduramadim,
Ali Desidero, Mavi Sakal, John Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, Richard Foreman,
Mickey Hart, Kev Rowland, RC2, Retrospective, Karda Estra, RSC, Shadow Circus,
Shplang, The Raz Band, Nick & Peggy Anslinger, Rick Parfitt, Barbara
Dickson, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Xtul, Sex Pistols, The Rolling Stones, Neil Nixon,
David Crosby
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 224 (Hibernal)
Issue 223 (Beatles)
Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)
Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)
Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 219 (Martin Stone)
Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)
Issue 217 (Dig Doug Harr)
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)
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
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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an
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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?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
