The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
VDGG/Rick Springfield/Spirits Burning/Magazine
No sooner had Max gone home, than we had a telephone call heralding the
appearance of Helen and Jessica Taylor. I hadn't seen Jess since she stopped
working for me over a year ago, and it was lovely to catch up with her. Then,
soon after they wended their weary way back home, along came Martin Eve
demanding wine. He was most put out to hear that Max and I had gone through four
and a half bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon the evening before, but he happily
drank the rest of the last bottle, whilst regaling me with personal abuse. I
managed to get Gonzo Weekly finished, and got to bed (and fairly soon asleep) at
midnight, only to be woken this morning by a reporter wanting to interview me
about British big cats.
Same old same old...
And now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Van der Graaf Generato...
RICK SPRINGFIELD DOCUMENTARY
SPIRITS BURNING: Italian review translated
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Magazine #227
THE HAIL HAIL ROCK AND ROLL ISSUE
In this rockin’ and a rollin’ issue we say goodbye to Chuck Berry, Doug
goes to see Zucchero, John sees Hendrix in Bristol (not really), Alan writes
about Beaver and Krause with his mate Phil, we introduce you to our very own
druid, and Jon nearly gets charged with a crime of moral turpitude.
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:
The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Johnny Marr, The The, Morrissey, Jon
Anderson, Yes, Nick Mason, Ronnie Wood, Prince, Black Sabbath, Lily Collins,
Phil Collins, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans
Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly Sins,
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry, James Henry Cotton, John Lever, Tommy
LiPuma, Joey Alves, James Martin Pacelli McGuinness (Irish: Séamus Máirtín
Pacelli Mag Aonghusa), Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, Evan Johns, Don Warden, Joan
Elise Sledge, Tony Lorenzo, John Thomas "Sib" Hashian, PC Keith Palmer, 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, Adelmo “Zucchero”
Fornaciari, Beaver and Krause, John Brodie-Good, Jimi Hendrix, Kev Rowland,
Aborym, Accept, Agnostic Front, Sepultura, Ashenspire, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind,
Martin Springett, John Lennon, George Harrison, Kurt Cobain, Andrew Ridgeley,
Andy Phillipson, Neil Nixon, Sandra Cross
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)
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
power chaps, we have to share it!
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
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?