The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
Allan Holdsworth/Yes/Thom
Poor old Allan Holdsworth.
Great names, I cannot find you now
In these loud years of youth that strives
Through doom toward peace: upon my brow
I wear a wreath of banished lives.
You have no part with lads who fought
And laughed and suffered at my side.
Your fugues and symphonies have brought
No memory of my friends who died.
I didn't write that, by the way. It is from the Sassoon who didn't cut
hair.
And now, here is the news:
THOM REMEMBERS ALLAN HOLDSWORTH
YES IN THE NEWS
THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Allan Holdsworth
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Allan Holdsworth - Loo...
Gonzo Magazine #230
THE HEARTFUL OF SOUL ISSUE
In order to provide a perfect literary counterpoint to you guzzling
chocolate eggs and waving your arms around in delight, here is an issue in which
Jon meets Binky Womack (yes, folks, he is one of those Womacks), Doug writes
about Kate Bush, Neil writes about the Great Beast, and Alan roams the highways
and byways of Lithuania in search of musical delights. And yes, there is lots
more, and it is all free...
Groovy huh?
It’s all free!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive,
Strange Fruit, the sixth of Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly Sins radio shows, and
because it was a full moon this week another episode of Canterbury Sans
Frontieres. 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:
ate Bush, Elton John, Rick Wakeman, David Bowie, John Otway, Roger Daltrey,
New Order, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly
Sins, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Brian Matthew,
Glen O'Brien, Ben Lacy Speer, John Warren "J" Geils Jr., Toby Grafftey-Smith,
Mika Vainio, Eric Cook, Emmie Beckitt and Rick Wakeman, Supertramp, Ashton,
Gardner and Dyke, Al Atkins, Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Mary Hopkin, Binky
Womack, Alan Dearling, Rasa Serra and Saulius Petreikas, Kamaniu Silesis
(perhaps Pinewood of the Bumblebees), Baltik Postfolk Alternative, Esatis,
Skyle, Justin 3, Matt Winson Band, Kev Rowland, Jadis, Matthew Parmenter,
Lioncage, Marduk, Tony Daunt and the Dauntless, Soniq Theater, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, Sex Pistols, Queen, Jimi Hendrix,
Linkin Park, Neil Nixon, Aleister Crowley
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)
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)
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
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?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
