The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
So here we are at the end of another week. I have one of those irritating
head colds that simmer away just below the surface but never seem to actually
develop into anything. Corinna had something similar the other week, so its not
just me. And I tell you what; I think I would prefer one of the wham bam thank
you ma'am ones which come into one's immune system, cause havoc for a few days,
then bugger off leaving one a nervous wreck. But, of course, what I would rather
have is no cold at all.
Rhinos I love. Rhinovirus I don’t.
I was trying to channel my inner William Burroughs this morning and
attempted to write a “Junkie”-like piece about Lemsip, but it came out too
contrived even for me, and—worst of all—it wasn’t even the slightest bit funny
so I didn’t bother to finish it, and instead slipped into a slough of self
pity.
The biggest news from us this week is that Episode Two of our relaunched On
The Track WebTV series has now been published/broadcast or whatever you call it
when you upload a finished *.wmv file to YouTube. You can watch it here:
I decided that, in a vain attempt to try to appeal to the Patreon
generation but mostly because I enjoy the technical challenge, the production
values are higher than they used to be and the show features more different
segments, and although it will remain as silly, and hopefully as entertaining as
ever, we are upping the content level of both Hard Science and High
Strangeness.
Check it out you funk soul wassnames and please do me a favour and
disseminate the news as far and wide as you can.
By the way you can watch last month's episode of OTT:
But now, here is the news:
COMING THIS WEEKEND
James Taylor about John Lennon on BBC
BARBARA DICKSON INTERVIEW
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jazz, Rock, Fusion wit...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #251
THE DEMONS OUT FROM MONTAGUE TERRACE ISSUE
Jon muses on the recent concert featuring the songs of Scott Walker and the
arrangements of Wally Stott aka Angela Morley, Tim interviews Edgar Broughton,
Jon interviews Don Falcone of Spirits Burning, John says goodbye to Walter
Becker of Steely Dan, and Jeremy encounters some Fisherman’s Friends.
And is there more? You can bet your pondohs there is. And it is all
free/buckshee/gratis
Wooooot!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive and Canterbury Sans Frontieres (cos wednesday was a full moon). 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 potoroos who have done some poos (OK,
nothing to do with small marsupials who have defecated, 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:
Scott Walker, Angela Morley, Nile Rodgers, Sinead O'Connor, RAZ Band, Adam
Ant, Mick Fleetwood, Ian Gillan, Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans Frontieres,
Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Holger Czukay, Earl
"Wire" Lindo, John Byrne Cooke, David Lawrence "Dave" Hlubek, Hedley H.G. Jones,
Michael Softley, Mary Hopkin, Man, Arthur Brown, Tony Ashton and Jon Lord,
Martin Springett, Third Ear Band, Benjamin Britten, Don Falcone, Spirits
Burning, Tim Rundall, Edgar and Luke Broughton, Alan Dearling, Aggelos Bolotos,
Marie Laforêt, Caterina Caselli, She Past Away, Local Blood, Death in Vegas,
John Brodie-Good, Walter Carl Becker, Steely Dan, Jeremy Smith, The Fisherman's
Friends, Kev Rowland, Dave Stryker, Dawn of Disease, De Profundis, Disengage,
Dyscarnate, Hawkwind, Beatles, Prince, David Bowie, Beatwoven, Elvis, Neil
Nixon, Bob Dylan
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 250 (Jamms)
Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)
Issue 248 (The Selecter)
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
Issue 243 (Galahad)
Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)
Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)
Issue 239 (Miss Peach)
Issue 238 (Hawkwind)
Issue 237 (Hawkwind)
Issue 236 (Manchester)
Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
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:
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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
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* 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?
