The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
A couple of weird rites of passage to write about today. This morning, for
the first time, I fell and was unable to get up under my own steam, needing help
from Corinna and Graham. Being basically helpless scared the living crap out of
me, and I am still quite shaken several hours later. It is all part of growing
older and more crippled, but it is a particularly unpleasant thing to deal with
as I know perfectly well that this is highly unlikely to be the last time this
happens.
The other thing took place on Friday when Richard telephoned to tell me
that an old friend of Graham's and mine had died suddenly. Neither Graham or I
had seen her in over fifteen years, and we weren't particularly close, but we
had both known her for a very long time (I first met her in 1982) and it is
sobering when a part of one's past passes. Our thoughts and prayers are with
Kiryi's family and loved ones at this time.
Forgive me for always banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot
to me, and I would be grateful for as many people as possible to see it, and
spread the tidings of it far and wide:
But now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Kevin Ayers - Stranger...
LEONARD COHEN NEWS
HAWKWIND NEWS
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART vs NONA HENDRYX
IAIN MATTHEWS NEWS
Gonzo Weekly #260
THE PORT OF HAMSTER JAM ISSUE
Alan visits a festival in an Amsterdam squat, John goes to see Steely Dan,
Davey goes to see the Hawklords, Jon muses on Alexandra David-Neel and Led
Zeppelin, and Neil waxes lyrical on some groovy psychedelic ephemera! And there
is more alright.
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Harvest, Friday Night
Progressive and Canterbury Sans Frontieres. We also have columns from all sorts
of folk including Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna, although Roy Weard,
C J Stone, Mr Biffo, are taking a week off. There is also a collection of more
news, reviews, views, interviews and long nosed potoroos who have done lots of
poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have been at the laxatives,
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:
Dame Alexandra David-Néel, Led Zeppelin, Ringo Starr, Leonard Cohen, Elton
John, Yes, Paul McCartney, Bono, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Robert De Cormier,
Pentti Glan, Richard Francis "Dick" Gordon Jr., Robert Knight, Dudley George
Simpson, Paul John Buckmaster, Gilbert Rouget, Barbara Dickson, Jessica Lee
Morgan, Rick Wakeman, Billion Dollar Babies, Tangerine Dream, Alan Dearling, ADM
Festival, Hikury Beach, De Hardheid, John Brodie-Good, Steely Dan, Neil Arnold,
Six Feet Under, The Ravelles, The Vampires, Ace of Cups, McPhee, Fifty Foot
Hose, Mellow Candle, Analogy, Julian's Treatment, Made in Germany, Kev Rowland,
Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band, Show of Hands, Steeleye Span,
Sxuperion, Syn Ze Sase Ri, Davey Curtis, Hawklords, Hawkwind, Martin Springett,
KLF, The Isley Brothers, Elvis, Beatles, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Nixon,
Esquerita
Issue 258 (The Devil's Jukebox)
Issue 257 (Judge Smith)
Issue 255/6 (John Lennon)
Issue 254 (Mr Biffo)
Issue 253 (Dana Gillespie)
Issue 252 (Cropredy)
Issue 251 (Scott Walker)
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!
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journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos
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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 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?
