THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN RETREATING

The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday

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And so, another week trundles into play. Mike was here yesterday afternoon and evening, and we put another song to bed. I have been recording with him since 1982, and it is still fresh and exciting. Lady Selene has retreated back to her great dance in the sky, and I have not had a drink for a fortnight tomorrow. Graham is off to Arizona in the morning, and Carl arrives on Saturday. So everything is chugging along reasonably as normal.

 

Changing the subject completely, is there anyone reading this who has any experience in coding apps? Even more importantly, if you do, would you be prepared to lend your expertise to us for a few hours? Email me please at jon@eclipse.co.uk.

 

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:

 

Ep 90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aalg4_ozggg&t=817s

Ep 89 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNXdBY9oEyc

Ep 88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpo0b0_MrU&t=396s

Ep 87 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi8BzaT3sCc&t=2s

Ep 86 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdAn24MkErs&t=67s

EP 85 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E82xG502cA&t=21s

EP 84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7rDGbLdYxc&t=3s

EP 83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9lr_j2Ij8Q

EP 82 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iP_Pii7ZF8

 

And if you fancy supporting us on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/CFZ

 

And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore seems to be in order: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:

 

buy my novel:

http://tinyurl.com/gmo6axf

buy the record by the main protagonist of the novel who isn't me in an elephant mask, honest:

http://tinyurl.com/y7sya95r

buy my single:

http://tinyurl.com/zoex4d4

 

But for now, here is the news:

 

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/the-gonzo-track-of-day-rachmaninov_30.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Rachmaninov Piano Conc...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/nico-interview-1972.html

Nico interview 1972

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/arthur-brown-meets-alice-cooper.html

ARTHUR BROWN MEETS ALICE COOPER

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/mick-farren-isle-of-wight-david-frost.html

Mick Farren - Isle of Wight and David Frost Show 197...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

 

Gonzo Weekly #284

THE NO LOVE LIKE STRANGE LOVE ISSUE

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In the week where things get stranger than strange, Doug interviews the mighty Strangelove, we interview Biff Vernon about a series of maritime art projects in Lincolnshire, John gives us a debriefing about Record Store Day 2018, Alan remembers the Necessaries, and Jon muses on Morrissey and remembers Anarchopunk LPs.

 

#Hail Eris!

 

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit's Neil Nixon doing something rather naughty, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, there are columns from all sorts of folk including Neil Nixon, Kev Rowlands AND the irrepressible Corinna, and Roy Weard, and C J Stone, tho' Mr Biffo are sadly absent this week. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and long nosed potoroos who have stood around waiting for other potoroos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have decided to stage a reading of the Samuel Beckett classic, 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:

 

Morrissey, Biff Vernon, Marcus Vergette, Time and Tide Bell, Nile Rodgers, Asia, Kate Bush, Prince, Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham,  Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Paul Gray, Bob Dorough, Tim Bergling (aka Avicii), Ian Stuart Colman, Ramon Conchas, Robbee Mariano, Brian Henry Hooper, Inuka, Nabi Tajima, Rick Wakeman, Natural Gas, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Michael Bruce, Man, Doug Harr, Depeche Mode, Strangelove, Alan Dearling, Event Horizon, The Necessaries, John Brodie-Good, Record Store Day 2018, Kev Rowland, The Dark Element, Deluge Grander, Diable Swing Orchestra, Eden Shadow, Elaine Samuels & Kindred Spirit, Electric Wizard, Eye of Nix, Flames of Genesis, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Chris Stone, Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Gary Miller, Steve Ignorant, Anarchopunk, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Neil Nixon, Peter Frampton,

 

And the last few issues are:

 

Issue 283 (Record Store Day)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo283.html

Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo282.html

Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo281.html

Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo280.html

Issue 279 (Biffo)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo279.html

Issue 278 (The Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo278.html

Issue 277 (Auld Man's Baccie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo277.html

Issue 276 (Dukes of the Orient)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo276.html

Issue 275 (Martin Gordon)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo275.html

Issue 274 (Steve Took)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo274.html

Issue 273 (Live Dead 69)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo273.html

Issue 272 (George Butler)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo272.html

Issue 271 (Mark E Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo271.html

Issue 270 (Eric Clapton)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo270.html

Issue 269 (Narnia)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo269.html

Issue 267-8 (Happy New Year)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo267-8.html

Issue 265-6 (The Who)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo265-6.html

Issue 264 (John McLaughlin)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo264.html

Issue 263 (The magic Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo263.html

Issue 262 (DikMik)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo262.html

Issue 261 (Leonard Cohen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo261.html

Issue 260 (Amsterdam Squat Festie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo260.html

 

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:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

 

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 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?