HERE COMES THE MOON SAYS THE GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN

The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
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Yesterday I learned that someone that I am really quite fond of has been forced offline after repeated attacks by trolls commenting on her YouTube Channel. She is a sweet and kind person and certainly does not deserve this. Why? Because nobody deserves to be treated like this. I ran into similar problems nine years back, and was very tempted to quit as a result. It is impossible to describe the amount of pain and anguish that things like this cause. I was told that I should "grow a thicker skin" by people who truly should have known better. But why the hell should I? Surely people have the right not to be targeted  online bullies.

Online bullying is not going to stop because of anything I write. And, sadly, I don't think that it is going to stop because of anything that the people in charge of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are likely to do, either. But it might stop if we - ALL of us - support, help, and treat each other with love and respect, b oth online and off. We are going through a particularly unpleasant period of our history at the moment, and there are enough pressures upon us all without a particularly egregious subset of our species choosing to make other people's lives a misery for their own enjoyment. It is a sort of online bloodsport, and like all bloodsports, and indeed all activities that cause death, pain and misery for one group of creatures for the betterment or amusement of another one, should be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Like a bunch of anarchist musicians said 37 years ago: "Strive To Survive Causing Least Suffering Possible" and like a bloke from Liverpool said a decade and a half before that: "All you need is love!"

My brother is the vicar in my family, and I would like to leave sermonising to him. It is not something that I enjoy, and I would much rather go back to my secular home in the badly converted potato shed, where Graham has just changed the filter for Clarence in Wonderland (the clarias catfish) and I am extremely interested to find out what he does next. Catfish are far more interesting than people even at the best of times, and these truly are far from being the best of times.

Toodle-pip

YER EDITOR SEZ: THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG
You guys recently did massive amounts of praying for Corinna, and she now appears to be cancer free. I am convinced that these two things are related, with the outpouring of good vibes transmitted electronically, being a little like a Tibetan prayer flag. Having used it once to such good effect - I want to try it on a larger scale. I am still trying to work out the details, so watch this space.

Find out more:
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/a-prayer-flag-lung-ta-is-colourful.html

Blessed be.

ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-gonzo-track-of-day-john-lee-hooker.html
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: John Lee Hooker - Boom...
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/07/jon-anderson-on-tour.html
JON ANDERSON ON TOUR
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_15.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/07/leonard-cohen-en-passant.html
LEONARD COHEN EN PASSANT
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/07/frank-zappa-batavia-native-unveils.html
FRANK ZAPPA: Batavia native unveils Zappa-inspired...

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And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:
https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-notion-of-shopkeepers.html
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have sold eight whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium. Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases

I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?

AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

Gonzo Weekly #345/6
THE DANCING RADICALLY ISSUE
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

You will have to check people name spelling as still can't read it very well, but I think it is okay .. In this particularly eclectic issue, Alan sees Jah Wobble, Daniel Gaudi, Mark Stewart & RDF (Radical Dance Faction) and interviews their singer Chris Bowuber, the only person who has been in every line up of the band.  Doug gives us a potted history of Goth, including Siouxie and the Banshees and the Cocteau Twins, Steve visits the Jarawa people of the Andaman Islands, Jon waxes lyrical about the lovely Melanie S Jane, reviews the new book by J.T. Wilson, and bitches on about the state of the nation, whilst we go to Glasto to critique Hawkwind and Stormzy.  And finally we go behind the scenes of Rick Wakeman’s new box set.

Groovy eh?

Hail Eris!

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Strange Fruit there is a columns from Kev Rowland, but Mr Biffo, C J Stone, and Roy Weard, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna are on hiatus.  There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses who have lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are searching for their footwear, 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:

Linda McCartney, Johnny Marr, New Order, Fish, Doris Brendel, Robert Plant, Jack White, Rick Wakeman, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Gary Duncan (born Gary Ray Grubb), Anthony Hedges, Jack L. Renner, Elliot Roberts (born Elliot Eabinowitz), Gualberto Antonio Castro Levario, Peter Talbot Westergaard, Jeff Austin, David Louis Bartholomew, Jerry Carrigan, Paulo Figueiredo Antonio Pagni (also known as PA Pagni), Philippe Zdar (born Philippe Cerboneschi, Jacqui Magno, Eamon Friel, Kelly Jay Fordham, Nature Ganganbaigal, Leon Redbone (born Dickran Gobalian), Arthur Brown, Gregg Kofi Brown, Norma Waterson feat. Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy, Danny Thompson and Eliza Carthy, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Mitchell Trio inc John Denver, Steve Andrews, the Jarawa tribe, Melanie S Jane, Doug Harr, Gothic Rock, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins, Alan Dearling, Bass Sound Clash, One Dread, Radical Dance Faction, Youth, Jah Wobble, Mark Stewart, Chris Bowsher, Kev Rowland, Surmiser, Torture Rack, Power Trip, Lords of Black, Majesty of Silence, Materdea, Matt Baber, Tony Klinger, Hawkwind, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Impossible Animals, J.T. Wilson, Stormzy

And the last few issues are:

Issue 343-4 (Auburn)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-341-2.html
Issue 341-42 (America)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-341-2.html
Issue 339-40 (Kev Rowland)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-339-40.html
Issue 337-38 (Zee)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-337-8.html
Issue 335-36 (Raz)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-335-6.html
Issue 333-34 (Nepal)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-333-4.html
Issue 331-32 (Scott Walker)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-331-2.html



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