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 The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

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Now, how the bloody hell has this happened? My tongue in cheek and more than slightly ridiculous new advert for our webTV show 'On the Track' is significantly more popular than the most recent episode of the show itself. The advert which features me twatting about pretending to be Emerson Lake and Palmer can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV6LLv3OW9s And I still don't understand how, or indeed whether I have screwed up the potential of the latest episode |(which can be found here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpKHzP7x_7Q. And is this my cheap attempt at self promotion? Yes, probably, but I have nothing else to write about today.

Now, changing the subject massively, my friend and Colleague Louis Rozier is carrying out a survey as part of his dissertation for his Masters in Computer Science. If you are interested in helping him please check it out:

https://forms.gle/joK2ihGauHCp4H9w8

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Interview On Plane AMERICA 1970s

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Leonard Cohen graphic novel

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

The latest episode of On the Track went up on Saturday and we are very proud of it:

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends:

- Jon's amazing feat of precognition

- The return of Richard

- A British mazarine blue for the first time in a century?

- A Queen of Spain fritillary in Kent

- Richard Freeman unboxing

- The return of the thylacine jaws

- Richard Freeman interview

- Tasmania expeditions

Happy Birthday Corinna. She would have been 65.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpKHzP7x_7Q

And here we have another shameless plug:

’Wild Colonial Boy’ is the story of my early life in Hong Kong. It is like a darker analog of Gerald Durrell’s memoirs of his childhood in Greece, and I would’ve called it “My Family and other Sociopaths” if I could have got away with it. Find out more and buy it signed from the link below:

https://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/.../jon-s-book-about...

C’mon, make a curmudgeonly old bugger happy.

And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:

https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/.../a-notion-of...

Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have sold eleven 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 #453/4

THE SPLINTERED ISSUE

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This magazine continues to go off on strange tangents that I never expect, but I am very happy to see it do so. What is in this week? Ooooh lots of things. Such as Pete Townshend, The Who, Billy Elliot, Splinter, The Fall, Simon Wolstencroft, Haynesy & JD, Syd Barrett, Mike Tiano, Nick Haynes and much more...

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, and the Real Music Club, AND Strange Fruit, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and C.J Stone but Mr Biffo, Tony Klinger and Neil Nixon, are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and dibblers who have got the blues (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are listening to the new Bob Dylan album, 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!!!

..And the last few issues are:

Issue 449-50 (Cary Grace)

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Issue 447-8 (Gardening Club)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-447-8.html

This alphqanumeric issue disappearede into the aether

Issue 443-4 (Rubber chicken)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-443-4.html

Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-441-2.html

Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-441-2.html

Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-441-2.html

Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-441-2.html

Issue 439-40 (Prince Phillip)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-439-40.html

Issue 437-8 (Yes)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-437-8.html

Issue 435-36 (Hawkwind)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-435-6.html

Issue 433-34 (Freda Payne)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-433-4.html

Issue 431-32 (Kosheen)

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Issue 429-30 (Ocean Aid)

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Issue 427-8 (2021 ia Bosch)

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Issue 425-6 (Paul McCartney)

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Issue 423-4 (KLF)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-423-4.html

Issue 421-22 (Christmas)

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Issue 419-20 (John Lennon)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-419-20-pb.html

Issue 417-8 (gIG)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-417-8.html

Issue 415-16 (Phideaux)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-415-16.html

Issue 413-14 (Rick Wakeman)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-413-14.html

Issue 411-12 (Extinction Rebellion)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-4011-12.html

Issue 409-10 (Covid)

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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* 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 a recently widowed old hippy of 61 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, three other cats, 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 a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?