THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HIDES BEHIND A TREE

The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday

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Yesterday Mike Davis and I did a marathon session, which resulted in a new song for him. Those of you who are interested can see/hear it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EzcNaT6ypg The noisy guitar and programming is by me, by the way. A couple of months back Mike came breezing into my studio with a new song. It was really simple, he said, and would be a doddle to record. The song was and is great, but it wasn't simple, and wasn't a doddle by any stretch of the imagination.

And by the way, if anyone else tries to talk to me about the new Doctor Who. please don't.

But now, here is the news:

Founder and star of band Osibisa, Teddy Osei, on T...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/founder-and-star-of-band-osibisa-teddy.html

Ringo Starr on Life as a Beatle

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/ringo-starr-on-life-as-beatle.html

Igor Stravinsky Documentary

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/igor-stravinsky-documentary.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_17.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: KARNATAKA - Fairytale ..

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/the-gonzo-track-of-day-karnataka.html.

Gonzo Weekly #243

THE YO HO HO AND A BUCKET OF PROG ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

...in which Jon interviews Stu Nicholson from Galahad, Richard goes to the New Forest folk festival, and sees Ric Sanders, Show of Hands and the Acoustic Strawbs, we ask whether modern music is rubbish, Alan ties Jon to a Listening Post, and all with a Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of Prog.

Yup, and it’s all free!

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, and Friday Night Progressive. 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 numbats with the right to choose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have become eligible to vote, 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, Rolling Stones, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Nile Rodgers, Chic, Brian May, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Tamara Grigoryevna Miansarova, Raymond Chikapa Enock Phiri, Joseph Fire Crow, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Melvyn "Deacon" Jones, Fresh Kid Ice, Egil Kapstad, Nelsan Ellis, Mary Hopkin, Ashton Gardner and Dyke, Stu Nicholson, Galahad, Alan Dearling, Crass, Scott Walker, Cockney Rebel, Captain Beefheart, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Plastic Ono Band, Belle and Sebastian, The Polyphonic Spree, Gram Parsons, Roger Waters, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Richard Foreman, New Forest Folk Festival, Kev Rowland, Warner Drive, Wilderness Dream, Bloody Hammers, Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons, Dialeto, Dusan Jevtovic, Datura 4, Da Vinci, Gateway to Hell, Intrcptr, Laces Out, Charlotte Phillipson, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Prince, Slipknot, Neil Nixon, Dread Zeppelin.

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo241.html

Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo240.html

Issue 239 (Miss Peach)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo239.html

Issue 238 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo238.html

Issue 237 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo237.html

Issue 236 (Manchester)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo236.html

Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo235.html

Issue 234 (Al Atkins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo234.html

Issue 233 (Richard Strange)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo233.html

Issue 232 (Roy Weard)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo232.html

Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo231.html

Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo230.html

Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo229.html

Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo228.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 loudly 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 57 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?

CFZ PEOPLE: Mike Davis

50 yesterday

Happy Birthday Mike.  



And even Peanut (aka Captain Frunobulax) is wishing you the same down there in the right hand corner.  

JUST IN CASE ANYONE WONDERS WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOING...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN GOES TO WEST BROMWICH

The Gonzo Daily - Monday

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And so another week begins. The weekend was enjoyable because Mike Davis and I were cooking on gas and finished three new songs. Meanwhile, Richard is preparing for the CFZ Australia expedition to Tasmania in a week's time. Graham is still on holiday with his mother and sister, and we still have no car. I would like to apologise to Barbara Dickson - we had planned to go as her guests to Yeovil last week to see her show, but our current transport-less state precluded this. Sad but true.

However, we are getting a hire car and travelling to Manchester on Thursday. We will be meeting up with the lovely Miss Crystal Grenade, and later going to see Peter Gabriel (hopefully visiting the skeleton of Maharajah the elephant, and The Manchester Moth in the Natural History Museum along the line). What an exciting life we live....

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_21.html

Today's Track of the Day is by John Shuttleworth
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-john.html

Three new songs from Mike Davis
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/three-new-songs-from-mike-davis.html

CSN: A welcome feeling of déjà vu as legends carry on
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-welcome-feeling-of-deja-vu-as-legends.html

Grace Slick – An American Treasure
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/grace-slick-american-treasure.html

Michael Des Barres stars in Zappa classic
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/michael-des-barres-stars-in-zappa.html

A conversation with pioneer of rock culture Eric Burdon -- The Existential Truth of Rock and Roll
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-conversation-with-pioneer-of-rock.html

*  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.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

* 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 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon, which he shares with various fish and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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 the orange cat?

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN JUMPS WITH BARELY CONCEALED AFFABILITY

I was up until stupid o'clock last night finishing the latest episode of On The Track, which will be up later today. The section where Corinna goes through the latest bird news is particularly worth watching as both Corinna and cameraman Graham were terrorised by the kittens climbing all over them and generally creating mayhem. Those cats really are complete hooligans. Mike Davis arrives for four more day's recording at about 3:00. I am looking forward to it, and I would just like to thank Mark Raynes for all his support and kind words....

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_13.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Keith Christmas
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-keith-christmas.html

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: This Led Zeppelin poster may be signed and authenticated but it is insanely expensive
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/cabinet-of-curiosities-i-like-led.html

Judy Dyble interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/judy-dyble-interview.html

Interviewing The Rides' Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Barry Goldberg, Plus Talking with John Waite, and Exclusives by Sanders Bohlke and Cameron McGill

Corky Laing: Mountain Legendary Drummer talks about Brilliant Rock Opera Release (Video)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/corky-laing-mountain-legendary-drummer.html

*  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: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

* 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 54 who, together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange), puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon, which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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 the orange cat?

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH BAND NEEDS SEROTONIN

I am very touched at the messages of support I get whenever I am unwell. I am very grateful. I would hate anyone to think that I am belly-aching about my health all the time or asking for sympathy; I am not. But I think it important for people like me who suffer from serious mental illnesses to share their experiences with others so that people can better understand the processes that people like me are going through. On more cheerful subjects, I finished the first proof of Matt Salusbury's massively thorough book on pygmy elephants yesterday, and also did a very enjoyable interview with the ever affable Judge Smith. Mike Davis arrives tomorrow for three days of recording, so expect some new music early next week.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_12.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Blodwyn Pig
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-dear-jill.html

Judy Dyble review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/judy-dyble-review.html

The Art of Grace Slick
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/gallery-319-in-woodland-hills-presents.html

Hawkwind - London, O2 Empire, Shepherds Bush - 24th August 2013
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/hawkwind-london-o2-empire-shepherds.html

Stephen Stills interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/stephen-stills-interview-were-still.html

*  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: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

* 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 54 who, together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange), puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon, which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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 the orange cat?