Wednesday, January 06, 2016
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN RETURNS TO NORMAL
The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
Now Jessica has a cold and is at home ill. Corinna is out at work, and I am
sitting quietly in the office swilling lemsip and getting on with things.
Hopefully it will all come back to normal next week.
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: KARNATAKA - Fairytale ...
JOHN MAYALL: Live in 1967 / Find a Way to Care
Lemmy, right, with Hawkwind Photo by Getty DAVE BR...
FRANK ZAPPA: ‘Old Cucamonga’ book gives flavor of ...
Gonzo Weekly #163
www.gonzoweekly.com
Lemmy, Hawkwind, Bridget Wishart, Twink, Brand X, Percy Jones, Digitiser,
Mr Biffo, Jaki Windmill, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion,
Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
What was once supposed to be the "Ring out the Old, Ring in the New, Blah
Blah Blah" edition has become a tribute to the recently deceased Lemmy, together
with Jon's look back at the best records of the year, Doug's look at the best
gigs, an interview with one-time Hawkwind chanteuse Bridget Wishart, another
with Brand X bass dude Percy Jones, a review of Hawkwind during 2015, and
columns from all sorts of folk including Mr Biffo. And all this during what is
euphemistically known as 'The Festive Season'. Golly! There is also a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antechinuses wanting
poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who are slightly constipated, 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:
Jimmy Page, P J Harvey, AC/DC, Trent Reznor, The Beatles, Michael Jackson,
EODM, Madonna, Wilko Johnson, David Bowie, Barbara Dickson, N.W.A., Galahad,
Strange Harvest, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jaki
Windmill, Tim Rundall, Adam Roth, Mick Lynch, Mary Joan Okum, James Hill OBE,
Peter Broggs, Johnny Winter, 13th Floor Elevators, Spirits Burning, The Pirates,
Dee Palmer, Freddie King, The Selecter, Ducks De Luxe, Alexis Korner, James
Brown, John Lee Hooker, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Judge Smith, John Brodie
Good, Public Service Broadcasting, The Long Lost Band, Jacqui McShee's
Pentangle, Spooky Ghost, Gary Duncan Quicksilver, Drones for Daevid, Pink
Fairies, John Martyn, Liz Lenten, Wreckless Eric, Howard Eynon, Roy Weard, Trim
Tab Jim, My Dad's LPs, A J Smitrovich, Mr Biffo, Ken Worthington, John
Shuttleworth, Hawkwind, Alan Friswell, Xtul, Elvis, Black Sabbath, One
Direction, Cliff Richard, Yoko Ono, Yes, Neil Nixon, Emit Bloch, Cave
Growl
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)
Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)
Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)
Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)
Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
Issue 152 (4th Eden)
Issue 151 (Corky Laing)
Issue 150 (Roger Dean)
Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)
Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
Issue 139 (Raz cover)
Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
Issue 135 (FNP cover)
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:
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
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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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song
by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten 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, and sometimes a young lady called Jessica. 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
infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kitten?
NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Thursday
ON THIS DAY IN 1558 - Calais, the last English possession on mainland France, was recaptured by the French.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
Mosquitoes more likely to lay eggs in water source...
Bird and Mammal Size Not Important in Adjusting to...
Degraded habitat alters frog microbiomes - via Her...
Super rare pink hippo makes appearance in Kenya re...
Like father like son: Epigenetics in wild guinea p...
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)
Tuesday, January 05, 2016
MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: Some hairless horses you may never have met
I recently came across a mystery
animal that has bolted from the stable of cryptozoological familiarity only to
roam in the waste-lands of cryptozoological obscurity. Namely the hairless
horse. Here I present three old newspaper stories about this mystery beast,
dating from 1838,1880 and 1892 respectively.
The Sun (Baltimore , Maryland
A Hairless Horse
– There is a horse exhibiting at
Tattersalls, New
York
The Osage City
Free Press (Osage City ,
Kansas
GEN. KAUPMANN has just presented to
the Zoological Garden at Moscow a hairless horse
from Central Asia . The animal belongs to a
hybrid species ,and is considered a great rarity; it is well formed, but its
skin is red and without the slightest trace of hair, and in cold Moscow
THE HAIRLESS HORSE. An otherwise
perfect animal absolutely destitute of hair.
Some weeks ago we gave a description
and illustration of a horse with phenomenal growth of the hair of the mane and
tail, the rest of his coat being quite normal. In the present issue we reproduce
from the Scientific American an example of the opposite extreme ,from a life
study of the curious animal portrayed. This is a horse absolutely destitute of
hair. Neither neck nor tail nor any part of the body shows the least hirsute
growth. The texture of the skin is silky and smooth; the color is almost a full
black. The animal is of rather heavy type, and with his delicate surface does
not produce any unpleasant impression. There are said to be two such horses
known to exist in this country. One of them was foaled in the west; the one we
illustrate is credited to Australia
The skin in one of thee animals is
affected curiously, the perspiratory function seeming to be absent. The horse
does not sweat when exercised, and the mouth or nose seems to provide the escape
for what would otherwise be true skin perspiration.
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?Well, everything, actually!
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.
- Rare sighting of six Hornbill birds in Khar
- Will 2016 be the year the nesting sites of the eni...
- River ecosystems show 'incredible' initial recover...
- Competition and climate change combine to threaten...
TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in.
The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking.
UK SIGHTING: Locals terrified after another sighti...
ARTICLE: 17,000 dogs in Corbett a big threat to it...
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
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