Wednesday, September 10, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS SPACED OUT

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
We are always being told how the music industry is in crisis and how record sales are plummeting.  However, once or twice a year there are still major artistic and cultural events which take the western world by storm.  One such has been Kate Bush’s renaissance following her ongoing series of concerts in London.  Another happened last year when the Rolling Stones dragged Mick Taylor away from undeserved obscurity, and played a series of barnstorming gigs including Glastonbury Festival, and another is going on at the moment and started last night.
King Crimson have been, unarguable, one of the most idiosyncratic and artistically interesting bands for forty five years now, since they formed in 1968.  Leader Robert Fripp left the music business some years ago, and King Crimson seem to have been on indefinite hiatus since about 1998.  However, last year Fripp announced that the band will return, and last night, the new seven piece line-up played their first show.
When Kate Bush announced her return to the stage she asked politely that fans refrain from photographing or videoing the gigs.  She then enforced this polite request with an iron fist, which means that the job of an arm chair rock and roll pundit like me is a little bit more difficult than it would have otherwise have been.  I don’t know whether King Crimson have done the same, but there are no snippets of the band’s latest set available on Youtube, and only one review that I can find so far.  We shall just have to wait and see what transpires.
Watch this space.
Corky Laing Interview - "When the Americans landed on the moon, I landed on the Mountain seat"
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/09/corky-laing-interview-when-americans.html
Steven Wilson Remixing Classic Yes Album
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/09/steven-wilson-remixing-classic-yes-album.html
ALL THAT HAS SURFACED SO FAR OF THE NEW KING CRIMSON
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/09/all-that-has-surfaced-so-far-of-new.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_10.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Marlene Dietrich - Falling in Love again
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/09/gonzo-track-of-day-marlene-dietrich.html
John Ellis, Vibrators, Clepsydra and Kate Bush Fans, had better look out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#94) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has the one and only John Ellis, one time guitar guru of The Vibrators, Peter Gabriel, The Stranglers, Peter Hammill, Judge Smith and more on the cover. Doug Harr was there in the audience when Kate Bush played live on last Friday evening, and Jon finds out about Clepsydra's plans for the future from bass ace Andy Thommen. There are also new shows from the wonderfully eccentric Jaki and Tim on their Submarine, from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and ursine tree kangaroos (OK, no weird arboreal marsupials from New Guinea, 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!!!
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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.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 an orange kitten named after a song by Frank Zappa 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 kitten?
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