The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
I often write about how my life is particularly weird at any point, but
today is different, my life is fairly ordinary today. I have to go for a
doctor’s appointment this afternoon, followed by nurses doing something arcane
with my veins. Once upon a time the world seemed to make some sort of sense to
me, but, as I get older, it just seems to be more illogical and more
unfair.
Take this for example. A friend of mine, who is part of my extended family,
paid £45 less than she should have done to Torridge District Council for her
Council tax monthly payments. By the time the mess was sorted out she was five
days late, and she found that the whole affair had been put into the hands of
bailiffs who then threatened to kick her door down if she didn't pay the entire
year's tax, including monies which were not yet due, in full. Luckily we were
able to help, but on behalf of all the poor victims of vile tactics like these I
think that I am going to make a stand, and take this outrage as far as I
can.
It is time to man the barricades, comrades.
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: JOHNNY WINTER - Jumpin...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy...
Captain Beefheart Art To Go On Show
AndersonPonty Band Better Late Than Never
Gonzo Weekly #149
www.gonzoweekly.com
Tony Palmer, Mike Oldfield, Heart, Captain Beefheart, bootleg, Poco, M
Destiny, Dog and the Universe of Swine Dirt, anarchopunk, Roy Weard, Dogwatch,
That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look
out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#149) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Tony Palmer, Mike Oldfield and Buzz Aldrin on the front cover together with
an interview with Tony Palmer about the legendary 'Space Movie' inside, Doug
looks at Heart, Jon muses about Dog and the Universe of Swine. We review a
controversial book about bootlegs, and Xtul are back in the deep woods. Neil
unearths a hidden gem by a mad composer of piano music from the early 20th
Century. John B-G looks at West Coast psychedelia on Youy Tube, and Jon presents
a round up of anarchopunk news. Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the
legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. And there is a radio show from
M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the last of four Strange Harvest
radio specials from the folk wot bring you Strange Fruit. There is also a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons wanting a
snooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who stayed up too late last
night, 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:
Suede, ELO, David Bowie, The Who, Janet Jackson, Ronnie Wood, James Burton,
Albert Lee, Karnataka, Keith Richards, Barbara Dickson, Strange Harvest, Friday
Night Progressive, Raymond "Ray" Kenneth Warleigh, Peggy Jones, Ben Cauley, Jame
"Brooklyn" Prefontaine, Jackie Collins, Yogi Berra, Group Captain Allan Richard
Wright DFC & Bar, AFC, Brian Sewell, Hugh Hopper, THe Pirates, Ducks Deluxe,
The Pirates, Wilko Johnson, Dr. John, Johnny Winter & Uncle John Turner,
Billy Cobham, Brand x, Pete Sears, Frank Zappa,Tony Palmer, Mike Oldfield,
Heart, Dog and the Universe of Swine Dirt, John Brodie-Good, Spirit, Captain
Beefheart, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, Poco, Roy Weard,
Sex Pistols, Crass, Vi Subversa, The Poison Girls, Chumbawamba, Steve Ignorant's
Slice of Life, Hawkwind, Hawklords, Xtul, Bay City ROllers, Wham!, Freddie
Mercury, Queen, Elvis Presley, 1D, Ringo Starr, Yes, Billy Sherwood, Alan
Whiate, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Neil Nixon, Mark Bebbington,
Tiarra
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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
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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
* 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 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 infantile
orange cat, and the adventurous kitten?
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