The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
And so, dear friends, it is all over for another
year. I suppose that I really should apologize for not having sent blogs out –
either for the CFZ, or Gonzo – yesterday but the brutally honest truth is:
After getting home from the Weird Weekend on Sunday
night I imbibed a little brandy, said goodnight to my nearest and dearest, and
went to bed. I woke up insanely early in order to say good bye to the children
as they left to take Lars and his son to Bristol airport before making there own
way back to Staffordshire. I then went back to bed and didn’t get up until tea
time, whereupon I went into Bideford with Graham to get a takeaway curry and
some beer, consumed a little of both and went back to bed.
So there were no blogs yesterday.
The Weird Weekend was very successful and everybody
involved seems to have enjoyed it massively. Roll on next year… but not to fast
please.
Billy Sherwood, Prog Rock History, Michael Raz,
Free Festival, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon
Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#143) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Billy Sherwood on the front cover together with an interview with him the
day after his first show as bass player of Yes inside. Jon muses about Princess
Diana, Irish extremists and Weird Weekends whilst reviewing the hippest new
comic. Doug reviews a book on the history of Prog Riock, John B-G talks about
his memories of Free Festivals, 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. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and water opossums with something to lose (OK,
nothing to do with small marsupials planning to pray to St Anthony of Padyua for
an intercession, 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:
Zombies, The Faces, Stevie Van Zandt, Darlene Love,
Nile Rodgers, Galahad, Friday Night Progressive, Keith Richards, Don Kent, David
Nobbs, Eddie Cusic, Stephen Lewis, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman,
Billy Sherwood, John Brodie-Good, Roy Weard, Michael Raz, Ted Nugent, Frank
Sinatra, Davey Jones, Carole King, Beatles, Louis and Bebe Barron, Neil Nixon,
Hagbard
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo
Weekly:
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!
So there it is then. Another Weird Weekend has come to an end and it is now back to normality (whatever that is).
