The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
Yesterday was my birthday and I turned fifty
six
I would like to say that I got up to loads of japes and tricks
but I
didn't, I spent most of the day just dozing in my chair
or just being with
the people I love, which is all that I need there
Thank you to everyone who wrote me emails or
Facebook messages, yesterday. I think I have replied to you all individually,
but if anyone has slipped through the mesh please accept my most profound
apologies.
Brand X, Phil Collins, Roger Dean, Percy Jones,
Rick Wakeman, Luca Ferarri, Cream, Mike Taylor, Genesis, Musical Box, Roy Weard,
Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had
better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#144) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Percy Jones from Brand X on the front cover together with an interview with
him in which, amongst other things, he reveals how Phil Collins was planning to
leave Genesis many years before he actually did, We also have an exclusive
interview with Roger Dean about Wakemanfest and peculiar fishes, and an
exclusive interview with Italian author Luca Ferrari about the enigmatoic Mike
Taylor who is best known for having written several songs for Cream. Jon muses
about reviews Gabriella Coleman on Anonymous. Doug interviews The Musical Box,
and -I almost forgot - there is a personal message from Rick Wakeman. 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
return of Strange Fruit with a football themed show. 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:
Libertines, Gene Simmons, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Wood, Adam Lambert, David
Bowie, Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life, Sleaford Mods, Strange Fruit, Friday
Night Progressive, Daniel 'Danny' Sembello, Donald 'Bob' Johnson, Gordon 'Jaz'
Summers, Rick Wakeman, Roger Dean, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Percy Jones,
The Musical Box, Luca Ferrari, Mike Taylor, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Alex Clifford,
Yes, AndersonPonty Band, Toto, Chris squire, Geoff Downes, Billy Sherwood, Steve
Howe,Alan White, Patrick Moraz,Steven Tyler, Elvis, The Beatles, Liberace, Joan
Jett, Neil Nixon, Juliana Barwick, Calico Jack
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!
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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 55 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?
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?