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It was a peculiar day yesterday, most of which I can't talk about. But in the evening I had a long and jolly telephone call from David B-P, which was a very welcome surprise...

 

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Baker Gurvitz Army - M...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/the-gonzo-track-of-day-baker-gurvitz.html

Badfinger's last original member still playing the...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/badfingers-last-original-member-still.html

YES: NAMM 2016: Geoff Downes

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/yes-namm-2016-geoff-downes.html

The Animals: 15 Facts You Didn’t Know

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/the-animals-15-facts-you-didnt-know.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_8.html

 

Gonzo Weekly #168

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David Bowie, Rick Wakeman, Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Beatles, Dixie Dregs, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard,  Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!

 

Following the overwhelming response to Rick Wakeman’s piano tribute to David Bowie, Rick has recorded new piano versions of both Life on Mars and Space Oddity with royalties going to Macmillan Cancer Support. Pete Sears pays tribute to his old friend Paul Kantner as does John Brodie-Good. Doug writes about the Dixie Dregs, while Jon gets all intense about positivity, and for once finds a Beatles book that he DOESN'T like. There are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, and Mack Moloney, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, Mr Biffo and the irrepressable Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons ouyside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:

 

 

Lady Gaga, Colin Vearncombe, Primal Scream, Yoko Ono, Status Quo, ELO, Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie, Daevid Allen, Daevid Allen Weird Quartet, Barbara Dickson, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Signe Toly Anderson, Jon Bunch, Francis "Frank" Finlay, CBE, Sir Michael Terence "Terry"  Wogan, KBE, DL, Maurice White, Joe Dowell, Inner City Unit, Brand X, Gregg Kofi Brown, Nucleus, Captain Beefheart, Third Ear Band, The Selecter, Genre Peak, Mick Farren and Jack Lancaster, Rick & Adam Wakeman,A Dixie Dregs, John Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, Dave Bainbridge, Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Yes, Hawkwind, Pete Sears, Xtul, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Elton John, Neil Nixon, Ross Bolleter, Tengwar

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.html

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.html

Issue 165 (David Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo165.html

Issue 164 (Free Festivals)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo164.html

Issue 163 (Lemmy)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo163.html

Issue 161-2 (The Christmas Double Feature)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-161-21-yer-festive-double-issue.html

Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo160.html

Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo159.html

Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo158.html

Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo157.html

Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo156.html

Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo155.html

Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo154.html

Issue 153 (Martin Barre)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo153.html

Issue 152 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo152.html

Issue 151 (Corky Laing)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo151.html

Issue 150 (Roger Dean)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo150.html

Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo149.html

Issue 148 (Wally Hope)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo148.html

Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo147.html

Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo146.html

Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo145.html

Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo144.html

Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo143.html

Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo142.html

Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo141.html

Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo140.html

Issue 139 (Raz cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo139.html

Issue 138 (Galahad cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo138.html

Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo137.html

Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo136.html

Issue 135 (FNP cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo135.html

 

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:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

 

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.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 two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?