Monday, September 19, 2016

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS BRIGHT-EYED AND BUSHY-TAILED

The Gonzo Daily - Monday/Tuesday
 
And so another week starts reasonably auspiciously. Chloe was here this afternoon, and worked extremely hard and productively. We, as often is the way these days, achieved a lot. And she will be back tomorrow as a pupil of Professor Jon's Academy of Young ladies,for an English lesson and possibly some filming for the new series of OTT. Oh, happy days. Today's song of the day for both Gonzo and CFZ is actually the first mainstream song to Include the word 'Fucking'. Check out who it is; I think you will be surprised.
 
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
 
buy my novel:
buy my single:
 
And now for the news................
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Al Stewart - Love Chro...
Arthur Brown Interview
HAWKWIND INTERVIEW (2016)
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
RAZ Best German review translated
 
Gonzo Magazine #200
 
And so the Gonzo Weekly behemoth trundles on and we celebrate our two hundredth issue with Rick Wakeman talking to Deep Purple’s Ian Paice, Alan meeting Sendelica, Doug going to see Coldplay, Jon rambling on about how the end of the Cold War has affected the thriller industry, and all sorts of other groovy stuff.  And how much does it all cost again?
 
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside 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:
Lazarus, David Bowie, The Jam, The Orange Drop, Jimi Hendrix, Mayte Garcia, Prince, Marillion, Rick Parfitt, The Beatles, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Greta Zimmer Friedman, Cecil Bustamente Campbell OD, Leonard Haze, Martin Stephenson, Jeff Wayne/Radio Luxembourg, Dee Palmer, Arthur Brown, Rick Wakeman, Pink Fairies, Captain Beefheart, Joe Cocker, Rick Wakeman and Mario Fasciano, Rick Wakeman and Brian May, Barbara Dickson, GasTank, Rick Wakeman, Ian Paice,  Coldplay, Sendelica, Alan Dearling, Graham Keen, James Farebrother, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Nelson DeMille, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis,  Bob Chance
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 199 (Yes)
Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)
Issue 196 (Paul May)
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
 
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.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 57 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?
 

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