The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
"A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates,
afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would
both drown. Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the river the
scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When the frog asks the
scorpion why, the scorpion replies that it was in its nature to do so."
The fable is used to illustrate that fundamentally vicious natures cannot
change. And there, my friends, lies a lesson for us all. Some people are human
scorpions.
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Gonzo Magazine #172
4th Eden, Stargrace, American Football, Chaos Chaos, Smoosh, David Crosby,
Matt Miller, aka Matisyahu, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden
Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
4th Eden and Stargrace are on the front cover, together with an interview
with 4th Eden inside. Doug writes about American Football, Richard writes about
Matt Miller, aka Matisyahu, while Jon gets all concerned about Chaos Chaos, and
grumpy about Words with Friends. We review a book by David Crosby. There are
radio shows from Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, and Mack Maloney, 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 irrepressible Corinna.
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:
Smoosh, Chaos Chaos, Bob Dylan, David Lee Roth, Izzy Stradlin, Elton John,
Ginger Baker, Rolling Stones, Rick Wakeman, David Bowie, Pedal Giant Animals,
Frank Zappa, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery
Hour, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Keith Leven, Lennie Baker, Frank Kelly, Gordon
Ranney, James Atkins, Gregg Kofi Brown, Billy Cobham, Kevin Ayres featuring
Ollie Halsall, Country Queens, Robert Calvert, Greg Harris, The Kentucky
Colonels, Michael Jackson, Leonard Cohen, Michael Livesley and Brainwashing
House feat Rick Wakeman, Neil Innes and Susie Honeyman, Martin Eve, 4th Eden,
Marianne Holland, American Football, John Keeling, Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, My
Dad's LPs, Richard Stellar, Matt Miller (Matisyahu), Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Tim
Blake, xtul, David Crosby, John Lennon, Joy Division, The Beatles, Sandy Shaw,
Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Michael Jackson, Neil Nixon, David Bowie, Radogost
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
Issue 165 (David Bowie)
Issue 164 (Free Festivals)
Issue 163 (Lemmy)
Issue 161-2 (The Christmas Double Feature)
Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)
Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)
Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)
Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)
Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
Issue 152 (4th Eden)
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 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?
