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Sad today to hear that Deke Leonard, the legendary Welsh acid-rocker has
died. He was another part of the collective past of many of us who do Gonzo and
CFZ stuff. Rob Ayling, the Gonzo grande fromage says: "he will miss him but his
music will live on." I am listening to 'Bananas' and wondering which of my
younger neiflings I can play it to.
Something weird happened today. I got an email saying that the subscription
payment to one of the utilities that I most rely on had been refused. I took a
look and they had tried to take a payment from a card that doesn't actually
exist. So I farted around for a few minutes and hopefully have sorted out the
problem. However, today seems to be a part of a trope in recent months: Dead
Rock Stars and Randomly Misbehaving Computers. 21st Century Schizoid times
huh?
Toodle-oo
And here is the news:
Frank Zappa on Crossfire
Paul McCartney & John Lennon 1968 Full Interview
Roger "Deke" Leonard (18 December 1944 – 31 Januar...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Deke Leonard's Iceber...
Gonzo Magazine #219
THE 'MARTIN PLAYED GUITAR' ISSUE
The legendary Martin Stone played with many classic rock bands including
Mighty Baby, Snakefinger, Southern Comfort, Pink Fairies, the The 101ers,
Wreckless Eric, and the Gibson Girls. He died at the end of last year, and
Richard Foreman says goodbye to him. Alan eulogises Sendelica, Doug Shoop
describes the Sweet Colleens, Kev trawls through more strange music, Doug Harr
praises Circuline, and Jon reads about ”My Favourite Manson Girl", and remembers
The Word magazine...
It’s all free!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive (Jeremy Smith's new project The Seven Deadly Sins will be back
next week). We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr
Biffo, Neil Nixon 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:
The Word, Gene Simmons, Bruce Springsteen, Cindi Lauper, Rod Stewart,
Marillion, Ted Nugent, Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan, Richard Ashcroft, Rod Argent, The
Zombies, Madonna, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's
Mystery Hour, Michael Alexander "Mike" Kellie, Jaki Liebezeit, Peter Overend
Watts, Maggie Roche, Gil Ray, Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks, Gordon Fitzgerald
"Gorden" Kaye, Marvell Thomas, Mary Tyler Moore, Joseph S. "Joe" Ruggiero,
Ronald “Bingo” Mundy, Karl Hendricks, Charles “Chuck” Stewart, Absolute
Elsewhere feat Bill Bruford, Al Atkins, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Atomic
Rooster, Lord Buckley, Tony Ashton & Jon Lord, Adrian Legg, Circuline, Alan
Dearling, Sendelica, Doug Shoop, The Sweet Colleens, Richard Foreman, Martin
Stone, Kev Rowland, Echoes, Henning Pauly, Horricane, Iluzjon, The Intersphere,
Invisigoth, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, Led Zeppelin,
Ramones, The Beatles, Rat Pack, George Harrison, Neil Nixon,
Country 'n' Irish Accordion
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)
Issue 217 (Dig Doug Harr)
Issue 215-6 (New Year 2017)
Issue 213-4 (Yule 2016)
Issue 212 (Greg Lake)
Issue 211 (Phil Collins)
Issue 210 (Nico)
Issue 209 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 208 (Leonard Cohen)
Issue 207 (Tibet)
Issue 206 (Raz)
Issue 205 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 204 (Gas Tank)
Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)
Issue 202 (Gong)
Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)
Issue 200 (Deep Purple)
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 a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile
orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown 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 Archie and the Cats?
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