The Gonzo Daily

 CHRISTMAS DAY

Thank you to everybody who has been kind enough to wish me a happy Christmas. Many special thanks to my almost sister Kaye who was kind enough to send my nephew Ross over with Christmas dinner for me and Graham. Ross, dear boy, decorated my walking frame with tinsel. Both were a lovely surprise to get up to. 

This is not a time I am fond of, but I have been the recipient of so much love this year that I am truly humbled.

God bless you all.

Being Christmas here is the CFZ annual report:

http://eepurl.com/igWmpb

I would like to draw your attention to this campaign, Kelly kettles for Ukraine, which has been started by my brother and sister-in-law:

https://tinyurl.com/4fn5a7j9

It is a remarkable piece of practical help to the beleaguered people of that country, and I would urge you all to help in anyway you can.

YER GONZO DAILY

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2022/12/beginners-guide-to-frank-zappa.html

Beginners guide to Frank Zappa

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2022/12/gonzo-track-of-day-happy-xmas-war-is.html

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2022/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_25.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2022/12/leonard-cohens-depression.html">Leonard Cohen’s depression

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-beginners-guide-to-frank-zappa-part.html

The beginners guide to Frank Zappa part two

AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

Gonzo Weekly #529/30

THE CHRISTMAS ISSUE

www.gonzoweekly.com

This magazine continues to go off on strange tangents that I never expect, but I am very happy to see it do so. What is in this issue? 120 pages of T.H.E.M., Wilko Johnson, Dystopic Britain, Montener The Menace, Jon's Top Ten for the year, andf Kev's Top Tens. Mark at the festive movies, Alan 's Christmas Movies, The Gardening Club and oodles more.

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, Mr Biffo, Puls8 Radio (cancelled), and the Real Music Club, AND Strange Fruit, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and C.J Stone but Mr Biffo, and Neil Nixon, are on hiatus.  There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and dibblers who have got the blues (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are listening to the new Bob Dylan album, 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!!!

..And the last few issues are:

Issue 527-8 (Porcupine Tree)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-527-8-an-issue-for-wilko.html

Issue 525-6 (The Orb)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-525-6.html

Issue 523-4 (Jerry Lee Lewis)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-523-4.html

Issue 521-2 (Shepherd's Delight)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-521-2.html

Issue 519-20 (Suede)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-519-20.html

Issue 516-17 (Lounge Society)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-517-8.html

Issue 514-15 (Kyla Brox)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-515-6.html

Issue 512-13 (Tod-ro-phenia)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-513-4.html

Issue 511-12 (Nico)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-511-12.html

Issue 509-10 (Kula Shaker)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-509-10.html

Issue 507-8 (Not Okays)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-507-8.html

Issue 505-506 (Kate Bush)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-506-6.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/

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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is a widowed old hippy of 62 who - together with a neurotic Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, three other cats, one totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?