Thursday 31 August 2023

AND IN THE END...

 “Today see’s the end of an era. This is the last Gonzo Daily blog for the foreseeable future. The magazine will continue and we will be transferring your favourite parts of the Gonzo Daily blog into it as of the next issue. One should never say never, so I am not saying this is the last Gonzo Daily blog ever, but things are in a big state of flux, so watch this space!

Thank you for your support over the last 12 years. What a long strange trip it has certainly been”.

Thursday 24 August 2023

The Steven Wilson Interview: The Modern Rock Producer

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Pink Floyd's Roger Waters EXPLOSIVE Interview Sets Record Straight

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Paul McCartney goes through Abbey Road track by track.

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Brand X - Born Ugly (The Rites Of Spring Festival)

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

  

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?"

HE SAID MY SMILE WAS A COMBINATION
of a circus clown and sharks teeth
Whether to run or to embrace is an eternal dichotomy
A false smile is diplomacy
Sincere?Confusion..
Some people paste and Photoshop their Zen mask
It becomes stuck on.Peeling Noh emotions
Theater makeup.Dust and squalor.Tempest Fugit.
Tempers flare like oil fires.Whole forests of emoticons burning.
If life were simple,we would still get complexes.Conflicted,
it is hard to resolve criminal Presidents and false Popes.
The danger is to believe.So Drama has two Fates.
Free Will and Determined to Get Through.
There is always a road in-another out
They are not the same road.

Wednesday 23 August 2023

Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation Fan Q&A

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David Essex Still Has Admirers From His 70s Sex Symbol Days | Loose Women

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George Harrison talks about Abbey Road and more, 1969 (Ritchie Yorke Interview)

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

  

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?"

RIVER ROCKS TO GEODES
Stones and rocks and pebbles
Each with weight ,magic,gravity
To be weighed as ancient currency
Strung around our pendant necks
Art of rocks as Towers and as Pyramids
You are attracted to specific stones
Whether petrogylphs or rock carvings
Meaning is inscribed as Rosetta Stones
Inscriptions on rock wall faces for Ages
Stones carry messages ,skimmed on waters
Rock remains,as music for generations
Diamonds,rubies,emeralds,opals-
Many languages,one Earth Tone.
Our Earth Rock our only home...

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: 3. FOUR STRONG WINDS (LIVE) - BARBARA DICKSON in Concert from 2009

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Monday 21 August 2023

David Essex on P O'Grady (Part 1)

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Rare 1978 interview Ginger Baker (Cream, Blind Faith, Hawkwind)


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The Incredible Story of The Beatles Greatest 45 | She Loves You

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Gong - Flying Teapot

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

  

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HIGH-RISE AUSTIN CLAWS OUR SKYLINE
Dwarfing our Capitol Building-revealing Corporate power-
An anonymous skyline that could have been dumped from Mars
Serves only those who can afford condominiums in Towers.
Single story businesses/buildings razed /displaced/dispossessed.
High rents give no space to working class Austinites-
creating a new class of homeless (those on minimum wage slavery)
Working poor commute from Buda /Kyle.Business leaders want to move THE ARCH
out to the outskirts of town(like COMMUNITY FIRST).APD harasses homeless.
Austin Central looks like a Mini-L.A.Malls of Generica.Insurance and Tech workers.
Parking restrictions lower the viability of City events.Public Transport ?Nothing after midnight.
Money madness impels competing Towers.We could be anywhere.No more "Village"
A Central Business District Pedestrian Mall might alleviate the pressure.
So might mini-buses like the old Armadillo.Send ACL to F1.Re-wilde Zilker Park.
We need PEOPLE SPACES,not high-rise car parks.Smaller circles of communities ..
Mueller Development could have shown the way..Is it too late for Austin?
Real Estate vs Real People's Needs..You choose...

Sunday 20 August 2023

Paul McCartney - brilliant 15-min interview (1982)

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Jethro Tull - Unboxing of The Broadsword and The Beast

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Yes’ only EP

 The Story of the Only Yes EP: 'From a Page' - Something Else!

... and the story begins with a mention from decades before, when the veteran Yes trio of Chris Squire, Alan White and Steve Howe were searching ...

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

  

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?"

PABLO NERUDA WROTE "DOMESTIC POEMS"-
Poems to scissors,crockery  and to cutlery-much like Penelope
Fitzgerald,that is..She divided her life into poems
about her life ,a stray cat,her loves,objects in a kitchen drawer..
Simple as Pam Ayers,gentle as Stevie Smith and H.D,
her poetry is of a small life ,shared with her daughter
in an epistolary manner.Gentle poetry,whimsical..
Perhaps you knew her from her Booker Award Winning novel-OFFSHORE..
Or perhaps for her work-THE BLUE FLOWER.
She wrote about other poets,largely forgotten in 2023.-
Anne Enright,Charlotte Mew,Edward White Benson..
You may remember Radclyffe Hall and Stevie Smith ..If you do,then..
Time to re-read these Thirteen Poems of Penelope Fitzgerald..

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Молебень до Пресвятої Богородиці (аудіозапис, укр.)

Being Sunday I always post sacred music. The name of the deity may change, or even the deity Him/Herself but the spirit remains the same. For the moment, however, each Sunday the music will be from Ukraine. 

 

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Friday 18 August 2023

1967: ARTHUR BROWN Interviewed at the National Jazz and Blues Festival | 24 Hours | BBC Archive

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The Beatles talk about the Rutles


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Rick et al

Rick Wakeman teams up with Jah Wobble and Chester Thompson for new track Io | Louder

Rick Wakeman has teamed up with former PiL bassist Jah Wobble and former Frank Zappa, Weather Report and Genesis drummer Chester Thompson for a ...

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Hawkwind ECT 1985

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

  

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?"

SEEDS ARE THE THING FROM WHICH ALL LIFE SPRINGS
Seed pods make perfect percussion instruments
Seed Balls with mud and clay and seeds planted in gardens
Birds know!They peck at fruit to seek the seeds
That which ensures a new generation to breed
Wild or in garden plots-or permacultured lots
Seeds are the front line of our future stocks
We have seeds within us for our future growth
Whatever name you give,it is never enough
Life of a seed is incredibly tough
To persist beyond all reasonable endurances..
There are seedless watermelons that will not grow
Genetic engineering to make that so.Blame MONSANTO!
Mutations flow when Gaia is ignored-let seeding begin!
New harvests await our planting

Thursday 17 August 2023

Fairport hair today

 Fairport Convention goer raises over £1000 for Alzheimer's charity with festival head shave

An attendee at this year's Fairport Cropredy Convention raised over £1000 for an Alzheimer's charity by shaving her hair off mid-festival.

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Stacia interview

 "For Lemmy and I, Hawkwind wasn't a job, it was like family. That's why he was so ... - Louder Sound

In 2019, Hawkwind interpretive dancer Stacia Black made a guest appearance with the band for the first time since her departure in 1975 – the same ...

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New from Rick

 Keyboard Captain RICK WAKEMAN Explores The Outer Reaches Of Rock & Jazz With A ...

Master keyboard player Rick Wakeman, a man whose accomplishments extend to the far corners of the galaxy and beyond, performed on the lead-

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Beatles - Paperback Writer

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

  

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?"

OLD SOL A HARSH MASTER
(Drying up our Springs)
Creeks were bone dry rock,rivers anorexic thin
Our solar energy batteries were spinning dervish wild 
We were sweating -perspiration man,woman,child..

It has never been so hot so long since Texas was recording
Jacobs Well no swimming,as no water now was flowing
Everyone we know is affected by this humid heat
Felt particularly strongly by our homeless on our streets

Roofers too wear water soaked scarves to survive reflected light
It was still almost 100 degrees every Austin night
Laborers slowed right down-their metabolism too
No one knew exactly how to deal,or what to do

They say air conditioning won the West(and that might well be true)
But utility costs rose as high as Summer temperatures,too
The problem is -this over-heating seems forever
Rain Dancers needed now-employ dowsers for more water

Robert Frost suggested we would end with fire or with ice
Right now i will settle for cool water-better still-make that iced

Monday 14 August 2023

My Favourite 25 Lennon Solo Tracks


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Steve Howe’s role in Yes

 Steve Howe Clarifies His Role In Yes - Rock Celebrities

Some of it falls off my fingers easily: some of the very fast stuff that Chris Squire and I played together and also the riff going on behind the ...

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

  

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?"

LOVE OF THE FOOL MOON !
Round and huge,to be added to with a Blue Moon-and a New Moon,too!
'Empowerment through Transformation"..August arrives
We are like all Heavenly Bodies,always in motion
We learn by orbiting around our points of attraction
We are never the same Zen.We learn by moving.
Points of Consciousness compound and illumine.
If we came from the stars,we are still connected
to their shining,demising,rising and falling.
May we be the fullness of our Dreaming
May fulfillment allow us to shine brightly -seeing
our one and only Moon as sun's pale reflection..
Moon and stars guide us-through all our Trance Formations!

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: David Essex-Lamplight ( Top of the Pops )

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Sunday 13 August 2023

Frank and shit

 Chronicling Frank Zappa's long-running history with faeces - Far Out Magazine

Frank Zappa was an eccentric man. Naturally, various weird stories have surrounded his name, many involving faeces, and some are disgustingly ...

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The eagle-eyed amongst you will have also noticed that the Gonzo Multimedia websites have changed and are in a process of flux, so there are no individual sales links at the moment. But check out www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk for a thing of wonder.
There is a hunky-dory, all singing, all dancing, Gonzo Publications website is now pretty well done, although there are still nine authors who need personal pages. You can find it at www.gonzopublishers.com and then tell me what a clever fellow I am. It even has a haiku to explain why some links are not finished:
"These links do not work, now but they will do so soon, we apologise"

Enjoy.

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

  

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?"

CONNECT ZEN VIA LIGHT IN EYES
Smile on lips.Bright alacrity/intelligence
One plays in art and jewelry,improvises poetry
Another sings her way through songlines night and day
(We are all learning from each other)-We play
with wit and humor,words and songs..We hear Muse
then sing along..We are more together than apart..
We heal through Art.There is not a one that is not broken-
Soft and malleable as clay,they re-form their affections
becoming clay masks,sculptures of imperfection,conversations
We learn in every moment-the music and the magic
that is inherent in the diamond facet of our Dreaming..
This is our life on every line-be careful when receiving
Signals that are sent embrace all Heavens in this moment
We can live forever if we change all paradigms dominant
Allow sweet and gentle voices to be heard
If you cannot sing along-at least share your word worlds
...BECAUSE SOME OF US THINK THAT THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT
What happens when you mix what is - arguably - the world's most interesting record company, with an anarchist manic-depressive rock music historian polymath, and a method of dissemination which means that a daily rock-music magazine can be almost instantaneous?

Most of this blog is related in some way to the music, books and films produced by Gonzo Multimedia, but the editor has a grasshopper mind and so also writes about all sorts of cultural issues which interest him, and which he hopes will interest you as well.