Wednesday, 4 May 2016

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Hippie From New York City (David Peel and The Lower East Side)



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Anthology
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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 Tom'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?"

RESCUE REMEDIES
WE RESCUE EACH OTHER(HOLY IN OUR NEED..
To be rescued returns us/just as seed
may or may not grow.Know your rescuer
has compassion fatigue.Each victim needs
the need to need.We feed upon each other.
like varieties of predator species.Glad 2 B!
2
EYE AM ONE(WITH SPARROWS & WITH PIGEONS
Mourning doves coo early daylight to me
There is less difference in generic
When you see one bird(you do not see me
Yet,when you hear my bird call...
3
LOCATION
Now,eye can only be in one spot@a time
Try between two haystacks(starve and die
She lives in Florence and in Austin

 He in San Fran and our little A-town
Both beam reflections of adoptions
Adaptations to Two Towns Gold Names
 I can only be here and now for /with you
Until your eyes turn away..again..
4
WHEN EYE GO BACK(LESS IS LEFT
All moved on(Homes demolished
(My heart travels with me/it knows where to stay
Even if i give it freely/it will not run away)
Yet every evidence and artifact
of birth/childhood/adolescence
is somewhere else in a cloudy haze
Pretending to be memories days
And what i speak.And what i say
It has moved on also.It will not stay.

Arthur Brown Interview



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Live in Bristol 28th Oct 2002
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Billy Cobham interview 1993



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Live Electric Ballroom In Dallas Texas 1975
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Glass Menagerie
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Badfinger - The Tragic Story



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Say No More
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Tuesday, 3 May 2016

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Gib Guilbeau - Cloudy Water



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Toe Tappin' Music 
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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 Tom'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?"

IF WE ARE WATER
SOMETIMES WE SINK
Specific as gravity/density
Oil/tears/weep!Statues cry
when they imitate Jesus.
Tea Towels with apparitions
Fevered hallucinations
Every body carries viruses
stronger than Zika/Ebola
When you fall/fail/decay
We continue on.This is THE WAY
To fall is to sink beneath the level of your wings

Open your mouth.Re-learn to SING!

Alan White on Drum Talk TV!



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Union
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Union (2CD)
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Rock Of The 70's
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The Lost Broadcasts
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Rock of the 70s
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Billy Cobham: Exclusive Interview - in conversation with Fabian Hüsgen - drumdepartment tv



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Live Electric Ballroom In Dallas Texas 1975
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Glass Menagerie
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HAWKWIND INTERVIEW (2016)



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Space Ritual Live - Special Edition
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Space Ritual Live 
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Monday, 2 May 2016

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Alexis Korner - Get Off My Cloud



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Live in Paris
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Testament
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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 Tom'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?"

JOHNNY APPLESEED 2016
ANCIENT FOLK IDEAS RESURRECT!
Fruit trees ,so homeless might pluck sustenance for free
Planting  varieties so no one goes homeless hungry
We have at least  2000 hungry each night(more uncounted-
Festival Beach  has seeds and sprouts and saplings rising like hope
like those Tiny Homes /Urban Farms/Permacultures-as a way out of hardcore death streets
where those pledged to SERVE&PROTECT prosecute and harass
'It is a crime to be poor when the rich own the laws"
The answer is Earth .To grow spaces and places as sanctuary
for those dispossessed by PTSD,broken families,split minds
or the failure of Social Security to cover the illegal ,anonymous and unknown.
Tiny houses.Growing food trees.Green Trust in  natural,positive solutions.
Let those windblown apples sustain us.May the human harvest live longer-
sustained and sheltered ,via Tiny Hopes-shelter and sustenance..

 

Joey Molland interview in the Lightning 100 studio






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Union
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Rock Of The 70's
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The Lost Broadcasts
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Rock of the 70s
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Hawkwind - Hawfest 2010 - Interview



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BARBARA DICKSON - "BAND OF GOLD" INTERVIEW (1995)



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Morning Comes Quickly
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Answer Me
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Sunday, 1 May 2016

PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #161

Strange Fruit is a unique two-hour radio show exploring the world of underground, strange and generally neglected music. All shows are themed and all shows set out to give the most hardened of sound-hounds some new delight to sample.

The show is also unique in providing homework for undergraduate students on North West Kent College’s Foundation Degree in Professional Writing (who dig up many of the odd facts featured in the links between tracks).

Neil Nixon, the founder and co-presenter of the show has released a book about rare albums for Gonzo Multimedia.

The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight.


SF 161 – 21 MARCH 2016 – TUNING ‘77


Freddie and the Hitch-Hikers: Sinners
David Lynch: Good Day Today
Harry ‘the Hipster’ Gibson: Who put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine
L.S.D. (Album): Start of Side One
D.J. Earworm: Brazil is Full of Love
Grateful Dead: Tuning ’77 (excerpt)
Jonathan Wilson: Gentle Spirit
The Wind in the Willows: There is but One Truth Daddy
Granddaddy: Underneath the Weeping Willows
Soundgarden: The Day I Tried to Live
Adam Comford and Daniel Crafts: Fundamentals
Julian Cope: Las Vegas Basement
Lucia Pamela: Walking on the Moon
Jah Division: Dub Will Tear us Apart
DJNoNo: Stripper Jackson (Michael Jackson vs Joe Loss)
Russell Morton: Blind Man’s Movie part 1
Halou: Tubefed
Little Richard: Miss Anne
5,6,7,8s: Dream Boy
Grateful Dead: Tuning ’77 (exerpt)
P.J. Harvey: Broken Harp
Ella Fitzgerald: Every Time we say Goodbye
Dame Barbara Cartland: Goodnight Sweetheart


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 Tom'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?"

For REBECCA
Dear Rebecca
We are only human.Because of this,
we often  fall,fail,cannot even convince
ourselves that we are worthy.We ARE worthy!
Intrinsically,because we are here-
Externally,for our effect upon others.
If you cannot or will not to believe
in continuance for intrinsic reasons
You will be forced to trust
the opinions of others!WE AFFIRM YOU!
As BRIGHT,BRILLIANT and TRUE!
Blame the times we live within
dark clouds settle and the cold gets in yr skin
Warmth is rare and wavering.BEAM!
Your inner sunlight will light a fire within

and keep you warm-until the next morning!

Carl Palmer and Arthur Brown talk about the 60s



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Live in Bristol 28th Oct 2002
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GONZO WEEKLY #180

Gonzo Magazine #180
The Beltane issue is here so T Rex, The Who, Stonehenge, Steve Miller Band, Flaming Groovies, John Blaney, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out! After what has been a long and peculiar week, this issue features Doug musing on the spiritual message of The Who, Jeremy going to see The Flaming Groovies, Alan on the Free Stonehenge Campaign, John on the thorny subject of money, and there are radio shows from Strange Fruit and Mack Maloney, as well as the return of Friday Night Progressive, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and 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 ouyside 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:
Marc Bolan, Zhongyu, Marcelo Paganini, Prince, Adam Ant, Galahad, Roger Daltrey, AC/DC, Rick Wakeman, Strange Fruit, Friday  Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Billy Paul, Papa Wemba, Captain Beefheart, Brand X, Osibisa, Pink Fairies, Gram Parson's The International Submarine Band, Gib Guilbeau, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Sons of Fred, Percy Jones, Norman Wisdom featuring Rick Wakeman, The Who, Alan Dearling, Stonehenge Free Festival, Roy Weard, John Brodie-Good, Steve Miller, Younghusband, Flamin' Groovies, Mr Biffo, John Blaney, Hawkwind, Xtul, 10CC, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Kevin Ayers, Neil Nixon, Vashti Bunyan, Old Corpse Road
                                                                                    
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)
Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)
Issue 177 (David Gilmour)
Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)
Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)
Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)
Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
Issue 172 (4th Eden)
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:
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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Tibetan Monks Chanting

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
...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.