The Extraordinary Life of William S. Burroughs

December 21, 2014 Gonzo Today 0

By Peter Schjeldahl from the New Yorker    Feb. 3, 2014 “I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves.” So starts “Naked Lunch,” the touchstone novel by William S. Burroughs. That hardboiled riff, spoken by a junkie on the run, introduces a mélange of “episodes, […]

Tom Shroder Takes a Trip

December 20, 2014 Gonzo Today 0

by Tom Shroder – from reset.me Dec. 2, 2014 Though I began researching Acid Test, a book about the revival of research into the use of psychedelic drugs for healing, in 2007, my interest in the subject really began 30 years earlier, when I was a college student at the […]

Glyn Johns Pens Book on Recording Rock Greats

December 20, 2014 Gonzo Today 0

By LARRY ROHTER DEC. 19, 2014, N.Y. Times After disembarking from a Los Angeles to London flight in February 1969, the recording engineer and producer Glyn Johns went straight to a studio to work with the Beatles on the album that became “Abbey Road.” That was followed by an all-night […]

The Price of Sanity

December 15, 2014 Gonzo Today 0

In the many varied towns I have lived in, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a lot of different people. Not to sound harsh, but a great deal of them seemed, to me, to need some sort of therapy. It’s no surprise to me most of them will never see […]

Autobahn, Biergarten & Godzilla

December 13, 2014 johanngalloway 0

It was a Monday morning: Flying down the left lane of the Autobahn at 200 mph, we shot past what looked like a wicked Maserati, but it was impossible to tell. The cars in the middle lane were traveling at over 100 mph, but they were just a blur, appearing for […]