Comments on: Let’s Go Gonk! http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:35:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: cinebeats http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-1092 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:12:02 +0000 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-1092 Dorthy - I've tried emailing you a few times, but the mails keep getting bounced back to me. If you want to contact me directly please feel free too! My email addy is cinebeats@yahoo.com Beat Gonk - I love your band! I hope anyone who's interested in the film will stop by your Myspace page and give your music a listen. Thanks for stopping by! Dorthy - I’ve tried emailing you a few times, but the mails keep getting bounced back to me. If you want to contact me directly please feel free too! My email addy is cinebeats@yahoo.com

Beat Gonk - I love your band! I hope anyone who’s interested in the film will stop by your Myspace page and give your music a listen. Thanks for stopping by!

]]> by: Beat Gonk http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-1091 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:56:11 +0000 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-1091 Great to read about Gonks on this page ! If you like more info go to our website where there are more parts of the mentioned article ! Regards from Beat Gonk one of the Gonks that keep on playing cool ! www.geocities.com/go_gonks Great to read about Gonks on this page ! If you like more info go to our website where there are more parts of the mentioned article ! Regards from Beat Gonk one of the Gonks that keep on playing cool ! www.geocities.com/go_gonks

]]> by: Dorothy Crane http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-1043 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:25:17 +0000 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-1043 I found your site really interesting. I was one of those young girls in the 60s who was bought a Gonk by my parents - just the style of the Gonk in the poster with a Beatles haircut. I looked after him and he still has his original label on a tag on his nose peeking from under his long black fringe. I could email you a pic for your site if that's of any interest - just send me an email I can reply to King regards Dorothy I found your site really interesting.
I was one of those young girls in the 60s who was bought a Gonk by my parents - just the style of the Gonk in the poster with a Beatles haircut. I looked after him and he still has his original label on a tag on his nose peeking from under his long black fringe. I could email you a pic for your site if that’s of any interest - just send me an email I can reply to

King regards
Dorothy

]]> by: cinebeats http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-381 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:05:04 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-381 Hi Johannes! Thanks for sharing your story about the Gonks film. I'm glad you enjoyed my post. The <strong>Petulia </strong>DVD is a NTSC region-1 disc. I'm in the US so most of the discs I write about are region-1 NTSC. I hope you get a chance to see the movie soon because it's really terrific. Thanks again for stopping by my blog! Hi Johannes! Thanks for sharing your story about the Gonks film. I’m glad you enjoyed my post.

The Petulia DVD is a NTSC region-1 disc. I’m in the US so most of the discs I write about are region-1 NTSC. I hope you get a chance to see the movie soon because it’s really terrific.

Thanks again for stopping by my blog!

]]> by: Johannes van Ditzhuyzen http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-379 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:39:11 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-379 Hi Kimberly, I just came across your wonderful website via imdb. I too LOVE British cinema and music of the 60s&amp;70s. I was more than amazed that someone still cared about a film like "Gonks". Thanxalot!! I first heard about it when I was working on a TV feature on British jazzrock pioneers Colosseum. ("Colosseum - Story of a band", included on the Colosseum-DVD "The '94 reunion concerts") Saxplayer Dick Heckstall-Smith happened to posess a VHS copy of the film which he proudly played to us on his (top-loading)VHS player in his kitchen! as can be seen in the documentary. Dick, a member of the Graham Bond Organization in '65, is featured on the film poster (displayed on your website) top left, next to the tiger wearing a leather cap. "I had to put this on because Robert (Hartford-Davis - another hyphenated name) didn't want any bald people in the movie!" The other members are of course Graham Bond, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce. If I recall it correctly, the song is "THE GIRL HARMONICA". I'm sure that Dick would have been delighted to tell anybody interested more details about "the worst picture you havn't seen in your life", but sadly he passed away in Dec of 2004. But some more information can be found in his autobiography "The Safest Place on Earth", an interesting read for anybody interested in the 60s, 70s, Graham Bond or Colosseum. By the way, has the DVD of "Petulia" that you mention in Best DVDs of 2006 been released in Britain as a code 2 PAL copy - because so far I was only able to find US imports on the net. I'm really looking forward to see this one (and the bonus!) because I was told by Chet Helms, that some of the shots had been taken at his club "The Avalon" in '67. Sure to visit your site soon! all the best - stay tuned! Johannes Hi Kimberly,

I just came across your wonderful website via imdb. I too LOVE British cinema and music of the 60s&70s. I was more than amazed that someone still cared about a film like “Gonks”. Thanxalot!! I first heard about it when I was working on a TV feature on British jazzrock pioneers Colosseum. (”Colosseum - Story of a band”, included on the Colosseum-DVD “The ‘94 reunion concerts”) Saxplayer Dick Heckstall-Smith happened to posess a VHS copy of the film which he proudly played to us on his (top-loading)VHS player in his kitchen! as can be seen in the documentary. Dick, a member of the Graham Bond Organization in ‘65, is featured on the film poster (displayed on your website) top left, next to the tiger wearing a leather cap. “I had to put this on because Robert (Hartford-Davis - another hyphenated name) didn’t want any bald people in the movie!” The other members are of course Graham Bond, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce. If I recall it correctly, the song is “THE GIRL HARMONICA”. I’m sure that Dick would have been delighted to tell anybody interested more details about “the worst picture you havn’t seen in your life”, but sadly he passed away in Dec of 2004. But some more information can be found in his autobiography “The Safest Place on Earth”, an interesting read for anybody interested in the 60s, 70s, Graham Bond or Colosseum.

By the way, has the DVD of “Petulia” that you mention in Best DVDs of 2006 been released in Britain as a code 2 PAL copy - because so far I was only able to find US imports on the net. I’m really looking forward to see this one (and the bonus!) because I was told by Chet Helms, that some of the shots had been taken at his club “The Avalon” in ‘67.
Sure to visit your site soon!
all the best -
stay tuned!
Johannes

]]> by: cinebeats http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-228 Fri, 18 May 2007 01:25:57 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-228 I mentioned Ginger above. He was in The Graham Bond Organisation as well. I mentioned Ginger above. He was in The Graham Bond Organisation as well.

]]> by: Joe D'Augustine http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-224 Sun, 13 May 2007 11:00:21 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-224 I believe that's Ginger Baker on drums, later with Cream and Blind Faith. And Jack Bruce on bass, another incipient member of Cream. I believe that’s Ginger Baker on drums, later with Cream and Blind Faith. And Jack Bruce on bass, another incipient member of Cream.

]]> by: cinebeats http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-205 Sun, 06 May 2007 21:23:21 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-205 I'm glad you found you my review interesting Jeremy! I really hope more of these mod musicals get released on DVD in the states, but for now it looks like the new Optimum Beat Classic DVDs are PAL only. You can find NTSC bootlegs floating around on ebay though. I’m glad you found you my review interesting Jeremy! I really hope more of these mod musicals get released on DVD in the states, but for now it looks like the new Optimum Beat Classic DVDs are PAL only. You can find NTSC bootlegs floating around on ebay though.

]]> by: Jeremy http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-204 Sun, 06 May 2007 20:32:13 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/05/04/lets-go-gonk/#comment-204 Fascinating Kimberly, Britain in the sixties is pretty unbeatable to me so to hear about something I am unfamilair with in connection to it is great. That clip is great, I will have to check this out. I also love that old article on 'gonk'...priceless stuff. Thanks for posting. Fascinating Kimberly,
Britain in the sixties is pretty unbeatable to me so to hear about something I am unfamilair with in connection to it is great. That clip is great, I will have to check this out. I also love that old article on ‘gonk’…priceless stuff.
Thanks for posting.

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