I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

And so the busiest week of my year continues. The phone doesn't stop ringing, and the rain is pouring down. Tomorrowevening I am expecting anything up to 100 people coming into my garden to drink Margaritas. God help us all.

I know from my conversations with Michael Des Barres that he was at school with Mitch Mitchell. I also know that the opening lines of the title track of Michael's smashing new album (I still find myself almost referring to it as an LP) are "I was 19 in 1967" from which one can extrapolate that he was 11 or 12 in 1959, which would make him the same age as the schoolboy pictured with Jimmy Edwards. So, the question remains. Michael - is this schoolboy the dude who played on Axis Bold as Love or is he just some random bloke? (which would mean that this whole blog post was completely pointless...)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-conundrum-that-only-michael-des.html

Jefferson Starship are a band of whom I am very fond. Their music provided a great deal of the soundtrack to my late adolescence, and I became far too obsessed with some of Paul Kantner's side projects than I should have been. I am greatly enjoying rediscovering albums like Baron Von Tolbooth and the Chrome Nun now I am well into middle age, and so I grab every opportunity to post about them on the Gonzo Daily...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/jefferson-starship-link-jefferson.html

We are always interested when Gonzo artists make guest appearances on other records, and this slice of jazz-fusion featuring our very own Jon Anderson sounds particularly groovy...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/08/link-dennis-haklar-with-larry-coryell.html

I have been remiss! I had no idea that Chris Thompson's website had been given a revamp, or - indeed - that there was a new personal message from Chris on it. All you CT fans out there, please forgive me. So, six weeks late, here it is...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/08/chris-thompson-message-from.html

When John Lord, erstwhile keyboard maestro for Deep Purple died earlier this year, it was a sad day for music. However, the music lives on, and in October, the third version of his groundbreaking Concerto for Group and Orchestra is released. I heard version one when I was a schoolboy, a few years after its release in the early 1970s, and I received a copy of v2 when I was the music editor of the short-lived Planet on Sunday newspaper in 1999/2000. Now there is a third version, and in my lunchtime pootling about the internet I found an interesting article about it...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/08/posthumous-jon-lord-album-due.html

And finally, we have another visit to Thom the World Poet:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_15.html

The eagle eyed amongst you will probably have noticed that my comments are shorter than usual. This is because we are only a few days away from the Weird Weekend www.weirdweekend.org.uk . We shall be posting as normal, but the posts are likely to be a little bit more perfunctory than usual this week. If you want to know what all the fuss is about - there are still tickets available, and we would love to see you. Only £25 for the best Fortean Fun you can have with your clothes on. And there's free cake!

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