I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

And so it is friday once again. As one grows older time seems to rush past far faster than it did in my younger days. I finished reading Pete Townshend's autobiography last night, and on the whole it didn't disappoint. I am also rather chuffed to note that the first confirmed pine marten in Wales since 1971 has been found (sadly a roadkill), confirming what I prediucted in my 1996 book on the matter. Occasionally us cryptozoologists do get it right.

And what is in today's postbag? A book about the plight facing our nearest relatives, marvellously titled Planet Without Apes and Judy Dyble's latest album. I am looking forward to devouring them both imminently...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/postman-postman-dont-be-slow.html

Did anyone else see Adam Ant on Later with Jools Holland this week ( I think it was this week, but I watched it on BBC IPlayer last night).  He looked refreshingly sane.  Before I go any further, let me point out that I suffer from the same condition as he does, and I’ve been as mad as a bagful of frogs on many occasions in my life (as has Adam). So, I am not being the slightest bit pejorative when I comment on his mental state; the poor bugger has been through the mill in the last ten years and I am very glad to see that he looks like he is finally on the way up again.  http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/its-adam-innit.html

EXCLUSIVE: I have to admit that I had never heard of Galahad until, one evening earlier this year my adopted ephew Max and I played their album Battle Scars which arrived together with a heap of other groovy Gonzothings. It was an epiphany, and soon after I interviewed Stu Nicholson, the singer, who is a really nice bloke. Now there is a second album of the year, which is even better. Once again I interview Stu, and have an excuse to play a video featuring two strange men with rhino horns...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/exclusive-galahad-interview.html

 

You will probably be aware that I have a day job. And that this day job is as Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology and as such I know an Ailuropoda melanoleuca when I see one. So what is one doing far away from its haunts in China, apparently wearing jeans and an olive green sweater, and sitting a few rows in front of Rob Ayling at the Corky Laing gig in Lancaster the other night. I asked Rob, and all I got was bad puns about Panda-ing to Corky's audience. Someone explain. PLEAAAAAAAAAAASE
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/corky-laing-rob-and-corkys-most_9.html

Well sports fans... Gonzo Grande Fromage - Rob Ayling was in Preston at Corky Laings "Best Seat in the House" lecture at Lancaster University. 
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/corky-laing-rob-and-corkys-most.html

Totally by accident I found a column of record reviews from seattlepi.com which included two which feature our very own Rick Wakeman...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/two-rick-wakeman-side-projects.html

And once again we make our daily visit to the home of Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poet_9.html

And finally for today, a video interview with Michael Des Barres, who has - apparently - just recorded a Christmas single and is working on a new movie. I hope to be catching up with him very soon (always a pleasure) to talk to him about them...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poet_9.html

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The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The Editor is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?