I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

T'was the Day before Christmas on the Gonzo Blog

I sat in my study with my silly fat dog,
and sat down at my keyboard and started to write
avoiding all swearwordsand being polite
its been a great year for music at Gonzo so far
with albums by Auburn and Michael Des Barres
and Jefferson Starship and lots and lots more
but I won't list them all, cos that would be a bore
When I started in March I thought it'd be funny,
to write about music (and I needed the money)
but I soon realised how important it is
when you're faced with the death of the old music biz
to keep the old rock and roll spirit alive,
to keep fanning the flames so something will survive
so I look back upon the ten months that I've done,
I've written a lot, and I've had so much fun
I've discovered new music and made some new friends
(and on 21st December the world didn't end)
and so before I go I have one final thought
I couldn't have done it without your support
and so thank you to Rob, Billy and Anne-Marie
and all of the artists who've spoken to me
and to all my new friends who I'm speaking to here
we're gonna do even better next year.

 

Happy Christmas

 

In which I get manouvred into plauing my not-very-festive Christmas song
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/jon-downes-mildly-embarrassing-blast.html

 

Issue 5 of the Gonzo Weekly is now out
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-weekly-5.html

 

Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_24.html

 

Rick Wakeman has the Gonzo Track of the Day
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-rick-wakeman.html

 

Thom the World Poet features on today's Countdown to Christmas
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/countdown-to-christmas-thom-world-poet.html

 

We are just about to re-release Michael Des Barres' first solo album
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/michael-des-barres-is-only-human.html

 

*  The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...

*  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 same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

 

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures 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, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?