THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS ROUND THE BEND

I really do enjoy sundays

'cos on the whole they're relaxing fun days
the door doesn't knock and the 'phone doesn't ring
so I don't have to worry about everything
except for scansion, metre and rhyme
because each week about this time
just when you thought it couldn't get worse,
I do the Gonzo Blogs in verse.
'Why?' you ask. 'Why Not?' I say
I've grown to like doing it this way,
but the real answer is, you see,
I do it 'cos it amuses me.

 

So let's start with our Track of the Day
I'm mildly embarrassed to have to say
that Sandy Salisbury's really good
but I'd not heard of him like I know I should
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-gonzo-track-of-day-sandy-salisbury.html

 

And now it is time (wouldn't you know it)
to visit my friend the world poet
as today he muses on
Mandela and George Harrison
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_24.html

 

A piece of advice now, I think you'd better
check out our groovy free newsletter
I'm very pleased and proud to say
#14 went out yesterday
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-gonzo-weekly-newsletter-14.html

 

I'm very very sad to say,
Geoff Downes' daughter has passed away
and the Gonzoteam (especially me)
send condolences to his family
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/yesasia-keyboardist-geoff-downes.html

 

And now another obituary,
We all were very sad to see
that a doyenne of soul and gospel song
one of Pop Staples' girls is gone
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/those-we-have-lost-cleotha-staples-1934.html

 

The first single The Beatles sang
was with Tony Sheridan
they changed the history of rock and roll
now Tony's dead (God rest his soul)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/those-we-have-lost-tony-sheridan-1940.html

 

If you like progressive rock,
it won't come as a great shock
to find here, something to muse upon
an interview with Jon Anderson
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/link-jon-anderson-formerly-of-yes-still.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

 

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?