THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN GOES APE

Yesterday was another fairly pleasant day. I managed to do quite a lot, despite a little orange ball of fur rushing about the house terrorising everyone except for Poppy the brown cat. Sh is the only one who can keep Leo in his place. Prudence is scared of him, and everyone else is in awe. He is rapidly taking over the house. The CFZ Yearbook is now finished apart from the final proof which should be done today, and the reissue of Robert Calvert's only novel 'Hype' is well underway. I also watched a documentary on Steve Winwood on BBci Player last night, which has enthused me to relisten to various Traffic albums and to Winwood's first solo album from 1977. It is the first time I have listened to the latter since it first came out, and I had forgotten how good it was. Jim Capaldi's percussion is almost irresistibly funky.

 

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from David Bedford
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/gonzo-track-of-day-david-bedford-mike.html

 

Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_8.html

 

An interview with Asia's Sam Coulson
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/link-new-asia-guitarist-sam-coulson.html

 

This is only vaguely on-topic but this cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man by Flaming Lips and Deerhoof is really rather good
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-flaming-lips-and-deerhoof-21st.html

 

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Pink Floyd's Christmas on Earth
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/cabinet-of-curiosities-pink-floyds.html

 

More on the Sally Oren/Jefferson Airplane story. I am not being facetious here. I think making love not war is a perfectly valid political philosophy both then and now...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/more-on-sally-oren-story.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?