THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN RUNS AROUND THE FARMYARD MAKING SQUAWKING NOISES

I was up with Corinna watching TV until gone 4:00 this morning so we are running a little late. Outside it cannot seem to make up its mind whether it is spring or winter: one day there are dense flurries of snow, the next brilliant sunshine. All the spring flowers are looking somewhat battered by hail and snow, and the snowdrops and Lenten lilies outside my study window are semi-flattened. If this horrible weather is indeed our fault as a species, then we are certainly reaping what we have sown.

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Alex Harvey
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-gonzo-track-of-day-alex-harvey-band.html

Once again we repair to Austin for our daily audience with Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_13.html

Helen McCookerybook is having a tineid problem. Lepidopterists rule ok?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/entomological-exclusive-helen.html

More guitar hints from Gordon Giltrap
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/stuart-ryan-talks-to-gordon-giltrap.html

Rob Ayling sent me this fascinating vintage French language documentary about the early days of Virgin Records
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/fascinating-french-language-richard.html

Peter Banks, the original guitarist from Yes has just died. We have a number of tributes.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/rolling-stone-remembers-peter-banks.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/peter-banks-with-ant-bee.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-tribute-to-peter-banks.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/those-we-have-lost-peter-banks-1947-2013.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 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) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) - 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 cats?