THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN DOES THINGS

It seems very quiet here without Lars and the kids. Even Graham is absent (at the Hawkwind one-dayer in Seaton). I am celebrating April Fool's Day by my irregular attempts to get into Depeche Mode. I say irregular, because this is the first time I have listened to one of their albums since the early 90s. However, the reviews of 'Delta Machine' were so beguiling, I had to check it out. But I am sad to admit that although it is more to my taste than other albums of theirs, the synthesisers just grate on me, and all-in-all I just don't get it. Sorry Chaps. I will try again in another twenty years.

Corinna and I are going away tomorrow, and will not be back until Thursday or Friday. We are going to visit the orange cat (who lives with Shosh and Gavin in Staffordshire) and then going to collect Mama for another protracted visit. Along the way we are intending to visit the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. In the meantime Graham is in charge. I will probably not have access to a computer this time, so don't expect answers to emails...

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Bob Dylan
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/gonzo-track-of-day-bob-dylan-ballad-of.html

Once again we repair to Austin for our daily audience with Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem.html

Stephen Stills on his new box set
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/stephen-stills-praises-his-new-box-set.html

Mimi Page collaborates with Superman
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/mimi-page-krypton-factor.html

Greg Lake discusses Ringo
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/greg-lake-on-ringo-starr.html

Zenit and Cris Roversi reviews
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/zenitcris-roversi-reviews.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) 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, and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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?