Wednesday, June 26, 2013

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPS OCCASIONALLY

Last night I had a telephone call from an old friend. He is currently going through unbelievably horrid personal problems with an ex-partner. I know that he reads these blogs occasionally, so dude - if you read this - know that we love you, and you are constantly in our thoughts and prayers. And if there is indeed any natural justice in the universe, then you will prevail.
 
On another subject, I am currently reading Stuart Maconie's 'The People's Music', which is a book I have looked forward to for a long time. I have to say that my first impressions are disappointing. Although there are some excellent snippets of pub quiz trivia (for example, the two most played songs on the radio in the UK both contain the word 'fandango', and the first British record to use the words 'Rock and Roll' was by The Goons) there are more mistakes than I would have liked (Adem is a bloke not a band), and whereas I was hoping for a level of cultural analysis like that found in Jonothon Green's books 'Days in the Life' and 'All Dressed Up' it just isn't there. What cultural analysis there is - to my mind, at least - is trite and shallow. The book is enjoyable enough but ultimately pointless. I have, however, only read the first half.Maybe my opinion will change by the end. I hope so, because I like Stuart Maconie's writing, and had hoped for finer things.
What's new on the Gonzo Daily?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com
 
 
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_26.html
 
 
An interesting article on the new Prog Collective album, which features various Gonzo alumni. I am sorry to be nitpicking here, but isn't "more final recordings from Yes' Peter Banks" an oxymoron?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/special-meaning-now-and-forever-new.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 two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) 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 cat?
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