THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS MILDLY APPREHENSIVE

I am finding the cultural fallout from The Rolling Stones' Glastonbury show quite interesting. The only thing that anyone seems to want to complain about is their age. So What? Everyone ages. No-one looks as good as they did thirty years ago. In fact I look considerably better since I discovered that without a beard, and with that silly moustache I had, I looked vaguely like a bad tempered goldfish. But I digress. The band played a blinding set, and - particularly the bit with Mick Taylor - proved that the vision that Brian Jones had all those years ago for a British R&B band featuring intermeshing guitars, still sounds valid in the 21st Century. Over the past year the Rolling Stones brand looked to me and other media commentators on several occasions as if it had run its course. Saturday night proved us all wrong. Wrinkles? Who cares?

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The Gonzo Track of the Day is from Herman's Hermits
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/gonzo-track-of-day-hermans-hermits.html

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem.html

 

Michael Des Barres on the radio
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/michael-des-barres-on-radio.html

 

Eric Burdon declares More
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/eric-burdon-declares-more-eric-burdon.html

 

Cabinet of Curiosities: Martin Stephenson
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/cabinet-of-curiosities-martin.html

 

Interesting documentary about Napster
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/napster-doc-downloaded-watch-metallicas.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

 

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*  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?