THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN TRIES HIS BEST TO BE EFFICIENT BUT OFTEN FAILS MISERABLY

Yesterday I was tired so went to bed for a nap just after 6:00pm. I woke up at gone 11:00 this morning, so after sleeping for seventeen hours I guess that I needed it. Thirty one years ago when I harboured ambitions to be the Brian Epstein of South Devon, I picked up a hitch-hiker in the little village of Starcross. He was carrying a guitar and looked interesting. It turned out that his name was Mike Davis, and I was immediately entranced by his music. He has the Lou Reedesque wild talent to be able to turn out something unique, and often strangely beautiful, from four chords strummed basically in the background. Last weekend he gave me his latest set of demos, and once again I am entranced. I have been wanting to do something with his music any time this past thirty years, and - just possibly - now is the time I can actually do it..

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_27.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Sex Gang Children
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-sex-gang.html

Stephen Stills' New Supergroup The Rides Talk New Album, Tour and Future Plans
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/stephen-stills-new-supergroup-rides_27.html

Tribute to a Lost Friend: The Late Joey Covington to Be Honored at The Hood
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/tribute-to-lost-friend-late-joey.html

TOTALLY OFF TOPIC: Sondre Lerche Covers Scott Walker's 'The Plague' in Decay
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/totally-off-topic-sondre-lerche-covers.html

At Home With The Majoun Traveler, excerpt of a film by Flame Schon
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/at-home-with-majoun-traveler-excerpt-of.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 54 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?