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The Gonzo Daily - Sunday

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I'm pretending today is the first of the year
'cos it really hasn't been that great up to here
with flooding, power cuts and no internet
it was the sort of week that I'd rather forget

with health issues, family stuff and people online
taking every excuse just to bicker or whine
or sniping from the sidelines trying to be funny
or just being selfish and owing me money

I can truly say I've not enjoyed this last week
its not been good for this particular freak
Though before I would like to say
that we really enjoyed having Maxy to stay

and visits from Mike Davis are always a joy
so there was stuff this past week that didn't annoy
Today's the Feast of Epiphany, today a new start
I'm finally online, I've got strength in my heart

So although the last few days were stressful at times,
I'm launching this week with some fresh Gonzo rhymes
and though my poor garden's sodden like the dankest of bogs
there is really good stuff on today's Gonzo blogs

So starting with today's new Track of the Day
Joey Molland sings George's 'Isn't it a Pity?'
His new album is great, and I really must say
you must see him play live if he comes to your city
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-joey-molland.html

Now Thom the World Poet's a geezer I know
whose poetic muse still continues to flow
and the stuff that he writes continues to inspire
and lift my sometimes flagging spirits still higher

And next a good look at a classic rock song
sung by Jefferson Airplane once (if we've not got it wrong)
I like exercises in rock archaeology
especially when the music means something to me
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/carls-rock-songbook-88-jefferson.html

The next is a post that's about two weeks late
its a history of the most popular song by Greg Lake
but I found it interesting so with no more to do
I'm posting it up here as a present for you
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/what-christmas-really-meant-to-me-greg.html

Phil Everly's died, and his wonderful voice
is now only heard on the tune of your choice
so remember his great songs and try not to grieve
for sooner or later we all have to grieve
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/those-we-have-lost-phil-everly-1939-2014.html

And finally Al from our own Atkins-May
has got a side project I found out today
a heavy metal opera, could there be such a thing?
There is and they've tempted Al Atkins to sing
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/al-atkins-in-wagnerian-metal-project.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. 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?