Sunday, May 04, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN AND SOME DRUIDS

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
 
It is the first Sunday in May
and there's something that I have to say
that I hope that you all want to hear
cos I really love this time of year
 
Every week at about this time
I write the Sunday blogs in rhyme
partially to cause confusement
but mostly for my own amusement
 
I must hurry if you beg my pardon
cos there will soon be druids in my garden
I tell you this (and I'm no liar)
they've come to make a Beltane fire
 
So I must get on with the blogs,
before I go to fuss my dogs
so before my rhymes completely pall
Beltane blessings to you all
 
 
 
‘The price of success was very high’: Remembering Steve Hackett and Steve Howe’s ill-fated GTR supergroup
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-price-of-success-was-very-high.html
 
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Hare Krishna Maha Mantra - Love in Separation - Shyamananda Kirtan Mandali
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/gonzo-track-of-day-hare-krishna-maha.html
 
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem (this was meant to be in yesterday's magazine, but I forgot - many apologies Thom)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem-this-was.html
 
 
This week's issue of Gonzo Weekly is here. I was up until 4:00 saturday morning finishing it, accompanied (except for the last ten minutes) by my wonderful wife and helpmeet Corinna. This issue (which is up at www.gonzoweekly.com ) features - amongst other things - Rick Wakeman at the Royal Albert Hall in exclusive words and pictures, interviews with Keith Levene the founding gunslinger of both The Clash and PiL, René van Commenée (aka Mr Averell) and David Jackson (ex of Van Der Graaf Generator, and the legendary Italian prog band PFM. There is a peculiar story about a band called Xtul, and the latest episides of both Canterbury Sans Frontières (featuring an extended playlist by Robert Wyatt) and Jaki and Tim's extraordinarily surreal and eccentric Sub Reality Sandwich. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and golden mantled tree kangaroos (OK, no arobeal macropods from Irian Jaya, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

The full list of artists covered this time is: Rick Wakeman, Xtul, Roger Daltrey, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Wilko Johnson, Galahad, Ginger Baker, Keith Levene, Clepsydra, Iona, Erik Norlander, Steve Ignorant, Beatles, Marillion, Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans Frontières, Sub Reality Sandwich, Bob Hoskins, Jean Philippe Rykiel, Joey Molland, David Jackson, René van Commenée, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Clearlight, Planet Earth Rock ‘n’ Roll Orchestra, Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, Mr Averell, Xtul, PFM, Pattie Boyd, Yes, Steve Howe, 1D, Goresoerd, Hell, In Process, Indoctrine, Manegarm
 
 
These issues (and the current one) can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
 
To make sure that you don't miss your copy of future issues make an old hippy a happy chappy and subscribe
http://eepurl.com/r-VTD
 

*  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 54 who - together with an orange kitten named after a song by Frank Zappa 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 kitten?
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