I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

And so another day begins. David B-P has been made redundant, the toads have settled in, Graham is having a couple of days off, and it seems that we won't get the car back until next week, and I am supposed to be filming Jefferson Starship on tuesday. Life is generally crappy, but I expect that it will get better.

Yesterday evening I had a long chat with the ever lovely Helen McCookerybook, and - as always - what was supposed to be a ten minute conversation about a new limited edition release of hers, became a long and rambling chat during which we talked of cabbages and kings until I realised that we had been talking for over half an hour. During this chat she told me about her friend Acton Bell, with whom she has done a number of gigs and also is organising the very groovy sounding Club Artyfarle which seems like an event after my own heart. So, being a nosy bugger, I typed Acton's name into Youtube, and ladies and gentlemen I am smitten! She has an extraordinary talent which is unlike anyone else I have heard in yonks.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/actons-sunday-with-helen.html

Yesterday I had a jolly e-mail from Liz Lenten who is remarkably upbeat, probably because she is off on tour with Jefferson Starship. I shall be talking to her at 4:00 so expect more news...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/an-email-from-liz-lenten.html

And whilst on the subject of the Jefferson Starship tour here is a rather nifty poster I found...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/jefferson-starship-pat-mcmanus-auburn.html

I have received so many emails over the past few days about Michael Des Barres and his current projects, that I felt that we should do an interview with him quickly before his life got any more complicated. So I dropped him a quick email, and ten minutes later we were chatting. He began by saying all sorts of nice things about the Gonzo Daily...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/exclusive-interview-michael-des-barres.html

Our daily visit to the remarkable abode of Thom the World Poet; a man whom I admire very much
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_11.html

Yesterday afternoon the ever attentive Mr Ayling sent me a link to a documentary about Ginger Baker. We have to run this he said. So I have.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/beware-of-mr-baker.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 Editor is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?