I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

I rather like the weekends. The telephone doesn't ring, and I can get on with stuff in a relaxed and productive manner. At the moment I am devouring as much of Judy Dyble's back catalogue as I can find on Spotify, because I have fallen in love with the CD 'Talking with Strangers' that she sent me yesterday, and which Gonzo will be releasing in the United States. I am going to keep on about it until everyone in the Western World owns at least one copy, and Harpsong has become the new National Anthem. In other news, we are knee deep in trying to finish Karl Shuker's big cat book (our biggest project yet, being full colour, lavishly illustrated and coffee-table book sized), and I have gone back to reading the anthology of Hunter Thompson's work for 'Rolling Stone'...

And what has Postie brought me this morning? Two Galahad CDs (or to be strictly true, a Galahad CD and a CD/DVD pack) courtesy of the most excellent Stu...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/whoa-oh-wait-minute-mr-postman.html

Michael Des Barres has announced another gig at The Viper Room. I wish I lived in LA, which is a sentiment that you don't hear me express very often...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/michael-is-back-at-viper-room.html
And whilst on the subject of the Modish Marquis, I totally cocked up yesterday and got the links to his video interview completely wrong. So let's see if we can do a bit better today. Sorry Michael :(
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/carnaby-street-interview-michael-des.html

Another video blog from the lovely Cathy Richardson of Jefferson Starship
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/another-video-blog-from-cathy-richardson.html

The lineup for next year's HRH Prog Festival has been announced, and contains much of interest to Gonzofolk..
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-hrh-prog-festival-2013.html

Herewith a link to an interesting piece about the mighty Atkins/May Project.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/link-atkinsmay-project-news.html

You know that I can never resist wandering off topic with rambling essays about rock and pop minutae. Today I go in search of a four hour film that everyone says is rubbish!
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/desperately-seekingthe-holy-grail-of.html

Well, I have finally finished reading Pete Townshend's mighty autobiography, Who I am, and a review is imminent. In the meantime, here is the man himself...http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/who-he-is.html

And once again it is time for our daily visit to the omniverse of Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poet_10.html

I have to admit that I had never heard of Galahad until, one evening earlier this year my adopted nephew Max and I played their album Battle Scars which arrived together with a heap of other groovy Gonzothings. It was an epiphany, and soon after I interviewed Stu Nicholson, the singer, who is a really nice bloke. Now there is a second album of the year, which is even better. Once again I interview Stu, and feel very privileged to have been privy to the conversation that follows.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/exclusive-galahad-interview-part-two.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 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?