I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

So, its all over for another year. Tomorrow everything returns to some semblance of normality (or as near normality as it ever gets in my life). I am currently racing through a book called 'Electric Eden' by Rob Young (a Christmas present from my wonderful wife) that presses all the right Fortean and musical buttons, and tells the story of the sort of music which has kept me going for the past 30 years. Highly recommended.

 

I didn't really think the Countdown to Christmas series through properly, and I both didn't start early enough and asked too many people, so despite it being Boxing Day (and tomorrow being um.... thursday) the series will continue for a few more days. Today we hear from Stuart Nicholson from Galahad:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/countdown-to-christmas.html

 

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from the massively talented Erik Norlander
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-astrology.html

 

What happens when a a Jethro Tull fan feels festive?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-ultimate-prog-rock-christmas-image.html

 

A forthcoming treat for Zappa fans
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/zappa-fans-will-love-this-forthcoming.html

 

More charity work for Michael Des Barres
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-michael-des-barres-involved-with.html

 

Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_8575.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 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

 

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures 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, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?