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For various reasons I never had children of my own, but I value my relationship with my two stepdaughters greatly. It was delightful having Olivia and her new beau here for the weekend, and horrid when they went. Last night Corinna and I watched the much heralded Nic Jones documentary on BBC iPlayer. It was certainly impressive, and a heartwarming story of human endeavour (dare I say, triumph of the will, but don't read anything into that) to see the man who was pulped by a car crash involving a lorry load of bricks, get on a stage to perform again thirty years later. Dare I be iconoclastic? Personally I preferred Nic's own songs to his iconic reworkings of classic folksongs. But I am weird like that.

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html
...and here is yesterday's for those of you that missed it:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_29.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is by Ian Boddy
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-ian-boddy-david.html

 

ROBERT WYATT: Scaling musical heights
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/robert-wyatt-scaling-musical-heights.html

 

#askYES: Steve Howe’s Guitar Inspirations
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/askyes-steve-howes-guitar-inspirations.html

 

Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band is a real Celtic Bard ...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/robin-williamson-of-incredible-string.html

 

Stephen Stills honored for free speech through music
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/stephen-stills-honored-for-free-speech.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: www.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 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, 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 cat?