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The Gonzo Daily - Monday

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We are still carless, but rather than jump into anything stupid I am waiting for the right one to come along. I would like another Mercedes C250 like I used to have in 1999/2000 but I am going to wait and see. The night before last I watched The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park (2013) on BBC iPlayer. It was billed at featuring Mick Taylor as a "special guest" so I was expecting some classy blues stylisations like the ones from the Glastonbury show, but my favourite guitarist was - I am afraid - conspicuous by his absence except strumming along on the encore. Disappointing, I am afraid. However, he is there for everyone to see on the live version of 'Tubular Bells' (also on BBC iPlayer). The Mike Oldfield documentary is also well worth a look...

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_15.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Merrell Fanbkhauser and Ed Cassidy
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-merrell.html

Esoteric to Release Six Vangelis Remasters
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/esoteric-to-release-six-vangelis.html

Eric Burdon: “Guys come up to me and tell me The Animals saved their lives”
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/eric-burdon-guys-come-up-to-me-and-tell.html

Hawkwind Postpone US Tour Over Brock Stress
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/hawkwind-postpone-us-tour-over-brock.html

Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett to appear at Scottish Rite
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/former-genesis-guitarist-steve-hackett.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?