Wednesday, May 07, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS...JUST IS

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

Yesterday was not a very nice day. I felt crappier and crappier as the day progressed and more idiotic things began to go wrong, and eventually retreated to bed with Archie and Prudence. The healing power of dogs is a remarkable thing, because I felt considerably better this morning. The brightest star on the horizon is that my apple snails have laid eggs. Shen I was breeding the giant apple snails a few years back, they laid their eggs above the waterline but the egg masses were too heavy and slipped into the water where they drowned. These ones lay far smaller egg masses in a better ventilated tank so I hope that this will not happen. At least four of the baby newts have hatched out, and in the pond the mummy goldfish and the daddy goldfish are loving each other very much, so it looks like the Beltane fertility ritual may have been successful. Thanks Andy.

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Clearlight - Infinite Symphony
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/gonzo-track-of-day-clearlight-infinite.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_7.html

Ginger Baker: The cream of drummers true cymbal of rock 'n' roll survival
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/ginger-baker-cream-of-drummers-true.html

HISTORY DETECTIVES: Frank Zappa Collage
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/history-detectives-frank-zappa-collage.html

AUDIO: Wakeman’s journey to centre of Sheffield
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/audio-wakemans-journey-to-centre-of.html

WATCH: Brian May rocks Guildford to save wildlife
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/watch-brian-may-rocks-guildford-to-save.html

This week's issue of Gonzo Weekly is here. I was up until 4:00 on Saturday morning finishing it, accompanied (except for the last ten minutes) by my wonderful wife and helpmeet Corinna. This issue (up atwww.gonzoweekly.com) features - amongst other things - Rick Wakeman at the Royal Albert Hall in exclusive words and pictures, interviews with Keith Levene the founding gunslinger of both The Clash and PiL, René van Commenée (aka Mr Averell) and David Jackson (ex of Van Der Graaf Generator, and the legendary Italian prog band PFM. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and golden mantled tree kangaroos (OK, no arobeal macropods from Irian Jaya, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

The full list of artists covered this time is: Rick Wakeman, Roger Daltrey, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Wilko Johnson, Galahad, Ginger Baker, Keith Levene, Clepsydra, Iona, Erik Norlander, Steve Ignorant, Beatles, Marillion, Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans Frontières, Sub Reality Sandwich, Bob Hoskins, Jean Philippe Rykiel, Joey Molland, David Jackson, René van Commenée, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Clearlight, Planet Earth Rock ‘n’ Roll Orchestra, Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, Mr Averell, Xtul, PFM, Pattie Boyd, Yes, Steve Howe, 1D, Goresoerd, Hell, In Process, Indoctrine, Manegarm

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 75 (Hawkwind cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/gonzo-weekly-75.html
Issue 74 (Billy Sherwood cover)
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/gonzo-weekly-74.html
Issue 73 (Clepsydra cover)
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2014/04/gonzo-weekly-73.html
Issue 72 (Judge Smith cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/gonzo-weekly-72.html
Issue 71 (Andy Colquhoun cover)
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2014/03/gonzo-weekly-71.html
Issue 70 (Tim Blake cover)
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2014/03/gonzo-weekly-70.html

These issues (and the current one) can be downloaded atwww.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!

To make sure that you don't miss your copy of future issues make an old hippy a happy chappy and subscribe
http://eepurl.com/r-VTD


* 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 an orange kitten named after a song by Frank Zappa 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 kitten?

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