I don’t cover these waterfronts the way I once did — for example, as someone who presented blink 182 at Cubberley Center in Palo Alto on Earth Day 1997 for 105 paid, but I was psyched to see a band from Los Altos on the local stage in the billing for KITS Live 105’s annual BFD at Shoreline June 5. The band is called The Relay Company and is variously described as being from Los Altos, Monte Sereno or Valley Christian High.
They are led by Adam and Stephen Mariucci, a name that pops out among (recovering) football fans because they are two children of former Cal and 49ers head coach Steve “Mooch” Mariucci.
And the music insider would note that the band is apparently signed or signing with Hopeless/Atlantic Records, thanks to uber-manager Robert Hayes of Sound Management of San Jose, who also stewards smashmouth (that also is a football reference, methinks). And that some of the tracks are produced by a Tooth and Nail affiliate, which says “Christian rock” the way that “Valley Christian” says similarly clean cut. I’d have to listen to more tracks than “Marco Polo” to see how astute that comment is or isn’t.
Also reminds me of a band I put on as support years ago called Bozac or Bozack featuring two sons of former Stanford and Dallas Cowboy Blaine Nye.
Also reminds me that I still am curious to see Theophilus “Bill” Brown (but not the ex-Viking) and his 1950s Life Magazine spread of football player paintings, I met at Smith Andersen.
Also reminds me that I saw in Cal Alumni Magazine that former Cal and NFL lineman Ed White is now a painter.
Also reminds me that I met Roger Craig the former 49er outside Wells Fargo in Palo Alto a year or so ago and stopped him and he said his son the former Texas A&M hoopster was going into the music business and I told him (being erudite and full of itfo) that Dr. J’s son was in the music biz; the young Craig was on his way to Philly for a tryout with the 76ers. Roger said he would call Julius Erving (I guess all sports stars of a certain age know each other?) and try to further the connection.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
http://www.eesgallery.com/dynamic/artwork_display.asp?ArtworkID=888
the other act I would pay to see on this bill is Stanford grad KFlay (Kate Flaherty, methinks):
Reminds me that the only two other new bands I feel ahead of the curve on are Man Man, coming to town next month, because I met Ryan Kantner while he was a barrista in Philly, and Silversun Pickups, because Terry’s sister’s husband’s daughter married their singer. And The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, only because I rang the lad in 2009 based on his name alone.
this pops up here but when I say “recovering” above I mean that I let my Niners tickets go after 35 seasons because I am just not a fan the way I once was (not for $2,000 per year certainly) whereas my childhood chum and Cal alum Andrew L. Dieden here when he talks recovery he is talking substance abuse — although coinky dink he told me last night he has a cousin in L.A. in a buzz band that went to SXSW:
http://www.sportsrecoveryguide.com/Home_Page.html
The List is archived online and I had to use it to check the date of my Earth Day “Rock and Bike” event with blink 182, 98 Mute and Soda. A guy named Murphy in San Jose did an unauthorized silk screen of the event. I hired my former neighbor Bruce B.C. Meyers to do a flyer for that show. People who rode their bikes got in half price, for Earth Day. The previous year we did a Stone Fox show same two-fer deal and gave away a Softride bike (which was claimed by a member of the local Guttersluts band).
http://jon.luini.com/thelist/archive/1997-03-28