Addi the balloon bass guy

Posted on May 20, 2011 by markweiss86

I ran into Addi Somekh the Balloon Bass guy, at Peet’s in Menlo Park and traded stories about the life. In the biz. On Plastic Alto. Discovery Channel. KFJC. All that.

addi sans balloon hat

Here he is in the Big Apple with his fellow UCSC grad, the drummer Kenny Wolleson (and notice, if you click through or watch this on Youtube, it suggests going from Addi Somekh to Bill Frisell):

Actually, not sure if he is Balloon Hat guy or Balloon Bass guy: he traveled the world and made balloon hats for people in 38 countries, giving away, believe it or not, 200,000 balloons. I could file this under “Vietnam” for instance.

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About markweiss86

Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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