Marjorie Ford sporting Allison Robertson's old sweat top

I ran into Marjorie and John Ford, mother of The Donnas bassist Maya Ford, at Peets. Marjorie and I worked out a deal in which I will trade her a book on zines I got cheap at the soon-to-be-defunct and hopefully clearing-the-way-for-a-concert-venue=bookstore in exchange for a zipper sweat jacket that once belong, or so she says, to Allison Robertson, the guitarist for her daughter’s group (and her best friend since 7th grade). My plan is to donate the garment to the proposed Palo Alto Rock and Roll Archive. The archive is a file at the library pertaining to the time I got Steve Staiger our historian to authorize my suggestion to then-Mayor Bern Beecham to have a civic proclamation in honor of Jerry Garcia’s days here. Other artists I have invited into the hall include The Donnas, Ian MacKaye of Fugazi (who attended Terman Junior high for one year), Chris Applegren of The Pee Chees, and Steve Jenkins of Third Eye Blind. Applegren’s former or then-wife Molly Newman actually managed the Donnas when they were on Atlantic and in fact they meet at one of my shows.

I can tell my furry bear liked the river because he jumped over the ledge: