I only recently checked out the Billboard Power 100 top people in the music biz and found that I think I have heard of 29 of them.

Cannot say I have relationship with any of them but I want to shout out to Chip Hooper the founder of Monterey Peninsula Agency which became part of Paradigm.

Chip Hooper is also the name of a famous tennis player from here in Palo Alto and Gunn High.

There is also a photographer named Chip Hooper who may or may not be the same guy as the agent.

I named my Fantasy Football team The Chip Hoopers for a while, mainly because two or three of the guys in our league are tennis pros, and know or knew the real Chip Hooper (plus, Chip’s brother played football for Stanford; plus a couple of us played high school hoops together; plus I am from Chi-town and am kind of phoopy: my Chip Hoopers the team sometimes went by The Chi Phoopers).

For a while I had a list of sound alike cultural forces: Steve McQueen actor and black director; Penelope Houston the punk lady American and British film critic, et cetera. I thought the list could be the basis for an interesting Errol Morris type film. (Almost everything I do has a little “Fast Cheap and Out of Control”).

I might be in the data base of the former MPA that Chip Hooper runs; I bought some stuff from Frank Riley when he was part of their enterprise; his assistants maybe two of them rose to be agents and I have met or sent offers to, those of Frank.

When Shia Geminder was on City of Palo Alto special events staff I always said I was going to figure out a way to get his favorite band some kind of a special date here, but it never happened. Sorry, Shia and good luck wherever you are, and thanks for all your public service here. His band is a Chip Hooper client named O.A.R. of a revolution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnGY9-xqKpc

edit to add: Chip Hooper the agent is #43 in the world, according to Billboard, while Chip Hooper the tennis star was once #17 in the world, although he was only #4 on this high school team at Gunn High in Palo Alto, California, during Gunn’s national record 200 match ten-season unbeaten streak, around 1977. The agents who are still with Paradigm that I claim to have met or sent offers to our named Lynn Cingari and Jackie Nalpant.