This is a portrait I took of Jimmie Dale Gilmore in 1998 in Palo Alto, in the green room of the old Spangenberg Auditorium at Gunn High. It’s not very good. It’s like the Shroud of Turin. You have to be looking for Jimmie Dale to see him. On the same roll, maybe the next frame or exposure, taken by an unknown photographer is a wonderful group portrait of Jimmie Dale, myself and Robyn Israel of the Weekly. We look like a million bucks, each. Or three million bucks split three ways.
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