By Earthwise Productions, since 1994

BW In Walked Bud…or Dan

Peets Café at town and country near Stanford, updating my avails log and I recognize Dan Olmsted who played in my concert series in the fall of 1995. He is Cubberley class of 1972. But he doesn’t look a day over 69. His band was called the New Jersey Devils. According to spellcheck. They open for Cake and The Negro problem. And a Black guy started tearing down all our posters. He said they were moving in a more Celtic direction so I asked him to over for the Young Dubliners November 11 at The Mitch.
He clarified that he’s married to Kathy, the bass player, not Sheila the fiddle player. He clarified that he washed windows for Gregg Rolie’s mother, not mowed the lawn.

And1: They call me Mr Hanif:

I flipped through the special issue of the Rolling Stone the teacher articles about Mick Jagger — please note the magazine is not otherwise affiliated with the rock band despite the similar names. It was a vain search to see if there was anything by Hanif Abdur Rahim. As spellcheck calls him. (Hanif Abdurraqib) he has a passage in his book about working at a health food store or maybe health insurance and having to constantly correct people on how to say or spell his name. On point he has an essay about the woman who sang the backing parts on Gimme Shelter. He also has an interesting passage about soul train, and the exact outfit worn by someone to War. Which makes me want to hire Aleta Hayes and student Rabiah Kabir to create a live Soul Train tribute. Rabiah has corrected me twice on her name. She plays the flute in a salsa band, and then puts down her axe to axe people to dance.