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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Backed with : i’ve been listening to electric light Orchestra ELO for 43 years but only just for the first time heard 10538 thanks to an article by Jim Harrington listing the top 10 songs which appeared in the mercury … Continue reading →
I taped 5 minutes of it from side stage — The near omnipotence and omniscience of the concert promoter:
Paul Hanley was my baseball teammate for Key Chevrolet Expos Los Altos Hills Senior Little League when we were 15, in summer of ‘79, that is to say, forty years ago. Today David O’Such told me of Paul’s passing, which … Continue reading →
The sports writer Dave Newhouse told me that he wrote a book about the 1939 St. Mary’s upset over Texas Tech‘s in the Cotton Bowl I found this little article that said George Webb will live on in infamy. He … Continue reading →
Firstly: Alabama receiver catches perfect pass for long touchdown in bowl game versus Jim Harbaugh of The Harbaugina monologue on first play of game. Segundo: Craig Wedge Matsumoto on Miles Okazaki solo guitar version of Monk Bemsha “shwing!!!” Great post, … Continue reading →
Matt Porteus the scientist and Jim Yardley the journalist were classmates for one year, 1981, at Henry M. Gunn high school in Palo Alto, California. I don’t know how well they knew each other. Greg Zlotnick might be the only … Continue reading →
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Bw Jonas Wood French Open vs Keith Peters portrait of Julia Pham at Gunn courts 2017
I have noted herein, at Plastic Alto, that Charlie Musselwhite, the focal point and hopefully vocal pointman of my Earthwise event Sunday at Palo Alto JCC, played a show years ago at The Big Beat, also on San Antonio Road. … Continue reading →