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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

Being a Gunn grad makes you somewhat jaded in that you think of world-class scientist more as fathers or mothers of your classmates

Posted on June 22, 2019 by markweiss86
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Monheit sends Mitchell to ‘Dreamland’

Posted on June 22, 2019 by markweiss86

Jazz vocalist Jane Monheit of Long Island and Los Angeles rode a musical magic carpet, piloting 75 of her intimates, on a tour of the American and New World songbook, Friday at the Mitchell Park Center El Palo Alto room. … Continue reading →

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Puma and PIcasso (revisited)

Posted on June 19, 2019 by markweiss86

This is new to me: I am reprinting to top of the heap a previous post from 8 years ago, 2011, because I added a bit of content: Nes and Aaron of Premier Boutique in Palo Alto I have been … Continue reading →

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New website launch for Earthwise

Posted on June 17, 2019 by markweiss86

My wife, the artist and former arts commissioner Terry Acebo Davis aka TMW, made a tribute page or fan page for Earthwise Productions, my concert company. I started in 1994, which predates the modern internet, and have had varying degrees … Continue reading →

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Modest Mouse cover in front of The Varsity by Gunn duo at busker fete

Posted on June 16, 2019 by markweiss86

Paper Thin Walls and ambient street noise

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Biography of 3 artists/personae: Bob Dylan, David Hockney, Steve Cohen

Posted on June 15, 2019 by markweiss86
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I am wearing my third eye blind T-shirt today but not sure ‘how’s it going to be?’

Posted on June 15, 2019 by markweiss86

Yesterday I wore a golden state Warriors replica jersey of Stephen Curry in Los Angeles and six or seven people stopped me on the street.  One lady, Carmen, said she was from San Lorenzo but had moved here parentheses Sherman … Continue reading →

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Carolyn Malachi: Hard rock, hip hop jazz the gospel glam

Posted on June 15, 2019 by markweiss86

B/w my visit to “Contact High” hip hop photo exhibit at Annenberg CAA 2200 curated by former Palo Alto Arts Commissioner Vikki Tobak, I read about in Rolling Stone. The fickle computer ate my caption about Carolyn Malachi the DC … Continue reading →

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Has ‘Rock and Roll’ jumped the shark?

Posted on June 11, 2019 by markweiss86

I remember in 1992 getting a Christmas card from Lane Wurster of mammoth records and thinking that there was an oasis somewhere where people could be “punk” or “Indie” and still be in business  Mammoth had seven or eight employees … Continue reading →

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Rose B Simpson, Maria (black on black car) VS Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin (blues man)

Posted on June 11, 2019 by markweiss86

The name “Rose” could reference a fragrant flower or physical motion in this case upward. Whereas “Bob” could be a nicked name for “Robert” or the motion or path of a solid object of wood or plastic (and or captured … Continue reading →

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