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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

Mr. Duffy v William Russel Dudley

Posted on June 4, 2019 by markweiss86

This is very esoteric and then it got deleted but someone next to me at Coupa mentioned a James Joyce line about Mr. Duffy a short distance from his body from Dubliners 1914 and I thought of and sussed out … Continue reading →

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Dextra Quotskuyva, 1928-2019

Posted on June 4, 2019 by markweiss86

The King Galleries in Phoenix list Dextra Quotskuyva, the great Hopi potter and epitome of the Nampeyo matrilineal descent of greatness, as having died this year. News to me. Coincidentally I had pulled from my shelf this morning for my … Continue reading →

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Jane Monheit and Bob Margolin now on-sale at EventBrite

Posted on June 3, 2019 by markweiss86

I have two shows now on sale via EventBrite, Jane Monheit June 21 and Bob Margolin, July 6, both at the new Mitchell Park Community Center El Palo Alto Room. In my 25 years as a concert promoter, I’ve likely … Continue reading →

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Declassified Don Cherry at Dartmouth

Posted on May 28, 2019 by markweiss86

OR, TWENTY-SIX AOA FLUTES AT DARTMOUTH Don Cherry was artist in residence at Dartmouth in 1970. I wrote something about that, years later, for the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. On Don’s Blue Lake recording, he plays a wooden flute. In the … Continue reading →

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She did it Mxmtoon way

Posted on May 26, 2019 by markweiss86

I think this is one of those scooter braun type stories where the artist starts singing in her lving room and positng to youtube and then she has an actual following and someone from the industry reaches out. She did … Continue reading →

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I’m not a fan of The National but just bought 4 tickets on AXS for their show at Frost, which is only 2 miles from here;

Posted on May 21, 2019 by markweiss86

After less than a minute of their set on Colbert last Tuesday, I had taped and just watched.   That’s the whole item. The show is September 1, which gives me 100 days to bone up on their first 20 … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto’s ‘grassy knoll’ of rock and roll

Posted on May 20, 2019 by markweiss86

Bo Crane, 67 — a Paly and Stanford grad — is giving a talk at Palo Alto Historical Association next month — their annual dinner — about rock and roll. He published a book or chapbook on such — maybe … Continue reading →

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Two weeks later; or 20 hours

Posted on May 18, 2019 by markweiss86

  I’m focusing on advancing my shows June 21, with jazzsinger Jane Monheit, and July 6, with blues guitarist Bob Margolin (and guests Jimmy Vivino, and Mitch Woods). Both concerts will be at the new Mitchell Park Community Center El … Continue reading →

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May Fete VS Little Feat

Posted on May 4, 2019 by markweiss86

1, There’s a small dog, in the parade, with a mini Giants bat; 2, There’s a fat man, in the bath tub, with the blues. 1.a. If you be my Dixie chicken, I’ll be your something something (Tennessee) man… b … Continue reading →

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Krasny’s lit bus

Posted on May 3, 2019 by markweiss86

Terry, TMW, tagged along Thursday night to hear Michael Krasny’s literature “bus tour” at Stanford Continuing Studies. There were six texts on the syllabus, by four authors: Flannery O’Conner (1925-1964), Eudora Welty (1909-2001), Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner. I read … Continue reading →

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