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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

Two chords and the truth

Posted on September 23, 2018 by markweiss86

  Beto O’Rouke clip from 1994 — that’s the year I started producing concerts, with Mudwimin and Oxbow — and the year Nirvana broke — with a future member of At The Drive In and Mars Volta — supposedly pissing … Continue reading →

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I spoke with Dartmouth sports legend Shaun Teevens ‘82 today in reaction to an alumni magazine cover story about his brother Buddy, which seemed lacking

Posted on September 21, 2018 by markweiss86

Brad Parks’ article missed this basic point: (from Big Green sports web page) The name Teevens is intertwined through Dartmouth athletic history. Buddy’s father, the late Eugene F. Teevens II ‘52, was a hockey letterwinner. His younger brother, Shaun ‘82, … Continue reading →

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Belated happy 41st to Tauheed Epps pka 2chainz fka Tity Boi

Posted on September 20, 2018 by markweiss86

Birthday wish was bees in the trap bees in the   Edit to add: I think I found the new logo for Earth wise productions and: early 2Chainz in his TB days with Playerz Circle our of Hitlanta

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Bretts Anderson

Posted on September 19, 2018 by markweiss86
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Criss cross: Darren w Harold Lopez-Nussa

Posted on September 18, 2018 by markweiss86

edit to add: ok, the guy owns a piano bar in LA, called Tramp Stamp Granny’s and made a video of himself playing and singing “Desperado” so this is a natural collaboration, four hands even. He also went to St. … Continue reading →

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Typical is what one might be drawn to say

Posted on September 18, 2018 by markweiss86

I met this guy once at a breakfast place in the mission. I also have a 7″ he did under name Tina Age 13. He did the first part of the Palo Alto tryptich on Cali Ave (with Joey Piziale … Continue reading →

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I Saw The Figure 483689 in Black: Emma Acker’s ‘Cult of the Machine’ and tour

Posted on September 18, 2018 by markweiss86

Emma Acker curated the “Cult of the Machine” exhibit at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. She also led a small group on a special tour of the show, in July. I actually wrote a paper on this topic, the … Continue reading →

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The Deacons Hop by Big Jim McNeely early rockstar when sax was a rock instrument

Posted on September 17, 2018 by markweiss86

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv4bdrZy6g0 Thanks to okie dog and guy who signed that weird Oklahoma art rock Flaming Lips David cat katznelson for the heads up. If you read the tags here you can see that I’m imagining stringing together six or seven … Continue reading →

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Rising Monday with Frost, Victor frost in fact why now factwino

Posted on September 17, 2018 by markweiss86

Barely making McFall is a dead head and it’s not just when people confuse him with David Axelrod and I have a friend who is in the NSA and claims to have seen Jerry Garcia below the Mason-Dixon line. And … Continue reading →

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Lauren baabaa (youtube star)

Posted on September 16, 2018 by markweiss86

Started with sublime Santeria eight years ago, 200,000 hits, recent posts have as few as 256 hits. I still don’t get Youtube and what it means in the real world. (or music world). This is not first time I’ve wirtten … Continue reading →

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