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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

Plastic Alto welcomes “Palo Alto” and “The Set of All Blind Piano Players”

Posted on April 29, 2012 by markweiss86

1. A whiles back I ran into Jim Keene, the City Manager for City of Palo Alto, at a chain coffee house on El Camino, near Stanford Avenue, the place that us old timers think of as the former Mountain … Continue reading →

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My sloppy notes on Cake on KQED, verbatim and unedited

Posted on April 26, 2012 by markweiss86

We don’t have in our music the equilvalent of deforesatatoin. Turn the amp to 11 is not subversive, its what Exxon is doing. I grew up in bekrely and had to move to sac as a tennagaer and hated it … Continue reading →

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Motherhips in early May in Big Sur Folk Yeah!

Posted on April 24, 2012 by markweiss86

Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono, and various other Mother Hipsters have played sundry shows for Earthwise Productions in Palo Alto, mostly in the 1990s. They also played The Edge numerous times, produced by other peoples. I last saw Tim and … Continue reading →

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Mexican wrestling mask: or, hero with two or three faces

Posted on April 24, 2012 by markweiss86

Hear Music, the retail chain that became part of Starbucks, underwrote a pilot series of Sundays in the Park at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto; the first show featured Los Straitjackets, the second Maria Muldaur, who actually replaced Blind Boys … Continue reading →

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Moscow

Posted on April 23, 2012 by markweiss86

Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Riccardo Muti performed in Moscow last week, for the first time since 1990. The U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul spoke to the crowd in Russian as part of the program, and held a press conference with Muti. … Continue reading →

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Announcing Earthwise Productions Institute and news-reading service, not necessarily in that order

Posted on April 23, 2012 by markweiss86

WE RECOMMEND YOU BUY THIS BOOK: Niners Stadium price shows how stakes are rising, by Gwen Knapp, who the very busy doctor, dad and blogger from the midwest Dr. Brian Moore, a transplanted New Englander helpfully or perhaps wishfully remembers … Continue reading →

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Lytton Green 4-20 shindig

Posted on April 21, 2012 by markweiss86

Earthwise Productions my day job predates “Plastic Alto” the blog by about 17 years and is a spinoff of Bay Area Action which produced a large Earth Day event in 1993, I worked on. In 1997 for Earth Day I … Continue reading →

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Yeh for Microsoft Store Opening

Posted on April 19, 2012 by markweiss86

I’m not on a drug. But I got all goose-bumpy at the grand opening at Stanford Shopping a Simon Property merely to be within 48 hours and one thousand yards of Adam Levine and his band, who I estimated will rake in about three hundred thousand dollars for their playing along and pomping and circumstancing. Continue reading →

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You Are Plural band at SFMOMA museums

Posted on April 17, 2012 by markweiss86

I hesitate to call You Are Plural a singular sensation. I caught their set at SFMOMA members party Saturday but could not stay to harass them or buy what looked to be pretty cool little needlepoint patches or somesuch homemadities, … Continue reading →

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Topps Baseball, Fang or Maroon 5

Posted on April 17, 2012 by markweiss86

One of these days is coming “The Purloined Gehrig” but until then find yourselves a merry little Harris and Boyd or skim this and then rush back to the airwaves or a local watering hole; let’s play eight or nine, cards I procured today and punted other things to get to, I mean I walked the elephant to pitch to the giraffe. Continue reading →

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