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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

Report on World Music Day at Lytton Plaza by Earthwise

Posted on June 30, 2022 by markweiss86

My “world music day” by Earthwise event at Lytton Plaza on Saturday 6/25/22 went like this: Sylvie Simmons (London/SF) solo ukelele (which is from Hawaii) and voice; originals plus a David Bowie cover, but not “1984” even though it was … Continue reading →

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A touch of Austin in south Palo Alto

Posted on June 28, 2022 by markweiss86

The credit is due largely to Warren Hood and his four-piece backing band, who are approaching five years of anchoring ABGB’s music schedule with their midweek happy-hour residency. A native Austinite, Hood is well-known and widely respected here. Following in … Continue reading →

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Earthwise Productions brain trust announces (soon enough) summer fall concert series or series’s

Posted on June 27, 2022 by markweiss86
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Dave Douglas et al Overcome album art, 2021 Vs Hiroshi Sugimoto seascapes et cetera 2007

Posted on June 27, 2022 by markweiss86

I got some type of producer credit on this record and in fact suggested to Dave Douglas and his business manager Mark Mickelthwaite that we try to license a Sugimoto Seascape as the cover art:

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Dave Price is a big fat idiot

Posted on June 27, 2022 by markweiss86

Dave Price is a big fat idiot     Dave Price in today’s Post has a column about the upcoming elections. Dave Price who has banned me from his pages and refused to run my mother’s death notice (Barbara Hayms … Continue reading →

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Herman Anthony Chunn wants something else: his money

Posted on June 26, 2022 by markweiss86
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Fleetwood MinK

Posted on June 24, 2022 by markweiss86

Both born on this day

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Upcoming Earthwise (9) and otherwise (9)

Posted on June 22, 2022 by markweiss86

Saturday, June 25 Marta Sanchez Quintet, 7 p.m. Lytton Plaza, free. Sylvie Simmons, 5 p.m. It’s also George Orwell‘s birthday and doubleplusgood that it is either two shows back to back or Sylvie is opening for Marta and or a co-bill and … Continue reading →

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I’m really happy that Rose Simpson of Santa Fe is in the New York Times and prefer the tearsheet to the online even though the online version has more photos

Posted on June 22, 2022 by markweiss86
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Palo Alto leadership tactics are insulting to Black families in Ventura

Posted on June 22, 2022 by markweiss86

I agree with Rebecca Eisenberg but I still think the more troubling element is that 16 acres the fry’s site changed hands between developers but then somehow people knew to buy the adjacent 40 acres and the entire 60 acres … Continue reading →

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