Category Archives: music

if you can hear it and it does not grate your ears, ambient or intentitional with a story melody or not, major and minor chords, the community rather than the industry if possible; if not the answer then a pretty good guess, and the people who live it; basie miller satchmo and the king of all sir duke

Bob, Jimmy, Andy, Terry, Mark & Mitch

Posted on November 12, 2019 by

Bob Margolin and Jimmy Vivino headlined a show at Mitchell Park, for Earthwise on Saturday, July 6, 2019, with Mitch Woods opening then sitting in. Afterwards, Terry and I, along with our sound guy Andy Heller, posed for this photo. … Continue reading →

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Old Davis band circa 1970

Posted on November 12, 2019 by

I got a call from Greg Brown one day saying that he wanted to show me a flyer he did for Old Davis. He said it was a band featuring a member of what would become Journey, either Gregg Rolie … Continue reading →

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Billy Strings, 2014 VS Sullivan Tuttle, 09/30/2019

Posted on October 31, 2019 by

  At Molly’s show, with her four piece side band, Sully took a turn with sis, on Townes Van Zandt’s “White Freightliner Blues” — which they used to play with their family band at least since 2014:     As … Continue reading →

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Earthwise onsales include Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite and CJ Chenier, thru March

Posted on October 27, 2019 by

Mark Weiss and Earthwise produce community-oriented concerts of various genre in Palo Alto, mostly at the Mitchell Park Community Center. Onsale at Eventbrite: Matt The Electrician, Sylvie Simmons, Saturday, November 16 at Cubberley Community Center Room H-1, $15; Dave Douglas … Continue reading →

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Kool-Aid VS Gatorade idioms

Posted on October 24, 2019 by

Glenn Reeves of PAW has an article about Foothill starting the gridiron season 6-0. I commented that College of San Mateo is also undefeated, and ranked #1 in the state — I had been tracking Darrell Page the former St. … Continue reading →

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HSB BF

Posted on October 20, 2019 by

B/w not terribly ly flattering crop from a low fi version of “I started a joke”:

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Sylvie Simmons sluds Earthwise sonly

Posted on October 20, 2019 by

i obviously have more to say but meanwhile here is Sylvie herself on the matter: Sylvie is an award-winning writer, the author of fiction and non-fiction books and a leading music journalist since the late ’70s. She is one of … Continue reading →

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