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

Come join The Robert Hunter Hoot, Palo Alto, Calif.

Posted on September 25, 2019 by markweiss86

Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto at the Mitchell Park Community Center is hosting a special music memorial to the life of Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who died Monday in San Rafael at age 78. MORE DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED. … Continue reading →

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‘Hands of Orlac’ at Mitchell Park Center Friday, October 25 with live score

Posted on September 24, 2019 by markweiss86

I made a rather macabre stage announcement at the Earthwise John Santos show in that John works with his hands and the movie I am showing, with six musicians performing simultaneously a live original score, is about a concert pianist … Continue reading →

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AFI, ‘Girl’s Not Grey’ circa 2000 VS Natalie Wood, ‘Sun is Gray’

Posted on September 24, 2019 by markweiss86

  I happen to TCM movie called Penelope because it had Natalie wood and it turns out she may or may not have sung a song called the sun is gray in the movies someone somewhere said it was cut … Continue reading →

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First of the Mohegans

Posted on September 23, 2019 by markweiss86

I just think that we offer an escape. That people are tired of watching the news. They are so disgusted with the negativity, the daily 24/7 media bombardment of what is wrong; that they can’t wait to have fun, and … Continue reading →

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Earthwise announces Tim and Greg of The Mother Hips on-sales; fair warning on last 40 seats to local product Molly Tuttle’s show

Posted on September 19, 2019 by markweiss86

Earthwise Productions, my concert company, has seven shows on-sale at EventBrite. The most recent announcement is for a set of two shows with Tim and Greg of The Mother Hips (playing as a duo, unplugged). Those shows are Friday, March … Continue reading →

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Tom Waits Man Man Dave Douglas Sex Mob

Posted on September 3, 2019 by markweiss86

Or, An Incomplete Communion: I spent about 20 minutes listening to four or five cds, from my collection, between 1999 and 2006 or so — and this is 2019, almost 2020. With 20-20 hindsight and more discipline I would know … Continue reading →

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I kind of like the new Tool, especially for the hand-drums

Posted on September 2, 2019 by markweiss86

maybe John Santos — not John Stamos — Anna Conrad was confused –can quickly learn this for our show Friday, September 13, 2019 at Mitchell Park Community Center, unless I am confusing tablas with congas. I could ask him…

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Earthwise Welcomes Molly Tuttle, to The Mitch, Monday, September 30

Posted on August 27, 2019 by markweiss86

Molly Tuttle performs a rare hometown concert at Mitchell Park Community Center, Monday, September 30. Tickets are $20 in advance at EventBrite. edit to add: this is selling very briskly. Thanks to Karla Kane of the Palo Alto Weekly for … Continue reading →

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Molly Tuttle at Hardly Strictly, 2018

Posted on July 28, 2019 by markweiss86

  Palo Altans likely have been following her progress for more than 10 years,  but Molly Tuttle made her debut in 2018 at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco. I got a report from my friend who went to Telluride … Continue reading →

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Crate-digger: from Creamer and Layton ‘Whoa Tillie’ to Eddy Mitchell ‘Baseball (Anna)’ in five easy paces

Posted on July 28, 2019 by markweiss86

Yesterday while in my walk-training I stopped at an estate sale and bought five not necessarily play-able 78 shellacs From a guy name Chris Easton On Marion Street very near where the Ohlone had burial mounds until the 1960s — … Continue reading →

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