Category Archives: music

Blues legend Bob Margolin to roll up on The Mitch in July

Posted on April 19, 2019 by markweiss86

edit to add, or start: I am boning up om my Margolism so as to enhance my appreciation of my upcoming Bob Margolin Jimmy Vivino show July 6 at Mitchell Park El Palo Alto Room — about 3 weeks from … Continue reading →

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Big little man (very big)

Posted on April 19, 2019 by markweiss86
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Cat Power, Wanderer ‘Woman’, on Colbert, October, 2018

Posted on April 4, 2019 by markweiss86

I saw her at the bottom of the hill in 2000 or so. i wonder who is her drummer: Nyt has a newsletter so in the future I need not miss their fine work contextual to ting like Ms Chan. … Continue reading →

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Mustache Harbor VS Village People

Posted on March 30, 2019 by markweiss86

mustache harbor is headlining the San Francisco Rock And Roll Half Marathon. The race event is April 7. It starts at 6:30 a.m. so the post-race concert is, what, 10:30? (there is a 4-hr cutoff, my sortie — the good … Continue reading →

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‘Bemsha Swing’ by 86 different artists including Charlie Hunter, TJ Kirk and MMW– but I learned it from my then-client Jack Walrath, at the Octopus Lounge in Pacifica, on October 5, 2004

Posted on March 26, 2019 by markweiss86

  And I once wrote about it to a Penn grad student Bethany Klein, who apparently had different ideas of what is “our song”. The song of course is by Thelonius Monk and Denzil Best. It’s a pigeon of “Bimshire”. … Continue reading →

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Bhi Bhiman cd release

Posted on March 8, 2019 by markweiss86

This is one of the best places to read about  Bhi Bhiman,  I mean after Christgau. Although it’s kind of obscure in previous posts I’ve compared him to Bob Dylan and Barack Obama. I think I wanted to suggest he … Continue reading →

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I would have had to have started with Sermon on The Mount to have produced as many shows to date, as Earthwise, as Live Nation does in one year

Posted on February 14, 2019 by markweiss86

  Me: 300 concerts in 25 years Them: 30,000 concerts each year Earthwise Posters set and checklist (1993-2001) (Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto is or was a concert and artist management company founded by Mark Weiss that produced more than … Continue reading →

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‘Boogie with Stu’ by Led Zep w ‘Black Limosine’ by Rolling Stone

Posted on January 31, 2019 by markweiss86

Stu is Ian Stewart late great “6th Stone” who also guested on Physical Graffiti “Boogie with Stu”. And his wiki sent me to Tattoo You “Black Limosine”. Will this make me like or dislike Wil Blades in San Jo? Ian … Continue reading →

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Bang Bang Bang v Beng Beng Beng

Posted on January 25, 2019 by markweiss86

bang bang bang is newspaper composition typsetter shop talk for a series of three punctuation marks, known as exclamation points, like this: !!! (you know what’s weird, but not to bore you: as i tried to type the three “bangs” … Continue reading →

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Rollie Fingers v Gregg Rolie’s fingers

Posted on January 25, 2019 by markweiss86

Rollie Fingers, Hall of Fame Oakland A’s reliever I saw play in his prime and thought of just yesterday when the current HOFs including the fairly mediocre former Stanford hurler Mike Mussina were announced. I was originally going to write … Continue reading →

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