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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41bvnmYBz1M   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 … 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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Maybe Matt Jaffe could learn “The Drug Suite” by Stew, for 4/20

Posted on January 24, 2019 by markweiss86

   The young singer/songwriter and band leader from Marin, Matt Jaffe is turning 24 on April 20, 4/20, which in some circles and certainly not foreign to Marin especially West Marin,  people smoke dope and get high especially reggae people. … Continue reading →

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I’m kind of intrigued by a band I just saw on public television, Southern Avenue, with two sisters, on vocals and drums and an is really bass player (Contrasted with Charlie hunter who is an invisible not-bass player)

Posted on January 22, 2019 by markweiss86

 Tierinii Jackson, hopeful I am that it is not pronounced like the word for heavy handed or forceful leadership. Tierney Sutton meets Sharon Jones? Reminds me that I also met on the train a Kenyan who wants to be The … Continue reading →

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Why did it take 20 years for someone to do the math on: ‘Broun Fellinis’+ ‘Green leaf’?

Posted on January 17, 2019 by markweiss86
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