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

I’ll sing myself to sleep

Posted on May 26, 2018 by markweiss86

I’ll sing myself to sleep

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That’s not blue dress

Posted on May 13, 2018 by markweiss86

long riff on future of street music and democracy in Palo Alto featuring John Henry Bradshaw and Devin. Coming one day big day coming one day vacation. I don’t role on shabbas I like the band that played at the … Continue reading →

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Mo Salah Liverpool fan chant song based on Manchester band pop UK hit ‘Sit Down’ by James

Posted on May 7, 2018 by markweiss86

  Sit down was a big song in the UK in the 90s by a band called James. James had a song that was popular here called laid LA ID. Mohammed Salah also known as Mo Salah who has 43 … Continue reading →

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Vida Blue w. Pumpsie Green bands

Posted on April 27, 2018 by markweiss86

The news of Yawkey Way being renamed because of Tom Yawkey’s racism reminds me of the time I asked Pumpsie Green if he would let me use his name as namesake for a proposed rock/funk band that would feature Henry … Continue reading →

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Clay wheels

Posted on December 22, 2015 by markweiss86

Palo Alto has a new bike shop, Shinola on Hamilton 261, although new is a relative term since the whole concept is retro. Sky the bike guru (who came to the company four years ago, she says, after ten years … Continue reading →

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Allen Touissant, 1938-2015

Posted on November 11, 2015 by markweiss86

(I heard a KPFA dj named Tim Lynch back-announce a set of Toussaint covers last night and immediately pulled over in my car to find via hand-held the announcemnet in Times of New York and then drove by a magazine … Continue reading →

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Why don’t we do it on the road?

Posted on June 16, 2015 by markweiss86

And if you have 5 minutes to spare here, in 1985 April back at Philly Spectrum (a basketbal and hockey gym, for awhile) is Grateful Dead doing as first song of 2 hour show, “Why Don’t We Do It in … Continue reading →

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Bob Weir at The Greek in 1981

Posted on June 16, 2015 by markweiss86

I saw the Dead at the Greek about a year later, in 1982. Actually, you can listen to that show, or those shows, all 3 of them at the Achive or Dead net. I also found a stack of ticket … Continue reading →

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Brodie Jenkins as The Cathedrals / 2 at le Poisson in NYC

Posted on June 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Hats off to Yoshi Kato for his preview of Live 105 BFD, in the Palo Alto Weekly, for focusing on Cathedrals, which is a two-person rock band electronica featuring Brodie Jenkins and Johnny Hwin. Best music news story I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Mr. Plastic Alto: Ornette Coleman, 1930-2015

Posted on June 12, 2015 by markweiss86

(When City of Palo Alto and Stanford University in 2006 combined to create the two-field soccer complex, the Mayfield Site, at corner of Page Mill Road and El Camino, I remember tripping on –figuratively — the little rubber pebbles that … Continue reading →

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