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

San Jose’s ukelele source

Posted on June 10, 2015 by markweiss86

Janet and Smiley Kai own and operate a great little ukelele store Ukelele Source, in San Jose’s Japantown, on the corner of Jackson and North 5th (599 North Fifth Street, 95112; 408.998.2640) What caught my eye was the proximity of … Continue reading →

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Pat Monahan rocks Shoreline Friday, photo by Eric Cohen of The Dancing Twins

Posted on May 25, 2015 by markweiss86
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Quodlibet w. litany

Posted on May 22, 2015 by markweiss86

Everybody saw the sun shine, but I saw a dragon fly, while Gretchen said “butter fly” and Eva shook her tuckas, rising towards heaven — posted, May 22, added June 22 Latin what plus it pleases I got to indirectly … Continue reading →

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When is the big Man Made Man Man tour?

Posted on May 11, 2015 by markweiss86

Man Man dude hipsthers from Philly Man Made includes females from UK dig? Too bad they both don’t get song place ment on Mad Men.

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Hey, Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?

Posted on May 7, 2015 by markweiss86

(cut and paste paragraph about Joe Simitian at today’s Los Altos Farmer’s Market, 5-7 p.m. and Saturday in Palo Alto, a.mish — I will check it out if bad grippa is indeed in check) (cut and paste to Jimi Hendrix … Continue reading →

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Social Justice in Palo Alto & Mountain View

Posted on April 21, 2015 by markweiss86

“Evil man make me kill you, baby; evil man make you kill me, baby” Jimi Hendrix, “Machine Gun” 1970 Ladoris Cordell highlights a panel discussion Wednesday evening in nearby Mountain View, along with state senator Joe Simitian and four or … Continue reading →

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Fire on the Mountain > Estimated Prophet (Bill Monning w. Jerry Hill)

Posted on April 20, 2015 by markweiss86

If you send me a jpg. of you Senator Bill Monning at the Jerry Garcia Archive, with the hand statue, I will post it to my blog, Plastic Alto. I’m a concert promoter in Palo Alto who has run for … Continue reading →

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Faking hipness with AlunaGeorge shout re FrostFest

Posted on April 4, 2015 by markweiss86

Four of the acts I punched up from this flyer seem to not have this on their schedule, yet from where I sit at Oak Creek I can hear some loud music as if they are sound checking at nearby … Continue reading →

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Davey Havok at the Cub, July, 1996

Posted on April 2, 2015 by markweiss86

edit to add: I name-checked AFI in 2012, during my campaign, because the PAW had an item about Tim Gray’s and my campaigns, as “Rage against the machine” – I was quoted as saying Palo Alto has a Chicago-style machine, … Continue reading →

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Henry Butler is no small, Japanese woman although Mimi Jones is a West Indian ram

Posted on March 25, 2015 by markweiss86

I was Henry Butler’s manager, for six months. (blind piano player from New Orleans) Malcolm Papa Mali Welbourne (who actually got his moniker from his reggae days, dubbed such by Burning Spear himself, because Malcolm or Mali had four kids … Continue reading →

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