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

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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Office versus culture in Palo Alto

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

I am late for the City Council study session on water because I am reviewing the voluminous packet of letters regarding tonight’s later item about a Downtown Cap or a moratorium on office space. I want to chime in, via … Continue reading →

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Chip Conley where r u?

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

I met Chip Conley the day he was touring Uni Ave apropos of his conversion of Casa Olga into The Epithany and Lure +Till. I said I had stayed in his rock and roll dive, The Phoenix in SF. I … Continue reading →

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This is the best link to Cheryl Wheeler gun song

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

Quick back and forth with Nashville music manager and mensch Tony Gottlieb reveals that the best link to Cheryl Wheeler “If it were up to me…” is via Soundcloud. Here. God bless. Cheryl played the Cub back in June, 1998, … Continue reading →

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‘Mr. Mastodon Farm’ w. ‘Guitar’: birds fall w. if i throw my guitar

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

windows 1,418.0* Birds fall from the window ledge above mine Then they flap their wings at the last second w. this is deep hamlet-type stuffing: If I threw my guitar Out the window, so far down Would I start to … Continue reading →

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Can I safely segue from Ape Do Good to Albert Pujols? Superflush w. Bhiman

Posted on March 19, 2015 by markweiss86

(and I’ve fulfilled my bucket list item, I too have Prince Albert in a can)

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Dan Adler for Congress catnip for anti-semites

Posted on March 13, 2015 by markweiss86

Let’s get this straight: I am a small time operative in the music biz, as Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto, since 1994 and I am about 300 miles from LA, 35 miles from SF even, and about $500 from New … Continue reading →

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Third Eye Blind July 25 at San Francisco Masonic

Posted on March 13, 2015 by markweiss86

Kudos for Steve Jenkins, my Gunn and Terman schoolmate, for keeping his rock and roll fantasy alive to middle age. I remember Dorothy Bradshaw, my 8th grade drama teacher looking out the window at Steve and a kid named J.T. … Continue reading →

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