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

Free concert Sunday at Mitchell Park bowl

Posted on April 30, 2022 by markweiss86
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Every day is Earth Day: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and, especially Sunday, April 24, with MC Lars and Matt The Electrician, in Palo Alto

Posted on April 20, 2022 by markweiss86

  Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered I’m producing an Earth Day concert Sunday 2 p.m. at Mitchell Park Bowl.  I’m writing early Wednesday morning, or Tuesday night, depending how you look at it. So … Continue reading →

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August and Everything Up To It

Posted on April 8, 2022 by markweiss86

AUGUST AND EVERYTHING BEFORE Kudos to Mountain Winery and Golden Voice for their Mountain Winery season, which was announced in a full page ad in today’s Mercury. I bought tickets for Counting Crows, Michael Franti, Jake Shimbakuro and Trombone Shorty, … Continue reading →

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Peace has come to Zimbabwe: vain search for Lew Welch: where the lemonade springs

Posted on March 24, 2022 by markweiss86

(Earthwise music series thru August, various parks and facilities) Featuring Dan Bern, Rob Syrett, Or Barakat, Tivon Pennicott, Jeremy Corren, Savannah Harris, Matt The Electrician, MC Lars, Aleta Hayes, Ben Goldberg, Scott Amendola, Todd Sickafoose, Wayne Horvitz, Sara Schoenbeck, Gaye … Continue reading →

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From Ides of March to ‘Whan the Aprille’, earth day, Earthwise, beisbol et al or just giving it a sniff

Posted on March 13, 2022 by markweiss86

Shakespeare said or repeated to beware the Ides of March but more significantly it was Chaucer who said “Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote/ The droghte of March hath perced to the roote” which 100 years later or more … Continue reading →

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Music hall of fame news/noise (after Kahneman, 2021)

Posted on February 18, 2022 by markweiss86
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Or: There and Back Again

Posted on February 15, 2022 by markweiss86

We love it at the Fillmore and the Music HallThe Earl in Atlanta and the Turf in St. PaulThe Exit, The Basement, The Ryman gotta play ’em allThe Capitol stage where Jerry playedThe Troubadour where dreams are madeLet’s get on … Continue reading →

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A shotgun appears, and 26 years later is fired in Berkeley

Posted on February 14, 2022 by markweiss86

In September, 1995 The Negro Problem performed in Palo Alto opening for Cake, and a Black person went around town pulling down our posters because he thought we were KKK, and he called my office and I explained— Stew has … Continue reading →

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Hot Rog Gibbons

Posted on February 6, 2022 by markweiss86

  Gunn beat Paly in basketball last night because in the final possession, on the last touch of the game, in the final two seconds, Gunn senior Rogan Gibbons blew by three Vikings, numbers 22, 23 AND 24, to score … Continue reading →

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It’s a gig!

Posted on January 20, 2022 by markweiss86
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