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

Gratuitous Matt from P.A. (Haimovitz) shout or peek

Posted on November 2, 2014 by markweiss86

Matt Haimovitz lived in Palo Alto and was a child prodigy on cello and someone told his parents “you could or should move to New York and train him at Carneghie Hall and Julliard” and so they moved, he was … Continue reading →

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Nina n me

Posted on November 2, 2014 by markweiss86

I said to the rock, please hide me. Lord. I’ve been listening to Nina Simone, a cd I bought at of all places S_(national chain, coffee, and music, — Don MacKinnon — Plastic Alto don’t play brand name), called “How … Continue reading →

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I say “Boom, Boom” Pat Travers say “out go lights”

Posted on November 1, 2014 by markweiss86

Pat Travers is or was a Canadian blues rocker who released a live album in 1979, my freshman year at Gunn, that included a cover of the Little Walter song “Boom Boom”. Did this become a Gunn football or basketball … Continue reading →

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Mark Weiss the Frederick Douglass agitator type

Posted on October 30, 2014 by markweiss86

John Fredrich, candidate for member, Palo Alto City Council and a retired Gunn High School of Palo Alto social studies teacher, suggests that rather than thinking of Andrew Goodman the martyred “outside agitator” when Bill Johnson real estate investor and … Continue reading →

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Do Spoon your water

Posted on October 28, 2014 by markweiss86

Two threads merge here: I was psyched to hear Spoon, the Austin band that debuted in the Bay Area at Palo Alto Cubberley Center Theatre in 1997, get another song on the commercial radio, here KFOG for something called “Do … Continue reading →

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Gunn falls to Homestead 42-7 yet flyers flawless

Posted on October 26, 2014 by markweiss86

I spent much of the first half of Gunn at Homestead talking to a white ex-pat Jamaican named Linval DePass whose daughter is a “flyer” for the GHS (formerly GSH or HMG) spirit squad (what we called Cheer Leaders). You … Continue reading →

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What did you do with the real Alexis Harte?

Posted on October 23, 2014 by markweiss86

I had a friend or at least business associate named Alexis Harte, a man a few years my junior who was husband and father and bandleader and played a couple shows for me, as Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto. BUT … Continue reading →

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Putin riot

Posted on October 22, 2014 by markweiss86

BLUF bottom line up front: I am comparing, as far as their knowledge of Vladimir Putin, Michael McFaul the former ambassador and Alexis Harte, a local musician. Maybe Michael, Alexis and I can jam together at Lytton Plaza, or Red … Continue reading →

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Weiss spurs jangle jingle

Posted on October 22, 2014 by markweiss86

A musician and composer sent me this 14 second performance that I hope people listen to apropos of my campaign for Palo Alto City Council. A young person named Daphne who lives near East Meadown and Arbitus (her mom is … Continue reading →

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party with trees rasta x large

Posted on October 21, 2014 by markweiss86

Party with Trees Party with Trees Rasta / X Large speaking of which Leon Russell at Yoshis oakland 2 nights tues and wed, $43 each 8 p.m. show STOP THE PRESSES BEN BRADLEE DEAD AT 93 (rasta x large indeedy)

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