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

Jacob Jeffries, Sun Kings, Deerhoof, Gregg Rolie mix

Posted on September 11, 2014 by markweiss86

TAYLOR HO BYNUM OR !TAYLOR HO! FREE CONCERT AT LYTTON PLAZA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 1 P.M. PRESENTED BY EARTHWISE PRODUCTIONS RIDE YOUR BIKE TODAYS POST SPONSORED BY I would think “Helter Skelter” and not “Come Together” would be the … Continue reading →

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Good luck, Zephyr Teachout in New York

Posted on September 9, 2014 by markweiss86

I am running for Public Office in Palo Alto, California. I am very inspired by Zephyr’s work, as described in The New Yorker and The New York Times. (see “The Crooked and The Dead, by jill lepore) I was wondering … Continue reading →

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Why does Council member Pat Burt remind me of Sam the Sham?

Posted on September 9, 2014 by markweiss86
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!TAYLOR HO! Jazz and Bike event, free at Lytton Plaza Saturday, September 20

Posted on August 27, 2014 by markweiss86

!TAYLOR HO! is my working title for an on-the-fly event I am adding to my and Earthwise’s busy fall schedule. Taylor Ho Bynum is a jazz musician based in the East Coast who plays cornet –a small trumpet — and … Continue reading →

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I forgot the song whiskey baby good luck to wendy

Posted on August 21, 2014 by markweiss86

(My recollection, having played “One More From Or For The Road” a zillion times, while in junior high, which is probably 200 dead rockers ago, is that as an ad lib before this song, one LS guy says “I forgot … Continue reading →

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Fire go come say labor

Posted on August 21, 2014 by markweiss86

Not really. I saw a group of rather bored and uninspired people, checking their devices — about 8 out of 40 or so, or pack up their stuff and leave. I met my quasi-neighbor Gary Kremen, running for Water Board, … Continue reading →

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Zasu Pitts at the New Varsity, circa 1988

Posted on August 20, 2014 by markweiss86

Randy Lutge is the Les Blank of Palo Alto, and his New Orleans is the New Varsity. He has about 500 films of acts and artists performing live music there, 456 University, in the late 1980s and early 1990s when … Continue reading →

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Joe 90 v. Joe 90

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

I never heard of Joe 90 until my cousin Craig told me that his band had changed it’s name to it, to wit:

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The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten songs, by Greil Marcus and Mark Weiss, or Grweisl Markus

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Call me pathetic call me what you will just don’t call me late to Cibo: “America has become amnesiac,” says Henry Giroux, “a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.” … Continue reading →

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Swimming in Bengal

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Lather Records:
I recently got together with Sacramento improvisational champ Tony Passerell to try some Indian raga-ish jams with tabla/percussionist Alex Jenkins.  Some stuff from our first get together can be downloaded for free.  I played my…

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