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

Big man pig man charade you are

Posted on May 18, 2012 by markweiss86

you are nearly a laugh, but you’re really a cry (for help) and I’m here to heal you, my brother. Continue reading →

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Steps in stone(d)

Posted on May 15, 2012 by markweiss86

Steps in stoned That’s David Middlebrook, 2000, “Steps in Stone” in front of the Westin, Palo Alto, says Mark Weiss, who admits to being Windows-aided, although he also saw two Middlebrookses just yesterdaze at Montalvo. Speaking of Montalvo, Beth Custer … Continue reading →

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Laura Veirs sends her love

Posted on May 7, 2012 by markweiss86

Friday May 4, 2012 Hi pals near and far! 1. Here’s a picture I like! 2. SHOWS NEXT WEEKEND! For kids (with bubbles)! For adults (with lingerie)! (Just kidding!) Last ones on the books for a quite some time! 05/11/12 … Continue reading →

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Do Talking Dogs enjoy the First Amendment?

Posted on May 6, 2012 by markweiss86

After the excellent Kiwanis’-sponsored Palo Alto May Fete Parade (90th) and Fair(1st) Saturday, I had lunch with Council Member Karen Holman at Peninsula Creamery. As a convenience to our server, I had what she’s having, a BLT on rye with … Continue reading →

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Chip Hoopers top 100

Posted on May 4, 2012 by markweiss86

I only recently checked out the Billboard Power 100 top people in the music biz and found that I think I have heard of 29 of them. Cannot say I have relationship with any of them but I want to … Continue reading →

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Sharon Jones please help Sharon Jones

Posted on May 2, 2012 by markweiss86

I am writing the artist manager Alex Kadvan to suggest that his client Sharon Jones (of The Dap Kings) appear or speak out on behalf of Sharon Jones of Arkansas who apparently is being swindled out of her lottery winnings … Continue reading →

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My sloppy Cake transcript sans typos

Posted on April 30, 2012 by markweiss86

i was high but cake was the sky, or at least on terrestrial radio, which travels literally thru the airwaves, all the way from KQED to our Palo Alto kitchen while Frida caked her chin with salmon-mush and I walked around in circles moving my arms but not my hips Continue reading →

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Good luck to SF Offside music series and logo

Posted on April 30, 2012 by markweiss86

The esteemed blogger, college radio dj and music nut Wedge (CM) was my source to the incipient “figuring out” of another “dynamo-and-virgin” named Laura something, from Dublin, who produces blogs and concerts under two pseudonyms including Fenderhardt or something. I … Continue reading →

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Plastic Alto welcomes “Palo Alto” and “The Set of All Blind Piano Players”

Posted on April 29, 2012 by markweiss86

1. A whiles back I ran into Jim Keene, the City Manager for City of Palo Alto, at a chain coffee house on El Camino, near Stanford Avenue, the place that us old timers think of as the former Mountain … Continue reading →

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My sloppy notes on Cake on KQED, verbatim and unedited

Posted on April 26, 2012 by markweiss86

We don’t have in our music the equilvalent of deforesatatoin. Turn the amp to 11 is not subversive, its what Exxon is doing. I grew up in bekrely and had to move to sac as a tennagaer and hated it … Continue reading →

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