The last waltz at The Mitch?

Posted on March 13, 2020 by markweiss86
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Earthwise concert with Akira Tana Otonowa “Soundcircle” at El Palo Alto Friday March 13, 2020 which Tana says is Roy Haynes’ 90th birthday. Five subsequent shows are cancelled due to the coronavirus called covid-19.

Here is a audio sample from the concert I believe the piece is by Mas Koga “Stars above Tohoku”:

at about 4:30 in his intro he says its called “Stars Across The Ocean” — the tape is a medley, a catch. I think the band also recorded it, intending to live stream. Separately, Motoko Honda performed piano solo as opener. (She’s not affiliated with the Otonowa project but I invited her to perform).

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‘Our House’ the obscure Corner Laughers version VS ‘Burning House’ the 48m viewers Cam song video

Posted on March 11, 2020 by markweiss86

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You are giving me ideas, dearie

I’m tempted to have corner laughers, local band fronted by Karla  Kane that I believe started at Marin catholic about 18 years ago open for cam April fools day it’s a sold out show at Mitchell Park chiefly because they do a version of our house the New Wave British invasion is it by madness?

Cam is managed by Danika Gurley who is a good Catholic girl went to Notre Dame Academy of San Jose before UC-Davis where she met Cam parentheses Camaronmarvel Ochs. Danika was also an air talent On KRTY.  KRTY is giving away the last 10 pairs of tickets mainly because a charming personal anecdote told by the director of  sales, Tina Ferguson thinking of loved ones whenever she sees a penny — She was in Cupertino Rotary with my father Paul Weiss for many moons.

I also got word of a Catholic country singer named John McGaraghan of Palo Alto a local attorney.

YouTube hopefully reminds me that More obviously is David Byrne song or talking heads also Karla had a funny thing… She told me in private correspondence that when she saw the TheatreWorks show about Sally ride she noticed Allison Miller the drummer for the Erin McKeown version of the Harold Arlen 1930s song paper Moon and of course my plastic response to that is that in 1978 my baseball coach Ralph Vetterlein who seemed reasonably macho otherwise told us that his CB name on radio was “paper Moon” and I remember Chris Kelly cracking up but trying not to be observed doing so.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dIUtuE3rsS8

The goal bottom line is for Mitchell Park ball room to be our house.

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Year of the Cat

Posted on March 11, 2020 by markweiss86

Mark Weiss photo by Sam for The Weekly, February, 2020 at the Mitch

I was born Year of The Cat and graduated Gunn in 1982, which means I am not 57, as Yoshi Kato states in his story.

I thought the story was fine, other than I think there should be separate stories about Parlour Game, Akira Tana and Earthwise. It’s kind of a jumble.

I got my hair cut — by Annice of Juut — directly before the shoot. Sam was professional but I thought a little casual. This shot and most of the time together it seemed like he just got me yammering and clicked (or filmed?) as he saw fit.

I thought the health warning at the end was gratuitous and unfair. Yet, I did joke to Yoshi that maybe Bill Johnson would kill the story for health reasons.

I just added a show for October and have a few more offers out there for May, June, July, and the fall. I’m tempted to bring Mother Hips back for another brace of shows for March, 2021.

Mainly I am saving my energy where I can for my big March and April, and checking the newscasts too frequenty perhaps for updates on public health.

I think music is healing. Attending this type of commnity-oriented event will help us get thru these times. Original title of draft: Portrait of the promoter as a year older than he really is, by Sam and Yoshi in the Weekly
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Short clip of Sully original from 3/6/20

Posted on March 11, 2020 by markweiss86

 

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Cam announces shows at Troubadour and The Mitch

Posted on March 10, 2020 by markweiss86

Nashville by way of Lafayette California and UC Davis country sensation cam parentheses “burning house “, “ till the end” parentheses has announced to California shows one at the famous troubadour in Los Angeles and one at little old Mitchell Park community Center in Palo Alto.
tickets went on sale this morning and are nearly sold out.
KRTY 93 in San Jose has 10 pairs to give away. I’ve never actually listen to the station except passing through the static but I like their advertising director Tina Ferguson who was a rotary partner of my father in Cupertino.
in terms of social distancing it’s possible we will play with the sliding doors open and the knot hole game can watch from the courtyard.
Meanwhile the county has declared a halt to all events with more than 1000 people gathering. Stanford seems to be canceling everything with more than 150 people. They canceled their Cecile McLaurin Salvant show in being yet are keeping their Pedrito Morales Brothers show in the Bing studio.

I have 10 shows on sale and I am constantly checking for updates and guidance from health officials. My base assumption is that Earthwise music fans are healthy and would not attend if they were carrying any virus let alone covid- 19.
Yoshi Kato reports that he has submitted an article to the weekly about the series but mostly about Monday show with Jenny Scheinman and Allison Miller.

jon parales of the times five years ago:

Cam wrote all the songs on “Untamed” with various collaborators; the wordplay is taut, and the sentiments are rarely sugary. Cam presents herself as a lover who’s scrappy when she needs to be; she’s clearly an admirer of the Dixie Chicks and Miranda Lambert. She

and again last month, St Valentine’s Day no less:

Credit…

The song is an arena-country promise of uninhibited back-seat passion: a march with a spacious, booming beat, echoing guitars and a growing chorus of Cam’s voice, offering all she’s got. The video turns it into something much more ominous: one last fling during the apocalypse. PARELES

To be honest I have not heard of this person until the agent mentioned it and I don’t know if I’d heard this train song; but if you’re friends with P you’re friends with me I was saying that the show kind of reminds me of the night the kfog send a DJ to introduce the band it was the week they signed to Sony.
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Dao Strom sight’em in SF

Posted on March 6, 2020 by markweiss86

Dao Strom, teacher and illustrator Thi Bui, Isabelle Pelaud, February, 2020


Dao Strom the author, educator, mom and singer-songwriter was the focal point of an event last week at SF Asian Museum.
She is celebrating the reissue of her book “Gentle Order…”.

Go, Dao.

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Cambodian Rock Band, play, in SF, in The New Yorker and Times, two shots:

this machine kills fascists, i think.

she’s got those mother hips

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Douglas Bruster VS Buster Douglas

Posted on March 6, 2020 by markweiss86
Thirty years ago Buster Douglas beat Mike Tyson.
Three minutes ago, I was reading the Times online and I found a column about 10 new songs one of which was a Vietnamese parody about beating coronavirus, “rub rub rub” in the context of hygiene or washing see also “rub a dub dub, three men in a tub” for instance and I posted — there are 6M views on Youtube and 9,000 comments “ay, there’s the rub” and that led me to this post. Bruster, Douglas teaches at UT Austin where they may or may not be doing SXSW this year.
I have the Mother Hips at the Mitch with a call in 3 hours.
I think music has a healing power.
I likes me a Bevington… To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep; No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? ‘Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There’s the respect That makes Calamity of so long life: For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time, The Oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s Contumely, The pangs of dispised Love, the Law’s delay, The insolence of Office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his Quietus make With a bare Bodkin? Who would Fardels bear, [F: these Fardels] To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of Resolution Is sicklied o’er, with the pale cast of Thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment, [F: pith] With this regard their Currents turn awry, [F: away] And lose the name of Action. Soft you now, The fair Ophelia? Nymph, in thy Orisons Be all my sins remember’d. and1: the opening act is ms lee and mr tuttle: oh, that this too Sully flesh would melt! I, 2 Act I Scene 2
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Earthwise cure for the common cold via good music in safe environment

Posted on March 4, 2020 by markweiss86

Earthwise CEO Mark Weiss and Tim Bluhm of the Mother Hips, at CoHo, circa 2000

I have 10 concerts on sale at Mitchell Park Community Center, between March 6 and May 3, so best case scenario I will be sharing some incredible musical experiences (and escape from tension) with 2,000 of my neighbors and friends and fellow travelers (dancers, singers, people moved to near ecstasy by sound and sight).
Worst case scenario: I will refund all no-shows for people who are feeling under the weather. I will be renegotiating all 10 shows, mostly via the agents — I want to ensure that if a performer feels under the weather, he or she will rather reschedule than appear in Palo Alto.
For me this whole issue is an opportunity to develop my relationships with artists and audiences, and something to build on moving forward. The show must go on, but only in a safe healthy and fun environment.

I presume personally I will get a cold and then get over it. (I won’t work if I’m sick — I will either have a sub run the show or maybe cancel and refund — It could be slightly different deal with each headliner, for each date, but I will have a plan going forward).

I presume many Palo Altans and Californians will get this virus but few will die of this. Fewer than 2 percent.
God bless.
God bless you.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
Mark Weiss
Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto
(indirectly speaking for The Mother Hips, Akira Tana, Jenny Scheinman, Allison Miller, AJ Lee, Sullivan Tuttle, Wayne Horvitz, Lisa Mezzacappa, Marcus Shelby,Valerie Troutt, Tiffany Austin, Mike “that1guy” Silverman, The Dartmouth Coast Jazz Orchestra, Motoko Honda, Laura Veirs, Myra Melford, Liberty Ellman, Ron Miles, Rudy Royston et al)

I’ve had the experience of being CURED by live music at a concert.
I’ll be constantly updating these policies based on what goes on with Stanford Live, The Sharks, SXSW, Fox Theatre Oakland, The Fillmore, et cetera. And yes, I noted that David Packard shuttered his theatre.

We’ve been selling, thru 15 events so far in the last year and a half, 80 percent of our tickets via EventBrite and so it’s really easy to issue updates on cancellations (one so far, last fall) or refunds.

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I have another thread under another PAW / TS article on this topic.

Friday March 13, besides the Paly jazz concert, Stanford has a big jazz concert at Bing, plus my company Earthwise Productions is hosting a jazz concert at Mitchell Park Community Center with Akira Tana Otonanwa which is an all-Japanese and Japanese-American jazz group performing original music, part of the purpose is to raise awareness over relief efforts for the 2011 tsunami — Akira — a Gunn grad and incidentally the quarterback of the last Gunn team to win league — 1969 — !! — did a similar event last year.

I have 10 shows on sale at The Mitch between Friday March 6 and May 3 and am updating my policies for refunds and cancellation. Basically, if you are feeling sick, stay home I wil refund your money. If the performer is under the weather, I will try to reschedule him or her. Likewise, I won’t work if I get sick.

But music is healing!

edit to add:

two down, nine to go.

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Dead musician guy my age, in the Times VS selfie reference shot after Weekly photo session yesterday with Sam Dallas

Posted on February 28, 2020 by markweiss86

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There’s a movie about Pavement tonite at The Roxie I will not likely go because it’s sold out, plus I’m old and slow, and because I have tickets to a hockey game tomorrow VS random screen freeze of San Jose singer Jessica Johnson video in Island paradise – -and she sang ‘Star Spangled Banner’ at a Sharks game I and I attended recently

Posted on February 26, 2020 by markweiss86

But more to the point: in the Superchunk movie “Take the Tube” they ask Mac what his favorite new band is, and he says “Pavement” but he says it with three syllables, like the word “vehement” — he breathes the end of the first syllable as if to create a second syllable, second of three not first of two – and this is nothing like, in sum, Miriam Makeba in the “When We Were Kings Movie” breathing hard and rhythmically into the mic or Sudan Archives Monday night at Swedish Hall who did a bit of that as well, or better.

I’ve always wondered why he said “puh” + “vey” like in “oy vey” and “ment”. What he meant?

Oh, this might be related: Terry, TMW Terry My Wife, Terry Acebo Davis and I or me and Terry or Terry and I I forget the grammer part we stopped at Les Claypool’s wine tasting room Saturday last after the Patty Barber show in Occidental — we went thru Guernville, Sebastapol not quite Point Reyes nor Inverness not quite Stinson — no room at the inns – and Forestville. Isn’t there a Pavement cd that references Gilman street and Forestville, like “924 Forestville”? Did I mention that the server from Pachyderm Cellars or what not looked like Roger Daltry so Les apparently calls him “Pinball”.

edit to add, like a minute later, so only about 6,000 people read the beginning wrong version: at minute 54 or so ina version of take the tube (which I call “sick transit gloria”) he says that thing, but then Jon Wurster goes into a long riff I think on fake bands from Iowa so they were just joking the dude had asked about nirvana and if that changed everything. he asked laura ballance what is it like to be the new queen of grunge?
I cannot go to the city tonite — on the account of age — but I can watch 14 minutes Superchunk Tiny Desk Concert here on my laptop.

 

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the singer Jessica Johnson who is part panamanian and part red headed mother’s daughter, made a video on an island

 

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if I had superhuman supercharger powers, I would go from Hockey game to Dayna Stephens at Kuumbwa — I also won tickets at KZSU for Duster at Fillmore Noise pop, but that show is canceled — I had forgotten I had Sharks tickets

 

 

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