Hello Lionel Richie from Silicon Valley

I’m a Ludditte, I work in the arts not tech, so I try to refer to this as Santa Clara Valley, not “Silicon Valley”. In this case I am talking about the fact that by buying 6 tickets to see Lionel Richie at Golden Voice Frost Stanford, I redeemed the codes to apparetnetly (sic) have 6 copies of his new album sent to my post office box.
by the way, Liked Joe Russo and being in frost but left early.
Loved the Stones.
Coming back to Frost to see The National, whoever they are.
Bought Willie Nelson tickets for there, get well soon.
Have five onsales of my own. Dayna Stephens rocked or swung the Mitch, Sunday afternoon before Rolling Stones,which is why I left JRAD early, banking my energy.
So Terry — who like me is in the arts and not tech — TMW — Terry Acebo Davis — oh, shit, Pollstar just called and now I forgot — I guess she is cranking Lionel Richie Radio on one of those rip off the artists more than the consumes services so we’ve flashed from Lionel to Eagles to Credence — anyhow it took me only 9 minutes to get 6 copies apparently arriving by snail mail being sent to me not likely by Saturday’s show but we’ll see and edita. But a cd as

edita: said wifey asked me to move a pile of stones from one side of our tiny yard and back so I went to take a shower, so now I am finishing off this post. It took 9 minutes to we hope have 6 cds sent to our PO Box but only 40 seconds to have the same song “Dancing on the Ceiling” to play on my smart phone, via Apple. I pay 9$ each month, unless they are waiting to charge me $20 for each of the hundred or so cds I’ve downloaded. Meanwhile yet sort of extraneous our or her Lionel Ritchie radio is take it easy.

the other thing I wanted to say is that I was tryng to broker an appearnace by the future POTUS Kirsten Gillibrand to make a stage announcement (“I’m going to go all night long for you”) at the Lionel show here Saturday though she arrives on Sunday. So I wrote Bruce Escowitz of Red Light Management who is also a former CEO of a division of Live Nation. So it would be a typical management decision for someone from touring not recordings Big Threee per se to use a cd promotion as a loss leader for concert tickets. Kirsten’s team is more down with Lizzo, managed by Full Stop, Irving Azoff et al. Who also have Sara Baeilles and Meghan Trainor. I still think Dessa is good for Kirsten — there’s a bull in the china shop, there’s a china doll in the bullpen.”
Hey, how about: I’m just a girl>>>I’m just a (sword) in the bull — referencing bullfighting and or bullshit the swamp. No Doubt parody.

This could be a poincare kind of pointy thingy thing >>>>^^^^ , calculating the surface ariola.

b/w I don’t think I know Lizzo but the photo of her hiding in her own flesh folds reminds me of something R.Crumb would come over or come up with. We all need, a wise man once said, something to cream on. And if you want, as John Wooden once said quick Henry, it’s Kareem!

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Twenty-one arts photos from my email feed, butt-to-butt

I invited this singer, shown at her western wear day job, to sit at our table later that day, at Dazzle Denver, for Patty Barber show

I shot this cellist at the father’s day street music event and then months later found her website and realized it was the same person. She’s Jewish and on the rise, if I can think of her name and face

Steve Poltz said that my young friend A– looked a bit like Molly Tuttle, who is appearing at The Mitch on Monday, September 30, tickets onsale at EventBrite on September 1.

the nut graph

Former Palo Altan student, at Cubberley actualy, and Santana Journey co-founder Gregg Rolie

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Give the drummers some

I have two or three bigger topics but since somebody just asked me to refer a drummer I want to give it up for Malachi Whitson who held down the corner or the pocket or the corner pocket with Dayna Stephens yesterday at The Mitch

Dan Adams with Beauman Edwards Equator group Residency at Lytton Plaza.

 

Joe Russo almost sell out at the frost Saturday which I believe was the first on sale for the new frost which is a tip of the hat to the grateful dead

Charlie Watts — which makes me want to update with the young girl with the short hair from the John Hughes movie

I saw Dave king of bad plus and happy apple at Stanford with an all star pick up band and out of respect for the venue did not shoot any action but did get the bow.

Scott Amendola of course at Palo alto Art Center and coming to The Mitch on October 11. I saw Esther Berndt my gun classmate at the Dayna Stephens show and she said she was excited to see Philip Greenlief  in that band.  But we were on drummers let me see if I can get to 10.

 

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Don’t bring a chicken bone to a knife fight

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David Shields’ ‘beast-mode’ doc

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File under sports; media; words. Tag David shields Marshawn lynch Oakland Raiders

b/w

When will the Raiders find a star named either Silver or Black?

4A3B36A5-FE84-4E80-8ADB-48D979CD5090.jpegAnd one I saw a guy on the train and spoke to him his shirt I thought said holy Toledo but spelled OLY. “Snap spot Stabler kick a Blanda  good”.

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Happy 50th anniversary of Woodstock to Palo Alto’s Gregg Rolie of Santana

Let’s put our hands together for Gregg Rolie


The New York Times did not mention him, but ran an interview with Carlos about taking mescaline with Jerry, but the Grammy homepage did have Gregg Rolie on the panel interview about their thoughts on rock’s big day out, 50 years ago this month.

It’s a Palo-centric view to say Carlos would never have made it that far if not for meeting Gregg Rolie at a Mountain View jam session a couple years before.

Who knows the real story of why Gregg and Neal Schon bailed to go form Journey. Ah, the road not taken!

Rolie is performing some Santana songs at Bethel Woods near Woodstock tomorrow night, with Ringo.

To the extent that Palo Alto seems to book often the Santana tribute led by local Leo Herrera, I always say “We should get Gregg Rolie!”

I’ll have to ask John Santos about Santana when he gets here next month. He played with that band, for a minute, he sometimes talks about.

Not sure the segue: Joe Russo Almost Dead, Saturday at Frost; Dayna Stephens at The Mitch Sunday afternoon; some old British blues band in Santa Clara Sunday night. Get yer ya-ya’s indeedy.

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Fake news I’m seeing little green men watching CNN

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link to the actual, If fake, story or transcript

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A2F54771-EFB6-4783-B07F-C44B3373EE3C.pngI probably should not admit this but the reason I am watching TV and posting Ludicrously to my blog  is that it seems like someone has hacked my Yahoo! Mail in the middle of me sending out 2000 announcements about my Dayna Stephens concert. Or at least it suddenly logged me out and I don’t really know the password so I will have to change the password.  I’m imagining that one of the 800 or more people who have gotten that invitation to the concert, besides Jen Dziura Or Dave Douglas was some kind of Russian unemployed guy who just for yucks wants to make Dayna and my life that much harder,  or someone really does see me as a threat to their threat to democracy. Or a thread even.

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Jen Dziura’s upgrade from hamburgers to bull-sliders

66DC59E2-CFDA-4978-BA9C-6A7946FE02D8EF2914A8-63FC-489D-9D08-52916FFC7CA8E8F5858C-0828-49AB-8C5E-7499FE1BC9E3 In my 25 years in the arts a sub-project has been to cultivate a network of Dartmouth alums in those fields.  As distinct from the previous efforts to do so in journalism parentheses Paul Gigot, Budd Schulberg  or advertising – – check the eggs he can Roman Chuck Thegze Ken Roman.  The list includes: Aisha Tyler, Eric Lindley, Fred Haas, Pat Burtis, Joel Newton, Echo Brown, Ramona Falls — that’s a band.

When I caught up to Jen 10 years ago, she was a comedian and hosted a spelling bee and used to box, and debate.  She wrote something memorable about controlling the micro market for hamburgers with an invisible hand.

Now that I have reactivated my mailing list I’m getting blasts from the past and it seems her new thing is a conference built around “bullish”or “bullishness”.  I looked it up and the attributes of that animal as an adjective date to 1582 whereas as a positive force or heading towards improvement or with confidence dates back to 1862 although I didn’t figure out why .

Anyways good luck to Jen. Or as they say in the Carmen movie with black people, keep swinging until the bell rings

(The quirky headline or nut graph or Nidus, is that nowadays there are all these schemes for making upscale hamburgers, for example not using meat or using fresh meat, and the idea that I guess we could be eating ground up Bull as much is ground up cow. Unless we are Hindus.

I wonder if there are a bunch of cows who even in their own language – tone variances on what we hear as “moo” —are chanting or singing  “juice will not replace us” meaning extracts from the vegetable named beet and its seems stem cell derived non-meat thingy I think.

Jen’s bullish conference has every excuse the expression “manifest destiny “and that it spans are cotton in Brooklyn to Palm Springs.

This post today despite the fact I was trying to focus on my upcoming concert, Dayna Stephens, and then I realized that at my age I am not very funny. In that as I explained previously when I was 30 there was no one funny over 50. And therefore there is no one under 30 who thinks I’m funny.

Or as someone very famous who eats a lot of hamburgers says “everyone should be calm and safe“.

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Alta Weiss VS Lynda Benglis

C18A19EC-F60A-4E3E-86DE-D3576B2CB138.jpegAlta Weiss was a baseball player who defied gender expectations 111 years ago and then became a medical doctor.

Lynda Benglis is a sculptor  who works with fabric and has a show coming up shortly in Palo Alto at the Pace Gallery.  I had never heard of her until 20 minutes ago walking past the gallery.  There was a man in the window —this is seven in the morning —who is either a preparator waiting for his wing man or a security guard or just a ghost.

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Alta Weiss came over the transom so to speak from my friend the baseball scholar Ed Burns who also was once my editor in the sports department of “the D “ .  Ed and I drove to Yosemite together one summer, the year that Kevin Mitchell was on fire but thankfully Mariposa was not since we stayed in Mariposa.

More sensibly I should compare the shirts for sale commemorating Alta Weiss and Kevin Mitchell giveaway coming very soon. I have to admit besides the cornucopia of music events I am producing or attending that I’m going to two more baseball games, Giants versus the A’s and then

tk (wink, wink)

 

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It’s 2 bad I didn’t know this guy, nor his music

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Divid Shapiro of the Silver Jews, age 5too

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