Born on the South Side, would love to work with Bloodshot

Posted on February 19, 2019 by markweiss86

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I saw something fly past my info stream today about Nan Warshaw. I met her in 2003 at SXSW when I was shopping three projects involving my then-client Caroleen Beatty. Nan said she knew Caroleen from Bedlam Rovers which toured with The Mekons and hoped she’d get back into the business (as compared to being in a band but also studying gardening and later becoming a producer for an internet content entity).

I might have met Nan Warshaw a handful of times and, although I have been out of it in recent years, hope to see her around.

I hope to do 10 shows this year. I hope to visit Chicago in either 2019 or 2020 and maybe produce a show there. (Did I mention my potential collaboration with J.B. Pritzker?)

Here, while sussing out my “Nan Warshaw” file, is my 2003 SXSW spy list:

Otis Taylor “Truth is Not Fiction”; soft tacos
Brad Kava, thanks for checking out my client
Bonnie Simmons, great panel, as always
Vienna Teng
Sam Kinken, let me crash a secret pow-wow
Charles Driebe
Dina LaPolt
Todd Gascon
Mary Lou Lord, and her indie world, busking

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I have to admit, homer that I am, and slightly odd you see, I knew Bedlam Rovers before the Mekons

Suntan
Oxbow, drove 30 hours in a van to get there (I was their manager, but flew in)ST-37
Todd Roper, having the most fun in years
Jeff from Court and Spark
Chris Stamey, waiting patiently outside Yep Roc show
Glenn Dicker of Yep Roc
Jimbo Mathus
Peter Buck (changing a guitar string for Jimbo; bass)
Tuatara
John Stubblefield of Lucero
Cedell Davis, dangerous with a knife
essence, it’s a hit
Phil Roy, also a hit
Kenny Passarelli, getting Oxbow a deal
Eddie Turner
Eliza Wren, send me your demo
Frank Riley
Dawn Holliday, says she likes Eugene
Tracey Buck
Dana from Slims
Adam Kline
Seymour Guenther
Ruthie Foster
Cyd Cassone
Jason Coltun
Mara
Christine Albert
Poppy 3 (St. Louis)
Malcolm Welbourne aka Papa Mali
Steve Gumble
Gladys Mae Bullock and her banana bread
Aaron Axelson
Ken Irwin
Glen Morrow,
Nan Warshaw, likes Bedlam Rovers (and Waycross?)
Mike Mills
Dan Strachota
Laura Viers
Oxbow
The Continental
Raevonettes
Dirty Power, at Emo’s
Bellyachers
Minus 5
Mayflies
guy with Superchunk shirt
Davis McLarty
Mike Gormley, LA Personal Development
Tribe 8
Skeleton Key
Mekong River, good Thai food on 6th st
Las Manitas
Golden Shoulders
Patricia Vonne
South Austin Jug Band
“Screen Door Jesus”
Convoy
Melody Johnson, spoken word artist
Craig Stewart
Swarm of Angels
Stubbs BBQ
Neil Pollack Invasion
Wavy Gravy
Mark Margolis
Cynthia Shih
Kathleen Edwards
Soulive (just the line, not the band)
Chris Xefos, fan of Stamey
Jayhawks roadie and cases at Hyatt
NOFX street team
Fabulous Disaster
The Donnas (on A.P., Soundcheck and YM covers)
Scott McCaughey, unplugged
Jon Cleary, at 8 a.m.
KGSR morning show from Four Seasons
Del Castillo(Mark and Rick, and Bud)
Doppler Records
Thad Cockrell
Congress Street bridge and Bat (sculpture)
Austin Barn Dance (every Sunday full moon)
Derek Hess
Frank Kozik
Gregg Gordon
Vida Lee
Chris Card
Renee Woodward, her music in “Screen Door”
Leni Stern, and here little cds
Casey Burns
Ben Sollee on cello
Brooke Wentz
Benjamin Laski
Bill Bragin, who is a fan of Stew
Adam Sloat, with the Waking Hours
dork
Singapore Sling (Iceland)
Opal Divine’s
Jason Austin
Elizabeth Brooks
John Wesley Harding
Al Bunetta
Rory Felton and Josh Grabelle(Militia Group and
Trustkill)
John Doe
Duff Bershback

I don’t know “If List of Names Makes a Memoir”, but if you hum a few bars maybe I can pick it up. (Which is a refererence to a Zizek joke about do you know “Why did the Monkey Dunk His Balls in My Drink”? Et tu Zizek Warshaw Doe Bershback? Bershback Mountain? This is where I came in..This is wherein I came?

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The once and future champion of the world, Caroleen Beatty, here at The Makeout Room Holiday Party, 2018

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I’ve used the word ‘memoir’ 65 times here, one-third of which have been since registering for Lynn Stegner’s class

Posted on February 19, 2019 by markweiss86

I will have to look into this.

I remember it well.

You wore blue, the Germans wore black.

He said, “but my wife is not in a wheel chair”.

Distribution of word “memoir” in Plastic Alto, by year:

2019: 15, (in 51 days)

2018: 12

2017: 0

2016: 1

2015: 6

2014: 15

2013: 3

2012: 7

2011: 5

2010: 1

POINT REYES STATION, Calif. — Mostly, they called him Wally. The use of Wallace Stegner’s nickname was in keeping with the familiar, almost familial tone of last weekend’s gathering of writers — mostly Western writers — seeking new relevance in the work of this protean author some 15 years after his death and a month after what would have been his 99th birthday.

But the use of Stegner’s nickname, and the informal look of the down vests and jeans worn by many of the speakers and their audience of 250, could not dispel the sense of religiosity that hovered over the gathering.

Wallace Stegner wrote mostly in and about the West. Before World War II he embarked on a quiet campaign of tearing down the dime-store myths fostered by 19th-century Currier & Ives prints and 20th-century Zane Grey novels. He also chronicled the environmental consequences of ideas like Manifest Destiny. The land was almost its own character in much of his fiction.

As the author Barry Lopez put it, “One of the great things he made us understand was that history and geography were part of the story.”

Heirs of Western landscapes, like those who gathered among the elongated green hills and the ranches along the Northern California coast here, seemed to regard him as speaking for them.

Or, perhaps more precisely, speaking for them and their land. The weekend conference, sponsored by the store Point Reyes Books, was called “The Geography of Hope.” The phrase comes from a 1960 letter Stegner wrote in support of the Wilderness Act, which Congress passed four years later. In the decades since, it has been widely quoted, and the words hung, like a truncated Bible verse, over the speakers at the West Marin School gym, where much of the event took place.

The event was partly a discussion of Stegner’s works, particularly the novels “Angle of Repose” and “Crossing to Safety” and the biography of the explorer John Wesley Powell, “Beyond the Hundredth Meridian.” It was also partly a homage to Stegner by writers he influenced, like Mr. Lopez, the author of “Arctic Dreams.” And it was a statement that Western writers must create their own settings for the discussion of their craft.

“There is no 92nd Street Y in the American West,” said Philip L. Fradkin, the author of a new biography of Stegner (“Wallace Stegner and the American West”), as he sat outside the school. The conference marked the appearance of two new Stegner-related books: Mr. Fradkin’s biography and a collection of Stegner letters selected and edited by the writer’s son, Page Stegner.

Mr. Fradkin lives in a small town, Inverness, just north of here in western Marin County, as does Robert Hass, the former United States poet laureate. With Steve Costa, one of the proprietors of Point Reyes Books, they organized the conference in connection with local and national land conservation groups like the Marin Agricultural Land Trust.

The sense of the West and its people as a world apart, reduced to a cardboard fantasy by Easterners who had never been there, and the parallel hunger of Westerners, like Stegner himself, to drink in the Eastern culture that they had missed in childhood were ideas that came in and out of the discussions.

Stegner’s daughter-in-law, the novelist Lynn Stegner, said that the title of “Crossing to Safety” “echoes the same theme he was always interested in — the East, the West, the orphaned Westerners being taken in and taken care of by the cultured Eastern family.” But Carl Brandt, Stegner’s former agent, said that Stegner was “identified as a Western writer in a way that’s partly unfair.”

“You look at the fiction, and it’s not Western,” he said. “It’s truly about people. It could be done as well in Vermont.”

The East’s perceived dismissal of Stegner’s Western-ness was another leitmotif during the conference. Mr. Fradkin made repeated references to the failure of The New York Times Book Review to publish a review of “Angle of Repose” — and the dismissive column about it in The Times (“a Pontiac in the age of Apollo, an Ed Muskie in the fiction sweepstakes”) written by John Leonard after the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1972.

Stegner was, however, embraced by many of the writers he worked with as students or fellows in the creative writing program he founded at Stanford, which produced authors like Wendell Berry, Edward Abbey and Robert Stone. The exception was Ken Kesey, with whom Stegner had a bitter falling out. Kesey-like figures and the drug-centric, elder-bashing 1960s, which helped speed Stegner’s departure from teaching, are the subjects of withering commentary in later novels.

If the Eastern literary world and the ’60s youth movement were burrs under Stegner’s saddle, they did not distract him from a central theme of both his fiction and nonfiction: the way the West works, in fact, not in myth. Often his work gave early voice to ideas that are now conventional wisdom, like the centrality of water politics to the region.

Mr. Hass said he learned from Stegner that “the basic fact of life in the West was aridity, was dryness.”

“All Western politics are water politics in the end,” Mr. Hass said, “as all politics will be water politics instead of oil politics in the future.”

Remarks like these ensured that the conference never strayed too far from its overarching environmental theme. Near the end there was a reading of Stegner’s Wilderness Act letter, which ends: “We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.”

edit to add, Wednesday 6:40 I am adding to this as class meets, discussing John McPhee “Draft Number 4”. Good to go to dictionary, which parses more than Roget’s, she says.

 

and1: Heather, who wore a Ramones shirt to class, recommends Elizabeth Gilbert TED:

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Memoir of a crooked ref

Posted on February 19, 2019 by markweiss86

I love basketball and I love memoir — I’m taking Lynn Stegner’s famous course — so I cannot resist a quick cut and paste, based on something in the Yahoo feed, about a crooked referee NBA and his memoir from 2009 which was supposedly pulled but an excerpt remains, reprinted here. I’m also hoping to write about the photo run in the New York Times showing the top All Star NBA dunker, in six or so merged stop-action images, crossed with the famous illustrations from Sports Illustrated circa 1951 that shows in detail Bob Cousy’s invention of the behind the back dribble. (I’ve run it before, I think).

I’m also hoping to post something about noticing just now on my Apple SmartPhone that the lyrics to Boots Riley the Coup soundtrack to “Sorry to Bother You” spells a formerly banned word that conures up excrement — four letters — but using growlix or astericks or dashes to obscure the formerly common word for Black People. So now it’s okey to say “shit” but not “n_____” or “n____”? N-word. I just think its weird.

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words by Boots, censorship by the man

I’m meaning to anecdote or addend my essay about Boogie Cousins to recount the thing about him not liking or getting Chinese astrology. I wonder what sign he is? I used to think I was dragon but am actually rabbit or hare or cat if Vietnam.

And I was working on another photo essay.

I’m also hoping to read Wallace Stegner story about the Big Sky country, having just read his memoir of “Great Falls”. Also, since I tried to be influenced it when I submitted to Lynn’s class an experimental epistolary about my freshman year at Dartmouth in 1982, to read anew WS story about “Canby” and his college days, or somebody’s or all of ours.

“Two weeks before the 2003-04 season ended, Bavetta and I were assigned to officiate a game in Oakland. That afternoon before the tip-off, we were discussing an upcoming game on our schedule. It was the last regular-season game we were scheduled to work, pitting Denver against San Antonio. Denver had lost a game a few weeks prior because of a mistake made by the referees, a loss that could be the difference between them making or missing the playoffs. Bavetta told me Denver needed the win and that it would look bad for the staff and the league if the Nuggets missed the playoffs by one game. There were still a few games left on the schedule before the end of the season, and the standings could potentially change. But on that day in Oakland, Bavetta looked at me and casually stated, ‘Denver will win if they need the game. That’s why I’m on it.'”

“I was thinking, How is Denver going to win on the road in San Antonio? At the time, the Spurs were arguably the best team in the league. Bavetta answered my question before it was asked.

‘Duncan will be on the bench with three fouls within the first five minutes of the game,’ he calmly stated.

Bavetta went on to inform me that it wasn’t the first time the NBA assigned him to a game for a specific purpose. He cited examples, including the 1993 playoff series when he put New Jersey guard Drazen Petrovic on the bench with quick fouls to help Cleveland beat the Nets. He also spoke openly about the 2002 Los Angeles-Sacramento series and called himself the NBA’s ‘go-to guy.’

As it turned out, Denver didn’t need the win after all; they locked up a spot in the playoffs before they got to San Antonio. In a twist of fate, it was the Spurs that ended up needing the win to have a shot at the division title, and Bavetta generously accommodated. In our pregame meeting, he talked about how important the game was to San Antonio and how meaningless it was to Denver, and that San Antonio was going to get the benefit of the calls that night. Armed with this inside information, I called Jack Concannon before the game and told him to bet the Spurs.

To no surprise, we won big. San Antonio blew Denver out of the building that evening, winning by 26 points. When Jack called me the following morning, he expressed amazement at the way an NBA game could be manipulated. Sobering, yes; amazing, no. That’s how the game is played in the National Basketball Association.”

To me game-fixing seems like something from the 1950s NCAA or of course the 1919 World Series — and come to think of it I had a long talk by phone with a guy from Marin who did or is doing a big installation in Chicago about the Black Sox (and he doesn’t seem to think it was a thing).

I’m filing this under “words” and “filthy lucre” and “sports”.

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Nine things in the papers

Posted on February 17, 2019 by markweiss86

“Harris Resists Easy Definition: Treading Lightly on the Issues as a Top Lawyer” NYT by Kate Zernike

“Epic tale of catastrophic change: turmoil wreaked by the Colombian drug trade upends anindigenous Family in a cliche-defying story” by A.O. Scott

“Birds of Passage Review” NYT

”Choir Boy” Jonathan Burke of Tarell Alvin McCraney by Gia Kourlas speakingdance NYT “Giving a Musical a Jolt Of Black Tradition “

”city of Angels, Old-School Style”

”Proof That Virtuosity Can Be Funny:  A star pianist swapped concertos  for sketches with a musical comedy duo“  Yuja Wang w Igudesman & Joo  by Joshua Barone

ed8ta: Well, actually that’s 40 things, “Forty Things I Ripped From The Media and Then Carried Around in My Bag for A Week”

Can I do it by memory: Kamala Harris, Colin Kaepernik, Wealth Matters Art Collectors, Columbian gangster movie, black dance, costumes for Van Halen show, old LaLa restaurants, Rothko deaccession, Thundercat, Yuja Wang comedy bit, EPL tables, NBA Allstars roster, current Broadway shows table, (slowing) Eryka Badu, The Grammy’s various (let’s call it 5); also: Black Panter page 1 LA Times wraparound ad – for Academy Awards, Dementia op ed by M Shriver, art market op ed; Manchester City – Chelsea; SNL Bezos penis jokes; “The Light” w Belcher and Masden; “Roy Hutchinson, 67, a Restorer of Early Sound Films:” full page ad for Tanglewood; “Everything is Wonderful”; New York Library Dance Division; “One Child Nation” at Sundance re China for the interesting poster; “In Lagos, The Art of The Hustle”;  Emirati Princess (who) Tried to Flee; ok, 32, but i do have another 50 non-curated sections and tear-sheets in my bag.

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Lynn Stegner class update:

I bought 3 Wallace Stegner books, in lieu of accessing the class online bibliography and reserve desk: the newish anthology of essays edited by Page Stegner, her recently deceased husband and teacher, at 80 — to Wally’s 110; Mormon’s partly because it has three “Greats”; a pocket edition of “Recapitulation” The essay book was signed by Page, and featured an essays “A Year in Great Falls” that recounts the author’s new school in a new state and country, where he went to school in his tattered play clothes and had his lunch and jacket stolen by bullies, until a larger kid intervened in befriended him; the author 60 years later or so lamets that he can’t remember his protector’s name, only his ethnicity; that bit reminds me for some r

 

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Ninety-nine dreams I have had

Posted on February 17, 2019 by markweiss86
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I would have had to have started with Sermon on The Mount to have produced as many shows to date, as Earthwise, as Live Nation does in one year

Posted on February 14, 2019 by markweiss86
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Dave Grohl former drummer for Nirvana and Michael Rappino current CEO of Live Nation, worlds most active concert promoter Beverly Hills, Tuesday February 12, 2019 AD

 

Me: 300 concerts in 25 years

Them: 30,000 concerts each year

Earthwise Posters set and checklist (1993-2001)

(Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto is or was a concert and artist management company founded by Mark Weiss that produced more than 200 shows in Palo Alto most notably a run of 150 events at the Cubberley Community Center. Beyond the posters and flyers, the events were marketed with mailings, email, commercial radio, college radio, and ads in Palo Alto Weekly, Bay Guardian and San Jose Metro) 

  1. Durham /The Basics, March 18, 1995,, Cubberley Theatre (Tina Dussault)11 x 17
  2. Eskimo / Oxbow / David Brian / Rob Craig of Number Nine / Mono Pause / Curbside (benefit for Making Contact) September 16, 1995, Cubberley 4 1/2 x 11
  3. Zen Cowboys / Susan James Band / Sunshine Club / David Elias w/ Roger Powell June 21, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium 5 1/2 x 17
  4. Kristin Hersh, April 16, 1998, Cubberley(Donna Sharee) 10 x 16
  5. A Great Laugh /22 Brides / Number Nine /Alison Faith Levy, November 10, 1995, Cubberley 11 x 17
  6. Broun Fellinis, November 11, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium, 11 x 17
  7. Pele Juju /Pamela Martin Band / Rilke String Quartet, October 28, 1995, Cubberley Auditorium (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  8. SF Seals featuring Barbara Manning /Stephen Yerkey Trio, May 5, 1995, Cubberley, 11 x 17

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    Early Earthwise handbill for Sermom on the Mount, featuring Jesus Lizard, Matthew Nathanson and Negativland

  9. Tin Hat Trio, May 18, 2001, Museum of American Heritage, 11 x 17
  10. Dar Williams / David Brian / Charlie Hunter Quartet / Seven Day Diary / Huge /Two Lane Blacktop, November 25, 1995, December 14, 1995, January 13, 1996 Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  11. The New Morty Show featuring Connie Champagne & Vice Grip / Billy Nayer / Billie Eyeball October 6, 1995, Cubberley (Sally Lieber) 11 x 17
  12. Rainforest Awareness Project 1993 Bay Area Tour (including 10/28/93 Peninsula Peace Center Palo Alto)(Donna Sharee) 9 1/2 x 16
  13. Bimbetta, March 12, 1995, Cubberley (Tina Dussault) 10 x 17
  14. Pansy Division / J Church / The Peechees / The Electrocutes, January 31, 1997, Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14

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    J CHURCH OF LANCE: THAT WHICH HE SCREAMS AT THE LEAST OF MY BROTHERS, SO HAS HE SCREAMED FOR ME

  15. Greyboy Allstars, September 11, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14
  16. The Palo Alto Soundcheck (various artists — calling for entries, 1995 fall/winter series,  (Pierre-Paul Pariseau) 13 x 19
  17. Archers of Loaf / Frightwig, March 10, 1995, Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  18. Calobo / Sweet Virginia / Laura Kemp Band / Shelley Doty, May 16, 1997 Cubberley Auditorium (“The Big Room”) (Michele Nelson) 11 x 17
  19. Pinetop Perkins / Bob Margolin / Rusty Zinn / Wendy Waller Duo, February 11, 2000 Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  20. Jimmy Dale Gilmore, May 11, 2000, Spangenberg Auditorium (Andrew Hardy?), 11 x 17
  21. Engine 88 / Spoon / Van Gogh’s Daughter / I.B.O.P.A / Van Gogh’s Daughter / The Keeners / Peel / The Babysitters Club March 1, 1997 & March 7, 1997, Cubberley 11 x 17
  22. Archers of Loaf, November 8, 1998, Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
  23. Mest / Luckie Strike / Wunder Years July 13, 2000, Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  24. Alvin Youngblood Hart Band / Slaid Cleaves June 9, 2000 Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14
  25. Femi Kuti August 2, 2000 Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  26. Superchunk / Creeper Lagoon / Dr. Frank / Ralph Carney’s Partial Parrot September 11, 1999 Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
  27. Frank Black / Victor Krummenacher December 8, 2000 Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
  28. Danilo Perez Motherland Project / Kitty Margolis / Beth Custer’s Dona Luz 30 Besos / Austin Willacy / Rachel Z / The KGB / Big City Rock / Eleventeen / Box Set Duo / Richard Shindell / Jerry Hannan / Taylor Eigsti / Mermen / Stanley Jordan (“Situation Fall ’00” series /The Cubberley Sessions) October 16, 2000 thru January 12, 2001 11 x17
  29. Mother Hips, City Hall Plaza August 12, 2001 11 x 17
  30. Stroke 9 / Mumblin’ Jim / Bozac / Imperial Teen / Anna Waronker, July 24, 1998 & July 31, 1998, Cubberley, 11 x 17
  31. Stanley Jordan, January 12, 2001, Cubberley (Adrienne Drayton) 11 x 17
  32. Mother Hips / Etienne De Rocher / Oliver Lake / Broun Fellinis / Train / Far Too Jones / The Billy Nayer Show / Beth Lisick January 16, 1999 thru February 5, 1999 Cubberley 11 x 17
  33. Stone Fox / Lyme / Groovie Ghoulies / Blink-182 / Soda / 98 Mute April 13, 1997 & April 20, 1009, Cubberley Auditorium (Bruce Meyers) 8 1/2 x 14
  34. Bill Frisell, November 7, 1999 Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 11
  35. Warm Weather Series / The Toasters / Spring Heeled Jack / Monkey / MU330 / Janitors Against Apartheid / Slapstick / The Queers / The Hi-Fives / The Mr. T Experience / The Groovie Ghoulies / Zen Cowboys / Susan James Band / Sunshine Club / David Elias w/ Roger Powell / The Clarke Nova / Marginal Prophets / Groovie Ghoulies / Martin Sexton / Stephanie Mechura / Rebecca Riots / Idiot Flesh / Oxbow / Indestructible Beat of Palo Alto / Medeski Martin & Wood / The Basics May 24, 1996 thru August 1, 1996 (9 dates) Cubberley & Cubberley Auditorium (Michele Nelson) 11 x 17
  36. Box Set / Stroke 9 March 20, 1999 Cubbeley 6 x 11 1/2
  37. Jello Biafra May 8, 1999 Cubberley 6 x 11 1/2
  38. The Olivia Tremor Control / The Music Tapes April 24, 1999 6 x 11 1/2
  39. New Orleans Klezmer Allstars / Stephen Yerkey / Royal Fingerbowl March 26, 1997, Cubberley (Michelle Nelson) 8 1/2 x 14
  40. Vinyl / Steve & Eric Cohen, “Thursday” (circa September, 1998), Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 14
  41. Bill Frisell, October 4, 1998 Cubberley 8 1/2 x 14
  42. Cake / New EZ Devils / The Negro Problem September 2, 1995, Cubberley Auditorium (Lane Wurster / Mac MacCaughan), 11 x 17
  43. Tarnation / Virginia Dare / The Buckets / Stonefox / Spit Muffins / Slip April 1, 1995 & April 22, 1995 Cubberley, 11 x 17
  44. Slow Gherkin / IBOPA / Marginal Prophets May 2, 1997, Cubberley (Keith Knight) 11 x 17
  45. M.I.R.V. / Bimbo Toolshed / Ripple / Amanda Krugliak / KZSU’s Glenn Smith, September 1, 1995, Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  46. Pansy Division / Crumb / Odd Numbers / Trunk Federation September 4, 1998, Cubberley (Jon Hess) 11 x 17
  47. Broun Fellinis / New Orleans Klezmer Allstars March 29, 1996, Cubberley 11 x 17
  48. Charlie Hunter Quartet / Will Bernard Quartet / Broun Fellinis / Anibade / Galactic / Stephen Kent, Eda Maxym & Friends / Toledo / Action Plus / Mingus Amungus / Dave Ellis Quartet, March 28, 1998 thru April 25, 1998 (five dates jazz series) (Michele Nelson/Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  49. The John Doe Thing / onelinedrawing / Matt Nathanson, September 10, 2000, Cubberley, 11 x 17
  50. Penelope Houston / Bonfire Madigan / Umami / Billie Eyeball / Noelle Hampton / Allette Brooks, December 4, 1999, Cubberley 11 x 17
  51. The Basics / Squeeze The Dog,  August 10, 1996, Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 14
  52. Freedy Johnston / Matt Nathanson / Sparkler / the girl and I / Stefanie Gleit / Nick Thompson/ The Birdwatchers April 7, 1998 thru May 12, 1997 (six shows) Stanford Coffee House “CoHo” 8 1/2 x 14
  53. The Mermen / Pothole, March 20, 1998, Cubberley, (Lynn Grant) 11 x 17
  54. Cheryl Wheeler / Rebecca Riots / Allettte Brooks June 26, 1998 Cubberley (Callie Withers) 11 x 17
  55. Box Set / Vivendo De Pao / Shelley Doty, October 2, 1999, Cubberley 8 1/2 x 14
  56. Richard Shindell July 11 (circa 1998) Johnson Park (Charles Goldman) 8 1/2 x 14
  57. Three Day Stubble / Heavy Into Jeff / Susan James / Huge / Cottonhead / Sally Ann / KZSU’s Glenn Smith / Rufus the Bobcat /( “the Palo Palooza”) July 3, 1995 11 x 17
  58. “The Palo Alto Soundcheck” “series starts September 20, 1996”, Cubberley (John Yates / Harvey Bennett Stafford) 18 x 24
  59. Asylum Street Spankers June 2, 1999, Cubberley, (Colby Printing) 14 x 22 

format is: Performer/Date/Venue/Artist designer or art directer where appropriate/size. compiled 2016 by Mark Weiss, earwopa@yahoo.com

also:

Oxbow silkscreen by Frank Kozik, 1995 available thru Frank Kozik

Idiot Flesh / Oxbow silkscreen by Christine Shields, 1996 — few remain

Third Eye Blind – Heavy Into Jeff 1995 flyer few remain

Fifteen handbill ca. 1996 few remain

Ragady Anne handbills, redeemed for dollar-off, few remain

Earthwise 2009 at Bottom of the Hill by Robert Syrett

1993 Earth day mini Pow Wow at Addison School by Jeannell Steiner

1993 Rainforest Awareness Project by Donna Sharee

#35 is scarce — Warm Weather Series (otherwise all of above numbers is available in 40 sets of 58 or so?? I am researching making this available as sets only to collectors and collections, up to 40 sets — the remaining overruns were destroyed by MBW in 2016. There are 59 lots of 40, destined to be 40 sets of 59.

There are bands and artists that appear on this list but did not appear at the concert; there are bands that appeared at these concerts that are not listed above. (There are also concerts that had no poster)

Should I reformat this list by date? by size? Alphabetical by first headliner? 

There are also ticket designs and some scarce handbills (Femi Kuti – Steve Lacy)*

Private collection of signed posters (signed by the performers)

Collection of correspondence, contracts, publicity still provided by record labels, et cetera— nine boxes ie. 30 yards or so. There’s about 40 hours of audio tapes, of varying production value, mostly on analog tape not digital. 

Part 2, prologue to “Pollstar Round-up; Or “Sermon on the Mount”
To be clearer, these bands played Earthwise Productions at Cubberley Theatre or auditorium, at the former high school, and went on to earn Gold Reocrd (500,000 sold), Platinum (1,000,000 sold) or multiplatinum certified:
Third Eye Blind 6x Platinum, 2 Platinum, 2 gold 5 million combined worldwide (“Semi-charmed Life”, “Jumper”)
Cake, 2 Platinum, 3 Gold (“The Distance”, “Never There”)
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I don’t think this is Cubberley, 1996, but same set, clothing and book, plus shot from above.

AFI 2x Platinum 2x Platinum 2 platinum (“Miss Murder”, “Girls Gone Grey”)
The Donnas Shipped Gold* (“Fall Behind Me” “Take It Off”)
Train 2x Platinum 2x Platinum 4 Platinum 5 Gold (“Meet Virginia” “Hey Soul Sister” “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)”)
Matt Nathanson (“Come On Get Higher” certified platinum as a single)
blink 182 5xPlatinum, 2x Platinum 4 Platinum 6 Gold (“All The Small Things” “What’s My Age Again?”) (estimated 13 million total sales US, 50 million worldwide)
Stroke 9 1 Gold (“Little Black Backpack”)
*The Donnas, — Allison Robertson, Maya Ford, Tory Castellanos and Brett Anderson — all Palo Altans, who formed at a Jordan Middle School talent show — were reported by major label Atlantic Records to have “shipped Gold” meaning 500,000 units were sent to retail, but 20,000 came back unsold, according to Ford –my neighbor, Jon and Marjorie’s daughter. I suggested that the band’s former manager press the label to buy the remaining units and send the ladies their gold!!
In July, 1996, AFI, Medeski Martin and Wood (jazz) and Cake appeared on consecutive nights, all sold out, total of 1,000 plus ticket sold, including standing room. Charlie Hunter jazz guitarist appeared 5 different times, with 5 different lineups and sold out most shows.
Gunn graduate and Blue Note recording artist and Stanley Jordan also appeared, well after receiving his gold record.
Oakland based recording artist Ledisi appeard at Cubberley under the name Anibade in 1997 and later signed to Verve Records, was nominated for Best New Artist, has released five albums, 8-time Grammy nominee and topped the U.S. R&B charts with “Pieces of Me” in 2011.
Joan Baez appeared with Dar Williams in 1995, as a surprise guest on one song (and has 6 gold records, 1960 to 1975)
Jazz musician Steve Lacy appeared at Cubberley in 1996 after winning the MacArthur Genius Grant.
Mark “Stew” Stewart, appearing as The Negro Problem in 1996, later won a TONY award for “Passing Strange” on Broadway.
Past performance do not indicate future results, but if you don’t build it they won’t come.
Mark Weiss, dba Earthwise
Part III:
Beyond posting two lists, of 59 and 13 items, about me, as prolog to my discussion and processing of Pollstar, it is a funny place to start by saying that I met two diferent people who claimed a connection to Average White Band; they both may have been the drummer.
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Part IV: Or, AUFL
1. Julia Lofstrand Photography, (301) DC area;
2. Dead Nation, Haytham Abdulhadi (310) but I think maybe Portland
3. Chris Porter, Porter Productions (206) Seattle and SF and Lowell, MA
4. SR 51 Motorsports Complex of Lake Station, IN in the (443) Ryk Lee Waddell
but I wrote “Atlanta” “drummer” “45m Chicago ” $150M”
5. Nelly Neben, Axis Mgmt (818) I forget how we met although it may be that she is friends with Wayne Forte who manages Joe Satriani and I embarrased myself twice in 30 seconds or three times in that I mistook his friend for Madina Salaty (who did work for Wayne and also sold me the above showcased AFI) and then I said that Joe was jazz whereas I meant instrumental rock (and I do have relations with two x-JS students Charlie Hunter and Kevin Cadogan – or history rather) and I mentioned that his building connected to that of Michael Woolf the jazz pianist and movie star — I had been to both offices and thought they connected but from different street addresses like in the breakthru maguffin in “JFK”, who manages Rita Coolidge, among others. I think.
6. Georg Leitner, in the +43 which is or was Austria
7. torrantial dj Caleb Crump
8. Bryan Meckelborg Brockcom in the (310);
I have to stop here for now to go have lunch with my wife Terry Acebo Davis, at Stanford Barn but I have been saying that i met 50 people I’m going to do busy with, but also my goal is 10 shows this year, including one that should have gone on-sale a month ago, my bad.
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By magic I show you Earvin Johnson’s high school team

Posted on February 11, 2019 by markweiss86

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I ran into a college classmate who owned $400m worth of Fusion-IO, my brother’s employer, then and now, I think:

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Dartmouth classmates Mark Weiss and Scott Sandell at the Alma maters 250th anniversary party in San Mateo, California.

edit to add: It’s kind of random to go from Magic Johnson to Scott Sandell when the thing should be Magic Johnson 1977 to the fact that LA Times February 10, 2019 picture in paper (circa) but the closest I could find, and better in some ways in that you go from a 1977 Converse basketball yearbook to a screen capture of a Twitter earlier this week i.e. 42 years later:

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Dude in Pet Store 510 Saw AFI 18 Times

Posted on February 9, 2019 by markweiss86

3DD5E057-2E90-40C1-B6C2-1C3E5EA54D43.jpegThe Jonathan — met at PetCo Albany Saturday, February 9, 2019 -loves his dogs, and the hampsters, and his lady-friend (not pictured, but has the same first name as Billie Joe Armstrong’s spouse)

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GREEN JUMPSUIT PERCUSSION MARTIAL ARTS DANCER WITH BECK ‘E-PRO’ ON SNL, TOM BRADY-HOST, 2005

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edit to add to name that tune dude soon

and1:

Dreams of his crash won’t pass
Oh, how they all adored him
Beauty will last when spiraled down

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Now I seem to come to you

Hammer my bones in the anvil of daylight.

 

andand: whereas Jonathan wore a Star of David medallion in honor of his mother who acknowledged Jesus of Nazareth as a rabbi, Beck (not pictured) is the half-Jewish son of a Fluxus artist

anand or dust brothers beasties:

Jersey City, 2006 dude is live in concert plus they have a puppet of him on screen:

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song is “E-Pro” track 1 from Guero

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AFI I’ve maybe only seen them once, July, 1996, in my own room at Cubberley where they set the record for most tickets sold and most stage divers; Beck I’ve never worked with — although Anna Waronker played there — but I saw him at Stanford and in Vancouver.

Miss Murder video

(This is a hot mess but it is true that Beck Guero “E-Pro” and AFI “Miss Murder” overlap in that 2006 way, and the video itself here is self-similar to the blog post in that the first two minutes seems like a completely different composition, of this video — shabbat shalom)

 

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Goodbye, Hovey murals

Posted on February 9, 2019 by markweiss86

E38B0535-E227-4429-B252-44E4904E6C50.jpegI’ve never seen the Hovey Murals, But I did spend considerable time scrutinizing the Orozco Murals  last time I was in Hanover which was six years ago now.  And they recently visited us at art institute to see the Diego Rivera mural  There.

There’s a 161 page PDF by a current Dartmouth anthropology professor of native descent I believe .  I would buy the book hardcopy when I get the chance.

Terry and I between us have three Mateo Romero paintings.

I manage a collection of 300 pueblo pots amassed lovingly by my parents Paul and Barbara Weiss that is bound for the Deyoung museum Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.

I’m a little worried the moving of the murals it was an overreaction. It’s hard to believe people were uneasy going into Thayer because they knew this type of expression was locked in the basement.

And I do regret i used the term “Wa hoo wah”  even out of context and my own context in an exchange with a classmate of mine who took offense apparently. I was quoting the ultra liberal Jim Newton 85 who was trying to diss arm the dispute semantically with a bumper sticker that said “wah who cares?”

I did take Michael Dorris’  class and got a beer maybe. A “B”.

A painting that illustrates a drinking song in the basement of an eating hall is hardly supposed to be reverential and it was locked up during my previous 1000 visits to Thayer. Maybe I have a vague memory of Glimpsing it once.  I think Dorris had a theory that SamSam occam was made to dress in drag so to speak he was already modernized but we lock made him dress down to solicit funds like those of Laura Dartmouth exactly 250 years ago .

I also wrote something somewhat oblique about Notre Dame covering up a mural   I flashed to something about Saturday night live and touchdown Jesus.

There was also something about a mural in Atlanta a few years ago that made the workers look too animalistic maybe.

There is something to the argument that if you take down the hubby mirrors you expose yourself to critique of the Orozco Miral.

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seinfield 1993 Winona tickets to Knicks game

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Kimberly Norris aka Kimberly Guerrero

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Ted Hoagland’s three nature essays in Sports Illustrated, all in the 1970s

Posted on February 6, 2019 by markweiss86

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    Hoagland was born in December, 1932, about a year after my mom. He’s still kicking.

  • OR: TED, NOT DEAD, HEAD
  • “In a Lair with a Bear,” Sports Illustrated, March 26, 1973
  • “A Mountain with a Wolf on It,” Sports Illustrated, January 14, 1974
  • “Big Frog, Very Small Pond,” Sports Illustrated, March 3, 1975
  • (from Lynn Stegner class)
  • from wikipedia
  • caught my eye — class was reading an essay from 1988 about suicide–because I cut my teeth so to speak as a reader with Sports Illustrated in those years. I started in 1972, I think with Bill Walton of UCLA “red hot red head”, when I was 8.
  • I probably skipped these nature essays.
  • I may remember the illustrations, if there were any
  • Why SI?
  • Why stop SI?
  • I saved my complete collection until about 1986 — 15 years, or so, stacked in order, in the shelf in the back of my closet, in my parents’ home; then I saved only the covers; now I have a handful of articles, about local teams mainly.
  • But I’d like to see these articles, maybe on microfiche.
  • It may be online.
  • Fellow Dartmouthian Robert Sullivan became main SI nature writer, later
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  • 30048032-24F3-4EC5-90DB-04622A6FCDC8.jpegFuck is you saying: Emantic Bradford, obituary or tribute: he was a 21 year old veteran shop during a crime active shooter incident at a mall in Alabama. My four-word reaction is from a song by young hip hop artist “NoName”, from Chicago. And the tie in to the brief thing above about Edward “Ted” Hoagland is that we were discussing him in my memoir class at Stanford, taught by Lynn Stegner, who says she knows him and now he’s quite old. The essay we discussed is about suicide. So there is a theme of morbidness (“morbidity”??) in the two topics. One is an old guy who considered suicide. Another is a young guy killed or murdered. (Only in Plasty — yeah, fuck is you saying?)
  • edit to add: well, if you think of madness as either the Bridge Over River Kwai fighting to blow up a bridge “Madness!” or a condition correlated to suicide (see also: depression) it turns out that the Hoagland essay, his first, in March 26, 1973 was in the same issue as “March Madness” ie a preview of the NCAA playoffs; cover featured Bill Walton, Larry Kenon, Steve Downing and Marvin Barnes i.e. the competitors to UCLA the favorite. “Baiting the Bruins” (Playing UCLA), Oh Lord, He’s Perfect (Secretariat), Rise of the Underground Tour (Golf), In a Lair with a Bear (Bears[ed: not the Bobby Douglass football variety]), Riding for a Fall (Grand National horse racing), Fold It Out and Presto! (Squash), The Rinks Were Running Red (Hockey)
  • and1: from bear world magazine, — i mean bear study not org –although now i’m concerned my title, ie from wiki is a bit off:
  • 1973. Sports Illustrated. March 26, 1973. Pages 32-40. Getting in a lair with a bear. By Edward Hoagland.
  • It’s actually about “Lynn Rogers”?? — there’s an archive —
  • Bears appeal to a side of us that is lum- 
bering, churlish and individual. We 
are touched by their anatomy because 
it resembles ours, by their piggishness 
and sleepiness, by their very aversion to 
everything about us except our garbage. 
Where big tracts of forest remain, black 
bears still do fairly well. They have a sim- 
ple vegetarian diet, supplemented by in- 
sects, fish and carrion, and the grizzly’s 
prickly ego is absent in them; they are 
secretive woodland animals that stay un- 
der cover and do not expect to have ev- 
erything go their way. 

maybe to be continued, bear with us.

andand: since I quote her, twice now, I should call her by her name : Fatimah Nyeema Warner. So I guess "Nyeema" i.e. Naima, is no-name.
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