Monday, 9 am — at work all this week advancing my Pablo Cruise. Show. Look for our flyers in the windows of hipper Palo Alto and area stores.
Let’s put it up the Fla Gpole and see who salutes it.
Ear, hi stew – -which is funny because I had a client named Stew.
shows coming up and therefore on my mind:
Pablo Cruise at Mitchell Park bowl — this is a rock concert, although the rock is soft rock not hard rock, from the 1970s. “Love Will Find a Way” and “Find Your Place in the Sun”. Two post Meridien at the park which is about 15 minutes by car or bike from Stanford Stadium – the Cardinal – color not the bird — play Colgate at 5 or so. The first of three events Earthwise is doing that overlap with football tailgates; one;
Johnny A at Lytton Plaza Friday night following Pablo Cruise. Johnny A is about the same age as Cory Lerios and they are both Greek, but give Johnny credit for coming up with an act recently: he reworks classic rock songs of the 1960s and 1970s with solo guitar, looping and effects. He also had a touch of Top 40: his “Oh Yeah” might be the last instrumental to chart on AAA. On KFOG, whereas Pablo Cruise was on the best music KYA. two;
Tammy Hall at Johnson Park at 2 pm at Johnson Park downtown, near where Clay Carson and his wife Susan frequent the one-buck basketball court. I met Clay there and in between games of “H-A-L-L” we hatched a plan to bring a favorite musician to town. Clay and friends are also working on an Martin Luther King Day event perhaps at Memorial Church in January. Actually I plan on going to football games directly after Pablo Cruise, Johnny A and Tammy Hall. Gunn plays Paly for the first time in 11 years at Gunn at 7 pm on Friday September 3. three;
Steve Poltz at Lytton Plaza on a Wednesday. four;
Mads Tolling group the next night, same place. Someone named Chase Elodia and friends, from NYC, might be playing before or after Mads’ men. five;
Marley’s Ghost, is more like folk or Celtic. six;
On October 6 at Lytton Plaza I have a trio with drums, bass, sax; the bass is from Mexico and is a woman and might also sing. seven;
I just added something called Green Mitchell with reeds, drums and bass, featuring Lisa Mezzacappa who has something of a residency for Earthwise this year. eight;
I just added the duo of Ben Goldberg clarinet and Liberty Ellman guitar for Lytton Plaza on Friday October 14. This duo was part of a trio (with a drummer) slated for Stanford this summer but somehow never materialized. nine;
I want to mention Jenny Scheinman who did two secret pop up shows at Lytton Plaza on a Saturday as a quintet and Monday at a duo. She also had shows at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, Bach Dancing in Half Moon Bay and Kuumbwa in Santa Cruz. Then Caroline Davis did a reprise of her January residency, popping up at Lytton with Hannah Marks and Paul Cornish during her lunch break at Stanford. I also created content for terrestrial radio 90.1 on the dial with Ernie Rideout for about an hour last month plus a spun songs by: Dayna Stephens. Total of 4.
Lastly I am excited for my friend DaShawn Hickman of Mt Airy, North Carolina who will play Sunday, October 2 at Golden Gate Park as part of the Hardly Strictly Bluesgrass event. He plays sacred steel; his band will feature himself, Charlie Hunter on bass, Wendy Hickman on vocals and percussion; Scott Amendola on drums and Vicky Randall on percussion and vocals. Its possible that I trek to Sf and only see that one act at HSB.
School of Rock is at Palo Alto Players and I sort of want to cross-market that with Cory Lerios Pablo Cruise (I hear, if you follow me, that Cory was a star sophomore running back at Paly).
Gretchen Menn of Palo Alto plays at the Menlo Guilded but not guilted — she plays guitar not guilt-tar. Friday I think with Zepperella. Also, Fox in RWC has a funny lady named Angelah Reyes who my friend Steve Cohen likes to mimic: something about a service worker inquiring about the sex life of her clients. The Anish Kapoor comes because I was reading in The New Yorker online a long article about the artist, who is part Jewish.
EMMY BURGER
Pat LaFrieda dry aged beef, EMMY sauce, caramelized onion, Grafton cheddar, on a pretzel bun with cornichon & fries: thank you Melanie Charles for mentioning this
A reader alerted me to the fact if there is a public art monument to the ‘90s rock band Deep Blue Something on Ramona Street near the former Old Pro near Nola‘s near Coupa around the corner from ice cream and fittingly very near the Stanford Theatre which shows old movies like “Roman Holiday” from which the rock band Deep Blue Something got the idea for the most famous song “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”.
There was a rumor that this was a monument to Blue Öyster Cult because they lived here in the ‘60s but up until very recently that window was J. Floss which sold mostly dentures and designer toothbrushes, although come to think of it the installation is very near what used to be Rudy’s Oyster Bar so I understand the confusion.
And in fact lending credence to the rumors Deep Blue Something did play a free show at the old Cubberley High theatre in 1996 and brought with them a whole truck of lights and sound. Cubberley Community Center administration used a photo from that show, the rock stars back lit, in their brochure for other renters, which was sort of a scam since the lights were a one-time deal. Until this reprise of sorts on Ramona. What about Deep Blue at Cubberley? Yes I remember the show! Some of those Stanford kids likely married.
After the Giants game which Eric and I attended on Thursday we went by SF MOMA and saw this work by Anish Kapoor :
The next day:
Arguably, GBS had an impact on me, via its workers — the creatives – and its works. So it is therefore possibly organic to accept from GS&P a design for an Earthwise Productions logo that could be stitched onto caps or pulled onto cotton tees.
But what if I just took their four ball logo, with the G, S, &, and P and merely put an “E” for Earthwise (and, secondarily, “ear”) onto a blue or green ball — maybe the same green as the G for Goodby, or maybe a different green.
Maybe the “E” would be an “e” lower case — like in e.e. cummings. Maybe it would be offset as if a silent and invisible first letter was next to it, crowding it, like in the periodic table (Be for Beryllium, Fe for iron, et cetera) or like in the credits to “Breaking Bad”.
spectral graph of Be – -no idea what that means
Maybe the earth wise logo is a small e, slightly off center on a blue or green circle or globe.
Would that be homage to Goodby or theft?
Is it too easy? (EaSy?)
Maybe its a limited edition cap or t-shirt — I only spend $1,000 on the idea.
What if its the “&” from the actual GS&P logo, and I change the “&” to a clef – -a musical glyph?
Or will they literally tell me “hey, Weiss, no go on the logo”.
I kind of like the “ear-thwise” meme. I dunno, maybe a pink rose with blue E-A-R above and T-H-W-I-S-E below works. Or turtle on turtle on Pickleball paddle. With nods to Robert Syrett and Greg Brown.
I would likely ask Julie for permission before proceeding with:
bird and hand by Greg Brown, typography graffiti by yo trulio
Orange fruit face by Robert Syrette:
Robbed
Hey, Jeff, I want to ask you something if you have a minute. I know you run a company with hundreds of employees and several multimillion dollar clients, and therefore don’t have that much time for correspondence with freelancers from decades ago but….
Earlier today I had posted some comps somewhat whimsically about a new logo for my company, that I founded in 1994 . I am thinking of making some caps that are stitched with this logo or some T-shirts.
The comps are basically round or globular executions based on a turtle, a basketball, a rose, and one of those balls you can sit on or chair shaped like a ball that I found side of the road while riding my bike to my show 4 miles away Sunday . And subsequently left behind so to speak for the next user. Owner. Or steward.
What is the deal with your logo? When did you decide to have a logo and not just a type treatment, what was it called Gold Rush ‘88 or something? Gold Rush ‘88 Serif?
I noticed of course the G is both your name and could be the letter for color green. Likewise P for partners or pink. Is there a story behind the orange and the slightly oranger orange?
There used to be a band in San Francisco called Oranger, even better their album was called “Doorway to Norway”— it’s actually a Stanford guy who made some money on Excite.
I’m sort of open to an entire rebranding in that my name is a little bit abstract and just a pun on my father’s name.
I like breaking out the E-A-R, however, which implies listening .
Sometimes I break out the A-R-T.
Actuality our mutual friend JP once sent me from his notebook a logo for my last name with a “W” and an eyeball that was rather bloodshot and two snakes hissing.
W 👁 🐍 🐍 /sssss
Send me some comps and charge me what you have to to please the stockholders or you know put towards that Anish Kapoor really red choo-choo we were ruminating up on. Riding, not writhing.
Or as John Wooden would say be lithe but not hairy. Be silk? Be Slick but not Zelmo Beatty?
Bill badly cents of where you owe, your mic fee.
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