Jerry Jemmott who played with Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin and here KIng Curtis, comes to Bottom of The Hill on Sunday November 28 courtesy of Earthwise
The Music of Leonard Cohen featuring (1)Sylvie Simmons, (2)Bhi Bhiman, (3)Charith PremawardhanaClassical Revolution, (4) Aleta Hayes; Mitchell Park Community Center, Friday, November 12, 2021.
Diunna Greenleaf(5); Mitchell Park Community Center, Thursday, November 18, 2021.
Barbara Manning SF Seals(6) perform 30th anniversary “Perfect Green Blanket”, (7)The Corner Laughers, (8) Clean Girl and The Dirty Dishes, Mitchell Park Community Center, Saturday, November 20, 2020.
Lisa Fay Beatty’s ‘Save Me, Yeah’ featuring (9)Jerry Jemmott Trio; Bottom of The Hill San Francisco. (Proceeds partially benefit Bread And Roses) Sunday, November 28, 2021 early show
Amendola VS Blades(10) , Wednesday, December 15, 2021, Mitchell Park Community Center
Johnny A(11), Mitchell Park Community Center, Mitchell Park Community Center, Friday, January 14, 2022.
Caroline Davis Quartet (12) residency; Mitchell Park Community Center, Thursday, January 27, Friday, January 28, Saturday, January 29, 2022.
Greaseland All Stars (13) featuring Laura Leuschner, Kid Andersen; Mitchell Park Community Center, Sunday, January 30, 2022
Plays Monk (14)featuring Ben Goldberg, Scott Amendola, Todd Sickafoose, Mitchell Park Community Center, Sunday, January 23, 2022
POMO MOFO YO:
Spoke to Caroline Davis for seven minutes this morning, thus delaying her workout; unclear the exact schedule for Thursday, Friday, Saturday in January in that someone else is in the room that weekend day; probably 7:30 Thursday, 8:30 Friday, maybe 9 p.m. Saturday. (Sunday the 30th a year older –I’m finishing 57, starting 58 year on 3 rock from sun — I have Kid and Laura – -new years resolution is to learn to spell “Leuschner” — Greaseland blues jam). She is bringing a piano player; there is a grand piano. MH says we should have bought the American not the Chinese version of Japanese piano — both pianos at the art center are better. I noted that the European lady who does classical shows, on the very day she bumped our Tom Harrell show – which became a piano show ironically Luis Perdomo — rents a Steinway.
Earthwise nine fairly firm bookings to close 2021, open 2022; nine bookings, 11 shows, 14 acts queued up for 29th year of countervailing culture initiative in the 650 how about Nine fairly firm bookings to close 2021 for Earthwise; 11 show, 14 acts queued, to ring in 29th year as 650 promoter. There’s a pun onfirma meaning land in Spanish.
3. Promoter/Manager/blogger/activist either way slightly relieved that the brouhaha with the provocatuer fake tory did not make the local rag. Bottom line: if someone tries to introduce themselves to you and you refuse to reply in kind, you, sir, are in the wrong wrong wrong. As I said, my name and address is a public record, so you can tell me if you have a problem with me. Steven Carter said Democracy starts with one person says “good morning” and the second person says “good morning” back. Danilo Perez, for a group of Redwood City charter middle schoolers got 20 kids to jam by starting with two of them. Say ‘hello’ — “Hello?” — say ‘hello’ back. “Hello”. The only quibble was when the rapper didn’t know he could say anything and instead said “will the real Slim Shady please stand up, please stand up”
BLUF: I didn’t get to read this into the record even after two hours of the meeting because my wife, a former commissioner texted me to say she expected me to dinner, and because I got ito an altercation with someone in council chambers who tried to get me arrested or kicked out, went to new clerk Lesley sic Milton,who I had just met, and I also spoke on another item, about interviews for commissioner, which Tom D wanted to curtail. As did Eric F and Alison one L Cormack. And Pat Burt my former nemesis saved the day. And then Rebecca Eisenberg called in an lauded my efforts.
But the fat guy, balding, in a coat and tie and spoke with a fake English accent shushed me for talking to DH and BM and AE; and I told him he should go back to England and %^&* King George’s tiny shriveled Habsburg *&^%. Actually I made a hang loose Hawaii shaka bra sign and said “Dartmouth 1769 America’s ninth oldest college”; and then a lady a row behind him dove in head first so to speak and said “where’s your mask?!” and i said “the county I check it every day says we are at 75 new cases per million which if you do the math means we could fill this place with fat bastards like this guy every day for sic years and never see an infection” but I pulled up my mask and it came out “argh argh rug arch arch bleh”.
Ah, Democracy. Just like I pictured it.
I had just said in rambling previous draft of this that there is still white noise. Funny in advance if The Post – which is run by noted anti-Semite and similarly fat bastard Dave Price — goes with “Weiss Goes Nuts On Nice Old Country Gent” or better “Weiss Nuts on British Visiting Dignitary” rather than trying to explain the two hours of housing drivel or the lack of a business tax.
If he nutted on my &*() I’d say “I’m glad that he came”? That’s not plagiarism peoples its literary allusion.
It’s also true that in 2009 a guy with a fake German accent baited me and I called the cops, during a candidates debate. Chief Dennis Burns later told me that he suspected it was the same white supremacist who was disrupting Palo Alto Players events.
I actually told the guy that my identify and address were public records if he wanted to say something to me, but that by his accent I could tell he didn’t know tic about tac. Democ_. Davante. Da bag of nuts in my pants. I asked his name at the start of the second round and he refused to answer which is a tell, of scoundrels. He said “young man” and I said “how old do you think I am mother f*****!?’
San Jose gets twice as much revenue from business tax than from TOT. They get $70 m per year in business tax. We get zero. It’s possible that we would get more than that, despite the population differences, as we have Tesla, Amazon and the like.
Palo Alto Networks whose founder built a monster home very near mayor Filseth downtown north Poe and Bryant is a $50 B Billion company that has a national TV campaign with the NFL, we should license the use of our name, could be worth a millon dollars per year to We The People. That’s 50 words, and above is another, previously published bit, 50 words.
Met a man from Datatherom, on Emerson, above Macs and Bells, and their revenue I find is about $800K.
Hippo I found, at Lytton and Waverley, the new building, near the old Grooveland records, is worth a billion, a unicorn.
Rather than combining this with all the mom and pops and registry just tax billion dollar entities.
note: i toned this down a wee bit using grawlix in deference to the nice woman I featured later in the day.
Palo Alto City Council is meeting in front of a live audience of Americans who still believe in Democracy (minus unknown chamlobbyists and landlords here to stare down me and some neighbors). I count eight people in the hosue, of whom I can name two. Some are staff. There are four staff in the meeting, Ed Shikada, City Clerk Lesley Milton who I just met, Dani King her assistant, and someone I cannot see, likely Molly Stump their attorney. (Our attorney – help me out, Rebecca E!)
In the house are a quorum of Eric Filseth, Pat Burt, Tom Dubois, Greer Stone and Alison Cormack. I saw Lydia Kou or Kuo appear via magic box.
I plan to speak at the next possible opportunity, which is #`13, my high school hoops number for the league champion 1981 Titans. This is loosely speaking about the business tax, or the longstanding filibuster and embargo of such. I am cribbing something I posted here in Plasty back in February, which I likely sent in to the public record. Plus something I also likely sent in to the proverbial message in a bottle Covid-shutdown era Democracy.
I also like to say that many parts of our culture and civilization are subject to white noise and chaos. And that’s a huge factor, well beyond historic 20th century norms as described by Heisenberg or Doppler. That is, the universe is expanding, and largely unknowable. Yet, speak friend and enter.
Just don’t say “N-word” or n*****. Not even rhetorically, my:
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San Jose gets twice as much revenue from business tax than from TOT. They get $70 m per year in business tax. We get zero. It’s possible that we would get more than that, despite the population differences, as we have Tesla, Amazon and the like.
(I like the way, Mr Bones, he goes to “BOLD” right after he references the struggle of Black people and Black Lives Matter, even ironically and confusingly)
Meta issue, and meta verse or phrase in that I am talking about my blog but I marked “words” and “platos republic” as distinct from Hasbor “Play Doh” or that Japanese modern dance Bu Toh or platos fuertes which are strong and not small plates, and I noticed the Greek dude “Tennis” or something, looking at the site here on Bryant that was briefly a Turkish cafe run by the greatest soccer dissident of all time (yet not martyred like the Colombian dude) Hakan Sukor I think – he literally wrote “Hakan Sukor” or his actual name and “fastest goal” on a piece of news print for me to Google – -and I have retired the term “search Injuns” — I heard from Mateo Romero briefly today and a local paper had something about a law designed to fine Colorado high schools $40,000 each if they call each other Redskins or Savages. Which a Native Group is apparently fighting against. And “filthy lucre” my code for “money” whereas Platos Republic or Plato’s indicating possesive is my code for tag or category of Democracy.
The second little bit, which might be at 7:30 if this is 6:46 on a Monday – and I missing Najee Harris of Vallejo, CA and the Steelers to do this, this sitting shiva for Democracy or witness or witless useful idiot getting just enough of a whif of freedom to not (censor censor censor – -see also Reality Winner and Davey Havok) and I’m just vamping to avoid listening to Action Item 12 Public Hearing which reminds me of the line I think by Raymond Chandler the guy who wrote not Dashiell Hammet Sam Spade but the other Bogus part, Philip Marlowe, looking for a clue –his line about how many lies in one line. One, it is not Action its babble, two its not really public is mediated. Not sure what language this is supposed to be. And the picture is out of synch by the words I hear. I think they are literally running Filseth’s voice thru a processor to disguise him or not make it obvious that he is here in person with we the people, all 10 of us, 3 known, 7 unknown or lobbyists or staff, and not Tanaka or Kuo hiding in their little hatches. Reminds me of Das Racist the multi-kulti hip hop group from Wesleyan — I’m at the pizza hut, I’m at the taco bell or Panda Fast Food, I’m at the combination Taco Bell Panda and Pizza Hut, but not at 250 Hamilton. Hutch or hatch. Year of the Rabbit. Iam. Iambic pentameter. Because I could not stop for Death Death kindly stopped for me. No, On a midnight dreary– MC Lars, I knew him. Finite Jest. I’m in the “In” Crowd, I know where the In Crowd surges the stage and kills 8 people.
Speaking of which, I am toting Len Siegal book “Disturbing The War” specifically to quote 404 CA Penal code about the riots he was accused of starting which I say applies to the ruckus at Dr. Cody’s house, that PA PD said they would prefer not to disberse or intervene, the futility of it all. A cop literally said to me that he would not tell 20 people who had agreed in advance to meet in front of a doctory’s house with pots and pans and megaphones at 9:30 one night — or several nights because he was quite certain that they would stop by 10. But it’s 9:30 now, why don’t you try?
And this piece, not strung with pearls but pretty good for someone who has not given them the business for 18 months:
Palo Alto Networks whose founder built a monster home very near mayor Filseth downtown north Poe and Bryant is a $50 B Billion company that has a national TV campaign with the NFL, we should license the use of our name, could be worth a millon dollars per year to We The People. That’s 50 words, and above is another, previously published bit, 50 words.
Plus: (practicing with an ally) Datatheorom on Emerson, $800K in revenue.
Hippo is a Unicorn — is on Lytton. In a new building near the former record store.
And at 7:04 if you can somehow seem me at home, I flipped my mask down because I want more air.
Santa Clara is at 75 new cases per million, which is 1 in 13,000 citizens. Which means if this room were totally full we could do this every night for 7 year mask on or mask off without seeing an infected person.
Also: on friday I have a concert at Mitchell Park center with Bhi Bhiman, Sylvie Simmons, Charith of Classical Revolution, maybe Aleta Hayes. About 12 songs, all by Leonard Cohen. Then Diunna Greenleaf blues on 11/18 Thursday then Saturday the 20th all at The Mitch — MY FIRST SHOWS IN 18 MONTHS — Barbara Manning
at 7:07 I put my mask back after 3 minutes of breathing free
SF Seals, The Corner Laughers, Clean Girl and The Dirty Dishes.
I have Amendola VS Blades indoor at The Mitch on December 15 then Scott Ben Todd Monk on Jan. 23. Then Caroline Davis a sax player from NYC three night residency around the 28th; then Sunday that weekend, also my birthday – I’m Aquarius sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio rising, two thirds overlap with Remi Wolf– whose name references both Rome and Candlestick Park. They tried to charge me $150 secondary market via AEG/AXS Bryan Perez to see her show that same week at Regency SF, I almost bit but was too lazy to get up and find my wallet the computer laptop had not saved my numbers.
Also, at Bottom of The Hill JUST ANNOUNCED an event in SF by Earthwise called “Lisa Fay Beatty’s ‘Save Me, Yeah'” that honors a former colleague who died 10 years ago this month in a motorcycle accident. Not sure the exact format, other than drinks on me, or first round, if you read this, hear my voice or knew her.
Making progress on my Van Halen Mark Leland Tribute.
I have about 40 projects buzzing their way to forms of flight or communication or dance or stinging. As I said below or above. Although I name checked Anthony Bonet not Bourdain. And Mark O’Brien.
I am going to take out the offensive confusing word. That references race; today I bought and gifted to Jamie and Alix a list of coyote myths gathered by Barry Lopez. They live on Addison.
I have a new neighbor I call Flutie, like Don Cherry. Kudos to Delbert Anderson appearing in Sonoma next week.
edit to add or backed with bw — and i heard the words density and its a miracle i am still conscious after 70 minutes fo this “density” contemplates redvelipement of teh site zones whichare lower rn 40 at redvelopmetn tbut that a policy problem for the councli whatever zoning would taht be extended to all other zones privacy inerests I cannot recall his name Leight? Lay? Late? I remember that Rebecca called him a “pissboy” for the builders but he takes in about $200,000 per year. I met “Vin” who is working with Ms. Milton and did work directly for cash, and Kash rather– a good guy, my neighbor, also near the former rez of Palo Alto Networks Monster Home builder guy — and Mazah or something who worked for SM Sheriff.
here is something nixe from NU Times new ideas for flags:
i think if you click it sort of has the designer in some cases
Lait Jonathan Lait and not a lot of coffee in his latte, just All American milky goodness
Ok i’m gonna really listen closely –passed my copy of Len’s red book to Dr. Horowitz who thumbed thru it for a few minutes. Mr Moss Bob refused to borrow it from me as it was inscribed.
Also, I riffed a bit I guess on KZSU with Vince Larkin who remembered the name of my dog and its college football reference during the closed session but I missed my chance to speak open forum or whatever, which I called “open mic”.
I was here earlier with Duffy and had no vax card so alert staff refused me to pass, like Gandalf and the Balrog. the Mines of Minas Tirith. No speak no friend no enter, and now 80 minutes of blather.
Without really using my translater devices but with the help of 100 of such meetings under my belt and 500 topics and having spoken for the record about 200 times I would say they are ent-mooting how much profit to give billionaire and multi-millonaire super-delegates especially the tricky fumble-rooskie or Sweet Georgia Brown Globetrotter warmups of guys who own or owned Fry’s which went from 14 to 60 acres upzoning oila. moolah. I heard Pat Burt say “affordable housing” which is local voodoo mojo hocus pocus for giving money to the rich and not taxing like in the next item, lucky landlocked like Kazakhistan thirteen. Len had a bit from like 1970 about whether Democracy really works here or is everything done just for Stanford –$35 B endowment pays not taxes plus $18b in landleases at Stanford Industrial Parks which went from war stuff to video games which I guess is still a war in that they are using that to enslave us all and build the matrix or metaverse.
And when I am interviewed some time in next 90 days and maybe before I finish my year 57 like Heinz variety here we’ll see if I get asked how serious I was when I sent a letter to the leadership about not shooting us, for gathering at Cogswell Plaza to make music, without a permit and not turning on the power, that three of us were Black. I think the person who brings it up loses. God bless the families of those killed or crushed in Houston. Hello, Hueston we’ve got a problem. Lay. Winning. Reality winner. Total immortal, yet a prisoner. Mere surmise, sir.
and 1: 90 minutes in I think of the famous farting scene of “Blazing Saddles” yet I am not laughing.
i’ve been talking about this for a while I also think Albert Aylor ghost should be a national anthem who is up for writing the lyrics something about slaves down in the middle passage :
Tevita Moimoi scored 17 touchdowns for Sacred Heart of Atherton, CA and here in the 650 but has yet to tally for The Big Green.
His sister Mele was rocking a white cap with a tiny D but ny trained eye and Emersonian transcendentalist eyeball scoped it out, here at Coupa
probably gave her more than an earful about Buddy and his weigh-in, The Bartlett Cup and Jason Miller — the way the Weissian mind makes gain by steady gain and likewise snakewise here in Plasty.
How many TDs did Sergio Beltran ring up or Ringo up since they are playing ”Dont let me down” in Saturdays Valpo Bowl, for Menlo?
How many special teams tackles so far for T?
edit to add for sures
1) I had this a month ago:
there is a Sacred Heart all-metro former player Tevita Moimoi a Tongan whose family has rugby roots – Dave Kiefer once wrote of for the Almanac. 2) Mele Moimoi went to M-A as did Troy Franklin Oregon Duck and Jalen Moss future Fresno State Titan. Mele and Tevita have a brother who played with Ben Burr-Kiven a Sacred Heart CCS championship.
BLUF: Lynn Schwarz nee Wilkens of Bottom of The Hill in San Francisco, where I had my Earthwise 10th and 15th anniversary shows, wrote back to say that she believes Anthony her former co-worker is doing well, 10 years since his medical emergency.
Last autumn, KALX DJ Anthony Bonet, aka Sex 14Teens, suffered a massive aneurysm, followed by approximately eight strokes. He won’t walk again, and, being uninsured, his significant other is now wading through such foul waters as Medi-Cal paperwork and housing issues. If you’d like to help funnel coin to the cause of moving expenses, assisted technology, transportation devices, etc., consider attending the Benefit for Anthony Bonet Friday night at Bottom of the Hill, where he was a booking assistant. The lineup is full-on stellar Bay Area twang, with Red Meat, Hammerdown Turpentine, and Jeffrey Luck Lucas and the Sorrows. $8 and up, 10 p.m., 21 and over. 415-621-4455 or ASingleStep.org/AnthonyBonet.htm (Stefanie Kalem, East Bay Express)
Anthony Bonet was totally on one day at a music panel, I think SFO1. I put out a newsletter, precursor to Plastic Alto, that lauded him. Because I am working on an event at Bottom of The Hill, I sent out a couple feelers about him. The above from East Bay Express summarizes what I know or knew. The late Mark O’Brien I never knew. But I was Jessica Yu’s editor her junior year at Gunn High (of Palo Alto) The Oracle and arranged a screening of her Academy Award winning short doc “Breathing Lessons” that raised $50K for Gunn arts new building after a fire. Gold circle ticketing plus matching grant that Leon Kaplan of COPA got from the Packard Foundation.
More on BOTH later. Anthony if you can hear me, say hi.
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The Amazing Gaye Adegbalola nee Todd, former VA teacher of the Year,uppity blues woman and Lions With Wings / Vizztone recording artist
My actual to do list, on cards:
Paul Oscher “Bet on The Blues” re Monk (review for Plastic Alto, to come);
2. Giorgio Moroder Italian electronic music guru, and Blondie and Curve and Donna Summer (review in part of Sylvie Simmons on Blondie Debbie Harry vs John Chowning);
3. Lady Blackbird, produced by Chris Seefried, possible SFJazz play, maybe in Palo Alto, overlapping with Noise Pop window;
4. Laura Chavez, my former client, catching up with, possible Palo Alto play;
5. New Guild Theatre, Menlo Park, 949 El Camino, Drew Dunlevie president Peninsula Arts Guild, article in Almanac by Kate Bradshaw (my fellow Dartmouthian) 11/5/21 with onsales December 1 i.e. three weeks out but schedule including STRFKR no clue 1/18 opening night; Son Volt, Molly Tuttle (who played The Mitch in November, 2019 — 1/29 the night I have Greaseland All Stars and or Caroline Davis residency at the Mitch); Charlie Hunter — who played my Cubberley Sessions five times with five different lineups and more than anyone else broke it down the value of a listening room, as distinct from the club Dunlevie and them are building; Robert Glasper; The Blasters. They have 14 shows announced. I meanwhile have three onsales this month plus another 10 or so planned for December, January, February and March — I tend not to work more than 90 days out, especially now with still a fair amount of white noise and chaos. The Guild even if they find 10 shows a month is not really competition except on certain days — I would not normally want to miss a Molly Tuttle or a Charlie Hunter show – which in effect means I will NOT book a 2/5/22 show, and maybe will change my time of 1/29 Caroline Davis to catch Molly; in this case its an experiment doing a fly-in and three-show residency for a rather unknown jazz musician — not as well known as Glasper or Hunter, clearly. And precedent was I moved Dayna Stephens to a matinee on August 18, 2019 who could forget that date when the Rolling Stones moved their date to compete with my deal.
I wish them luck. I think live music at the club level is deep enough that the Peninsula could support both 30 shows a year at The Mitch and 10 shows a month at The Guild. I still think especially having finally made it to (La Doña, La Santa Cecilia) The UC Theatre — David Mayeri’s x-BGP same business model more or less as Dunlevie) that leadership here should talk Chop Keenan into letting someone take over The Varsity 456 University. Also, Marc Geiger a Paly grad and former head of world wide booking for William Morris Endeavor has $300m of other people’s money he is investing in about 50 venues the nearest to here is Monterey The Golden Gate – he thinks Live Nation (The Fillmore), AEG Goldenvoice (The Warfield) and APE (The Independent SF — ironic name) will enforce 90 mile radius clauses that wood doom efforts like The Guild Dunlevie.
I wish them well, but I knew they would not, per their hype, get Taylor Swift or Willie Nelson at their opening. Or stay tuned.
Who is STRFKER? Who is Sarah Shook?
6. Rumor is that Tuck and Patti will be playing both The Mitch and The Guild this winter. We shall see who gets them first. Tuck by the way was on the guest list when Charlie Hunter played The Cub in 1995. And played Twilight for the City of Palo Alto a couple years back. I met Michael Hedges widow at The Varsity about two years ago, Mindy. Doing as I do, looking around, shaking her head. Shake tush, not head, peoples.
7. I’m also a candidate for Palo Alto Park and Rec commission on a music in the parks, First Amendment platform if that impacts any of this beyond the bully pulpit.
8. Leonard Cohen, November 12; at The Mitch, the Mitchell Park Community Center El Palo Alto room, tickets on sale now at EventBrite;
The great Diunna Greenleaf graces The Mitch on November 18
9. Greaseland All Stars, Sunday Jan. 30, 2022; featuring Kid Andersen and Linda Leuschner;
10. Diunna Greenleaf, November 18, 2021; the People’s Queen of the Blues, from Houston but recording at Greaseland in San Jose, for Little Village Music Foundation;
11. Barbara Manning SF Seals, The Corner Laughers; Clean Girl and the or her Dirty Dishes, November 20, doing 30-year performance of “This Perfect Green Blanket”; eventBrite;
12. Belly of the Beast film, Cynthia Chandler attorney advocate, something about women prisoners; see also “The Mars Room” novel by Rachel Kushner an ally of Chandler, she says; Terry and I saw this film and met Chandler at UNAFF.
13. Bolero Figueroa from the 562 I met at BOTH, former SFAI studnet, yes stud, uses the or a net, to hold his hair, unless that’s only on Halloweenie. Like when we met recently;
…The wind is kicking up here at Ramona, a Pixies song, and a pizza parlor turned sports bar, Raiders are on, when are the 49ers? and Coupa and the Team Time I tried for first time with
Oliver from Stanford plays Harp;
…and Nola TOO LOUD their sound system — hello, Greg St. Claire, can you hear me?
14. Charles Rumback – Chicago musician – it just might be that Guild with $50m investment in bricks and mortar and some impetus to program and not become a disco will push me to change my business plan more to things like having a Chicago presence or road work or PM or my label; I mean I like working my ass off to gross $5,000 per show and 30 shows per year and whatever effort that entails as compared to being a $120B guy like the other Mark who I met one night when the mural was installed;
15. Chicago 2022 9512 not sure what this means but I will print it; Palstic Alto is a series of public viewable rough drafts and dreamsongs ala John Berryman; I was born in Chicago at 95th and Bennett, I think that means;
which reminds me
16. Al Young; our state poet laureate, who died earlier this year and people are remembering him and honoring his memory in various ways; I’d like to produce an event that furthers that;
17. The Weekly and Almanac are a hotter mess considered side by side – -why not combine? — but I note now that aforementioned wind blows my hard copy that Heather Zimmerman has a story on EPA Center of the Arts 1950 Bay Road — talk about tale of two cities. I am trying to donate 3 shows there, outdoors, amphitheatre, about $20k in-kind, thru Regina Wallace Jones and or Nadine Rambeau. And are the two Wallace sources in HZ’s story the children of the mayor? I.e comparing the $30m Menlo Guild which I think is a ground lease via Mr. Crittendon, and the EPA Center which was from a grant by the Goldman Foundation plus some sort of $500K programming or operating grant from the Hewletts, I believe; as compared to founders of Yahoo giving back — I use Yahoo from my mail at earwopa@yahoo.com;
18. Clay Carson MLK; possiby tabling at Diunna Greenleaf on November 18. She wants that; and eighteen means life in Hebrew;
19. Cochiti Bang Bang, Mateo Romero;
20. Delbert Anderson Don Cherry “I Still Got It” ibid; I read just now that Delbert and his DDAT group won a grant from South Arts to visit five indigenous groups and play them jazz. Yo, go, Delbert!
cf Mali Obomsawin;
21.Enorchestra, Doug Hilsinger, Gary Floyd’s Hard Again; The Hall Flowers; my former client; not sure he is that anxious to play Palo Alto; Enorchestra not eager, I could say;
cd Victor Krummenaker ex CVB, A Great Laugh played the Cub;
22. Cooley Center in EPA nice little room would like to use; was satellite at Jasmina Bojic’s great UNAFF film festival; especially with local climate activists – Earthwise is a spin-off of Bay Area Action Acterra;
23. Tuck and Patti, tba;
24. Esther Berndt, my Gunn classmate, getting a PHD in education and a pretty good sax player in her day; cf Art Pepper, Frank Morgan;
25. Gaye Adegbalola, former Saffire Uppity Blues Women founder or cofounder, recorded a song suite for Lions With Wings, “Tell Mamala” on Vizztone Records, possible Bay Area tour or residency; I met by cold calling her after noticing a section about her in Bruce Iglauer’s memoir;
26. The Hop/Coast Dartmouth Taylor Ho Bynum, various deeds and dreams; cf Messier modernclassical; Mali Obosmsawin;
not be be confused even in Plasty to Classical Revolution Charith which appears Friday here as a trio for Leonard Cohen tribute and allegedly includes a Palo Altan;
27. Jeff Parker has appeared with Dave Douglas and twice with Scott Amendola for Earthwise at The Lyt, The Mitch and Art Center; I’d love to have him lead…love to love you baby…LA, VA or Chicago roux. I think Jeff Parker is co-leading a group or project booked into the new Guild Theatre;
Both. One, cats are busy. Two, there’s no money [laughs]. I actually feel kind of guilty about having these musicians come in and perform, and then I’ll move things around, and make it into something that I approve, you know? It’s really hard for me to make music where I’m writing everything and choosing everything that everyone’s playing, and giving people specific directions. But I kind of confronted it head-on to prove to myself that I could do it, because I had never done it before. I used to not even really believe in having a “solo career.” I make music with my friends.
Hi, Jeff
28. Johnny A, returning for his two-year migration to The Mitch, this time possibly 2/11/22 — ie. between Charlie Hunter and Robert Glasper at The Guild Dunlevie — doing a Van Halen tribute referncing my Gunn and Terman and Fremont Hills classmate and friend the late Mark Leland – we used to play air guitars on tennis racquets to Van Halen I in 1978 as delinquents, drinking vodka purloined this was before Tito or when Tito was just a dictator. There might be some blues dudes from SF opening, I saw in North Beach last week, retired school teacher. Or maybe he is January 11, I should get this straight;
29. Jules Indelicato is a sound person at BOTH and went to SF Conservatory and I hope to do something with her for Lions With Wings; also, gave birth in indirect way to the Lisa Fay Beatty “Save Me Yeah” event coming together for 11/28/21 in SF;
30. Kassi Valazza – -came and went, unless Wayne Horvitz bites; one of these days;
31. Little Village Foundation with Jimmy Pugh and Airlene Espiritu – -is also putting out the Diunna Greenleaf session that I claim is the shot heard around the world or will be;
Good to hear from Marc Geiger Paly ’80 and former WME honcho who was Tommy Jordan’s manager for Sound Castle or something back in 1980; Marc and Greg Kurstin were sitting around Napa wondering about Tommy and that led Marc to hit me up here in Plasty;
Chris Seefried, not to be confused with Chris Fry Bread, was in a band with my cousin Craig Ruda called Godschild (and also Joe 90) but is producing music for Trombone Shorty and many more, and I caught up to him by phone recently which might yield results although it is still true that time doesn’t know when it’s time for us all to go or know;
32. MC Lars — possible show at the Mitch on 3/11. Possible Van Halen commission like with Johnny A. Mark Leland my late friend also attended RLS in Carmel when young Lars was in diapers. Lars also has a song about math, that I’d like to license for Lions With Wings, which has two songs about math;
33. Megan Keely, of Portola Valley, Bert Keely’s girl, coming soon.
34. Marcus Shelby– Terry and I drove thru or near Healdsburg just yesterday, also Duncan’s Mill, Sebastopol, Russian River, Forestville, Les Claypool’s extraordinary slurp lounge open til six catch you next time hey smiley — has a deposit on his books for a April, 2020 show and is sort of ghosting me and I keep meaning to clear off my desk and write up the 10 or so ideas I’ve suggested as make good. I saw him with Gregory Porter at Frost, which by the way IS NOT IN PALO ALTO. But could be, if they let us put on a tax or surcharge, for Twilight Series music in the parks IN PALO ALTO. Frost is in Stanford, CA. Dunlevie and the New Guild Alliance are invited by the way to cross the creek and do shows here; more the merrier, dancing to same revolution; and I do or will do a few shows at Cafe Zoe, as I have;
35. Nancy Wright possible residency, in SF or here; we were discussing “don’t advertise your man” which I am sort of violating here. It is not clear whether blogging, like masturbation, increases the likelihood of said fantasy or lets the wind out of your sail, so to speak.
Rupa Marya, Casti grad but has never played Palo Alto; that might change in 2022, signs portend; and its #36 on my todo list or index cards with color Sharpie hues, which is double life to Jews like me;
I heard a woman mention Sandy Ostrow selling out her paintings at Dolby Chadwick perhaps and would love to get a poster art from her someday and she has a lovely daughter who sings;
Nancy Wright played at Lytton Plaza part of the now famous Together Again Palo Alto with help from Chamber of Commerce and Mayor Tom Dubois on Election Day and I left the show between sets to go vote, at Cubberley, in the basketball room, weird nightmare of references;
37. Oliver Harp; Come as You Are; Smells Like Teen Spirit; your choice;
38. candidate for Palo Alto Parks commission; my 10th or 11th such effort; bully pulpit if not actual direct action or becoming leadership;
39. Reggie Austin, a piano player from Berkeley area I met at UNAFF;
40. Reuvenation, is losing its lease but might have a show — its a neat room and I am all about bringing music to Uni Ave if I don’t actually have a corporate division;
41. Scott Amendola, continuing his Earthwise residency and therefore surpassing Charlie Hunter in the leaderboards: December 15, 2021 with Amendola Vs Blades at The Mitch, onsale Tuesday, 11/9; January 23, 2022 with Ben Goldberg and the great Todd Sickafoos (“Hadestown”) on bass: Plays Monk; includes #42;
I thought of something else but it went away…
43. Sharon Benitez and her sister of Los Panadores who I met at the weirdly run Palo Alto World Music Day or Month 2021, doing a cover of Cake, “Mexico” but original arrangment that sounds like someone who has heard or played Mexican music or what I call folklorico — cf La Marisol of La Santa Cecilia band, hope to get her or them here, too.
44. Shelly Doty, who played the Cub solo with Pele Juju filling in for Ben Barnes Rilke Strings who struck or were struck and also played a showcase or series I did on Bascom in the 408 Cafe T, hope to bring her back or do some studio work with; see also LVMF;
45. Taylor Goss, LSU/CCRMA, and maybe Chowning;
46. Tommy Jordan, who ever you are or will be; maybe remounted Geggy Tah with Greg Brown ex-Cake or Greg Camp of Smashmouth;
47. UnAFF satelitte events or joint venture in 2022 with Earthwise; Jasmina I met at a Train show in 1999; although maybe I scotched the deal so to speak by pointing out that the Swiss tv tabloid pablum show was like the blood libel in that it seems to blame the Jews for some other complicated outcome or situation; or as I said, aloud, in between hissing and boing: “but for the Jews my mistress and I were so happy”;
Loved the Wes Anderson joint about the fictional French New Yorker, my first movie in 19 months;
48. Something in north north CA like Humboldt or Arcata and maybe just learning the difference between Humboldt and Arcata and indigenous and justice and MC Lars and Andre Cramblitt and I met Eleanor Kraft whose daughter the attorney Kathleen Bryson went to Gunn, played Volleyball and badminton;
49. Steve Zukowsky, Gunn ’80 possible Van Halen tribute;
50.Some guy with unusual name friend of Jacob Savage plays guitar, I saw play in street, maybe for ibid; This falls under a project that is both personal growth opportunity turned into a music project, which is what Earthwise 1994-2021 is, regarding in this case the late Mark Leland;
51. Will Bernard; live or in studio;
I’m here all week. Try the fish.
Good luck to The Guild.
Good luck to Gunn football in CCS. (Note: I got the word later than morning or early afternoon that Gunn Titans, 8-2 despite a three-way tie for El Camino Division league championship with Los Altos and Cupertinno, were left out of the CCS football draw;
Go, Niners. (they lost to Cardinals, even playing withou Kyler Murray their star);
Chuck Essegian went to Stanford and has a rare distinction of playing in both a Rose Bowl and a World Series. Whereas Joc Pederson played football with Davante Adams at Paly and wore pearls in the World Series. How many guys have won two consecutive WS rings, for two different franchises like Joc? Also, I met Champ for the first time a few weeks ago, in front of the Old Pro. Maybe Amy Liddicoat introduced me.
bw Giants homeruns, 2021:
Brandon Belt, 29
Mike Yastrezemski, 25
Brandon Crawford, 24
Buster Posey, 18
Wilmer Flores, 18
Lamonte Wade, 18
Darin Ruf, 16
Evan Longoria, 16 (in 81 games)
Kris Bryant 7 (plus 18 with Cubs)
Note: Carl Yastrezemski had 19 homers in 1961, good for tie for 21st in his league, but finished his career with 452. His nephew or cousin Mike has 56 now while Joc has a total of 148 now plus two rings. I hear that Palo Altan Phil Hellmuth got another bracelet at World Series of Poker, is 15th or so. All time greatest result.
In 1970 Don Cherry taught at Dartmouth, and in 1995 he died. Ten years later, in 2005 — though thats now 16 years ago- I interviewed about a dozen of his former students there, plus was given access to a file compiled by Jon Appleton, a music teacher there who claimed responsibility for the residency. Either in my article for the alumni magazine or a longer manuscript I self-published here at Plastic Alto, I mentioned that Don apparently borrowed a flute from the college’s ethnographic collection, but there is no record of his having returned it. There’s a note where he apologies for taking the flute with him to Europe, saying “this flute needs to be heard”.
Delbert Anderson heard that story and wrote a song about it, “I Still Got It”. It’s a funky party number and only loosely references the case. It name-checks Thelonius Monk not Don or Ornette. But it seems that the first world brothers or sisters find it pretty funny, if brother Don was ghosting the Ivy League school (i.e the nations 9th oldest, that started to “civilize the pagans” and has a $8.5B endowment).
There’s actually a whole new suite of music that re-constitutes Don Cherry emphasizing his Chocktaw heritage rather than his Black side. It features Delbert, who I met online at Folk Alliance in February, and Mali Obomsawin, an indigenous woman from Vermont, who is a Dartmouth alumna.
Delbert will be in SF Monday, maybe sitting it with Snot Nose Rez Kids at Bottom of the Hill, maybe at some hoot or open night. They are driving from Gallup, NM to Kern County for a hit then onward to Frisco just as tourists, and a few meetings. (There was a Sac show that showed little sack, as we used to say, in Hanover, when we were the balls).
Delbert Anderson group is in residence at Sonoma State the following week. And he is invited at least virtually to be part of FONT, festival of new trumpet. There is a rumor that producer Chris Seefried who worked with Trombone Shorty wants to help Delbert reach a wider audience. My Don Cherry mentors are Peter Apfelbaum and Steve Bernstein, plus Steve Herzfeld and Fred Haas. Taylor Ho Bynum says he assigns my essay to his students. I may have seen Don just once at The Up and Down Club compilation cd release party, by Prawn Song, well before I knew I was going to be a concert promoter and certainly before I took an interest, via Charlie Hunter, also on Prawn Song, in jazz. In a completely unrelated development, I am doing an Earthwise residency with Caroline Davis (sax) at The Mitch, January 27, 28, 29, plus doing shows with Amendola-Goldberg-Sickafoose (Plays Monk), and Amendola Vs Blades. I did 10 jazz shows this summer, or so.
I will report further on Delbert and Don.
This music reminds me of Boots Riley, Purple Pam, The Coup and “Sorry to Bother You”.
It sort of reminds me that the last assignment I had in advertising was from Young & Rubican or Foote Cone and Belding to come in for $200 and write ads for Chevron, “now with 25 percent more Techroline, it turns your engine into a washing machine” and I told them to go fuck themselves — US had invaded Iraq and people my age were in the streets outside my window yelling “NO BLOOD FOR OIL! – -and instead I took a foxy Black lady named Gabrielle Brown ’85 to Stinson Beach, then gave up my apartment, moved home to my parents’ house and a few months later became this, which I’ve stuck with 27 years. I noticed a sign at the pump “25th Anniversary of Techron”. (Fact-checking my own memoir I learn that a couple years after that came the claymation cars in their ads, to introduce the same product or concept – cleans your engine — and I was just talking about my old friend the dj on KFOG Renee Richardson who voiced one of those little cars – -don’t blame her. I knew her when she had a pierced tongue, was Renee Rotten on Live 105 and Hibernia Beach late nights — good gal).
*I call the Delbert Anderson track source for this screed “I Still Got It” although the file is labeled “Taos Flute (rough mix)”.
FIRST I’LL TAKE HAMBURG THEN I’LL TAKE BERLIN; or, I’m Your Gent
Two great shows, for all you Germans and your superfast touring sedans and the highway: Anouska Shankar in Hamburg, Dave Douglas in Berlin. Auto-something. Precision auto, if I pass you just to slow down. Anoushka on the Autobhan. The agent Todd Walker said yesterday he was off to see Anoushka, I asked him to check her, his client, for a tattoo on her lower back, lumbar 3-6 kind of thing, that I noticed when she was at Stanford a few years back – -I was with Hans Wendl, who is from Munich and ECM. In 2001, with her dad.
Dave Douglas in Ghent tonite but Berlin later — I’m so confused…
Dave is doing ding dong three shows in honor of The Alter. Lamb something. Pretty famous piece of wood. Though he is brassy.
The Weisses I suspect are not really Weisses. We checked the Levi’s back to 1750 or so. On my mom’s side, and I spoke to Craig who worked with Chris who works with Anouska – the nidus of this yarn — and repeated that the Baker’s are actually either Soukoenigs or Sudeniks.
Big world, one love. Plenty skronky. Auf widerson. Tjat’s all I gat. Gatsby. To be or not to be. I’m just a teenage dirt bag, Andrew. In German the Iron maidens are literally maidens and literally have metal uppers. Steel Pole bath tube, bambi nonymous
Tomeka Reid, Dave Douglas in Germany today
This is from Berkeley Planet, December, 2001 — twenty years ago today — courtesy of something called the internet search foonkshun: Jupiter Dec. 6: Joshi Marshal Project; Dec. 7: AVI Bortnick Group; Dec. 8: Harvey Wainapel Quartet; Dec. 12: Mushroom; Dec. 13: Joshi Marshal Project; Dec. 14: Broun Fellini’s; Dec. 15: Norah Jones and Jim Campilongo; Dec. 19: Spectraphonic; Dec. 20: Joshi Marshal Project; Dec. 21: Crater; Dec. 22: Post Junk Trio; Dec. 27: Joshi Marshal Project; All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless noted. 2181 Shattuck Ave., 843-7625, http://www.jupiterbeer.com. I was one of only 10 people at that show. I heard about it from Hans Wendl, who was persons 1 and 2 of the 10. Avi Bortnick was from Berkeley before New York and played with John Scofield but also produces and triggers samples via guitar; Harvey Wainapel I saw recently, February, 2020, Mardi Gras it was a Tuesday, right before the lockdown with Beth, Ben and Sheldon clearly netting; Mushroom is Pat Thomas and sometimes Ralph Carney and once Caroleen Beatty; my timeline for Norah is that I saw her at Yoshi’s with Charlie Hunter, was told by Hans that she was Ravi’s daughter but not to repeat that, for 20 years and only then to wait until WordPress was invented; her album came out; the Jupiter show, no one there; Liberty Ellman somewhere in there said that Blue Note was hoping for 20,000 units not “diamond platinum” as of February, 2005, ten million; John Ellis my client for about 13 months stradling my 40th birthday which I also spent with Patricia Barber and Joan Bender, so to speak, dated or married Pavani — slightly post-term in my parallax view – who was friends with Norah so they, for instance, saw SNL as her guests; and although we are discussing a Black singer from England influenced by Nina Simone the agent Todd Walker who covers the waterfront and apparently 2 or more continents mentioned that we had to have our phone meeting around noon because he is off to Germany to see Anoushka. And then in the actual meeting said that the tattoo discussion was “water under the bridge” but I brought it around == the card that is so hard and wild – -is that Leonard Cohen – -just some Joseph looking for a manager — to point out the nice tats on said singer. Stranger.
I guess I should take this opportunit to get the least est fluency about the alter the lamb ghent jan van somthing. I think I saw it in Michael Kimmelman book on art that I used to name check so much. Terry, Terry my Terry, Terry TMW Terry my wife, Terry Acebo Davis MFA said she made some prints referencing Ghent – Terry who had a mega-residency in Belgium. Check back.
Leonard Cohen thing TBA
Kudos and huzza to Carla Kihlsteadt and her brood in Cape Cod; to Bambi Marianne in Petaluma thanks to Mia in Sf and Miranda from the deli — Roy’s –who I guessed might know Marianne based on her….t…a..t…t…oos.
We are absoFUCKINlutely going to think about drink about Lisa Fay Beatty at Bottom of the Hill, Sunday November 28 i.e. a couple days after thanksgiving, thanking our lucky stars and that we knew her.
As compared to Barbara Manning doing 30 year show for “This Perfect Green Blanket” at The Mitch five days before Thanksgiving and 8 days before the Lisa Fay fete. November 2 0 at The Mitch. Probably cap the attendence at 10o peeps but who are we kidding and yes Green Day, Weezer and FallOut Boy grossed $4m per show at Oracle Park and Dodger Stadium.
Saw Chris Strausser at Colts-Niners. Shouted and he wavied back. The old navy bravey wavey. Georgia and Wallis.
Shows are piling up, like moss on a pine at Sea Ranch: Diunna Greenleaf, November 18; Bhi Bhiman, Syvlie Simmons, Aleta Hayes and Charith Classical Revolution, November 12; Delbert Anderson quartet somewhere in the Bay Area on November 8, four days hence. Scott Amendola with Wil Blades in December at The Mitch, his debut there. Amendola Goldberg Sickafoos Plays Monk at The Mitch in January; Caroline Davis three show residency around the 28th my birthday; Greaseland All Stars featuring Kid Andersen and his wife Laura Leuschner – another thing I need to wrap my tongue around or my brain – the spelling, how to say it – for purely professional and journalistic reasons — tongue in the sense of idiolect; gotta fix the odd Anouska Anoushka, too; MC Lars and a single about Hamlet, David Foster Wallace, Wheatus, Infinite Jest….creeps at this petty pace. So long Marianne gotta goo. Said the spider too its prey.
he tried in his way to be free, which reminds that I just read in “The End Of The Golden Gate” Peter Coyote recapping the striving for authenticity that formed and folded Diggers, Sf Mime Troupe and too few other movements, maybe Earthwise can try harder to be like that although I was just starting to think its great to try not to try. Bird on a wire:
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 