Tag Archives: Palo Alto

Palo Alto rock and roll landmark(s)

Posted on August 17, 2022 by markweiss86

  In this alley, roughly 60 years ago, Jerry Garcia, playing a banjo, first met Bobby Weir, to form the Grateful Dead:   And here, on Bryant Street in Palo Alto, California, USA, someone painted part of a bike bridge … Continue reading →

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I pay estimated taxes every quarter for my small Palo Alto music business, but apparently Castilleja School because it packs Palo Alto leadership with insiders, paid $250k by check seven years and three days ago, but cheats We The People out of $5 millon each year

Posted on November 23, 2020 by markweiss86
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Crate-digger: from Creamer and Layton ‘Whoa Tillie’ to Eddy Mitchell ‘Baseball (Anna)’ in five easy paces

Posted on July 28, 2019 by markweiss86

Yesterday while in my walk-training I stopped at an estate sale and bought five not necessarily play-able 78 shellacs From a guy name Chris Easton On Marion Street very near where the Ohlone had burial mounds until the 1960s — … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto Rock a a to z w

Posted on June 7, 2019 by markweiss86

W World For Ransom is or was a Palo Alto based rock band featuring Billie Eyeball — her legal name for as long as I’ve known her — and Dave Womack as manager. Ray Poague, a Gunn 1980 graduate, played … Continue reading →

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I misheard Strutz Levett as ‘Stressful Death’, no reason to denny

Posted on December 2, 2018 by markweiss86
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Three random Dartmouth alums in conspiracy to sell beer at council meetings

Posted on August 27, 2018 by markweiss86

Heubach ‘71, Gordon ‘76 and Weiss ‘86 two Kiwanis and “a son of a Gunn for beer” at Palo Alto crafts fair.

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Stone v. Lunt

Posted on August 14, 2018 by markweiss86

Caption: A civil servant named Kimberly Lunt leads a group of children on a tour of Palo Alto’s City Hall, on May 29, 2018 while nearby a group of our finest gather in blue (not like the trees) following a … Continue reading →

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I wish I knew how it would feel to be free

Posted on July 17, 2018 by markweiss86

Billy Taylor wrote “I Wish I Knew” in 1963, before I was born. Nina Simone recorded the most famous version, in 1967, on “Silk and Sumpin’”, released as a single, later used in recent times out of context by some … Continue reading →

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I’ve got your 3

Posted on June 14, 2018 by markweiss86
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Mark and Duffy at Blue Trees Project, 250 Hamilton, City Hall, King Plaza by artist Kon and Adele

Posted on May 15, 2018 by markweiss86
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