1) Have you ever had management?— Not officially but was a part of Cavalier Music Collective which was a collective some friends started, mostly Kent Hertz who is Steve Millers main engineer.

2) Have you ever had a record deal?
No but I am a guest/featured vocalist on a record called Go Oasis by Crazy Baldhead, the guitar player for The Slackers, who is with Badasonic Records

3) How many songs have you written?
12 with She Go!
10 with SlowStart
6 with Luv Maschine
20ish for solo

4) How many live shows have you played?
probably over 100

5) where is your favorite place to play?
66th Congress in Brooklyn
Winter’s Tavern in Pacifica, CA


6) what is your day job, if you don't do music fulltime?
Art Model

7) do you have an education, like college or university?
BA- Communication, University of Hawaii at Hilo

8) what is the first concert you attended?
I was 8
Lilith Fair to see Natalie Merchant, Sarah McLaughlin

9) what was the last time you saw live music? before covid
I don’t remember, probably a friends show in a small venue, I went to a lot of those, but I played one in Brooklyn on 3.14

10) who are your influences?
More like favorites...
Toots and the Maytals
Ben Harper
Fiona Apple
Al Green
Bob Marley
The Slackers
The Rolling Stones
Citizen Cope
The Pixies
Fela Kuti
Alice Coltrane
Steel Pulse
The Cranberries

11) have you read "in dubious battle"?
Nope

12) what was your hometown before LA? where did you go to High school?
Born in Tulsa, OK, Raised in West Palm Beach, Florida - attended A. W. Dryfoos School of the Arts. Lived in Hilo Hawaii for 5 years, attended UH Hilo, then lived in LA 6 years, traveled and lived in Bali and Paris, moved to Brooklyn 3 years, bicoastal LA/BK almost a year and now back in LA.

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 5:36 PM mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have a small company in Palo Alto, which is an inconvenient part of the San Francisco market which is probably the 10th best market for music parentheses after LA New York Nashville Chicago etc.  
I think what I do is legit. 
I’m always interested in an artist’s journey and the continuum from legendary people and very successful or financially impressive people down to street musicians or students or children prodigy and everything in between.
Overall I think music is an important social practice and culture and even a sacred thing we do, that thing we do.  
I am a little bit less impressed with what the proliferation of computers and handheld computers and the Internet and even bandcamp and even apple have wrought. 
I definitely still think that the best way to build up a following is to try to get in front of people live as much as possible but of course that means waiting for Covid to go away. 
And also if you start to get some savvy about the game or the business and there might be like 1,000 tiny choices and the ability to choose a slightly better path will somehow help you more than making slightly worse choices.  
I do not believe in gatekeepers; I do not believe in getting discovered. 
L. Marie Cook —her friends call her Leslie —is on a unique journey is the captain of her own ship so to speak and is choosing her fellow travelers and I think I’d like to step to her step for a minute.  
Sorry for the lecture have a nice evening, we will push this forward soon.  
(some of the collaborators on this part of the project—Lions With Wings internet only free streaming on bandcamp— I’ve known for 20 years but it’s OK to throw in the occasional lucky find on the Internet)
I think what I am doing although it’s unique and of the moment is also comparable to the old fashion “demo deal”.  
But for me I look at it as research and doing better shows once I resume my concert series.  
“Women on the Wall” I kind of picked it arbitrarily I’m basically trying to find 30 writers  for 30 songs and have a half dozen or so usually I give the collected stories of Wallace Stegner as a gift to someone I am targeting. 
I think I have approached more than a dozen people so far.  (Fewer than half have turned in an outcome)
There’s another collection slightly harder to find called “women on the wall” I can either xerox the story or send you a copy of the book if you can’t find it easy enough or it might be on the Internet somewhere. 
The story has to do with women I think in San Diego whose husbands were fighting in World War II and they would walk down waiting for the postman to deliver the mail good or bad news.  
Stegner was a good guy but his attitudes were very much 20th century maybe if you find it too paternalistic you can respond in your own voice with the song.  
I know his daughter-in-law Lynn Stegner I took her course recently.  
Mark

Earlier today I got some good news from someone trying to record for me and I said I would run to the lions and give them a big smooch it’s an actual landmark on Stanford campus about 2 miles away I’ll send that along in a minute
today was a good day