You should stand up in public and act your conscience. Our mayor Pat Burt, using my baseball analogy said he was trying to bunt the ball to avoid striking out. I name dropped Palo Alto Vikings’ Henry Bolte, who had 13 homers for the #2 top public school in the entire Bay Area (and had 48 steals). I told Pat that people in Palo Alto like winners, and they like heavy hitters. At this rate, by the time there is something on the November ballot, we may be asking our billionaires and trillionaires to pitch in a measley million dollars, or just let us literally eat the remains of their scrumptous power lunches let us eat cake! At a recent public hearing he was discussing $20m. I spoke with our mayor Pat Burt today and he told me that although he initially thought he could raise $40m (towards our roughly $200m budget) via a business tax, he has lowered his expectations to $10m. No, Pat your argument is specious, mine is solid. Jerry had an anecdote about Mike Reid the former NFL Bengal turned Nashville singer-songwriter and a hit he had - slang for popular song, not separating Roman Gabriel from his chinstrap - about writing something in one mood, looking at it later, confusedly then finding the right tone for it.
I don’t Gary White’s “Long Long Time” meant much to me at the time it was on KYA or KFRC or KLIV but somehow it pulls the heartstrings today. I’m hoping to bring them back as soon as appropriate, and maybe sponsor them in the studio to put on tape their takes of “Blue Bayou”, “Poor Pitiful Me” and “Just One Look”. They played three originals for an encore and I think that those songs can find an audience. Sony is a former midwestern farm girl – -her maiden name is Einerson or Eisenhower - and she is a jazzbo. Jerry Holland is actually a Jewish songwriter from Connecticutt and New York who was on staff at the Nashville studios for a while. Linda has Parkinson’s or a variation thereof so cannot speak for herself these days. To another I emphasized that she was Latina. To two different people, I had mentioned that Linda was once partnered to our governor, Jerry Brown. I had seen the recent documentary about Ronstadt. Sony had brief intro’s to most of the songs she knew the authors of the songs and the producers of the albums. The duo ran thru about 12 of her classic songs, including one in Spanish.
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So I am saying – to the crowd and now here - that my concert series is a push-back against the media but I did use cues from terrestial radio and a weekly rag to add Sony Holland to my eclectic music series in a public plaza here (or two public forums, if you include my series at Mitch Bowl).
I caught her interview on KCSM jazz radio with Chris Cortez years ago then noticed while exploring the North Bay that she had an ad in the local paper about her Linda Ronstadt tribute show. It was my first time hearing Sony Holland. My phone died during soundcheck yesterday at the show but luckily a friend of the artist named Terry Dudley shot the show and sent me these photos today.
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