Archive shot and musings

 

Bassist/composer Elijah Pontecorvo and me, getting far out at a theater on 6th St., San Francisco ca. 2015. This was an ebolabuddha set at a show that featured up-and-coming Asian musicians in the San Francisco community. I think Steve Jong, ebolabuddha guitarist, must have shoehorned us onto the bill somehow. I felt strange performing, but the people were friendly and accepting of our weirdness, even the parents of younger people whose first bands were playing. They probably felt a certain amount of disdain as ebolabuddha did our thing I'd imagine. Hopefully their kids went on to get those advanced degrees, marriages, and suchlike. 

On a more current note, I'm happy to say that God has granted me a new chance to play music with people! I have been getting together with actual live human beings within an actual physical space in order to organize sounds! You know, music! At this point I have no idea what will transpire with this situation, and, honestly, it's enough for me to just be able to play the drums with people again. I will say that the guy who is leading this group is very smart and very talented, and it's a gas to hang out and jam with him and the other guys that he's rounded up. 

My project of archiving a lot of the music that I have been involved with, at archive.orghttps://archive.org/details/@mark_pino, is pretty close to being wrapped up. If you're at all inclined to want to hear warts and all clips of my music, that's the place to check. There will be a few more things posted at that site, but I am quickly running out of files to upload. Having the time to get that project done has been one of the hidden blessings from the past couple of years of living through societal upheaval of world-historic nature, for sure. There have been others for me as well, but, sadly, most of my former associates will likely never hear about mine. I'd be delighted to hear about theirs. Hit me up, I am not hateful.