Steven Marcus:
CLASS OF 1971
Menlo-Atherton High SchoolClass of 1971
Atherton, CA
Canada CollegeClass of 1977
Redwood city, CA
Lincoln CollegeClass of 1973
Lincoln, IL
Peninsula SchoolClass of 1967
Menlo park, CA
Steven's Story
Life
Worked for:
Discount Records in Menlo Park 1970-1975
BASS Tickets at the main office in Oakland, CA 1975-1982:
(Weekend box office manager from 1975-1977, special events promotions from 1977-1980; <this included handling publicity and promotion for the 1977, 1978 & 1979 San Francisco Hooker's Balls which have now morphed into the Exotic,Erotic Balls>, various jobs from 1980-1982)
Bill Graham Presents 1976-1979 (Blue Coat security and stage hand)
M & H Productions: 1977-1985(promoted local concerts, William Ackerman,
Queen Ida, Terry McGovern...
National Semiconductor 1980-1982 (Puchasing Agent)
Grateful Dead (dba Grateful Dead Ticket Sales) 1983-1996- in charge of ticket sales. Voice of the Grateful Dead Hotline from 1989-1997
GDTS T00, Inc. 1996-1997; co-owner and president. Sold mail order/internet tickets to various Grateful Dead related events after Jerry Garcia's death.
Eye Candy Promotions (eyecandypromo <dot>com) 1997-Present; (dba Bob Dylan Ticket Sales)
Bob Dylan 1997-1999- set up internet ticket sales for his website.
Gallagher 1999-what a schmuck!
RadioShack 2000-2002-managed two stores, one in Marin City (Tupac Shakurs' hometown), and one in Santa Rosa
Had a triple-by-pass in November 2001 (2001, what an uneventful year...)
Internet sales on eBay (30+ years of Rock n Roll stuff) 2001-Present
Self (consultant) 2002-Present (Eye Candy Promotions)
Acting/Extra in films & TV 2003-Present:
(Includes lots of Japanese TV shows & more recently the movie RENT (I am a "patron" at the Cat Scratch Club with freeze frame you might be able to see my legs.)
Rumor Has It with Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner (I am a "tourist" in ChinaTown<look fast you can see me in the middle of the crowd during the parade>.)
Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith opened December 15, 2006 <Smith runs past me on the sidewalk, and I ...Expand for more
an onlooker when he gets hit by a car>.
I have been to over 500 Grateful Dead concerts, 15+ Rolling Stones concerts including two in London, 20+ Bruce Springsteen concerts, 25+ Bob Dylan concerts (including the 1992 Tribute at Madison Square Garden), 2 Beatles concerts, 3 Led Zeppelin concerts, 10+ The Band concerts (including The Last Waltz), 10+ The Who concerts, 1 Cher concert, 10+ Bette Midler concerts, two Little Richard concerts, 5 Willie Nelson concerts 3, Johnny Cash 1, Kris Kristoferson 1, Waylon Jennings concert, 2 Lily Tomlin, 2 Richard Pryor, 10+ Robin Williams, 3 George Carlin, 4 Steve Martin, 4 David Letterman shows (1 at NBC, 3 at CBS), 1 Saturday Night Live show (John Travolta was the host, I was a guest of Al Franken who gave me a tour of the backstage area and took me to the cast party where I got to hob-knob with Travolta, Neil Young, Christian Slater, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, David Spade, etc.)
I could go on and drop a lot more names of people I met over the years, talked to or got to know during my years with the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan including; Bruce Springsteen (5 times), Jackson Browne (many times, still in contact), Tony Bennett (no joke, I got Dead tickets for his daughter in NYC and he came to the show!), Elvis Costello, Cher, John Sebastian, and lots more. I didn't collect autographs, just memories, although I do have a picture of me smoking a Joint with George Carlin!!!
My new favorite band is called Railroad Earth a combination of Bluegrass and jamband.
Check out my website:
Divorced with two daughters; Robin 20 and Zoë 19.
Oh yea, through Classmates.com I found my former good friend from Lincoln College after 35 years in February of 2006! In September she moved from the Chicago area to live with me in northern California and everything is WONDERFUL!!!
(***THANK YOU CLASSMATES.COM!!!)
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