KBCO 7/17/07: 1982

[mshray]

Ho-lee crap! Joni! "Chinese cafe", BOS5 and kudos to Marcus for one of the most interesting '82 sets in memory.

I think he's quite a bit younger than you & me, here's his KBCO bio.

The Story of Marcus: Born Marcus Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, Marcus briefly attended the University of Minnesota before leaving for New York City to be a part of the coffeehouse scene. It wasn’t long before he ended up in the Green Mountains of Vermont, splitting the year between snowboarding and following Phish around the country. After showing off in an attempt to make it into a ski movie, a few broken bones forced him to give up snowboarding. Without Phish to follow around the country, Marcus ended up in Boulder, where the mountains are bigger, there’s better Mexican food, and the jam scene is more reliable. Now he enjoys biking and compulsively reorganizing his CD collection.

which made me wonder right off...a Zimmerman from Duluth?  ya don't suppose...?

[RGMike]

Ho-lee crap! Joni! "Chinese cafe", BOS5 and kudos to Marcus for one of the most interesting '82 sets in memory.

I think he's quite a bit younger than you & me, here's his KBCO bio.

The Story of Marcus: Born Marcus Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, Marcus briefly attended the University of Minnesota before leaving for New York City to be a part of the coffeehouse scene. It wasn’t long before he ended up in the Green Mountains of Vermont, splitting the year between snowboarding and following Phish around the country. After showing off in an attempt to make it into a ski movie, a few broken bones forced him to give up snowboarding. Without Phish to follow around the country, Marcus ended up in Boulder, where the mountains are bigger, there’s better Mexican food, and the jam scene is more reliable. Now he enjoys biking and compulsively reorganizing his CD collection.

which made me wonder right off...a Zimmerman from Duluth?  ya don't suppose...?

Um, I think that's meant to be a joke, no?  "coffehouse scene", har har.

[mshray]

Ho-lee crap! Joni! "Chinese cafe", BOS5 and kudos to Marcus for one of the most interesting '82 sets in memory.

I think he's quite a bit younger than you & me, here's his KBCO bio.

The Story of Marcus: Born Marcus Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, Marcus briefly attended the University of Minnesota before leaving for New York City to be a part of the coffeehouse scene. It wasn’t long before he ended up in the Green Mountains of Vermont, splitting the year between snowboarding and following Phish around the country. After showing off in an attempt to make it into a ski movie, a few broken bones forced him to give up snowboarding. Without Phish to follow around the country, Marcus ended up in Boulder, where the mountains are bigger, there’s better Mexican food, and the jam scene is more reliable. Now he enjoys biking and compulsively reorganizing his CD collection.

which made me wonder right off...a Zimmerman from Duluth?  ya don't suppose...?

Um, I think that's meant to be a joke, no?  "coffehouse scene", har har.

Yeah I got that part, but I'm wondering if he's really a a Zimmerman from Duluth & he's actually making a joke about a distant relative, or at least playing a joke on the people who always ask him if he's related.

[mshray]

Ho-lee crap! Joni! "Chinese cafe", BOS5 and kudos to Marcus for one of the most interesting '82 sets in memory.

I think he's quite a bit younger than you & me, here's his KBCO bio.

The Story of Marcus: Born Marcus Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, Marcus briefly attended the University of Minnesota before leaving for New York City to be a part of the coffeehouse scene. It wasn’t long before he ended up in the Green Mountains of Vermont, splitting the year between snowboarding and following Phish around the country. After showing off in an attempt to make it into a ski movie, a few broken bones forced him to give up snowboarding. Without Phish to follow around the country, Marcus ended up in Boulder, where the mountains are bigger, there’s better Mexican food, and the jam scene is more reliable. Now he enjoys biking and compulsively reorganizing his CD collection.

which made me wonder right off...a Zimmerman from Duluth?  ya don't suppose...?

Um, I think that's meant to be a joke, no?  "coffehouse scene", har har.

Yeah I got that part, but I'm wondering if he's really a a Zimmerman from Duluth & he's actually making a joke about a distant relative, or at least playing a joke on the people who always ask him if he's related.

So I emailed him with some praise for the last two sets, and also enquired about the bio.  He replied:

My bio is almost 100 percent fabricated.  I am from Minnesota, but I thought if used all of Bob Dylan’s biography it would be a bit too obvious.  I prefer to be more low key rather than write about all the different radio stations I’ve worked at.