Eli Dr. Blues Marcus
Eli Marcus
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Eli Dr. Blues Marcus
Male
52 years old
Tel aviv
Israel
Last Login: 8/15/2009
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pugnacious
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Eli Dr. Blues Marcus's Interests
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| General | Music,
cinema,
bicycles,
record collecting,
science,
technology,
cooking,
brass cast belt buckles,
fountain pens,
Jewish history/philosophy | | Music | Sonny Rollins
Lenny Breau
Rev Gary Davis
Muddy Waters
Willie Dixon
Percy Mayfield
Charles Mingus | | Movies | "Two For the Road" by Stanley Donen,
"Day for Night" by Francois Truffaut,
"Kaspar Houser" by Werner Herzog,
"Aguirre, the Wrath of God" by Werner Herzog,
"A Hard Day's Night" by Richard Lester
"Kiss The Sky" by Roger Young | | Television | I do a regular Blues radio show on Radio 88FM in Israel, see my playlists at Eli's Blues Radio | | Books | "Coming Through Slaughter" - Michael Ondaatje
"Mister Jelly Roll" - Alan Lomax
"One Long Tune - the Life and Music of Lenny Breau" - Ron Forbes-Roberts
"Escaping the Delta" - Elijah Wald | | Heroes | Charles Mingus,
Lenny Breau,
Rory Gallagher,
Rev. Gary Davis,
Marshal McLuhan,
Harold Adams Innis,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sonny Rollins,
Ansel Adams,
Edward Weston,
Rene Magritte,
Salvador Dali,
Hans Arp,
Max Ernst, |
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Eli Dr. Blues Marcus's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Body type: | 6' 1" / Athletic | | Religion: | Jewish | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Grad / professional school |
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Eli Dr. Blues Marcus's Schools
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOLS
Toronto, Canada
Graduated: N/A
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Zoology
Minor: Communications - Mass Media
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1975 to 1980 |
Newton South High
Newton Centre, MA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Science
Minor: Photography
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1972 to 1975 |
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Eli Dr. Blues Marcus's Networking
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Eli Dr. Blues Marcus's Companies
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Radvision
Tel Aviv, IL
Technical Writer
Marketing
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1999-2001
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Orsus Solutions
Or Yehuda, IL
Technical Writer
Sales and Marketing
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2001-2004
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Metalink Broadband
Yakum, IL
Technical Writer
Customer Support
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2004-2006
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Wisair
IL
Technical Writer
Marketing
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2006-present
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Eli Dr. Blues Marcus - the Blues are keeping me cool now that fall has arrived... Posted at 1:45 PM Nov 6, 2008
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About me:
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...One night in a dark and empty room in downtown Toronto, just past midnight, my buddy, Canadian Blues and Jazz artist Champagne Charlie was teaching me some of my first Ragtime guitar licks...I guess that's when I got serious about the Blues... or maybe it was the Blind Blake LP that I found standing alone on a record stand in a store on Harvard Avenue in Boston when I was 15 years old - for only 59 cents... Whatever the reasons, I have been devoted to singing and studying the Blues for more than half my life.
Early on, I felt that my mission in life is to help perpetuate the Blues, to help others understand the beauty that is in the Blues, and to keep it alive. Over the years I have worked at promoting my musician friends in any way I can. I ran the Fingerboard coffee-house and open stage in Toronto in the late 1970's, as well as organizing a number of small Blues and Jazz concerts to help expose my musical friends to the University of Toronto audiences (while completing my BSc. degree). I also spent a few years as a freelance photographer and writer, covering some of my favortie artists for local newspapers or magazines, including rare interviews with artists who normally refused to be in the press.
In 1981 I emigrated to Israel and in the late 1980's I became involved in Israeli radio, recording a 13 part series on the history and the variety of the Blues for Army Radio (Galei Zahal) which was broadcast twice over a period of 2 years. In the 1990's I helped build the roster of artists at the Haifa Blues festival of 1993 ( as well as performing on stage with guest artist Steve Freund).
From 1995-2000 I helped the Camelot Club in Tel Aviv create a monthly series of guest Blues artists from the USA and wrote a monthly column (in Hebrew) on the Blues which was published in the Camelot music magazine over a 4 year period - I wrote over 40 articles in all.
In 1996 I introduced the Blues to the International Guitar Festival in Tel Aviv (which previously focused only on Classical guitar and Flamenco music and dance), organizing special multi-artist programs and performing on stage at the festival (1996, 1999, 2001).
Since 1997, I have also been involved in the Blues For Peace organization, helping my good friend John Mayer with different projects to promote more awareness of the Blues in Israel and worlwide.
In the fall of 2002 I renewed my radio activity with a monthly Blues show on public national Radio 88FM and a weekly Blues show on internet "Radio Ba Am". I continue to broadcast at Radio 88FM to this day (see Eli's Blues Radio).
In the summer of 2003 I created the SummerBlues Festival at the Givatayim Theater, and was the Artistic Director for 2003 and 2004. At the SummerBlues Festival, I gathered together local Israeli Blues and rock artists for a 3 day festival, as well as one or two guests from the USA, and it has been a real success by local standards, and has just completed its fourth annual run.
In September, 2005, I completed two and a half years of collecting and editing stories from Blues people around the world, and in January, 2006 I published my first book - Touched by the Blues.
I've been a college student, been in the army, I've worked on a farm, been a lover, a handyman and renovation contractor, photographer, poet, journalist, and computer geek, a husband, a father...and always the Blues has been at my side to help keep me sane.
Maybe I don't pick on the guitar as often as I would like to or should do... but the Blues are always on my mind.
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Who I'd like to meet:
I would loved to meet these heroes of mine:
Slim Harpo
Rev. Gary Davis
Mississippi John Hurt
Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon
Groucho Marx
Albert Einstein
Rory Gallagher
Harold Adams Innis
Roland Kirk
Ansel Adams
Edward Weston
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