Patti Maxine and Phil Marsh
Phil has been a fixture in Bay Area music for almost 50 years. Songwriter, singer, guitarist, kazoo player, and bandleader, he was the original music director of the Pickle Family Circus and Circus Flora of St. Louis, singer/guitarist in The Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band (Vanguard Records), bandleader and guitar playing singer for Country Joe McDonald, and an organizer and driving force for the notorious Masked Marauders rock super star spoof on Warner Bros. A longtime Berkeley and Santa Cruz resident, Phil is featured on the Folkways collection “Berkeley Farms” (rumors that he is dead are as yet unfounded.) With Phil Greenberg, he was half of the imaginatively named country duo, Phil and Phil in the 60’s, and was a charter member of The Honey Baked Hams, legendary Paris Street singing group in 1963 and 64. His tenure with Berkeley’s East Bay Sharks rabble rousing street opera group should not go unmentioned. Phil has lived for 30 years in New York City where he has been singing, writing songs, performing, and providing soundtracks for documentaries.