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Greta Van Fleet at City National Civic

Greta Van Fleet can’t seem to catch a break. The young foursome from the faux-Bavarian town of Frankenmuth, Michigan, has sustained criticism for copping its sound from 1970s rock giants Led Zeppelin. The group’s debut track, “Highway Tune,” is characterized by Josh Kiszka’s Robert Plant doppelganger wail and Jacob Kiszka’s Jimmy Page-style guitar licks.

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B. Lewis is Making Moves

It takes thick skin to make it in the music biz. Just ask San Jose-based producer and songwriter Brad Lewis. He’s been playing music for more than a decade and for the past five years he’s been grinding hard in the industry—producing work and co-writing material with the likes of Bad Rabbits, K.Flay, Grieves and Chris Brown.

And he’s only just scratching the surface.

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I Saw You: Uber Rude

I saw you—or rather I saw your white Toyota sedan out in the left lane on Lytton in Palo Alto. And as I telephoned my friend with the car-share app (sorry, I don’t happen to have a spare $200 to buy a smart phone), who relayed you had already charged him for a no-show, I frantically waved at you from the berm around the parking level of the corner building on High Street, where I had been sitting with my guitar, my rolling cart and amplifier. Apparently I erred in expecting you to pull into the spacious yellow-marked loading zone directly in front of me. When the traffic light changed, you turned the corner and I ran after you, thinking you wanted to pick me up on High Street, but you just kept on going, and not long afterward appeared at the Lytton-High intersection again. You stopped while for the light, and this time I ran out in the street and came just a couple of feet away—close enough to see the logo on your windshield—when you quickly took off down Lytton across High. I guess you thought you didn’t need to take me home since you had already been paid.

I Saw You is an anonymous “man on the street” column. Email your rants and raves about co-workers or any badly behaving citizens to [email protected], or send to 380 S. First St, San Jose, 95113. Submissions should stick to about 100 words.