“Do you want Grace Slick to sing LOUIE LOUIE? Would that be the ultimate get-off for a Fillmore East audience or what?” Damn, I loved hearing that phrase spoken by Frank Zappa…
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Whole buncha Zappa articles + LOUIE is indeed soul music!
My pal David the Punmaster just sent me a link to a webpage that lists a whole bunch of Frank Zappa articles: http://home.online.no/~corneliu/interviews.htm It doesn’t list the Rip Rense article about Frank…
Zappa Plays Zappa
Monday May 23rd, 2005 – Announced today the First Duly Authorized & Certified Frank Zappa Respective! And Perspective! Zappa Brothers Dweezil & Ahmet have called together many mighty musicians to join them…
12 Days ’til LOUIE LOUIE 2020 Christmas – Day 11
It’s the 11th day of the 12 days ’til LOUIE LOUIE 2020 Christmas celebration, and we’ve thinking about … Frank Zappa A diverse composer/performer/producer that was able to blend rock, pop, jazz…
RIP: Ennio Morricone, composer of magnificent soundtracks
On Monday, we lost Ennio Morricone, a brilliant composer of many magnificent soundtracks. Morricone created over 400 scores for film and television, as well as over 100 classical pieces. His most famous…
RIP: Young Jessie, founding member of the Flairs w/ Richard Berry
Another great singer – Young Jessie aka Obediah Donnell “Obie” Jessie, who was one of Richard Berry‘s earliest musical collaborators, passed away on April 27th. Obediah Donnell Jessie was born on December…
LOUIE bits of March 2020 – Clay Day!
As March 2020 comes to close with minimal blog activity, this seemed like a good time to do a little recycling to make up for lost time. Our friend Clay Stabler has…
LOUIE for March 2020
My friend Joe Maccoll shared this one. A fine little meme, it waits for me… UPDATE – MORE VARIATIONS! I just created this subreddit dedicated to all things Louie Louie. https://www.reddit.com/r/LouieLouie/ Also…
Celebrating KFJC Radio 60 Year Anniversary
It’s time for a flash from the past, and put the mighty LOUIE LOUIE spotlight on KFJC Radio, which is celebrating it’s 60th year of existence next month. College radio station KFJC…
RIP: Ted Gehrke, San Jose blues king + friend of LOUIE
Last weekend, San Jose lost a great man by the name of Ted Gehrke. Ted was the founder of the San Jose Fountain Blues Festival, the longest running blues festival in the…