A few days ago, I was reading the San Jose Mercury when I ran across an obituary of an old friend. Harold Welch was a very colorful character in the San Francisco…
Category: Old Versions
Remembering Syd Barrett
This week, we lost Syd Barrett, founder of the band Pink Floyd. Early news reports mentioned that his death was due to cancer, while others mention diabetes as a leading cause. All…
Iggy Pop on French TV
It’s always a pleasure to find a version of LOUIE LOUIE by Iggy Pop. Here’s a version from French TV, courtesy of YouTube.com. I have no idea what date this aired, what…
Rare Black Flag video of LOUIE LOUIE!
OK, folks… here’s the first YouTube video I’ve ever embedded at LouieLouie.net. Now that I know how to download this stuff, I’m really having a lot of fun exploring YouTube.com. This is…
More LOUIE LOUIE videos online
In a previous post, I mentioned that YouTube.com had quite a few different videoclips of LOUIE LOUIE performances. Recently, YouTube.com has been getting a lot of attention, thanks to a very cool…
Hail Hail, Ron Barrett!
The good folks at Spectropop have created a webpage dedicated to the career of Ron Barrett, a friend of Richard Berry. Here’s a nice little excerpt: Ron Barrett was a colleague of…
London LOUIE LOUIE Calling
Macromedia Guy of the UK stumbled upon an old LouieLouie.net page from 2002 dedicated to Joe Strummer of the Clash, and wrote to me with this interesting tidbit: I remember seeing the…
A Taste of Honey
The good folks at Spectropop created a very nice little webpage dedicated to Honey Ltd. Honey Ltd. did an excellent version of LOUIE LOUIE back in the 60’s, producted by Lee “These…
LOUIE LOUIE and Surf Music
Last week, I picked up a wonderful publication entitled “Dumb Angel Gazette#4- All Summer Long” published by Neptune’s Kingdom Press. Like previous issues of the Dumb Gazzette, this is a wonderful celebration…
A Gallery of Great Rock Bands!
With a tip of the hat to the good folks at Davie Allan’s KING OF THE FUZZ Yahoo group, I just found out about a wonderful website with group shots of a…