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Category: LOUIE Universe
The Sonics Reunion that I Misssed … *%@#&!?!
If a certain client would have paid me for a job I did two months ago, I would have gladly flown to New York last weekend to see the reunion of the…
Wailers at Woodstick
The Wailers may not have reached their goal of 1,600+ guitars at the recent LouieFest, but it looks like they did reach a new world record for drummers. Getting 250+ drummers to…
Sonics reunion – mere days away…
If only my bank account wasn’t like a perpetually-hungry feral dog, slurping away with a frantic appetite at what meager scraps were thrown into it’s under-nourished belly, I’d be in New York…
KFJC Tomb of the Unknown LOUIEs, part 1
Twenty-four years ago, there was a crazy LOUIE LOUIE marathon that attempted to break all world records. For six months, there was a serious effort by college radio station KFJC to track…
1966 Billboard ad for Kingsmen re-issue
Here’s an advertisement from a Billboard magazine, dated April 30, 1966. It’s interesting how this was an advertisement in Billboard magazine, showing off the Top 100 chart status in Cashbox magazine, which…
Between Richard Berry and Rockin’ Robin Roberts
In documenting the story of LOUIE LOUIE, I’ve met a lot of people that have shared their insight about how this song made it’s way into the Pacific Northwest, where it was…
Rare photos of Jack Ely & Courtmen
Here’s a little test… See how many differences you see between the photo on the right and the photo on the left? OK, here’s another set of images. How many differences did…
Danish LOUIE Lyrics
Like clockwork, every week, I get a trickle of emails asking about the lyrics of LOUIE LOUIE. Thanks to my robotic email responder, I can send out a standard response referring people…
Garage Bands from the 60s- East Bay
It’s hard to do it all, especially when there’s more than one thing happening all at once. When I was attending the LOUIE FEST near Tacoma, Washington, there was also a FuzzFest…