Where I live in Northern California, I’m fortunate to experience some fairly decent weather, visit some great record and book stores, and see a lot of different musical acts. One of the…
Category: San Francisco Bay Area
NEW Richard Berry video- live with Shockwaves 1988
I haven’t posted any original video footage to the blog lately, so I’ve decided to change that today… This is Richard Berry performing with the Shockwaves at the 1988 LOUIE LOUIE Parade…
Sly Stone Lives! …. and other Sunday musings…
Yesterday, I witnessed some musical history. Sly Stone has reunited himself, and performed yesterday in San Jose, California. For those that love the music of Sly and the Family Stone, it was…
July 7 = Rock and Roll History in San Jose
July 7th is a big day in rock and roll, both in history past tense and history about to be written. For some of you, July 7th is very important because Al…
Blast from past – 1987
Some of the best intended plans… take longer than expected. I’m working on a project in conjunction with the folks at LouieFest that’s taking longer than I imagined. As I hate to…
Winner of the “That’s Cool- That’s Trash” fashion category
San Francisco rock legend Russell Quan (the Mummies, Phantom Surfers, BobbyTeens, and way too many other bands) demonstrates a great sense of rockin’ fashion at a recent Roy Loney (ex- Flamin’ Groovies)…
RIP: KPIG co-founder Laura Ellen Hopper, and way-too-many American soldiers
Monday was Memorial Day in the United States of America. A national holiday to remember the brave men and women that sacrificed their lives for the good of their country. A time…
The Big Dirk Fest
I’m not sure if this is really LOUIE-related topic, but next month, there’s going to be a major 2-day celebration to honor the late Dirk Dirksen, the “pope of San Francisco punk…
Grateful Dead and LOUIE LOUIE
Here’s something kinda fun. Thanks to one of my wonderful spies out in cyberspace, I discovered a page on the official Grateful Dead website that acknowledges the very first performance of “LOUIE…
More on LL Day + MySpace (Amazing Social Network? or Time-Sucking Distraction?)
If you click on this graphic, you will see a homemade video from Tim Hermanson celebrating LOUIE LOUIE Day. This is a featured video at Funny Entertainment – the Comedy Network, which…