My friend Jim Snow of Unique Media just told me about a recently-discovered LOUIE LOUIE music video produced by Rhea Communications of San Jose, California. So as you go the official website…
Category: San Francisco Bay Area
Still Buzzin’ from Bluegrass….
Four days after the fact, and my head is still buzzing from the aftermath of a truly great musical event. The Hardly Strictly Bluesgrass 5 festival of San Francisco was a calvalacade…
Final Cut Pro Lessons from a Master
Final Cut Pro is one of the great tools for the independent film and video producers. It’s my editing tool of choice for working on this epic documentary of mine, as well…
Let’s Get Chet Helms into the Rock Hall of Fame!
In a perfect world according to yours truly, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would have already inducted Richard Berry, the Kingsmen, Paul Revere & the Raiders, the (original) Wailers, the…
Hail Hail, Phil Dirt!
DJ Phil Dirt, one of the big organizers of the legendary KFJC “Maximum LOUIE LOUIE” marathon is retiring from his shift at KFJC radio. Here’s some information about an upcoming tribute to…
The Death of Another Record Store
Another independent record store has bitten the dust. Compact Disc Warehouse, the only independent record store in Sunnyvale, the largest city between San Francisco and San Jose, California, has become another casualty…
The Daily Flash is back! + Chet Helms stuff
The Daily Flash is back! The Northwest legends from the 1960’s have reunited! Original band members Steve Lalor and Barry Curtis (also a member of the Kingsmen) have revived this group, pulling…
Twas many years ago today…..
It was on August 19, 1983, that my life was forever changed by a LOUIE LOUIE marathon at KFJC radio. At the time, I was attending college at both Foothill College and…
Even More on Good ol’ Chet Helms…
I received nice little email about the upcoming Chet Helms tribute in San Francisco: I notice it has been a couple weeks since you mentioned Chet on your blog (not even yet…
A Berkeley LOUIE event I missed in 1998
Even with a webpage, various write-ups in international newspapers, and a prominent acknowledgement in a book by Dave Marsh, I still can’t find out about all things connected to LOUIE LOUIE untill…