Tonight, at Moe’s Alley in Santa Cruz, California, there will be a big celebration for Ned Torney (not Tourney). Ned was a multi-talented musician that played with a lot of bands in…
Category: San Francisco Bay Area
Louie Road
Once upon a time, LOUIE LOUIE was written by Richard Berry in Los Angeles, California. Actually, to be precise, it was written at the Harmony Park Ballroom in Anaheim in 1955, a…
Maximum GHOST RIDERS (the 2005 post)
Phil Dirt, one of the folks behind the legendary “Maximum LOUIE LOUIE” KFJC marathon of 1983, who was thought to be retiring from KFJC is helping out with another crazy KFJC marathon…
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 Corporate LOUIE LOUIE music video
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…
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…