A lot of bloggers have their own special codes for letting folks know they’re too busy to do regular blogging. I’ve always liked what Mark Evanier does at his NewsFromMe.com site –…
Category: Garage Rock
1972 video clip of MC5 doin’ LOUIE (plus Segon Origen)
Thanks to my YouTube subscription, I now know about a very rare LOUIE LOUIE video clip from 1972. Here’s MC5 Live at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki Finland 17 Nov 1972 Here’s another fine LOUIE…
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…
The Beat of LOUIE LOUIE
Over at the LOUIE LOUIE PARTY Yahoo group, there’s been some fairly active discussions lately, and some of this stuff was too good to not share. A theoretical question was asked about…
Holy Crud – it’s a SONICS Reunion!
For the past week, I’ve been away, running around the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, enjoying the phenomenon that is Burning Man. I’d never been there before, and it was something far…
Countdown to the LOUIE FEST – 2 days to go..
Sometime on Thursday, after I take care of a little business meeting in San Francisco that afternoon, I begin my roadtrip to the Pacific Northwest. I was hoping to show a rough…
RIP: Jim Philbrook, publisher of Record Convention News
Record collectors lost a great ally when Jim Philbrook died. I’ll let his good friend Steve Propes tell the story: I met Jim Philbrook in the 1980s when he was a single…
The Berlin LOUIE Report
Back in May, I mentioned a big LOUIE LOUIE party that took place in Berlin, Germany. Here’s a report from Juergen: at last i want to tell you how it went with…
Louie Louie and a Clunker state-of-mind
Dick Summer just sent me a link to his blog & podcast. This week’s subject is clunker cars and the “LOUIE LOUIE generation.” You can read the blog and download the MP3…
Los Angeles rhythm and blues revisited
Two guys that are doing a lot to preserve some great history of Los Angeles 1960s pop culture are Domenic Priore and Brian Chidester, who’ve published some excellent articles with their Dumb…