In the posting before last, I mentioned some factoids connected to the month of April. Here’s some special April days I’d like to add to the list. Today, Thursday, April 13 is…
Category: Richard Berry
April Musings and LOUIE LOUIE Day
April 1st is a very interesting day. Around the world, many of us celebrate this day as April’s Fools Day, which is an excuse to play really goofy tricks on one another….
RIP: Buddy Blue, original Beat Farmer
God damn it! It was less than a week ago that I posted information about the reunion of the Beat Famers with original member Buddy Blue . Now, Buddy Blue is dead….
Re-introducing the legendary Gary S. Paxton
In the course of producing this very ambitious documentary on the world’s most misunderstood garage rock song, I’ve met some exceptional human beings that I’m very proud to call my friends. Sometimes,…
Hail Hail, Ron Barrett!
The good folks at Spectropop have created a webpage dedicated to the career of Ron Barrett, a friend of Richard Berry. Here’s a nice little excerpt: Ron Barrett was a colleague of…
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…
More thoughts on LOUISiana
All the eyes of the world are on the demaged gulf coast of LOUISiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Such a terrible tragedy made worse by an ineffective bureacracy. We’ll be talking about this…
Googlin’ Thyself…
I admit it. It’s a cheap thrill, but I enjoy doing it. I like to google myself. Who would bother to mention ME in their webpages, anyway? Wang Dang Dula! is a…
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…