Like clockwork, every week, I get a trickle of emails asking about the lyrics of LOUIE LOUIE. Thanks to my robotic email responder, I can send out a standard response referring people…
RIP: Village Music & Sweetwater, Mill Valley, CA
I’ve been putting off this posting for some time. I’ve got way too many good memories, and I wasn’t sure how I wanted to address this. With less than two weeks to…
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…
Hail Hail Marcel Chouinard!
One of the great highlights of my trek to the Pacific Northwest was a chance to visit with singer Marcel Chouinard in Canada. During the early 1960’s, Marcel was one of earliest…
My cruddy cartoons used for another video contest
It was about a month ago that I posted some cartoons I drew for a LOUIE LOUIE Video Contest. As you might have read, the contest deadline was extended until April 11,…
Support Your Local Record Store
I know that iTunes is the wave of the future for the way most music will be sold in the 21st Century. When James Brown died on Christmas, I certainly couldn’t go…
Recap of LOUIE FEST 2007
Has it really been a week since the LOUIE FEST took place? It has been one extremely busy week for yours truly since this event happened. As I type this, I’ve got…
Preview of Mark Lindsay’s Rock & Roll Cafe
I’m back intact from my week-long trip up in the Pacific Northwest. I really had a fantastic time up there this time. The LOUIE FEST was a lot of fun, and I’m…