This week, the mighty LOUIE spotlight is pointed on a performance from the Steve Mackay memorial concert last weekend. In this clip, Jello Biafra joins the The Hampton Wicks for an performance…
Celebrating the life of Steve Mackay this weekend!
This weekend in SF Bay Area, we’re celebrating the life of Steve Mackay! On Thursday, Feb 24th at KFJC Radio (home of the infamous Maximum LOUIE LOUIE marathon) there was a big…
Louis and Louis – Armstrong and Jordan – LOUIES of the Week
Today, we share a special song featuring two very important LOUIEs of the 20th Century – Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! https://youtu.be/IDMMeDOj2wc The song is “Life is So Peculiar,” recorded by two…
a busy week… (no LOUIE of the week)
Things have been busy at LOUIE central. A broken water pipe and an out-of-control tree can do that sort of thing….. … but there’s always next week…
David Bowie + LOUIE connection part 3 / Footstompin’ – non-LOUIE of the Week
(David Bowie and Carlos Alomar – superb photo by David Plastik of IconicPix) For the past few weeks, I’ve been using this LOUIE blog as an excuse to explore some of the…
David Bowie + LOUIE LOUIE part 2 / Les Dantz – LOUIE of Week
Following up on last week’s tribute / celebration / acknowledgement of David Bowie‘s legacy, here’s even more thoughts on his connection within the LOUIE LOUIE universe… 1983 was a very important year…
RIP: David Bowie (aka Davie Jones) – LOUIE of the Week
Once upon a time in 1964, a 17 year old teenager named David Robert Jones began his musical recording career with a band called Davie Jones with the King Bees. Their initial…
(what sounds like) Elvis Presley’s LOUIE LOUIE – LOUIE of the Week
Today, Elvis Presley would have been 81 years old! Which of course led to the hypothetical question – “What would it sound like if Elvis sang LOUIE LOUIE?” Luckily, someone with the…
Remembering Those We Lost in 2015
Last year, we lost quite a few people in the LOUIE universe. Click on their names to read more about them. Jack Ely, the original lead singer of the Kingsmen, was one…
RIP: Lemmy of Motörhead (LOUIE of the Week)
With the passing of Lemmy Kilmister this week, so many of us are feeling a deep sense of loss… perhaps more than we expected. Lemmy Kilmister was a certainly a larger-than-life character…