{"id":10458,"date":"2019-05-16T02:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=10458"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T18:47:39","slug":"rip-mike-wilhelm-of-the-charlatans-flamin-groovies-loose-gravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=10458","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Mike Wilhelm of the Charlatans, Flamin’ Groovies, Loose Gravel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Tuesday we lost another good guy. <\/p>\n

Michael Wilhelm<\/strong> was a true original. He was a founding member of the Charlatans<\/strong>, the pioneers of the psychedelic wild west that forged a pathway in San Francisco for the Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service<\/strong>, and all those who followed.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of great stories about Michael.<\/p>\n

As a teenager, Michael was fortunate to have linked up with Walter “Brownie” McGhee<\/strong>, the legendary bluesman and partner of Sonny Terry,<\/strong> who taught him some powerful guitar picking techniques.<\/p>\n

In 1967, photographer Herb Greene<\/strong> once asked Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia<\/strong> to name his favorite guitarist, and he replied simply, “Mike Wilhelm.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Over the years, the LOUIE production team (Eric Predoehl<\/strong> and Jesse Block<\/strong>) was honored to work with Michael on a variety of different productions.<\/p>\n

Here’s a clip of Michael that we produced with our friend Alec Palao<\/strong> concurrent with the big Dan Hicks<\/strong> birthday celebration concert in 2001. Originally created for the Dan Hicks program that was released as a DVD\/CD set, this previously unreleased video features Michael talking about working with Dan Hicks, who was another core member of the Charlatans.<\/p>\n