{"id":12511,"date":"2021-08-02T21:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T04:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=12511"},"modified":"2021-08-02T21:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T04:58:20","slug":"memorial-for-mike-mitchell-of-the-kingsmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=12511","title":{"rendered":"Memorial for Mike Mitchell of the Kingsmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/musicmillennium.com\/\">Music Millennium<\/a> (of Portland, Oregon) announced this special event on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/musicmillennium\/photos\/a.393468153083\/10163518723438084\/\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mike_Mitchell_memorial_2021-09-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1325\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mike_Mitchell_memorial_2021-09-26.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mike_Mitchell_memorial_2021-09-26-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mike_Mitchell_memorial_2021-09-26-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mike_Mitchell_memorial_2021-09-26-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mike_Mitchell_memorial_2021-09-26-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mike_Mitchell_memorial_2021-09-26-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mike_Mitchell_memorial_2021-09-26-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>In 1963, before Beatlemania here in the states, there was a song that a Portland band recorded that inspired a ton of guitarists to play guitar &#8230;..Louie Louie by <strong>the Kingsmen<\/strong>. The Kingsmen&#8217;s guitarist was <strong>Mike Mitchell<\/strong>, an amazing guitarist and an amazing human being. In April, Mike left us. The Kingsmen asked me and my friend <strong>Alex Hart<\/strong> to help put on a show to celebrate the life of Mike Mitchell. This is going to be a night to remember. The Kingsmen and Friends will include the below guests plus a special set from three former members of <strong>Paul Revere &#038; The Raiders<\/strong>&#8230;.<strong>Phil &#8220;Fang&#8221; Volk, Jim Valley<\/strong> and <strong>Keith Allison<\/strong>!<br \/>\nHope to see you there.<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Terry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Millennium (of Portland, Oregon) announced this special event on Facebook. In 1963, before Beatlemania here in the states, there was a song that a Portland band recorded that inspired a ton&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2,78,22,30,76,7,8,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-kingsmen","category-louie-celebrations","category-louie-universe","category-obituaries","category-oregon","category-pacific-northwest","category-paul-revere-raiders","category-portland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12515,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions\/12515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}