{"id":13280,"date":"2022-12-29T23:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T06:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=13280"},"modified":"2023-06-19T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T21:36:58","slug":"rip-steve-west-original-guitarist-for-paul-revere-the-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=13280","title":{"rendered":"RIP:  Steve West, original guitarist for Paul Revere &#038; the Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SteveWest-color-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SteveWest-color-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SteveWest-color-portrait.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SteveWest-color-portrait-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I woke up on Thursday morning, the first thing I saw on Facebook was this post&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very sorry to tell you that <strong>Steve West<\/strong>, who as a 16 year old Raider played that iconic guitar solo on our 1963 recording of Louie Louie, passed away last night. Steve was on the original contract we had with Columbia Records and was a critical part of the band&#8217;s history.<br \/>\nPlease keep his wife Linda in your prayers.&#8221;<br \/>\n &#8211; <strong>Mark Lindsay<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Along with this update, Mark also included a link to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=7087\">Steve West, the Lost Raider \u2013 LOUIE of the Week<\/a>&#8221; -the 2015 autobiographical article that Steve graciously wrote for this LouieLouie.net site.<\/p>\n<p>The official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paulrevereraiders\/posts\/pfbid0QFvrHG3gPE7H86GGQs1bjcJ8qeAguHT6f1gz1rGEx93U6zdaxx44UN5iGLQ9khpLl\">Paul Revere &#038; the Raiders Facebook page<\/a> shared these words.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pre Raiders fame, Steve was there for a brief, yet notable time in Raider history. At a young age of 16, it\u2019s Steve West\u2019s incredible guitar playing that can be heard on \u201cShake It Up\u201d Part 1 and 2, \u201cNight Train\u201d, and \u201cLouie, Louie\u201d. Of course it was \u201cLouie, Louie\u201d that Manager <strong>Roger Hart<\/strong> used to convince Columbia Records to sign the group. Roger states, \u201cSteve West was an amazing young guitarist, who joined The Raiders in Portland, 1963, and did the amazing guitar break on the Raiders version of \u2018Louie Louie\u2019 which introduced the group to national fame.\u201d \u201cLouie\u201d went #1 on the west coast markets including Hawaii. <\/p>\n<p>In remembrance of Steve West, we ask you to spin our version of \u201cLouie, Louie\u201d featuring Steve West on guitar. <\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his wife Linda, and all of the family during this time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More details on the life of Steve West can be found at his autobiographical article&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OEc5mqvVY4\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=7087\">Steve West, the Lost Raider &#8211; LOUIE of the Week<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Steve West, the Lost Raider &#8211; LOUIE of the Week&#8221; &#8212; The Louie Report\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=7087&#038;embed=true#?secret=6byDz3pxWh#?secret=OEc5mqvVY4\" data-secret=\"OEc5mqvVY4\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I woke up on Thursday morning, the first thing I saw on Facebook was this post&#8230; &#8220;I&#8217;m very sorry to tell you that Steve West, who as a 16 year old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,30,7,8,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-louie-universe","category-obituaries","category-pacific-northwest","category-paul-revere-raiders","category-portland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280","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=13280"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13543,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions\/13543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}