{"id":150,"date":"2006-04-25T22:32:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T05:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2006-04-25T22:33:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T05:33:29","slug":"dave-barry-has-good-taste-in-funeral-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Dave Barry has good taste in funeral music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noted columnist and <strong>Rock Bottom Remainder<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Dave Barry<\/strong> was interviewed this month by Patrick S. Pemberton of Knight Ridder Newspapers.   Here&#8217;s a little quote that caught my attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Q: I read that you want to have &#8220;Louie Louie&#8221; played at your funeral.<\/p>\n<p>A: Yeah, I would like to have a fun funeral. I can think of three fun funerals I&#8217;ve been to.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully, it will be a very long time before we&#8217;ll be hearing this song in this particular context.     You can read the full interview with Dave at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwayne.com\/mld\/newssentinel\/14286972.htm\">Fort Wayne News Sentinel website, dated April 7th<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fun little article, as you can read about <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> being his back-up guitarist, the groupies of <strong>Stephen King<\/strong>, <strong>Flamin&#8217; Squirrels<\/strong>, and Irish drinkers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Springsteen, I&#8217;ve been informed by one of our New Jersey spies that Bruce did a stellar show at Asbury Park last weekend, introducing one of his songs with some kinda statement about LOUIE LOUIE being one of the best sea chanties ever written!   <\/p>\n<p>OK, bootleggers&#8230;  who&#8217;s got that pirate recording?  Anxious ears want to hear this thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted columnist and Rock Bottom Remainder guitarist Dave Barry was interviewed this month by Patrick S. Pemberton of Knight Ridder Newspapers. Here&#8217;s a little quote that caught my attention: Q: I read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-louie-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","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=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}