{"id":200,"date":"2006-10-24T15:32:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T22:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2006-10-24T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T22:32:55","slug":"rip-sandy-west-drummer-for-runaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Sandy West, drummer for Runaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/pix-2006\/sandy-west.png\" alt=\"Sandy West\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <strong>Stretch Riedle<\/strong>, the uber-archivist of LOUIE recordings: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Only slightly Louie Louie related but very worthy of mention:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sandy West<\/strong>, the drummer for <strong>the Runaways<\/strong>, has died of lung cancer. She was only 47.<\/p>\n<p>About 6 years or so ago I had the pleasure of meeting Sandy West. She was in northern California for a gig. She walked into my cd store, and we chatted. She also put some cds on consignment.<\/p>\n<p>Very nice woman. You could tell she had had a tough life though. (Smoking probably was the eventual cause.)<\/p>\n<p>Now she gets to jam with <strong>Keith Moon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Louie connection&#8230;?&#8230;<strong>Joan Jett<\/strong>, her bandmate, has done Louie Louie over the years as part of her live shows, as well as recording it for commercial release.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more on Sandy, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketcityrecords.com\/sandywest\/\">Rocket City Records page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Stretch Riedle, the uber-archivist of LOUIE recordings: Only slightly Louie Louie related but very worthy of mention: Sandy West, the drummer for the Runaways, has died of lung cancer. She was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-louie-universe","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}