{"id":2079,"date":"2010-06-28T11:26:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2010-06-28T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T18:26:14","slug":"rip-pete-quaife-of-the-kinks-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Pete Quaife of the Kinks, LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=2084\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2084\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/kinks-PeteQuaife.jpg\" alt=\"kinks-PeteQuaife\" title=\"kinks-PeteQuaife\" width=\"496\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/kinks-PeteQuaife.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/kinks-PeteQuaife-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we lost <strong>Pete Quaife<\/strong>, the original bassist for <strong>the Kinks<\/strong>.   Pete played on such early hits as &#8220;You Really Got Me,&#8221; &#8220;All Day and All of the Night&#8221; and &#8220;Tired of Waiting for You&#8221; before leaving the British band in 1969, passed away at the age of 66 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Quaife died Wednesday of kidney failure in Herlev, Denmark, according to British news reports. He had moved to Denmark in 2005 after having lived in Canada for many years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Without Pete there would have been no Kinks<\/em>,&#8221; <strong>Dave Davies<\/strong>, stated on his website. &#8220;<em>He was a great musician. You could always trust his playing, creative input, intuitive response to musical ideas<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This week to celebrate the legacy of this talented man, the LOUIE of the Week shall be a 1965 performance by the Kinks, live in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gt-kdmAxvD8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xcc2550&#038;color2=0xe87a9f\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gt-kdmAxvD8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xcc2550&#038;color2=0xe87a9f\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we lost Pete Quaife, the original bassist for the Kinks. Pete played on such early hits as &#8220;You Really Got Me,&#8221; &#8220;All Day and All of the Night&#8221; and &#8220;Tired&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33,22,30,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-louie-of-week","category-louie-universe","category-obituaries","category-old-versions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","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=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}