{"id":2521,"date":"2011-02-01T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2011-02-01T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T19:22:00","slug":"r-c-allen-tribute-all-stars-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2521","title":{"rendered":"R.C. Allen Tribute All Stars &#8211; LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s LOUIE LOUIE is part of a big tribute all-star band for the legendary California luthier <strong>R.C. Allen<\/strong>.   In this band, you&#8217;ve got <strong>Deke Dickerson, Del Casher, Glen Glenn<\/strong> and the man himself, Mr. <strong>R.C. Allen<\/strong>.   <\/p>\n<p>Every guitar on stage is an R.C. Allen guitar.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear LOUIE LOUIE at the 3:20, right after &#8220;Pipeline&#8221; and some words from the stage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-kgw2Wk5DNM\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-kgw2Wk5DNM<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-kgw2Wk5DNM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deke Dickerson<\/strong>, who&#8217;s wearing the cowboy hat on the right side of the stage, is probably the main man to blame for this festive moment.   Every year, Deke assembles a big Guitar Geek Festival where lots of guitar enthusiasts get together to celebrate guitars.<\/p>\n<p>Deke&#8217;s a good guy, and we&#8217;ve got some mutual friends in the LOUIE universe.  Over on the <strong>Rachel Maddow<\/strong> TV show a couple of weeks ago, Deke did a little interview, and even snuck a quick little LOUIE performance, which you can experience by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21134540\/vp\/41182694#41182694\">CLICKING HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can keep track of Deke&#8217;s world by visiting<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dekedickerson.com\">DekeDickerson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know much about <strong>R.C. Owens<\/strong>, but apparently he was quite an innovator when it came to building guitars. Click on on a couple of these links for more information about this guy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelten.com\/rcallen.htm\">http:\/\/www.bobfelten.com\/rcallen.htm<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gerardegan.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/rc-allen.html\">http:\/\/gerardegan.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/rc-allen.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.namm.org\/library\/oral-history\/r-c-allen\">http:\/\/www.namm.org\/library\/oral-history\/r-c-allen<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gretschpages.com\/forum\/other-guitars\/rc-allen-the-second-bigsby\/28077\/page1\/\">http:\/\/gretschpages.com\/forum\/other-guitars\/rc-allen-the-second-bigsby\/28077\/page1\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s LOUIE LOUIE is part of a big tribute all-star band for the legendary California luthier R.C. Allen. In this band, you&#8217;ve got Deke Dickerson, Del Casher, Glen Glenn and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-louie-of-week","category-music-business","category-new-versions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","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=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}