{"id":257,"date":"2007-05-11T20:10:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T03:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2007-05-11T20:11:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T03:11:50","slug":"grateful-dead-louie-louie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Grateful Dead and LOUIE LOUIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something kinda fun.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to one of my wonderful spies out in cyberspace, I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dead.net\/node\/61\">a page on the official <strong>Grateful Dead<\/strong> website<\/a> that acknowledges the very first performance of &#8220;LOUIE LOUIE&#8221; with vocals by <strong>Brent Mydland<\/strong>.  According to the official history it was on April 5, 1988 in Hartford, CT as part of a medley that included &#8220;Iko Iko&#8221; with &#8220;Samson and Delilah.&#8221;  You can actually download an MP3 of that performance from that page- FREE of charge!<\/p>\n<p>On the semi-authorized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/\">archive.org<\/a>, you can find most of the Grateful Dead&#8217;s other recordings of &#8220;LOUIE LOUIE&#8221;  At one point, someone posted a pirate video recording of a 1988 performance on YouTube, but I can&#8217;t find it there any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something kinda fun. Thanks to one of my wonderful spies out in cyberspace, I discovered a page on the official Grateful Dead website that acknowledges the very first performance of &#8220;LOUIE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-versions","category-san-francisco-bay-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}