{"id":3391,"date":"2011-11-15T03:19:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T10:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2011-11-29T05:10:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T12:10:34","slug":"sponson-pontoon-and-the-floaters-louie-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=3391","title":{"rendered":"Sponson Pontoon and the Floaters &#8211; LOUIE of Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s LOUIE is a rare 1980 recording of a band known as <strong>Sponson Pontoon and the Floaters<\/strong>, playing at some drunken bash known as &#8220;Pig Party&#8221; near Yakima, WA. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry Baker<\/strong> aka &#8220;Sponson Pontoon&#8221; is on bass and vocals, joined by <strong>John Smestad<\/strong> on guitar, <strong>Steve Tytler<\/strong> on guitar, <strong>Doug Bennett<\/strong> on drums, and very special guest <strong>Barry Curtis<\/strong>, a former member of <strong>the Kingsmen<\/strong>, also on guitar.<\/p>\n<p>I wish there were some photographs, but ya take what cha get&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9PD-2Yj4lYw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9PD-2Yj4lYw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9PD-2Yj4lYw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Steve Tytler<\/strong> writes: &#8220;Since you didn\u2019t have any photos, I made this web page&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tytler.com\/sponson_pontoon\/\" title=\"Sponson Pontoon and The Floaters\">http:\/\/tytler.com\/sponson_pontoon\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks like a nice introduction to the band!  Here&#8217;s one of the photos from the webpage&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Pig_Party_1979_3_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Pig_Party_1979_3_small-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sponson Pontoon and The Floaters Pig_Party 1979_3_small\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Pig_Party_1979_3_small-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Pig_Party_1979_3_small-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Pig_Party_1979_3_small-400x261.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Pig_Party_1979_3_small.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s LOUIE is a rare 1980 recording of a band known as Sponson Pontoon and the Floaters, playing at some drunken bash known as &#8220;Pig Party&#8221; near Yakima, WA. Larry Baker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2,33,22,5,20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-kingsmen","category-louie-of-week","category-louie-universe","category-new-versions","category-old-versions","category-pacific-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","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=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3423,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}