{"id":460,"date":"2008-08-19T18:41:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T01:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2009-08-19T13:53:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T20:53:30","slug":"random-thoughts-on-a-special-anniversary-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Random thoughts on a special anniversary date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is a very special date for me, this LOUIE project, and the LOUIE universe. My friend Stretch Riedle<\/strong> sent out a little email reminder today at the LOUIE PARTY Yahoo group:<\/p>\n

On August 19th, 1983, at 6:00pm [it was a Friday] I sat in the studios at KFJC with several others and began what is referred to as “Maximum Louie Louie”. We played versions, 99% unrepeated, for 63 hours and 10 minutes. It ended on Monday, August 22nd at approximately 9:10am. Twenty five years later we still discuss it, and relate stories that have occurred as a result of that great event.
\nMe gotta go now,
\nStretch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I view today’s date with mixed emotions. My immediate reaction is “it’s been HOW long<\/em>?” In all honesty, it does feel pretty darned weird to be working on this thing as long as I have. It feels kinda strange right now.<\/p>\n

The past 24 hours have been interesting for me. I’ve been helping my friend Laurel<\/strong><\/a> transfer some audio cassettes of her late friend, Andy Mazzilli<\/strong><\/a>, an amazing local blues player that passed away last year. I never met Andy, and I wish I did. He was really quite a talented musician, and as I listen these tracks I’m blown by his virtuosity on guitar. Laurel used to describe him as San Jose’s own “Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>,” and I can see why. I can also hear comparisons to George Harrison<\/strong> and Jeff Beck. As I transfer these recordings, it feels really good to know that I’m helping others remember loved ones.<\/p>\n

One of the thing I didn’t expect was the crash of two different hard drives. One was the main external hard drive where I keep all my LOUIE LOUIE audio recordings – the master database of the world’s most recorded song. Luckily, this drive was fairly easy to recover, as it strictly a matter of dealing with a funky Firewire-USB hard drive case. That being said, it’s a good reminder of why I need to continue to make backups of everything that’s important.<\/p>\n

The second drive was a bit more problematic. It was an internal hard drive on my desktop computer. One of my utility software applications couldn’t repair it, but luckily, the second worked like a champ. For those of you on the Mac, I’d like to recommend DRIVE GENIUS, which has allowed me to recover my data more times than I ever expected.<\/p>\n

Hard drives are on my mind right now for other reasons, as I’ve hit a roadblock in my LOUIE edits. I use about 10-12 TB of hard drive space, and I’ve reached the point where it’s difficult to continue editing until I can get more hard drives. I’m grateful that drives are cheaper now than they’ve ever been before, but I still have to wait until the next paycheck before I can buy any more drives to continue.<\/p>\n

And once again, it’s the matter of waiting. Waiting for the money. Waiting for the tools. Waiting for things to fall in place. The story of my life.<\/p>\n

Yes, I am a little frustrated over things right now, but that’s just the way it is. I’ll deal with it one way or another.<\/p>\n

Reading the news, I’m tickled to see that rock music is actually saving lives.<\/a> A man in England was in a coma for 10 weeks. He had a 30% chance of recovering. His wife decided to try something different, so she put some earphones on her husband, and played his favorite rock and roll song by the Rolling Stones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sam said: “I can’t remember much from being in a coma, but I do remember that when that song came on it took me right back to when I was a youngster.<\/p>\n

“I could remember how excited I was to get it down at the record shop.<\/p>\n

“I suddenly had a burst of energy and knew I had a lot more life left in me and that’s when I woke up – to the sound of the first song I ever bought.”<\/p>\n

Same, who has three children and six grandchildren, added: “I would love to thank Mick and the rest of the Stones personally – I feel they really did help wake me from my coma.”<\/p>\n

Wife Eva said she had switched on the radio at Stoke’s City General Hospital in a last-ditch attempt to bring him back a fortnight ago, after growing increasingly frustrated with his lack of progress.<\/p>\n

She said: “I didn’t really think it would work.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t believe it when he started opening his eyes and looked at me. It was like we had been given another chance.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is what dreams are made of. Using rock and roll as a tool for awakening one’s self and becoming empowered by the power of music. This is The Meaning of LOUIE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned… more to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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