{"id":6811,"date":"2015-05-08T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T23:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2015-05-14T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:45:16","slug":"more-thoughts-on-jack-ely-and-a-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=6811","title":{"rendered":"More thoughts on Jack Ely … and a LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yes, we’re still thinking about our friend Jack Ely<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

This was a heavy hit at LOUIE Central, and some things just take longer to process..<\/p>\n

My first posting on the passing of Jack Ely felt like the proverbial tip of the iceberg. There’s so many other things I could have posted on Jack, but so much of this will have to wait.<\/p>\n

Jack Ely was born on September 11, 1943. I remember trying to add this piece of information to the September 11 page of Wikipedia.org website<\/a> years ago, but i kept running into resistance by the administrators of that page.<\/p>\n

Mickey Hart<\/strong> of the Grateful Dead<\/strong> also shares the same birthday + year. Jack was a fan of the Grateful Dead. I’ve worked with various members of the band. With my co-producer Jesse Block<\/strong>, we’ve shot some great concert footage of Jerry Garcia<\/strong> and David Grissman<\/strong> that appeared in the “Grateful Dawg” documentary. I have a handful of friends that are friends with Mickey. I was hoping somewhere in my travels I might be able to arrange at least a telephone call between these two guys that shared the same birthday, but unfortunately that never happened.<\/p>\n

I was able to talk Jack into singing “Happy Birthday \/ Louie Louie” over the phone to my sister Ann Casey<\/strong>, who also shares a September 11th birthday, which was extremely cool of Jack. (… and NO, there was no recording of this version)<\/p>\n

Anyways, there’s more I could share, but it’s Friday, and I still haven’t named a LOUIE of the Week, so here’s something for your pleasure….<\/p>\n

Jack had his own YouTube channel<\/a>, sharing a lot of the new music that he was working on.<\/p>\n

He also posted his own LOUIE LOUIE YouTube clip, which used his 1966 re-recording of the song with the Courtmen<\/strong>, released by Bang Records. I’m not sure who worked with Jack on this video clip, but his wife Wendy tells me it’s probably Gordy or Daryl. I like it a lot – lots of fast cut editing!<\/p>\n