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Singer-songwriter P.F. Sloan<\/strong> died on Sunday, November 15th. <\/p>\n Last year, the LOUIE team (myself, Eric Predoehl + Jesse Block<\/strong>, co-owner of the Octalouie.com video production company<\/a>) had an opportunity to document his performance last year at the Art House Gallery in Berkeley, CA.<\/p>\n His concert felt like a stage version of a documentary- sharing stories of his life, discussing how he constructed songs, and then performing those songs live. He wrote a lot of songs that became hit records for other artists, including “Eve of Destruction,” “Secret Agent Man,” among others. <\/p>\n So many of the stories he shared seemed so much larger than life … one of his first jobs during high school, working as in an A&R department of prominent record label, playing a prominent role in getting the Beatles<\/strong> their very first record contract in the USA … the challenges of writing socially-responsible songs in an era when the industry didn’t want to broadcast such messages . .. his story about having himself institutionalized in a mental hospital … and so much more …<\/p>\n While I had no idea before the event, I discovered at the performance that P.F. Sloan had a LOUIE LOUIE connection…<\/p>\n For the past 10+ years of his life, Philip Sloan had been working on a musical project that celebrated the life of Ludwig van Beethoven<\/strong>. A few months before this event in Berkeley took place, he released a CD from the project entitled “My Beethoven.”<\/p>\n The big project, as designed, is an original, contemporary opera that utilizes Beethoven classic compositions and brand new P.F. Sloan compositions.<\/p>\n This project is titled “LOUIS! LOUIS! (The Real Life and Times Of Beethoven)”<\/strong> as written by S.E. Feinberg<\/strong> and P.F. Sloan. S.E. Feinberg is also the co-author of P.F. Sloan’s autobiography – “What\u2019s Exactly The Matter With Me?”<\/p>\n If you visit the official P.F. Sloan page on the My Beethoven project<\/a>, you can download two sample chapters of this very special production. READ MORE<\/strong> at..<\/p>\n The official P.F. Sloan page on “My Beethoven” \/ LOUIS LOUIS stage production<\/a> Singer-songwriter P.F. Sloan died on Sunday, November 15th. Last year, the LOUIE team (myself, Eric Predoehl + Jesse Block, co-owner of the Octalouie.com video production company) had an opportunity to document his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,61,28,58,22,15,30,11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ep-world","category-five-degrees-of-louie","category-los-angeles-music","category-louie-relative","category-louie-universe","category-music-business","category-obituaries","category-production-at-louie-central","category-san-francisco-bay-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414","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=7414"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7433,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions\/7433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"pf_sloan_myBeethoven\"](\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/pf_sloan_myBeethoven.jpg\")
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\nRest in peace, Phil. I wish I could have had more conversations with you, but I’m grateful to have made your acquaintance\u2026.<\/p>\n
\nN.Y. Times obit on P.F. Sloan by Bruce Weber<\/a>
\nPF Sloan: the 1960s enigma admired by Bob Dylan and Jimmy Webb by Michael Hann<\/a>
\nAmerican Songwriter tribute to P.F. Sloan by Paul Zollo<\/a>
\nExaminer tribute to P.F. Sloan by Jim Bessman<\/a>
\n10 Essentially \u201960s Songs Written By P.F. Sloan (ReBeatMag.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"