For the first time ever, an member of the Kingsmen has written a book about the song LOUIE LOUIE and the crazy things that happened to the band after the massive succcess…
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Pieces of LOUIE in “Speeding Motorcycle”
There’s a bit of LOUIE LOUIE in the song “Speeding Motorcycle” by Daniel Johnston. Or maybe “El Loco Cha Cha.” Or maybe “Wild Thing.” Or maybe all of the above. Craig Bonnell…
A Taste of Honey
The good folks at Spectropop created a very nice little webpage dedicated to Honey Ltd. Honey Ltd. did an excellent version of LOUIE LOUIE back in the 60’s, producted by Lee “These…
Archival TV commercial with Paul Revere & Raiders
With a tip of the hat to the folks at BoingBoing, I stumbled upon an old TV commercial featuring Paul Revere & Raiders and the Raiders at the Bedazzled website. Which leads…
Let’s Get Chet Helms into the Rock Hall of Fame!
In a perfect world according to yours truly, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would have already inducted Richard Berry, the Kingsmen, Paul Revere & the Raiders, the (original) Wailers, the…
A Gallery of Great Rock Bands!
With a tip of the hat to the good folks at Davie Allan’s KING OF THE FUZZ Yahoo group, I just found out about a wonderful website with group shots of a…
The Daily Flash is back! + Chet Helms stuff
The Daily Flash is back! The Northwest legends from the 1960’s have reunited! Original band members Steve Lalor and Barry Curtis (also a member of the Kingsmen) have revived this group, pulling…
Live Music Archived for Free
The Los Angeles Times had a nice little article on August 8th about how the music industry is becoming more englightened about the concept of free sharing of live concert recordings. Following…
Even More on Good ol’ Chet Helms…
I received nice little email about the upcoming Chet Helms tribute in San Francisco: I notice it has been a couple weeks since you mentioned Chet on your blog (not even yet…
LOUIE documentary update
Last week, I had an opportunity to interview Stanford University Professor Larry Lessig for the LOUIE documentary. As this documentary deals with certain matters of the music publishing industry, I thought it’d…