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Topic: Your 3 favorite versions of "Louie Louie"? |
Slim Lattimer
From:
Anaheim, CA USA
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 11:19 am |
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Mine are (in no particular order);
*1) by the University of Washington - Huskies Marching Band (instrumental)
*2) by Mongo Santa Maria (Latin instrumental)
*3) by the Grateful Dead (live at the Irvine Ampitheatre, 1988, quite a blusey interpretation I might add) |
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Steve Hitsman
From:
Waterloo, IL
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 11:23 am
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| Mother's of Invention, performed on the Royal Albert Hall pipe organ. |
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D Schubert
From:
Columbia, MO, USA
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 11:29 am
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| You mean that there is more than one? I always thought the Kingsmen did it first, last, and best. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 1:21 pm
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There is a whole CD out with only Louie Louie covers by some/some not so famous groups that I still gotta get. Slim did any of your choices come from this CD?
I checked it out quickly to see if they had my fave on it, of course they didn't.
The last song the Stooges ever played was this staple of all garage bands. As ice cubes, bottles and eggs pelted them, Iggy and the dum dum boys jammed out the nastiest and funniest version you'll ever hear. It's on the 'Metallic KO' CD. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 3:54 pm
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| What the hell does this have to do with the Steel Guitar Forum? |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 4:30 pm
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| It's the free form MUSIC section, OK? |
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Smiley Roberts
From:
Hendersonville,Tn. 37075
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 4:43 pm
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3 favorite versions??? You gotta be kiddin'!!
I don't even have ONE fav. 
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 5:00 pm
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| IMO, this song belongs in the "songs you detest the most" thread. [This message was edited by Barry Blackwood on 02 June 2005 at 06:02 PM.] |
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Ken Lang
From:
Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 5:19 pm
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| The song belongs right up there with "My baby think's she's a train." Having said that, it probably makes for a great high school band song as long as the raspy voice and lyrics are gone. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
From:
Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 9:43 pm
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The original is by Richard Berry and it's the only good version of this song, you can flush the others down the toilet when you hear it ( you can actually do it without hearing it too  )
info here: http://www.louielouie.net/03-richardberry.htm |
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2005 2:46 am
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3)Ike & Tina Turner
2)Richard Berry & The Pharaohs (the original '57 release)
1)Michael Doucet & Cajun Brew (complete Cajun version with fiddle, accordion and sung in Cajun/French) |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 3 Jun 2005 5:33 am
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| The Royal Albert Hall pipe organ gets my vote. Really fat sound. |
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Jim Peters
From:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Jun 2005 2:10 pm
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| Paul Revere and the Raiders! Really. JP |
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Dave Horch
From:
Frederick, Maryland, USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2005 4:57 pm
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| My favorite version would be performed by a mime! |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 3 Jun 2005 5:43 pm
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Ah, yes, the version by Marcel Marceau is surely the best!  |
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Bob Blair
From:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 3 Jun 2005 7:50 pm
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| Dave Alvin had a whole bunch of different people doing Louie Louie at the Edmonton Folk Festival a few years ago in the workshop sessions he participated in. He would always start by pointing out that "the five is a minor", which of course is the feature most of us missed in our adolescent garage band versions. As Dave Barry once pointed out, Louie Louie was a durable tune if nothing else.... |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2005 11:47 am
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| The Kinks did it on their first album. It was great! They chopped up the rhythm guitar part like in "You Really Got Me!" |
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Jerry Erickson
From:
Atlanta,IL 61723
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Posted 5 Jun 2005 5:02 am
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| Tuck Andress has a cool solo guitar version. |
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Bart Maloney
From:
Houston, Texas
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Posted 5 Jun 2005 9:32 am
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I can't really stand the song, but I can handle Black Flag's version one time through.
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"Keep on Keepin' on"
www.bartmaloney.iwarp.com
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 5 Jun 2005 9:59 am
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| So the 5 is really a minor, eh? For years, I always just thought they played out of tune. In fact, i still do. or maybe some of them played major and some played minor... |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 5 Jun 2005 10:19 am
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Steve Allens version was clearly the best..
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 5 Jun 2005 1:06 pm
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I liked the version I heard coming out of Norm Sunholm's garage on the corner of Carmen Drive and Quarry Rd in Lake Grove in 1965.
By them.
EJL |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 5 Jun 2005 1:38 pm
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| Modally speaking, the Wurlitzer part, if in E, would go to A, then 1st inversion D, making it Bm7. But only on a Wurlitzer. |
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Tim Harr
From:
Dunlap, Illinois
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Posted 13 Jun 2005 6:34 pm
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Jerry is correct. If you are going to enjoy this song at all....listen to Tuck Andress!
The CD is called "Reckless Precision"
A fine offering of finger style guitar playing.
Check it out!!
Tim Harr |
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Bob Blair
From:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 14 Jun 2005 5:18 am
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| Jimbeaux, just because the five is supposed to be a minor doesn't mean it can't be played out of tune! Or that a band member or two can't throw in a major on top of it! Maybe even an out of tune major. Musicians can be pretty resourceful. In the old adolescent garage band days I don't suppose there was such a thing as an in-tune electric guitar.....remember wailing away in those awful old Harmonys and stuff?(my "Rocket" hangs proudly on my office wall, never to be seriously played again except perhaps as a torture device). And never once did I use a minor for the five - not on purpose anyway. But my favorite version of the song is that sixties garage band version my friends and I did in my friend Jeremy's garage - boy we must have stunk. [This message was edited by Bob Blair on 14 June 2005 at 11:45 AM.] |
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