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Louie Louie Guitarist Mike Mitchell of The Kingsmen Dead at 77

Louie Louie Guitarist Mike Mitchell of The Kingsmen Dead at 77
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The Kingsmen s Mike Mitchell, Guitarist on Louie Louie, Dead at 77

RS that Mitchell “peacefully passed away.”  The Kingsmen got their start in Portland, Oregon in 1959. In 1960, Mitchell and bassist Bob Nordby joined then-drummer Lynn Easton and vocalist Jack Ely (who died in 2015). In 1963, the group recorded their famed version of Richard Berry’s 1957 track “Louie Louie.” The song rocketed up the Billboard singles chart, spending six nonconsecutive weeks at Number Two on the Hot 100. The Kingsmen’s version of “Louie Louie” championed the garage rock stylings gaining traction at the time—it was far more distorted and raucous than Berry’s melodic original. Mitchell’s iconic guitar solo and Ely’s inarticulate singing intrigued listeners, and even the FBI, who famously launched an investigation to determine whether or not Ely’s lyrics were littered with obscenities. They ultimately ruled that the song was “unintelligible at any speed.” The controversy didn’t hur

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