Licensed To Rock!
Friday, November 4, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
The Lovin' Sounds back in 1970
The Lovin’ Sounds
by Wes Nakashima
Playing in the Lovin’ Sounds in High School was a lot fun, but also very hard work. We played every Friday, Saturday and practiced every Sunday. We enjoyed talking story with the other bands we played with. Harold and I liked to dance if we had a chance. Being a paying band, we were very responsible in showing up at the job on time and played very well every weekend. We hardly made any mistakes. There were nights that we played two places in one night. There were a lot of bands: The Koachmen from Pearl City (Waipahu High School), Calientes and Insights from Roosevelt High School, The Lasting Sounds from Farrington High School, Pinky’s Rose Garden from McKinley High School were some of the bands we played with every weekend. Some of places we played at: High Schools - Punahou, Iolani, St. Louis, Mid-Pac, St. Francis, Kalani, University High, Marynoll, McKinley, Roosevelt, etc. Don’t you think that we were a town band. University of Hawaii – Hemming Way Hall and Klum Gym Waikiki Shell – Guest Band at a Battle of the Bands sponsored by KGMB, Won 1st place at another Battle of the Bands on August 25 and 26 competing with 17 bands. Proms- Farrington High School Junior Prom and St. Anthony High School Senior Prom in Maui
1970 Lovin’ Sounds Band consist of 7 members:
Ronald Ishikawa – Lead Guitar
Harold Kageura – Rhythm Guitar
George Furukawa – Bass Guitar
Wes Nakashima – Organ
Bryce Freeman – Drums
John Kikuchi – Lead Singer
Ken Uyeno – Lead Singer
Music in the video performed by LS 34
Song Title: Get Together by Jesse Colin Young
Monday, July 18, 2011
LHS Class of 1966 45th Reunion (7/9/2011)
LS 34 took stage at Dots in their brand new LS 34 polo shirts, to fill the evening with 3 sets of tunes from the 60s and 70s for this group of Mules celebrating their 45th class reunion decorated in green and gold (including the cake). The opening song was “I Got A Line On You’. The evening was filled with bottles of wine, good food from Marian’s (to include local favorites such as maki sushi, noodles, potato/mac salad, fried chicken, mahi mahi, shrimp tempura, and sashimi); and lots of laughter. These 63 year old babies can still rock! Dancers filled the floor and even created a large rotating circle of dancers during the song ‘Long Train Running’. Everyone definitely had a good time! The evening closed with a song called ‘Them Changes’ with new percussion solos by Karl Nishio, Craig Kim and Jenson Tamanaha. Mahalo to Dennis Matsukawa of the band Audissey who covered bass for our vacationing Mike Gonsalves.
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