E63 - The $36 Song That Terrified the FBI (Mike Mitchell of The Kingsmen)

Before punk rock, before arena rock, and before garage rock was a thing, there was "Louie Louie." In this special episode of Tape Spaghetti, Blake shares his remarkable conversation with Kingsmen guitarist Mike Mitchell, whose band accidentally changed history.

Recorded in a single take for less than the cost of a decent dinner, Louie Louie's famously garbled lyrics sparked a national panic when some listeners became convinced they were obscene.

The result was one of the strangest investigations in music history, complete with FBI agents attending shows and federal analysts trying, and failing, to decipher j...