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LOUIE PATRIZI MUSICIAN: DRUMMER AND SINGER
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By Candice Wiener
ouie Patrizi was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Raised by his single mother, his journey began when she bought him his first drum set. Louie is impressively a self-taught drummer and vocalist and would play along to the top 40 rock and roll vinyls. In an effort to make a career in music, his journey took him from Chicago to Los Angeles. His trio band opened the Playboy club and worked there for over a year. The Chicago scene offers a variety of clubs to work in addition to fairs and events throughout the Midwest. The Comedy Store on Sunset Strip was home to many artists where Louie shared the stage with Robin Williams, Jimmy Walker, Jay Leno, Sam Kenison and many others. Specific L.A. Clubs such as Club Lingerie, The Music Machine, Madame Wong’s East, and Madame Wong’s West were just a few places musicians would flock to to try to get their originals heard. The original scene was in Los Angeles where Louie was Tiny Tim’s drummer. Louie has a gold record to his credits, working with such greats as Jerry
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Marcelino and the Merv Griffin band. Los Angeles is also where he did Liverpool on Tour, a Beatles tribute band, which took him to the Red River X show in Winnipeg Canada. In Las Vegas, Louie played drums with 1 of the top Elvis shows at the Rivera for 4 years. Working at many of the casinos on the Las Vegas strip for over 20 years, also put him into contact with doing production shows for Kimberly Clark, Chorus Line, and Annie get your gun. In July of 2011, Louie was inducted into the Las Vegas Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Vegas is also where he met Denny Lane helping him work on his originals. When Louie returned to Las Vegas, the music scene
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