Paul Revere and the Raiders

[realityczech]

Here's a hoot
"Let me"

It's hard to find an actual live vid of early PRR (same with Savoy Brown)
and this aint it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rACzxgW8c4&feature=related

[baxen]

Thanks for the memories! The first LP record I ever bought was PRR's "Midnight Ride" featuring their hit "Kicks" It was the mid to late 60's and I played it to death. I still have it but its pretty rough. Somebody must have video of the tv show "Where The Action Is" they were on it a lot. Although it wasn't really "live".

[TwoTubMan]

Not many remember, or will admit it, but there was a short time in the mid-sixties when Paul Revere & The Raiders ruled the world. Good band with great songs.

[realityczech]

Not many remember, or will admit it, but there was a short time in the mid-sixties when Paul Revere & The Raiders ruled the world. Good band with great songs.

I remember and will admit it.

This is the band that inspired me to play guitar.

[TwoTubMan]

I just remember that when I was 11, I thought Fang was the coolest human on the planet.

[Echo Are]

They're a really great rock band, actually. Mark Lindsay & Co. put out a lot of excellent pop 'n' rock in the sixties. It's a shame they seem to get dismissed as a teeny bopper's band or an oldies act by some folks. Here's one of my fave tunes of theirs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4shKUIr3faI&fmt=18

[Balok]

"Hungry" ruled..I bought the 45.
Their show today is a super tight scripted choreographed spectacle that is very funny and entertaining, and the band is top shelf.

[phatster]

I appreciate this thread!Just played their "greatest hits" album.....definitely an unabashed NOT Guilty pleasure for me.I think TV overexposure ultimately was their demise.

[Peppy]

Just talking about Mark Lindsay the other day with my boss. He was a decent pop singer and a good rock singer.

[Blamepro_Admin]

I just bought a CD called "Paul Revere and The Raiders Greatest Hits: LIVE!" (1988, Black Tulip 2636062) and they still rock! The early hits actually sound better, since the instrumentation is better now. This is when their drummer was singing a lot of the hits. I've seen 'em twice live in the last 10 years, and their lead singer is now a Cuban guy that does a great Marc Lindsay impression.

My older sister was caught up in the 60's band craze, and she LOVED the Raiders. I heard a lot of music throughout the house from her transistor record player back then! Guess that's why I got into music whole hog...

- Brett


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[The Golden Boy]

I can't get to the YouTubes, but look for the Paul Revere and The Raiders GTO Judge commercial...

That's awesome.

[dharmafool]

Good tunes, good tones, Vox everything. Goofy-ass costumes, far too much TV exposure and lip-synch. Their costume gimmick was passe by 1966.

[gkoelling]

"Kicks" and "Hungry" are the tunes I think of most when it comes to this band.

Good stuff, dated but good.


Thanks for the thread.

[The Golden Boy]

"Kicks" and "Hungry" are the tunes I think of most when it comes to this band.

Good stuff, dated but good.


Thanks for the thread.

What about "Just Like Me?"

[90wreck]

Groovy.
Thanks...Good song.
I like it when he screams "ALLRIGHT!" around 1:01

[Jay Mitchell]

I saw them at a concert ca. 1968. They were a solid live band.

The first band I every played in did Hungry, Kicks, and Just Like Me, when those tunes were getting airplay (which gives a clue to how old I am). We even learned some of the dance steps they did on stage. The girls at the Saturday-night Rec Center dances we used to play loved those tunes, a fact which was not lost on us. ;)

[Marty s Horne]

I went to a PR&R concert around '66-67 in Ct. It was outdoors in a field under a large tent. They were tight and sounded really good. A year later I saw Cream at the same place.

[chrisr777]

How about Indian Reservation? I had a quadrophonic issue of that album that I played into the ground. Great cover of Eve of Destruction on there.

[cadduc]

my recollection is they did
louie, louie
still my favorite version of this tune, it was a hit here on the west coast about a year or so before the kingsmen's version hit

lindsay did the sax intro just playing the 1*4*5 changes

it was after they signed with dick clark that their songs became more
well
syrupy and less rnb oriented
they were from seattle or portland? anyone?
of course that is probably a simple wikipedia lookup

[telecopter]

What about "Just Like Me?"

YES! One of the most kick ass guitar solos ever, IMHO. WHOEVER really played it! :JAM

[414driver]

Since the band originated here in Oregon, I got to see them once a month as a kid. Good shows!

[Steeltoe]

Mark Lindsay is the epitome of a great singer/frontman.
Steppin Out is my favorite. He sings with balls and attitude, and having a great voice doesn't hurt either.
Phil (Fang) Volk was from Idaho. I met him a few times in the 70's...a great guy...with a foxy wife!
The costumes were a novelty, of course. But the music
was top notch, and quite aggressive for their day.
A grreat 60's american band for sure!

[zombywoof]

Mt first concert was the Byrds and Paul Revere & the Raiders in 1966. I still remember the Raiders jumping rope with a guitar cord. "Just Like Me" and "Kicks" rocked.

I saw Mark Lindsay at one of those whatever happened shows a few years back. He prefaced every song with how many copies it sold. Kept thinking - no exactly how log ago was that Mark.

[GAT]

The later version of the band also kicked it pretty good too! They did some comedy during the show, funny stuff, but then they backed it all up with great musicianship and power!

[Marty s Horne]

telecopter, according to Phil Volk in an interview with Vintage Guitar Magazine, Drake Levin played the solo on "Just Like Me" on a semi-hollow Epiphone.

[stevieboy]

I was a fan too.

And I have to say, the first version I ever heard of McKinley Morganfield's classic "Baby Please Don't Go" was theirs. It may have had more influence on me becoming a life long blues fanatic than anything that came out of England--not to discredit what they all did.

[Zelja]

Great band! I think I may have actually first heard of them through the cover of "Kicks" by Naz Nomad & the Nightmares (The Damned actually) on their soundtrack to the fictional film "Give Daddy The Knife Cindy" (Cert. X). Some great songs done really well on that album.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Daddy-Knife-Cindy-Nomad-Nightmares/dp/B0000080VF

From what I understand they were sometimes called the "American Rolling Stones" & despite the kitsch, they rocked. Great vocal harmonies as well.

[RickC]

That riff from "Kicks" was the best; you were a god if you could play it (6th grade).

:bow

[wombat66]

An important part of my childhood, but the corny outfits doomed them unfortunately. Never as cool as the brit bands, but good songs.

[tophatdad]

The Raiders (along with the Rascals and Mitch Ryder) were my bridge between the first and second waves of the Brit invasion. Dug Lindsay's voice! Still think Steppin' Out, Just Like Me, and Kicks were great records (and Hungry was nearly as good). Also, I really thought Drake Levin was getting the shaft when he got drafted.

Best,
Mike

[RGB]

Ah, "Where the Action is"! It was on every afternoon after school and this kid NEVER missed it!

My first band, (7th grade), covered "Steppin' Stone"...and yes, they did it before The Monkees.

Funny thing, I work in printing and one of our sales people brought in a customer a few weeks ago to have me make some changes to a job he had in the shop and it turns out he's their PR guy. We got to talking music and he asked me if my band would be interested in doing a show with them in Branson to kick off this big bike run that goes from Branson to the Vietnam Vets wall in DC! Umm...OK! Sent him off with our promo info and sure hope to hear from him soon!

Needless to say, LOVED those guys! :D

[telecopter]

Here's "Just Like Me"...a pretty hot solo for the day, and fits the song perfectly...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQhSeEm5Ecc

[Ed Packer]

dug 'em too. I remember sitting in my room, cleaning my Harmony Stratotone for an upcoming gig (local high-school dance) and listening to their albums. also, looking at the cover photos and wondering how they got their hair so shiny! they were great.

[Flyin' Brian]

I was in a band that covered Just Like Me and Kicks for many weeks back in 1965-66. They were fun to play and both are in my iTunes.

[Scott57]

"The Great Airplane Strike" was the first album I was allowed to buy (my folk's money, of course). I remember wanting a bass guitar because that's what Fang played.

[guitarsnguns04]

I started jamming with a few locals lately and they were all talking about Paul Revere and the raiders and how great they were etc..I had never heard of them before. Granted they are a bit older than I but at least know who you are talking about and I can say I can play hungry and kicks...lol...not that its tough but its new tunes to me. I am glad to see this thread because I have been telling them noone will even know what the hell we are playing...lol

[Axemeister]

I had forgotten about them, but I have to admit that Kicks, Just Like Me, and Hungry were great pop rock tunes. I had a couple of their albums on vinyl....maybe they are still buried in my old vault of memories among Beach Boys and Beatles albums.

I am sure that those of us that remember these guys are really the old timers around here

[StJimmy]

I was about 10 when the Raiders were big in the mid 60s and you couldn't turn on the TV without seeing them on some show. I recently got the recent Greatest Hits CD called Kicks. I listened and isolated some of that stuff closely from my middle aged perspective. Phil Volk had an amazingly aggressive bass sound on some of those hits. It reminded me of Mel Schacher of Grand Funk. And Mark Lindsay is a hugely underrated singer and performer. Listen to Good Thing. Half sung, half preached, and perfect for that song.

While some look back at it now as somewhat kitchy, that entire band had personality and stage presence. I thought the costumes were cool, I though the Raider dance steps were cool, I thought the songs were cool. Although members went in and out, Drake and Phil were THE team. The Raiders were NOT some bullshit little novelty act or fake like The Monkees. They earned their stripes in countless armories and frat parties in the late 50s and early 60s. It was all meant to be fun and they delivered it in spades. Too bad rock became "serious" in the late 60s which made bands like the Raiders seem passe and irrelevant.

You'd think that with over 600 TV airings in the 1960s, there'd be more videos on Youtube. This is one my favorites. Him Or Me

The video is horrendous (almost scary), but the song rules.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQVmhoZ4Wc4

With all the lame ass artists in the RNRHOF, I think it's an absolute travesty that Paul Revere and The Raiders have not been inducted.

[JELLIS]

I'm a big fan...but then, I loved the Monkees too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzjZ6dTTm3I&feature=related

[zombywoof]

Actually broke out the only Paul Revere LP I could find layinga round and gave it a spin. Again, thanks for kick starting some memories.