@hawkmoon03111951 No television appearances??? Anybody who was around in the 60's and 70's know that Paul Revere and the Raiders were on TV EVERY WEEK on Where The Action Is? I don't know how anyone can post a video about an artist and not know much about them. They were always featured on the cover of Tigerbeat and 16 Magazine.
@Tiny1bme Anyone around in America in the 60's might well know that they were on TV every week. However, America is not the world and my comment points out that I'm not from there. As to posting the video, I had some of their records and liked them. What knowledge do you need to upload a video, other than the ability?
@Tiny1bme - So true! In fact, they start out almost every show today with the comment: "MORE appearances on television than ANY other rock n roll band -- before or since!"
Of course we like it when Paul (always) says: "I wish I had a dollar for every time we've played that song!" and the band (Ron, Doug, Danny, Darren, and Tommy) all chime in:"You DO!"
yeah live is good, but unless it's a Milli Vannili version of this recorded version, you loose the double tracking on the mid instrumental break - which is what makes this song their very best ever.
JUST MISSED!!! "Just Like Me" just missed making the Billboard's Hot Top 10 chart; it peaked at No. 11 and spent a total of 15 weeks in the Hot Top 100 in 1965/66, it entered the charts on Dec. 4th, 1965!!!
From 1964 until 1965 this band from Portland ,Oregon were the best r&b on the plant earth.I saw them 3 times during school sping vaction 1965 ! Saturday night at Normania Hall Everett,Washington then Tuesday night at Parkers ballroom in Seattle and Saturday night at the D street Coral in Portland,Oregon.this band was killer until tv and Dick Clark -Columbia records turned the band into a joke.
Saw the current Paul Rever and the Raiders at Casino Rama, Ontario Canada in 2011 and let me tell you Paul still has it all - he is a great showman and puts on a great show.
yeah, saw them live in Victoria, 1966 (Midnight Ride tour), they'd just lost Drake Levin to the National Guard; after the Beatles they were my favourite band. TV, teen magazines, nothing could spoil this music.
Th costume is cool, the fact that theyre all wearing them at once is silly...they were corny on the surface, but talented really as to their music...hey, they had a good time goin' to the fuckin' bank din't they?
Hawkmoon well being on the other side of the pond might just explain it I'm still trying to remember when I first saw them on color TV as opposed to black and white - - funny how TV was back then in fact we saw more Benny Hill shows here in a week ( different show every night) than you all did in a month one of my close Brit friends told me - - I still pat my short little neighbor on his bald head to this day - - all Benny's fault!!
Hawkmoon hate to tell you but they were one of my favorite bands back then and they were on TV all the time - - learned to play KICKS by watching them on TV .
@Oldrbutnowisr They were on the TV all the time in America. I'm English, living in England. They were not on TV over here, neither were they well known over here.
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@hawkmoon03111951 You lucky bastard, you escaped these fools prancing around in silly Revolutionary war costumes and doing their bad choreography and Broadway Musical interpretation of rock and roll. It was silly then and even more silly today. Could you imagine seeing Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck or Jimmy Page mincing about in British Army uniforms from the 1700's.
@beeceesp Must admit, the dance moves that I've seen them do are pretty embarrassing but.... a lot of people like them. Hendrix did wear a British Army jacket though, but it was an original and, in my opinion, looked much better than the stage costumes created for PR&R.
@beeceesp ....great comment but hold on just a minute...this was the '60s, a time when the merger of audio & video really started ramping up. The theatrics in the '70s & '80s went to a whole new level. Think 'Kiss', 'Jethro Tull', and every spandex laden, big hair, heavy makep, group during the glam rock era like 'Motley Crue', 'Poison', & 'Dokken'. Let's not forget David Bowie or Alice Cooper. I get the point about Clapton, Beck, & Page, but at the end of the day...it's all about the music!
@aineiss "'Kiss', 'Jethro Tull', and every spandex laden, big hair, heavy makep, group during the glam rock era like 'Motley Crue', 'Poison', & 'Dokken'. Let's not forget David Bowie or Alice Cooper" is a very good analogy and one I would agree with whole heartedly. I would love to make some pithy remark about how I don't listen to any of these "silly" bands either but I'd be lying - I listen to David Bowie. It is indeed "all about the music" and memories attached to the music! Cheers.
@beeceesp The Raider were one of the most popular and successful US bands in the mid-60's. Just because you thought their costumes silly doesn't mean they weren't extremely successful. Their music is also darn good, and still very listenable today.
@apowell I think your being an ardent fan colors your take on this band more than just a little. These guys found a niche and were successful, no argument. But "...one of the most popular and successful US bands in the mid-60's..." is stretching it quite a bit. The mid 60's was the domain of The Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Who, Kinks and Animals. At the next level were the Byrds, Zombies, Beau Brummels, Gerry and the Pacemakers and perhaps Paul Revere and the Raiders (the only band in "tights").
@TheLadandLass So when you're in bed with your boyfriend are you the Lad, or the Lass that takes it in the ass... never mind, I think I already know the answer.
@dynodon12 Because Rolling Stone & MTV in large part dictate cool and it's far more important for madonna or other image-only lip sync wonders to get in. Look how Alice Cooper &Rush among so MANY have been dissed. It's cool if you're into the R&R HOF but honest, I'm anti award shows or HOF. It's just about the music for me, not the baubles. Peace out brother...and I agree this guy was a vastly under-rated vocalist!!
I stole this 45 rpm record at Jewel Food Store in the 6th grade. Got caught. From Chicago baby ! My parents had to come to the store . My pants were lowered to my ankles in their breakroom and my stepfather took the belt to me in front of 10 people. 1966. People were mortified, I was hurtin, L, PRR owes me one ! L Love this song to this day! This was a great band indeed !
@MrStang454 Hello! I,m from Chicago, too.I remember stealing this album from a Shopper's World when I was in the seventh grade. Luckily,though, I didn't get caught. Cheers!
Does anyone remember the time that Paul Revere and the Raiders smashed up their guitars at the end of one of their songs during a live performance? I seem to recall that and I can't remember which song it was.
@HackerGuitarist It is the music that is important not the visuals. Also, they never, to my knowledge, made a single TV performance this side of the Atlantic and don't know of any DVD's of them.
@hawkmoon03111951 I remember coming home from Junior High nearly every day and watching them on Dick Clark's Where the Action Is .. seems like a lot of video to mine, --unless it's all been lost
@hawkmoon03111951 Dude, what planet were you living on in the 60's? Paul Revere & the Raiders were making TV music appearances throughout the mid to late sixties. They were really frequent guests on Dick Clark's "Where the Action Is". Phil Volk was famous for flipping his bass over at the end of a song to reveal his nickname taped on the back of the instrument, "Fang".
@HackerGuitarist You r so right, and it was these guys we took in our brains to Nam after we tried to sound like them in puberty.I only saw them as a kid on a Bicycle.A Saturday morning after concert at Natl.Guard Armory. 64 or 65.Will never forget when I saw what defined "Cool Rock Star" as they came out of motel room.Thanks for post.
This was a favorite for me and my bass player to play in the dark of night when we were supposed to be doing our homework ! ! ! We had a 2 room cabin made of granite boulders so we could actually call ourselves a ROCK band LOL
I was in a garage band in the 60's. While all the other bands were playing the Beatles or Beach Boys...we did all the Raider songs. I still think Mark Lindsay is one of the most under appreciated singers ever. He's got a great voice and sing with a lot of soul.
Misunderstood geniuses in their time, and now. LSD, legal through '66, contributed to the flashback marketing shtick by Columbia execs, no doubt. But the music had legs, as evidenced by its use in modern media. Lindsay might have been taken more seriously had his mug not been teen magazine-worthy. He's an owner of exotic recording gear with a great ear. He once sang "Kicks" to me while I was listening to it in my car - that's what I call stereo! He never lost it, but true talent is now passé.
Mark Lindsay was every bit as soulfull a shouter as Otis Redding or Wilson Pickett, and he was the only one to flaunt his boys in fruity tights. This may have reflected negatively upon his legacy.
I love the gimmick. Modern bands are so unoriginal. I've played in them all. Punk, Metal, Goth. I've always loved sixties music that is heavy on the electric keyboard. Stephenwolf, Question Mark and the Mysterians, The Doors, The Castaways, The Shocking Blue...
I remember this band in the sixties; got a little bit of airplay in Australia but not much,although they did have some good tunes along with other US bands like Tommy James and the Shondells;The Doors; The Box Tops(not shore if they were US or Canadian) and others. There was a big discrepency between US bands and the Brits and we were far to preoccupied with British and Australian bands.
I remember hearing this song blasting from the hot rod shop across from my school in late 1965. Such great memories. Sadly, two of the guys who worked there would be killed in Vietnam a few years later. If not for that, the 60s would have been an even greater decade.
Thanks to Fang and everyone for some great radio tracks. When I started in '68 your catalog was "then" - and it sounded great on a loud top-40 AM station like the one(s) I worked at. Coming out of a strong station ID with the first couple of keys on "Just like me" is pure radio power. Cool to think about it again...
gotta love how people like Jack White, Wavves, Surfer Blood and No Age are bringing back the classic garage, lofi feel of classics like this and The Troggs, ? and the Mysterians, Kingsmen, etc. They all fit together perfectly.
Sure would be nice for bands to forgive each other and bring back key members, such as Mark Lindsay; Dennis DeYoung (Styx); Jon Anderson (Yes), etc. but probably wont happen.
@egcroan Hi. That is news to me. Jon is my favorite singer ever, and he has been touring on his own, for some time. In fact, he will be here in Seattle in two weeks. (He is better from the asthma) Does that meant that it is harder to travel with the full band, while being sick?
This band was from Oregon!! Yea! My favorite Raider songs (not in order) Ups and Downs, Him or Me..,.Kicks, Hungry, Louise, Tighter, Oh Moreen, Good Thing, Free, Communication, Movin On. The jackass RnR induction Committee accepted Iggy Pop, The Cure,U2 and many bland groups. The Raiders and other great bands were not considered prior to and so the Rock Hall is BOGUS. Your Opinion?
@TheStampedehero - THE ROCK HALL IS NOT BOGUS. THE ASSHOLES IN NEW YORK CONTROLLING IT ARE. IF CLEVELAND HAD CONTROLL THIS SHIT WOULD HAVE STOPPED LONG AGO. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF GARBAGE PUT THROUGH THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN AND MANY GOOD GROUPS PASSED BY OR WAITED WAY TOO LONG TO GET IN.
@TheStampedehero Agreed - Madonna but not Paul Revere and The Raiders? I also can't understand why The Guess Who isn't in there either...Guess Jann Werner doesn't like American Woman....The Hall is totally BOGUS!!!
the american version of the "british invasion" weren't they from idaho? thats purty dern far from england. hoyt axton would know about stuff like that.(i wonder if he ever made it to spain before he passed on.)anyhow,these guys could write sing or play as well as pretty much any u.s. band of that era(the spoonful were good) but they do seem to have fallen through the cracks somehow.
@nutbagbrew102 mostly in Branson, MO and they do a Caribbean Cruise each year in January, with other bands. Next January, there will also be Davey Jones, and The Buckinghams.
What was the song they did with the amps & drums on the beach ? Looking back it's the first "Beach" video I think might have actually been done live , even if they lip synced it (can you imagine the shocks you'd get standing in the sand with a "Shure" touching your lips and teeth) They are an amazing first Wave Band !
@dslider, it's slightly similar, but not the same. For the record, Paul Revere and the Raiders were the first artists to record "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone" anyway, so they'd be copying themselves.
@dslider, it's slightly similar, but not the same. For the record, Paul Revere and the Raiders were the first artists to record "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone" anyway, so they'd be copying themselves.
@coolbluelights Looks like someone has answered you question . Still you might like to look at some of the videos on YouTube about the "Leslie speaker " they liked to use on the Hammond organs , it's an interesting contraption .
When you don't write your own songs and you do what your producers are telling you to do for success you are a performer. And these guys were good. But not the total package. Maybe there is a place in the R&R HOF for the performers of R&R in the distant furture. I loved this band. Respectfully.
@Bhaktigirl22 One of them, I agree. Also, "Back Door Man" The Doors; "High Voltage" AC/DC; "Lucille" Little Richard; "Bobby's Blues" Bobby Blue Bland; "Maybe The Last Time" James Brown. Probably several more equals. This is my favorite PR&TR's song, hands down. The guitars blending stand the test for all time.
My theory is this.....World War II sadly cost millions of lives, and the baby boomer era produced a lot of creative people so nature made up for all the lost souls. So many people died there was a rebirth....
@brokencasket I have a better theory. People like Paul were influenced by the 50's rock and roll. These people were influenced by blues and gospel, which was brought to America through negro spirituals, which was brought to America with slavery. I am saying that without the slavery of africans in america, rock music in general wouldn't exist.
you're right but I was speaking of all the creative people at that time, even Bruce Lee etc. Although not sure I agree Rock would not exist without the black influence but it certainly might have sounded very different.
@proudgram61 and 45 years from now people are going to say, boy the music back in 2010 was really good. not like this junk we have in 2055. it's been a long time hasn't it gram.
@oranger2525 really oranger2525...??! So, people will really be fondly remembering all those classic hits from Justin Bieber and Katy Perry huh? Gosh... who would have thunk it?
@pkgannon yeas, really! ya missed my point, figured most people would. don't you remember that parents "hated" R&R. each generation has their own music. old folks like us complaining about current music reminds me of going to my granparents house in the 60s and having my grandfather dis The Beatles. Considering Justin Bieber is more popular than the Raiders ever were, I would not be suprised if today's tweens remember him 45 years from now. Nothing says old like "remember the good old days"
@oranger2525 i agree and disagree .. SOME parents hated R&R. There were plenty of older people when they saw Paul McCartney sing Till There Was You or Yesterday on Ed Sullivan... that KNEW they were talented and it was no longer "today's " fad. I personally don't hate today's music... i am selective. I do find some entertainment in various song including Eminem. However, Rock and Roll like other dominant music styles going back hundreds of years is fading. ..(cont.)
@pkgannon I said my grandfather! My parents understood the talent of The Beatles and many others in the 60s. And remember Mr. Sullivan was fond of saying "now for all you youngsters, here are [insert rock performer name}.
@oranger2525 I am only old enough to remember 70's music. But I, like many Rock critics... believe the best of rock and roll has come and gone. For example, you could never.... NEVER... have another Beatles again. It won't happen. The excitement of the 50's / 60's rock n roll won't happen again. All we will have is overnight youtube success, an American idol hit, the teen idol of the year and Disney marketing.
@pkgannon So you think PR&TR were a Rock band. They were more like good bubble gum. Youtube and AI -- it's called progress. But it's really not to much differnen than the Raiders lip synching to studio musicians. Of the group only Lindsay had any substance (no pun intended, apparently he had some bad habits). But David Cassidy was 10 times the star as Mark was.
@oranger2525 no, not really (to the Rock band comment).. I only know Mark Lindsay's name. There are a few songs of theirs that I've played and liked that's all. with regards to the other.. progress... yeah great .. i'm all for it.. but it's changed other things. What i'm saying is that initial explosion of rock and roll from the 50's / 60's cannot be sustained. and it's proven.. statistics show less sales year after year. rock and roll is and has been on the wane.
Believe it or not the band I was in back in the early 60's (before they became real popular) were the opening group for these guys when in our area. We played with them maybe 8 times or so. I knew Mark Lindsay before he was in the Raiders, as he was originally from Eugene Oregon. I still live in Oregon, and have had contact with Mark a few times in the last several years. He left the group in 1975.
Where The Action Is aired from 06/27/1965 - 03/31/1967
FIERO871 1 day ago
Brings good times back,everyday was a new start on life.Enjoy the sun,music,walk to the beach. enjoy the day.LOVE MOTHER EARTH.
MyNancy53 2 days ago
@hawkmoon03111951 No television appearances??? Anybody who was around in the 60's and 70's know that Paul Revere and the Raiders were on TV EVERY WEEK on Where The Action Is? I don't know how anyone can post a video about an artist and not know much about them. They were always featured on the cover of Tigerbeat and 16 Magazine.
Tiny1bme 5 days ago
@Tiny1bme Anyone around in America in the 60's might well know that they were on TV every week. However, America is not the world and my comment points out that I'm not from there. As to posting the video, I had some of their records and liked them. What knowledge do you need to upload a video, other than the ability?
hawkmoon03111951 4 days ago
@Tiny1bme - So true! In fact, they start out almost every show today with the comment: "MORE appearances on television than ANY other rock n roll band -- before or since!"
Of course we like it when Paul (always) says: "I wish I had a dollar for every time we've played that song!" and the band (Ron, Doug, Danny, Darren, and Tommy) all chime in:"You DO!"
danje10 1 day ago
Wish we still had a band that was like Paul Revere and the Raiders.
takemeback70s 1 week ago
A highly underated rocker. one of their best! Cheers
gmkell59 1 week ago
yeah live is good, but unless it's a Milli Vannili version of this recorded version, you loose the double tracking on the mid instrumental break - which is what makes this song their very best ever.
richadNtexas 1 week ago
Classic garage rock.
13loomisst 2 weeks ago
JUST MISSED!!! "Just Like Me" just missed making the Billboard's Hot Top 10 chart; it peaked at No. 11 and spent a total of 15 weeks in the Hot Top 100 in 1965/66, it entered the charts on Dec. 4th, 1965!!!
sauquoit13456 1 month ago
i love these guys,did then and still do...RAIDER POWER!!!!
crotchboots 1 month ago
With those tight pants, no wonder they posed for that album cover with their hands in front of their crotches...
laylacalif 1 month ago
the raiders ROCK...JUST LIKE ME was their BEST...anyone who likes this song should check out JUST LIKE ME by PAT BENATAR...
1willhughes 1 month ago
These boys were a regular on Were The Action Is, in the 60's.
69ssrszl1 1 month ago
@69ssrszl1 I watched it.
robin56 1 month ago
From 1964 until 1965 this band from Portland ,Oregon were the best r&b on the plant earth.I saw them 3 times during school sping vaction 1965 ! Saturday night at Normania Hall Everett,Washington then Tuesday night at Parkers ballroom in Seattle and Saturday night at the D street Coral in Portland,Oregon.this band was killer until tv and Dick Clark -Columbia records turned the band into a joke.
dewittseattle 1 month ago
@dewittseattle that's WHY they're not in the hof
bkthin 1 month ago
@dewittseattle The joke may have made their career last tho. Monkees anyone?
robin56 1 month ago
Saw the current Paul Rever and the Raiders at Casino Rama, Ontario Canada in 2011 and let me tell you Paul still has it all - he is a great showman and puts on a great show.
kenimisoncanada 1 month ago
loved the raiders and still love the music, remember pirates world in dania florida? thery were there a lot
55CATV 1 month ago
Wow, the memories this song brings back! Thanks for sharing!
nanaslbkp 2 months ago
They were embarrased all the way to the bank....poor guys....
rjmtex 2 months ago
they were on american bandstand every week in 69-70
rob99rst 2 months ago
yeah, saw them live in Victoria, 1966 (Midnight Ride tour), they'd just lost Drake Levin to the National Guard; after the Beatles they were my favourite band. TV, teen magazines, nothing could spoil this music.
66serendip 2 months ago
...and the look is real coool. who doesn't wanna look like Napoleon???!!!
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This kicks so much ass
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@hawkmoon03111951 Thanks! Their's was the first greatest hits album I bought. If that's your birthday, than we're 7 days apart.
tegeirsagent 2 months ago
Th costume is cool, the fact that theyre all wearing them at once is silly...they were corny on the surface, but talented really as to their music...hey, they had a good time goin' to the fuckin' bank din't they?
MePJtheDJ 2 months ago
cant STAND shitty ass boybands like this
fuckin gayer than NSYNC and the backstreet fags
shudda taken some acid, fuckin homos
teknashend 2 months ago
Hawkmoon well being on the other side of the pond might just explain it I'm still trying to remember when I first saw them on color TV as opposed to black and white - - funny how TV was back then in fact we saw more Benny Hill shows here in a week ( different show every night) than you all did in a month one of my close Brit friends told me - - I still pat my short little neighbor on his bald head to this day - - all Benny's fault!!
Oldrbutnowisr 3 months ago
i wrote this song
therover3 3 months ago
Hawkmoon hate to tell you but they were one of my favorite bands back then and they were on TV all the time - - learned to play KICKS by watching them on TV .
Oldrbutnowisr 3 months ago 2
@Oldrbutnowisr They were on the TV all the time in America. I'm English, living in England. They were not on TV over here, neither were they well known over here.
hawkmoon03111951 3 months ago
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@hawkmoon03111951 You lucky bastard, you escaped these fools prancing around in silly Revolutionary war costumes and doing their bad choreography and Broadway Musical interpretation of rock and roll. It was silly then and even more silly today. Could you imagine seeing Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck or Jimmy Page mincing about in British Army uniforms from the 1700's.
beeceesp 2 months ago
@beeceesp Must admit, the dance moves that I've seen them do are pretty embarrassing but.... a lot of people like them. Hendrix did wear a British Army jacket though, but it was an original and, in my opinion, looked much better than the stage costumes created for PR&R.
hawkmoon03111951 2 months ago
@beeceesp ....great comment but hold on just a minute...this was the '60s, a time when the merger of audio & video really started ramping up. The theatrics in the '70s & '80s went to a whole new level. Think 'Kiss', 'Jethro Tull', and every spandex laden, big hair, heavy makep, group during the glam rock era like 'Motley Crue', 'Poison', & 'Dokken'. Let's not forget David Bowie or Alice Cooper. I get the point about Clapton, Beck, & Page, but at the end of the day...it's all about the music!
aineiss 1 month ago
@aineiss "'Kiss', 'Jethro Tull', and every spandex laden, big hair, heavy makep, group during the glam rock era like 'Motley Crue', 'Poison', & 'Dokken'. Let's not forget David Bowie or Alice Cooper" is a very good analogy and one I would agree with whole heartedly. I would love to make some pithy remark about how I don't listen to any of these "silly" bands either but I'd be lying - I listen to David Bowie. It is indeed "all about the music" and memories attached to the music! Cheers.
beeceesp 1 month ago
@beeceesp ..Amen! David Bowie and his axe man extraordinaire...the phenominal Mick Ronson...it hardly got better than that, yes?
aineiss 1 month ago
@beeceesp The Raider were one of the most popular and successful US bands in the mid-60's. Just because you thought their costumes silly doesn't mean they weren't extremely successful. Their music is also darn good, and still very listenable today.
apowell 1 month ago
@apowell I think your being an ardent fan colors your take on this band more than just a little. These guys found a niche and were successful, no argument. But "...one of the most popular and successful US bands in the mid-60's..." is stretching it quite a bit. The mid 60's was the domain of The Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Who, Kinks and Animals. At the next level were the Byrds, Zombies, Beau Brummels, Gerry and the Pacemakers and perhaps Paul Revere and the Raiders (the only band in "tights").
beeceesp 1 month ago
@beeceesp That's right nothing like that goofy shit of Freddy and the Dreamers..
blueticecho 1 month ago
@blueticecho No argument!
beeceesp 1 month ago
@beeceesp
only thing silly is your drugged up comment!
TheLadandLass 1 month ago
@TheLadandLass So when you're in bed with your boyfriend are you the Lad, or the Lass that takes it in the ass... never mind, I think I already know the answer.
beeceesp 1 month ago
@beeceesp True about the outfits and dancing, but Mark's voice was fabulous, the lyrics on their songs excellent and great rock.
bumblebeemoi 2 weeks ago
@hawkmoon03111951 your loss!
MrRaiderfan1000 1 month ago
AWESOME!!!! ROCK ON!!!!
MrMegaFredzeppelin 3 months ago
These guys were great! Way ahead of their time
tubetea 3 months ago
my mom had this record when i was 6... me and my brother wore out this albulm
mavericks526 4 months ago
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EyerishEyesQQ 4 months ago
ahh the days of old 60's and 70's
VIZIOE32 4 months ago 2
Why are they not in the Rock Hall?? This is one of the best rock tunes ever recorded.
dynodon12 4 months ago 14
@dynodon12 yeah,and the moody blues while we are at it...they have some real dingdongs running that place
crotchboots 1 month ago
@dynodon12 Because Rolling Stone & MTV in large part dictate cool and it's far more important for madonna or other image-only lip sync wonders to get in. Look how Alice Cooper &Rush among so MANY have been dissed. It's cool if you're into the R&R HOF but honest, I'm anti award shows or HOF. It's just about the music for me, not the baubles. Peace out brother...and I agree this guy was a vastly under-rated vocalist!!
redfishradical 3 weeks ago
I stole this 45 rpm record at Jewel Food Store in the 6th grade. Got caught. From Chicago baby ! My parents had to come to the store . My pants were lowered to my ankles in their breakroom and my stepfather took the belt to me in front of 10 people. 1966. People were mortified, I was hurtin, L, PRR owes me one ! L Love this song to this day! This was a great band indeed !
MrStang454 4 months ago 3
@MrStang454 Hello! I,m from Chicago, too.I remember stealing this album from a Shopper's World when I was in the seventh grade. Luckily,though, I didn't get caught. Cheers!
olddude521 4 months ago 2
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Does anyone remember the time that Paul Revere and the Raiders smashed up their guitars at the end of one of their songs during a live performance? I seem to recall that and I can't remember which song it was.
dmbarbee1 4 months ago
I wish we had music like Paul Revere & The Raiders here in 2011!
Happy54Girl 4 months ago
@atcbotic drake levin was the soloist. RIP Drake your music lives on.
rvisual 4 months ago
electric organ or keyboard was anathema after the beatles- eric burdon and these guys made it .. act cept able? keyboard started with the doors.
cshargeit 4 months ago
How do you play electric guitars without electricity? Fuck this!! I'm going to talk with Ben Franklin; he'll know the answer.
smokiebird06 4 months ago
anybody remeber hullabaloo
surge1114 4 months ago
the raiders made 750 TV performances in the 60 and you post a slide show ?.. lol
HackerGuitarist 4 months ago 3
@HackerGuitarist It is the music that is important not the visuals. Also, they never, to my knowledge, made a single TV performance this side of the Atlantic and don't know of any DVD's of them.
hawkmoon03111951 4 months ago 4
@hawkmoon03111951 I agreee.
EmeraldFlowsion62 4 months ago 2
@hawkmoon03111951 I remember coming home from Junior High nearly every day and watching them on Dick Clark's Where the Action Is .. seems like a lot of video to mine, --unless it's all been lost
t5o7m 2 weeks ago
@hawkmoon03111951 Dude, what planet were you living on in the 60's? Paul Revere & the Raiders were making TV music appearances throughout the mid to late sixties. They were really frequent guests on Dick Clark's "Where the Action Is". Phil Volk was famous for flipping his bass over at the end of a song to reveal his nickname taped on the back of the instrument, "Fang".
videomaniac108 1 day ago
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@HackerGuitarist- It's more than you did. How about just being thankful that someone made the effort that you didn't.
EyerishEyesQQ 4 months ago
@HackerGuitarist You r so right, and it was these guys we took in our brains to Nam after we tried to sound like them in puberty.I only saw them as a kid on a Bicycle.A Saturday morning after concert at Natl.Guard Armory. 64 or 65.Will never forget when I saw what defined "Cool Rock Star" as they came out of motel room.Thanks for post.
supermemojo 3 months ago
"Just like me..to act a fool!", lol...
alvastarr1 5 months ago
This was a favorite for me and my bass player to play in the dark of night when we were supposed to be doing our homework ! ! ! We had a 2 room cabin made of granite boulders so we could actually call ourselves a ROCK band LOL
hugemangus 5 months ago
Serious resistance to the British invasion . . .
81shovelhd 5 months ago
I was in a garage band in the 60's. While all the other bands were playing the Beatles or Beach Boys...we did all the Raider songs. I still think Mark Lindsay is one of the most under appreciated singers ever. He's got a great voice and sing with a lot of soul.
nerblebun 5 months ago 24
Misunderstood geniuses in their time, and now. LSD, legal through '66, contributed to the flashback marketing shtick by Columbia execs, no doubt. But the music had legs, as evidenced by its use in modern media. Lindsay might have been taken more seriously had his mug not been teen magazine-worthy. He's an owner of exotic recording gear with a great ear. He once sang "Kicks" to me while I was listening to it in my car - that's what I call stereo! He never lost it, but true talent is now passé.
7WaysFromSundown 6 months ago 2
Mark Lindsay was every bit as soulfull a shouter as Otis Redding or Wilson Pickett, and he was the only one to flaunt his boys in fruity tights. This may have reflected negatively upon his legacy.
problem49 6 months ago
I love the gimmick. Modern bands are so unoriginal. I've played in them all. Punk, Metal, Goth. I've always loved sixties music that is heavy on the electric keyboard. Stephenwolf, Question Mark and the Mysterians, The Doors, The Castaways, The Shocking Blue...
theboomster 6 months ago
I remember this band in the sixties; got a little bit of airplay in Australia but not much,although they did have some good tunes along with other US bands like Tommy James and the Shondells;The Doors; The Box Tops(not shore if they were US or Canadian) and others. There was a big discrepency between US bands and the Brits and we were far to preoccupied with British and Australian bands.
MultiCBGB 6 months ago
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Don't get no betta'!
SkidRowJosephine 6 months ago
I remember hearing this song blasting from the hot rod shop across from my school in late 1965. Such great memories. Sadly, two of the guys who worked there would be killed in Vietnam a few years later. If not for that, the 60s would have been an even greater decade.
hoss73ford1 6 months ago
this was one of fthe first 45 's i remember having.......playing it over and over
jrm8899 7 months ago
Did you live it? For a teenager there was and never has been a
better time to be alive.
pigurine 7 months ago 3
@pigurine abso-lippi-ltely!
alyblueyz 6 months ago
@pigurine abso-lippin-lutely!
alyblueyz 6 months ago
They are quite underrated.
Wehategod 7 months ago
They actually proved you could be on TV....be American.... and be great...even during the British Invasion. Not an easy task.
fcassociates 7 months ago
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Thanks to Fang and everyone for some great radio tracks. When I started in '68 your catalog was "then" - and it sounded great on a loud top-40 AM station like the one(s) I worked at. Coming out of a strong station ID with the first couple of keys on "Just like me" is pure radio power. Cool to think about it again...
areubaked 7 months ago
7 people were just like someone else.
tubefluid 7 months ago
thank you Pat Benatar for introducing me to this version!! I heard her version first! :)
bcom11 7 months ago
gotta love how people like Jack White, Wavves, Surfer Blood and No Age are bringing back the classic garage, lofi feel of classics like this and The Troggs, ? and the Mysterians, Kingsmen, etc. They all fit together perfectly.
ACDC392333 7 months ago
I just saw these guys live tonight in Rochester MN....fucking EPIC! They were damn good....and funny as hell to boot :D
ociee117 8 months ago
Sure would be nice for bands to forgive each other and bring back key members, such as Mark Lindsay; Dennis DeYoung (Styx); Jon Anderson (Yes), etc. but probably wont happen.
SeattleLA 8 months ago
@SeattleLA Good point but Jon Anderson isn't missing for any reason that needs to be forgiven, as he has health problems.
egcroan 8 months ago
@egcroan Hi. That is news to me. Jon is my favorite singer ever, and he has been touring on his own, for some time. In fact, he will be here in Seattle in two weeks. (He is better from the asthma) Does that meant that it is harder to travel with the full band, while being sick?
SeattleLA 8 months ago
NORTHWEST ROCK IN THE KISSN PARKING LOT FREE
securitycat11 8 months ago
This band was from Oregon!! Yea! My favorite Raider songs (not in order) Ups and Downs, Him or Me..,.Kicks, Hungry, Louise, Tighter, Oh Moreen, Good Thing, Free, Communication, Movin On. The jackass RnR induction Committee accepted Iggy Pop, The Cure,U2 and many bland groups. The Raiders and other great bands were not considered prior to and so the Rock Hall is BOGUS. Your Opinion?
TheStampedehero 9 months ago
@TheStampedehero - THE ROCK HALL IS NOT BOGUS. THE ASSHOLES IN NEW YORK CONTROLLING IT ARE. IF CLEVELAND HAD CONTROLL THIS SHIT WOULD HAVE STOPPED LONG AGO. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF GARBAGE PUT THROUGH THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN AND MANY GOOD GROUPS PASSED BY OR WAITED WAY TOO LONG TO GET IN.
HEARTHEANGELSVOICES 9 months ago
@TheStampedehero Agreed - Madonna but not Paul Revere and The Raiders? I also can't understand why The Guess Who isn't in there either...Guess Jann Werner doesn't like American Woman....The Hall is totally BOGUS!!!
Mindermaniac 8 months ago
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Good Time Rock and Roll!!!
1962drob 9 months ago
Great song by Paul Revere & The Raiders!
1962drob 9 months ago
the american version of the "british invasion" weren't they from idaho? thats purty dern far from england. hoyt axton would know about stuff like that.(i wonder if he ever made it to spain before he passed on.)anyhow,these guys could write sing or play as well as pretty much any u.s. band of that era(the spoonful were good) but they do seem to have fallen through the cracks somehow.
fullmooney1 9 months ago
7 dislikes . . . I'LL slap a motherfucker in their FACE.
lotanddaughters 9 months ago
act the fool i'll be true,, kick ass rock at its best
Upton12 9 months ago
@atcbotic Yes, and the guy on electric guitar and -- isn't there an electric organ, too? -- are doing "great work," also!! It's just like me!!
VrgniaMailman 9 months ago
are they still playing in vegas?
nutbagbrew102 9 months ago
@nutbagbrew102 mostly in Branson, MO and they do a Caribbean Cruise each year in January, with other bands. Next January, there will also be Davey Jones, and The Buckinghams.
SeattleLA 8 months ago
@SeattleLA - will try for january - many thanks and our music is still the best ! keep rockin -
nutbagbrew102 8 months ago
Lindsay's argueably one of the best vocalist of the Rock N Roll era!
notwaiting 9 months ago 3
Mark was such an awesome singer, so underrated!
Babyhowdy233 9 months ago
seal team
MrFrogmountain 10 months ago
Just an awesome track, every bit as anthemic as "Louie Louie" or "Dirty Water."
problem49 10 months ago 3
God I miss the 60s, nothing like it before and never will be again.
pigurine 10 months ago 40
@pigurine: Yeah - wars, revolts and assassinations galore!
knowledgeiswhatsup 7 months ago
@pigurine AMEN!
mickeymousebiker1 2 months ago
It's ridiculous these guys aren't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
sixbladeknife44 10 months ago 4
What was the song they did with the amps & drums on the beach ? Looking back it's the first "Beach" video I think might have actually been done live , even if they lip synced it (can you imagine the shocks you'd get standing in the sand with a "Shure" touching your lips and teeth) They are an amazing first Wave Band !
rk3hunt 10 months ago
Sorry, double post.
diavolobella1 10 months ago
@dslider, it's slightly similar, but not the same. For the record, Paul Revere and the Raiders were the first artists to record "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone" anyway, so they'd be copying themselves.
diavolobella1 10 months ago
@dslider, it's slightly similar, but not the same. For the record, Paul Revere and the Raiders were the first artists to record "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone" anyway, so they'd be copying themselves.
diavolobella1 10 months ago
Isn't I'm not your Steppin Stone by the Monkees ? Not trying to start a fight , just wondering.
dslider1 10 months ago 2
I think this is their best song. My second favourite one is I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone.
Why is it not on here anywhere ?
woncanuck 10 months ago
man miss the days where music sounded like this,,
Upton12 10 months ago
He did follow the money trail...I don't really blame him but I wonder what actually brought the band out of favor for AB and Dick Clark
mrbdguard 1 year ago
Sign the petition for the Hall of Fame! thepetitionsite. com /1/ raidersrockhall/ and take out the spaces....
GARDNERKSGUY 1 year ago 2
I looove the sound of that friggin rock organ thing they are using, whatever it is, I wanna know how it works! can someone tell me the name of it?
coolbluelights 1 year ago
@coolbluelights Sounds like it might be a "Hammond organ" connected to what is called a "revolving Leslie speaker" .
Highpoint211 1 year ago
@Highpoint211 Cool I've got some old Hammond organ music on 45!
coolbluelights 1 year ago
@coolbluelights Looks like someone has answered you question . Still you might like to look at some of the videos on YouTube about the "Leslie speaker " they liked to use on the Hammond organs , it's an interesting contraption .
Highpoint211 1 year ago
@coolbluelights
It was a VOX keyboard. That and FARFISA were pretty common organs, along with the bigger HAMMOND during that time period.
hardrockguy 1 year ago
This song kicks FN ass!
rjplamf61 1 year ago
Great song from the past.....
partypianoplayer 1 year ago
The Great, DRAKE !!!
Aldebaron9 1 year ago 2
love these guys!!
jpgrles 1 year ago
When you don't write your own songs and you do what your producers are telling you to do for success you are a performer. And these guys were good. But not the total package. Maybe there is a place in the R&R HOF for the performers of R&R in the distant furture. I loved this band. Respectfully.
MrTiptoes1 1 year ago
THOSE GUITARS...THOSE 'PIPES''... THAT ORGAN !!! GREAT FCKN' SONG!!!
Pukeman44 1 year ago
Great, great guiters!!!!!!
TheRacerbrown 1 year ago
Some of their songs were pretty heavy
redneck6310 1 year ago
to Bobyoung: I think you are right I have heard them play in other bands and they are all good musicians
mrbdguard 1 year ago
Each country had one person that controlled the business. I have heard rumors that there was a man in Australia that was doing the same things
mrbdguard 1 year ago
"Men in tights"
dave0mary 1 year ago
"More hidden music gems from the 60's vault of unforgettable tunes."
@dahur..."Right then,Rap is the lowest form of anything that resembles music!!!"
Riffster68 1 year ago
great tune, thanks!
usermac1300 1 year ago
The first great American garage band!!
triplettam 1 year ago
Not many singers like Mark Lindsey anymore
TheBogband 1 year ago
i remember the Paul Revere and Raiders when I was teen in the late 60s and the 70s. they good then and now as well.
susan53ful 1 year ago
tea party?
rw5791 1 year ago
60's yeah baby yeah !
skunkdad7 1 year ago
Note to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - induct Paul Revere and the Raiders!!!!!
bender1958 1 year ago 2
They Rock!
dowahditty69 1 year ago
to my friends everywhere...Luv from the Pacific NW YEAH!
Sylphqueen1968 1 year ago
Drake Levin taught Jimi Hendrix how to ROCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aldebaron9 1 year ago
I REMEMBER HOW THE BASS PLAYER WOULD TURN HIS GUITAR OVER & HAD "FANG" TAPED ON IT (HIS NICKNAME) =-)
BETSYSUEU 1 year ago
Where are these guys now? They're fantastic! Lina
lynnemendez 1 year ago
Best scream ever recorded in rock & roll, imho! Fantastic song.......
Bhaktigirl22 1 year ago
@Bhaktigirl22 One of them, I agree. Also, "Back Door Man" The Doors; "High Voltage" AC/DC; "Lucille" Little Richard; "Bobby's Blues" Bobby Blue Bland; "Maybe The Last Time" James Brown. Probably several more equals. This is my favorite PR&TR's song, hands down. The guitars blending stand the test for all time.
sealevelattitude 1 year ago
Terry Melcher R.I.P. Underrated producer...
TheDiggum 1 year ago
If you wanted to have fun then this was the band and the 60's was the best time for it.
harpobaby7 1 year ago 2
they would have been a more dominate band in the 60s had they lost those crappy uniforms.kind of hokey.
reg5381 1 year ago
My theory is this.....World War II sadly cost millions of lives, and the baby boomer era produced a lot of creative people so nature made up for all the lost souls. So many people died there was a rebirth....
brokencasket 1 year ago 2
@brokencasket I have a better theory. People like Paul were influenced by the 50's rock and roll. These people were influenced by blues and gospel, which was brought to America through negro spirituals, which was brought to America with slavery. I am saying that without the slavery of africans in america, rock music in general wouldn't exist.
Person1036 1 year ago
@Person1036
you're right but I was speaking of all the creative people at that time, even Bruce Lee etc. Although not sure I agree Rock would not exist without the black influence but it certainly might have sounded very different.
brokencasket 1 year ago
I love this song and Kicks, too. This is no music like the 60's. The music today has a LOT to be desired of. I'll take the oldies any day.
proudgram61 1 year ago 22
@proudgram61 and 45 years from now people are going to say, boy the music back in 2010 was really good. not like this junk we have in 2055. it's been a long time hasn't it gram.
oranger2525 1 year ago
@oranger2525 really oranger2525...??! So, people will really be fondly remembering all those classic hits from Justin Bieber and Katy Perry huh? Gosh... who would have thunk it?
pkgannon 1 year ago
@pkgannon yeas, really! ya missed my point, figured most people would. don't you remember that parents "hated" R&R. each generation has their own music. old folks like us complaining about current music reminds me of going to my granparents house in the 60s and having my grandfather dis The Beatles. Considering Justin Bieber is more popular than the Raiders ever were, I would not be suprised if today's tweens remember him 45 years from now. Nothing says old like "remember the good old days"
oranger2525 1 year ago
@oranger2525 i agree and disagree .. SOME parents hated R&R. There were plenty of older people when they saw Paul McCartney sing Till There Was You or Yesterday on Ed Sullivan... that KNEW they were talented and it was no longer "today's " fad. I personally don't hate today's music... i am selective. I do find some entertainment in various song including Eminem. However, Rock and Roll like other dominant music styles going back hundreds of years is fading. ..(cont.)
pkgannon 1 year ago
@pkgannon I said my grandfather! My parents understood the talent of The Beatles and many others in the 60s. And remember Mr. Sullivan was fond of saying "now for all you youngsters, here are [insert rock performer name}.
oranger2525 1 year ago
@oranger2525 I am only old enough to remember 70's music. But I, like many Rock critics... believe the best of rock and roll has come and gone. For example, you could never.... NEVER... have another Beatles again. It won't happen. The excitement of the 50's / 60's rock n roll won't happen again. All we will have is overnight youtube success, an American idol hit, the teen idol of the year and Disney marketing.
pkgannon 1 year ago
@pkgannon So you think PR&TR were a Rock band. They were more like good bubble gum. Youtube and AI -- it's called progress. But it's really not to much differnen than the Raiders lip synching to studio musicians. Of the group only Lindsay had any substance (no pun intended, apparently he had some bad habits). But David Cassidy was 10 times the star as Mark was.
oranger2525 1 year ago
@oranger2525 no, not really (to the Rock band comment).. I only know Mark Lindsay's name. There are a few songs of theirs that I've played and liked that's all. with regards to the other.. progress... yeah great .. i'm all for it.. but it's changed other things. What i'm saying is that initial explosion of rock and roll from the 50's / 60's cannot be sustained. and it's proven.. statistics show less sales year after year. rock and roll is and has been on the wane.
pkgannon 1 year ago
Believe it or not the band I was in back in the early 60's (before they became real popular) were the opening group for these guys when in our area. We played with them maybe 8 times or so. I knew Mark Lindsay before he was in the Raiders, as he was originally from Eugene Oregon. I still live in Oregon, and have had contact with Mark a few times in the last several years. He left the group in 1975.
Fenstrat62 1 year ago