...please enjoy Paul Revere and the Raiders -- featuring Fang (and I absolutely love writing the phrase "featuring Fang) -- and their quite brilliant "In My Community."
I hadn't listened to this album since forever, and I frankly have no idea why I was suddenly motivated to do so -- although the fact that the new CD version I glommed has both mono and stereo mixes as well as bonus tracks may have something to do with it. That said, I have long been of the opinion that it's one of the absolutely best albums of its year, and by that I mean as good as anything -- Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Moby Grape -- that was being done in San Francisco at the time; I have no doubt that if the Raiders had dressed like the rest of their contemporaries, i.e. hippies, this would be received opinion.
And because I love you all more than food, here's a YouTube version for those unfortunates amongst us who have problems with the audio links I post using the Box.
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This really was a great album. Sadly many pop bands from the earlier '60's fell out of favor because they were seen as not being "cool" beginning in 1967.
If any album deserves a mention on this blog, one that has both Hungry and Good Thing (not to mention Louise) certainly does. Thanks, Steve.
Too cool. I got this album on my 11th birthday.
Still have it.
We need a term like "Brill Building Pop" to cover miid-'60s LA rock - the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Mama's and the Papa's, and, more than anyone, PR&R. I think the uniforms were part of the deal. I lost interest when they changed into civvies.
a piquant detail: Mark Lindsay was Terry Melcher's housemate (with Melcher's girlfriend Candace Bergen) in the Cielo Drive house.
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