Monday, September 28, 2020

It's Paul Revere and the Spirit of '67 Week: Special "My Little Town" Edition

From their Summer of Love masterpiece The Spirit of '67...

...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.

5 comments:

John K said...

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.


Roger said...

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.

Billy B said...

Too cool. I got this album on my 11th birthday.

Still have it.

pete said...

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.

pete said...

a piquant detail: Mark Lindsay was Terry Melcher's housemate (with Melcher's girlfriend Candace Bergen) in the Cielo Drive house.