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The band was reported to be the first major band in history to tour with all members amplified, including sidemen such as horn players. [21] When Levin left the group in 1966 to join the National Guard he was replaced by Jim Valley, another Northwest musician the Raiders had met during their days playing the Portland and Seattle music circuits.
Members of the American garage rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders. Pages in category "Paul Revere & the Raiders members" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Lindsay and Revere on Happening 68. By 1968 Lindsay had completely taken over the writing and producing tasks for the group. Paul Revere & the Raiders had a revolving cast of band members, with only Revere and Lindsay remaining in the group since its inception.
The Raiders on Dick Clark’s Where The Action Is in 1966 (Paul on left). Starting in 1965, the band became the house band for the Dick Clark ABC weekday afternoon variety show Where the Action Is, the first active, charting band to take on such status.
At the end of Volk's first concert appearance, lead singer Mark Lindsay "baptized" Volk with a jug of water, making him an official member of the Raiders. [10] Since all band members had a nickname, Revere suggested Volk call himself "Bugs" or "Bucky Beaver", due to the prominent eye teeth he often displayed with a wide grin.
Levin owned and played a triple-pickup Epiphone Crestwood Custom Deluxe in his early Raiders days, including the pilot episode of Where The Action Is.A few TV performances appearances of the band showed Drake playing a Mosrite six- and 12-string doubleneck that was offered to him from Mosrite, but he found it too heavy to play comfortably.
Around the time Allison joined the Raiders, the group's sole original members, Mark Lindsay and Paul Revere, had recently started hosting the show Happening '68. Allison and the additional members of the Raiders would become the house band for the show until its cancellation in 1969. Allison left the Raiders in 1975.
The first hit version was a 1968 recording by Don Fardon – a former member of the Sorrows – that reached number 20 on the Hot 100 in 1968 [3] and number 3 on the UK Singles Chart in 1970. [4] In 1971, the Raiders recorded "Indian Reservation" for Columbia Records, and it topped the Hot 100 on July 24. [5]