Paul Revere of Raiders rock band dies at 76

[Rhiannon12866]

Source: KOMO - Seattle

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paul Revere, the organist and leader of the Raiders rock band, has died. He was 76.

Roger Hart, manager for Paul Revere and the Raiders, said he died Saturday at his home in Garden Valley, Idaho, from cancer.

"He'd been quiet about it for some time," Hart said. "Treated at the Mayo Clinic, Paul stayed on the road as long as he could, then retired recently back to Idaho, where he and his wife, Sydney, always kept a home."

Revere, born Paul Revere Dick, became known as "the madman of rock and roll" for his theatrical colonial wardrobe and infectious onstage persona with the band.

Read more: http://www.komonews.com/news/entertainment/Paul-Revere-of-Raiders-rock-band-dies-at-76-278169561.html

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[shenmue]

1. Rest in peace

[flamingdem]

2. rip Paul

[Boomerproud]

3. Another person from my youth gone.

Thank you Paul, for the good times. "Kicks" always got me up on the dance floor. R.I.P. sir, and gentle passage.

[brewens]

4. Sorry to hear. We had those guys a couple times at our local summer concert bash here in

Idaho. It was a fun show. We also had their lead singer Mark Lindsey living not too far from here. He hadn't been with the band for years as far as I knew but I hoped he'd be involved. Never happened but that would have been cool.

[Ino]

5. I had such a crush on him/them

[Vinca]

8. Me, too. They were adorable.

[Laffy Kat]

32. Me, too, Ino. Mark Lindsay was my first crush!

I had Tiger Beat pinups all over my room. Such an innocent time.

[amandabeech]

33. Lindsay was cute, but I thought that Fang the bassist was just the cutest.

One of my friends would buy Tiger Beat, and we'd pass it around. It got pretty ratty after a few days.

It was an innocent time for 11 year old girls.

May Paul Revere join that great band in the sky. RIP.

[Cartoonist]

6. Great Band

That they aren't in the R&R Hall of Fame is a disgrace to that phony organization which has left out other great bands and singers.

[Unknown Beatle]

25. You're not kidding.

The R&R Hall of Fame is a joke which nobody should take seriously. Why aren't Deep Purple, Willie Nelson, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and a few other notable names not in the R&R Hall Of Fame but KISS and Metallica are.

What a fucking joke.

[Cartoonist]

27. Punk killed the Moody Blues

and almost all prog rock groups from consideration. It's alkost as if some stupid jerk in a boy's band wearing a t-shirt that said I hate Pink Floyd made serious R&R unfashionable. Wait, that actually happened.

One duo I know will never get recognition is Jan & Dean. Surf music is almost completely ignored. It fell out of fashion like everything else once the Beatles arrived, but there is no arguing its influence. Jimi Hendrix sought out Dick Dale for tips.

[AngryOldDem]

29. That point was made at the induction ceremony this year.

Right after Kiss was inducted, the person who introduced Hall & Oates (I think) got up and listed a whole shitload of bands that deserve to be in, but aren't. The list was amazing, and made me wonder just what the criteria are. Yes, it was a backhand to Kiss, but they shouldn't be in there anyway.

That said, look how long it took The E Street Band to get in -- and how sad for those members (Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons) who didn't live to see it.

[PSPS]

7. From 1970 in Portland

[Tikki]

9. STOMP and SHOUT now and WORK it all out...RIP dear man..

I was 13 years old when Paul Revere and the Raiders played in my little area of Eastern Washington State where I lived.

They pulled into the parking lot in front of the tiny venue they would be playing
driving a gold Valiant pulling a small trailer.

They and a few other Northwest bands schooled us in rock and I give them every bit of credit for
the fact that I have been a rock and roll fanatic since my pre-teens.

Paul Revere was a fun, kind and determined man. He knew real talent when he saw it...a gift for a band leader.

He and the band will be forever ingrained my my rock and roll heart.

Your never forget your first LIVE "Louie, Louie".

The Tikkis

[valerief]

10. I had such a crush on Mark Lindsay when I was kid watching Where the Action Is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Action_Is

[shanti]

19. I think

there were a lot of us. Remember when Tiger Beat held a contest to win Mark's ponytail? Hee!

[valerief]

20. Ha! No, I don't recall being a Tiger Beat reader, but that's a very cool contest. nt

[SleeplessinSoCal]

11. I've a mea cupla on these guys

I was at the rehearsal for this performance on The Smothers Brothers Show in'67.

Paul Revere & the Raiders -The Smothers
Brothers …:

There were only about 12 of us seated where the audience sits for the taping. Mark Lindsay, lead singer, (and to my thinking the cutest Raider) left the stage and made his way to the seat right next to me. My stomach wound up in my throat and I froze. I could think of nothing to say except "Excuse me" as I got up to leave, never to look back.

What a loser I was as a young gal.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. Awwwww! Missed opportunities....

I've had them, too. At a Sha Na Na concert in the '70s, I could have taken part in the dance contest, but chickened out. My self consciousness seems so silly now... And in the late '60s, when I had a part as a dancer with a band for a local TV show, the "box" I was dancing on moved during the performance, cutting off the audio, so they had to record the whole thing all over again.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

14. Unforgetable experiences that may help us later on.

Or not.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Just seems silly now when I remember things I was self conscious about in my early teens

I was a shy kid.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

16. Me too. Still shy.

Which is why I like forums like DU.

[Rhiannon12866]

17. I've gotten better, but it took a long time

Think it took realizing that most people feel this way...

[calimary]

12. Aw dammit. Sorry... gettin' too close...

This was one of those bands I just LOVED back in the day. They were a total spoof and were hilarious and adorable and they did play! I always had this sense of hierarchy among the 1960s bands back then. At the very top was only one band: the Beatles. Then, the level just slightly down from there included the Stones and the rest of the "British Invasion," and Motown and some other American types, too, including Paul Revere & the Raiders.

When it's one of these, it's gettin' too close.

[shanti]

18. RIP, Paul

Totally bubblegum, but I loved their songs, used to watch them on Hullaballoo and Where the Action Is after school was out. My favorite was Mark Lindsay and his ponytail

[Rhiannon12866]

23. ...

[rhett o rick]

21. I was a teenager in Portland when The Raiders, The Kingsmen, and Rocking Robin Roberts, were

starting out. Did a lot of dancing to their tunes. RIP Paul.

Although I never saw them, Ike and Tina Turner also played in Portland starting out about that time.

[ancianita]

22. My favorite from my senior year was "Good Thing."

[Tikki]

28. Awesome song....

and this one, too.

Tikki

[ancianita]

30. That was my other favorite.

[midnight]

24. K&R

[Unknown Beatle]

26. Just last week I was reminiscing and

listening to hours of Paul Revere and the Raiders among other 60's groups. And lo and behold, another one of my childhood while growing up musician dies.

RIP Paul. Your music lives on.

[Kaleva]

31. Drake Levin and Mike Smith of the band have also passed on.

Drake Levin died of cancer July 4, 2009 and Mike Smith died in 2001 at the age of 58.

RIP Paul Revere.

[denbot]

34. As an Indian kid in suburbia, "Reservation" meant a lot to me.

I was entering Jr. High, and it help me not to feel like I was an anomaly. Many years later, and not too long ago, the lyrics "though I wear a shirt and tie, I'm still part redman deep inside"' would occasionally run through my head as I looked in the mirror and tied a double Windsor.

[Rhiannon12866]

35. Very cool.

This era of music certainly influenced many of us during our formative years. Whenever I hear one of these songs, I'm transported right back to the very same age.

[Rhiannon12866]

44. Excellent song, arguably their best, now posted in Videos, along with a relevant article:

JTMP: Paul Revere & the Raiders - "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Indian Reservation)"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017219130

[Hissyspit]

36. Highly underrated.

[colorado_ufo]

37. RIP to a fine musician

and a memorable figure in American culture. Great memories for so many fans!

[davidpdx]

38. So sad

I saw them play at a county fair in 1987. Even though they were from before my time, it was a good show.

[Silver Gaia]

39. Aw, man... that makes me so sad!

They were my fave band, too, when I was 12. I saw them in concert in Seattle during the summer of '67. It was the Raiders and Herman's Hermits, as I recall, and their opening act was this new band from England nobody'd ever heard of called The Who. LOL What a fun memory! I also saw The Monkees that summer, and their opening act was this dude named Jimi Hendrix. Man...

[ffernandez15]

40. Fond Memories....

So sad to read about Mr. Revere's passing. Reading all these posts has brought back memories of this band, from the late sixties.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned their T.V. show, "Happening", a Dick Clark produced show that was on Saturday afternoons. I believe it came on after American Bandstand. I believe that the intro to the show was the band racing over the desert (beach?) in dune buggies, over the 'Happening' theme song. Tried to find it on Youtube, couldn't find it.

Rest in peace, Mr. Revere.

[gopiscrap]

45. Welcome to DU!

[bluesbassman]

41. Bummer. RIP Paul.

Fortunate to see them at Disneyland in '72 while on a famy trip. As a 15yr old who wasn't all that interested in hanging with the peeps, it was a great find and I'll always have a special place in my heart for Paul Revere and the Raiders.

[randome]

42. I saw the Raiders live a long, long time ago, probably at Six Flags.

Front row seats. It was an awesome experience.

[IDemo]

43. Remembering Paul Revere, Idaho's rock revolutionary

From the local paper -

Paul Revere, the chart-topping, rock 'n' roll funnyman from Caldwell, died Saturday in his Garden Valley home at age 76 after battling brain cancer for 18 months.

Revere was the organist and leader of Paul Revere & the Raiders, which recorded 23 consecutive hits in the 1960s as a leading American voice during the British Invasion. Dressed in over-the-top Revolutionary War-inspired stage garb, the Raiders were known for their slapstick live performances.

Around 1963, a frenetic Raiders show at the Hollywood Cinnamon Club caught the eye of Bill Medley, who sang in another band on its rise to fame, the Righteous Brothers. Medley and Revere became close friends and business partners. Decades later, the Raiders opened for the Righteous Brothers more than 1,000 times playing in Las Vegas and as a nightly act at Dick Clark American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Mo.

More than a musician, Medley said, Revere was a pratfalling, prop-wielding entertainer who was always, always smiling. Revere drove a tiny car through Medley's live set each night at the Bandstand Theater.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/10/06/3412503_remembering-idahos-rock-revolutionary.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

- The story says he was born in 1936, but that should have read 1938.