The L.A. Times is reporting that Drake Levin, lead guitarist for Paul Revere & the Raiders during the quintet's hit-making prime in the mid-1960s, died Saturday at his home in San Francisco after a long battle with cancer, according to his longtime friend and former Raiders bandmate Phil Volk. He was 62.Levin's four-year stint with the Raiders, known for its campy Revolutionary War uniforms, th...
Celebrations, ruminations and videos at MOG were inspired by the recent induction of the mid-1960s British Invasion rockers the Dave Clark 5 into the (to my mind, superfluous and ridiculous) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Circumstances aside, the recognition was deserved – and the thread that strung out of a DC5 post by our brother-in-MOG emscee eventually name-checked an American counterpart to th
Celebrations, ruminations and videos at MOG were inspired by the recent induction of the mid-1960s British Invasion rockers the Dave Clark 5 into the (to my mind, superfluous and ridiculous) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Circumstances aside, the recognition was deserved – and the thread that strung out of a DC5 post by our brother-in-MOG emscee eventually name-checked an American counterpart to th
The L.A. Times is reporting that Drake Levin, lead guitarist for Paul Revere & the Raiders during the quintet's hit-making prime in the mid-1960s, died Saturday at his home in San Francisco after a long battle with cancer, according to his longtime friend and former Raiders bandmate Phil Volk. He was 62.Levin's four-year stint with the Raiders, known for its campy Revolutionary War uniforms, th...