{"id":518,"date":"2011-05-24T05:13:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T10:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2011-05-24T05:13:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T10:13:13","slug":"it-would-seem-that-the-times-are-in-fact-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/24\/it-would-seem-that-the-times-are-in-fact-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"It Would Seem That The Times Are in Fact Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you\u2019re a regular \u2013 or even an occasional \u2013 reader of this blog, well thank you. And if you are — and\/or if you follow me on Twitter <\/a>or keep up with me on Facebook <\/a>\u2013 then \u00a0<\/span>you probably know that a major project of mine these last few months behind the scenes has been a feature on Brotherhood<\/strong><\/a>, the band formed in 1967 by three ex-members of Paul Revere and the Raiders<\/strong><\/a>. That feature will be in print this summer in Ugly Things<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

Though they enjoyed very limited success, Brotherhood was in many ways a more ambitious band than the Raiders, both in their lyrical subject matter and in their musical approach. Their first album was a stylistic grab-bag that included some Sgt. Pepper<\/em> influenced baroque-style pop. Their second was an off-the-wall experiment that calls to mind Frank Zappa<\/strong> at his freakiest. Their third is a highly charged, stripped-down power trio record.<\/p>\n

My friend Phil Volk<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cFang\u201d to his Raiders-era fans \u2013 has remained busy ever since Brotherhood, fronting several bands including The Great Crowd, Friendship Train<\/strong>, and (lately) Fang & the Gang<\/strong>. As it happens, Phil\u2019s latest project is a cover of a Bob Dylan<\/strong> song (Dylan turns seventy<\/em> today, by the way). That track \u2013 a rocking rendition of \u201cThe Times They Are A-Changing\u2019\u201d owes a lot stylistically to the Brotherhood sound. Not surprising, since along with Drake Levin<\/strong>, Phil was the prime mover of that band.<\/p>\n

In one of those odd coincidences that life sometimes hands us, the new track — recorded over the last few months \u2013 was released the same day that Osama Bin Laden<\/strong> was killed in his Pakistan compound. On the disc\u2019s liner notes, Phil describes the track as \u201ca song for a world in turmoil.\u201d The timeless message of the song is also very much in keeping with the Brotherhood spirit. Check it out; available at the usual outlets: iTunes<\/a>, CDBaby <\/a>and Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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