{"id":543,"date":"2011-07-01T05:21:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T10:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2011-07-01T05:21:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T10:21:34","slug":"two-years-of-musoscribe-paul-revere-the-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/01\/two-years-of-musoscribe-paul-revere-the-raiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Years of Musoscribe: Paul Revere &#038; the Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">To celebrate the two-year anniversary of this blog, I\u2019m taking the opportunity to look back over some of the more than five hundred blog entries I\u2019ve posted. I\u2019ve conducted interviews, written essays and reviewed new albums, reissues and DVDs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><\/span>I <em>love <\/em>Paul Revere &amp; the Raiders; at its best, their music is emblematic of the zeitgeist of the mid 1960s. I\u2019ve written a lot about them and related topics, and more \u2013 my biggest project to date, in fact &#8212; is in the works.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/shindig16.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"283\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=177\"><em>Complete Columbia Singles<\/em><\/a> collected      (onto three CDs) all of the a- and b-sides the group recorded for Columbia.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">In      2010 I wrote an expansive <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=259\">cover story for <em>Shindig! Magazine<\/em><\/a> about the <strong>Raiders<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">I      actually drove all the way to Branson MO      to meet <strong>Paul Revere<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=419\">Here\u2019s      that story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Phil      Volk was the bassist for the Raiders during their most popular period.      <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=518\">Here\u2019s what he\u2019s up<\/a> to in 2011.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">After      Phil left the Raiders, he formed <strong>Brotherhood<\/strong>      with ex-bandmates <strong>Drake Levin<\/strong>      and <strong>Mike \u201cSmitty\u201d Smith<\/strong>. I\u2019ve      written a major feature on that band; it will be in print later in 2011 in      <em>Ugly Things Magazine<\/em>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=515\">story      behind the story<\/a> is pretty interesting in and of itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\" class=\"body\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" valign=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"18\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"18\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the two-year anniversary of this blog, I\u2019m taking the opportunity to look back over some of the more than five hundred blog entries I\u2019ve posted. I\u2019ve conducted interviews, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-list","cat-8-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}