{"id":627,"date":"2011-10-21T04:55:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T09:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2011-10-21T04:55:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T09:55:21","slug":"preview-jump-out-the-window-the-brotherhood-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/21\/preview-jump-out-the-window-the-brotherhood-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Jump Out the Window &#8211; The Brotherhood Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>April  30, 1967<\/em> &#8212; On this Sunday evening, the popular group <strong>Paul Revere and  the Raiders<\/strong> were scheduled to appear for the first time on the hit  television program <em>The Ed Sullivan Show<\/em>. At the peak of their  popularity, the Raiders were slated to perform their hit \u201cGood Thing\u201d  from <em>The Spirit of \u201967<\/em>. It was planned to be one of the final  performances by the<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> most celebrated  lineup of the band: the power trio of guitarist <strong>Drake \u201cthe Kid\u201d Levin<\/strong>,  bassist <strong>Phil \u201cFang\u201d Volk<\/strong> and drummer <strong>Mike \u201cSmitty&#8221; Smith<\/strong> had all given  their notice to Revere, having made plans to form their own group. What  could have been a high point of their time as members of the hit-making  Raiders instead marked the abrupt end of a chapter. Shortly after the  performance, Drake, Smitty and Phil were off to pursue their musical  vision, one quite different from the band they had just left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q5PGBxfAfo8\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Drake, Phil and Smitty founded a group that would record three albums,  perform a handful of concerts, and remain together barely two years. But  while the music was heard by few at the time or since, during their  brief time together, their band, <strong>Brotherhood<\/strong>, existed at the center of  an exciting musical scene and created enduring music that deserved more  success than it found&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/brotherhood_live1969.jpg\" height=\"326\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<font color=\"#999999\">Above: a rare live shot of a rare live performance by the final lineup of Brotherhood (L-R: Drake Levin, Joe Pollard, Phil Volk). Circa 1969. Photo by kind permission of Phil Volk.<\/font><\/center>To read the rest of my feature, JUMP OUT  THE WINDOW: THE BROTHERHOOD STORY &#8212; not online; available in print only &#8212;\u00a0 order <a href=\"http:\/\/store03.prostores.com\/servlet\/uglythings\/the-120\/UGLY-THINGS-%2332\/Detail\">the latest issue of <em>Ugly  Things Magazine<\/em><\/a>. This in-depth story is based on extensive interviews with many of  those who were there, then.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Phil Volk, <strong>Joe Pollard<\/strong>, <strong>Ron Collins<\/strong>, Sandra Levin, Lynnette Stevens, <strong>Jim Valley<\/strong>, <strong>Eirik Wangberg<\/strong>, <strong>Roger Hart<\/strong>, Jeff Levin, Donald \u201cBuddha\u201d Miller, Paul Moser and Tim Livingston for their willingness to be interviewed. Thanks also to David Levin, Brenda Hibbs, Lars Keilhau, Neal Skok, Debbi Bennett, Harold Brown, Bob Koenig and Sunita Patterson for their invaluable assistance in developing this story.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#FF0000\"><strong>UPDATE: A serialized version of the entire story starts on this blog on Monday April\u00a0 24, 2012. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><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\" height=\"18\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"18\" border=\"0\" \/>  Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 30, 1967 &#8212; On this Sunday evening, the popular group Paul Revere and the Raiders were scheduled to appear for the first time on the hit television program The [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}