{"id":544,"date":"2011-07-04T05:31:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T10:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2011-07-04T05:31:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T10:31:42","slug":"a-modest-tribute-to-drake-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/04\/a-modest-tribute-to-drake-levin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Tribute to Drake Levin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/raiders\/drake_levin.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"300\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"261\" \/>Today in America it\u2019s Independence Day. It\u2019s also the second anniversary of the passing of guitar hero <strong>Drake Levin<\/strong>. He came to fame as the lead guitarist for <strong>Paul Revere and the Raiders<\/strong>, but when he left that group he formed a new trio called <strong>Brotherhood<\/strong>, with fellow ex-Raiders <strong>Phil \u201cFang\u201d Volk<\/strong> and <strong>Michael \u201cSmitty\u201d Smith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u2019ve written a detailed story on Brotherhood, drawing on many hours of interviews with a long list of people. That feature will be in an upcoming print issue of <em>Ugly Things<\/em>. In my research for the feature, many people \u2013 band members, roadies, friends, family and fans \u2013 helped me out by providing photos from their personal collections. Many of those will be in print for the first time ever when the story runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><font color=\"#FF0000\">(slideshow removed; it was giving me some technical trouble. I&#8217;ll try to put it up on YouTube or something.)<\/font><\/center>  <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\" border=\"0\" height=\"18\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"18\" \/>  Twitter<\/a> and get notified <\/center><center>when new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/center><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in America it\u2019s Independence Day. It\u2019s also the second anniversary of the passing of guitar hero Drake Levin. He came to fame as the lead guitarist for Paul Revere [&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":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","cat-41-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}