{"id":765,"date":"2012-04-30T05:08:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2012-04-30T05:08:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:08:50","slug":"jump-out-the-window-the-brotherhood-story-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/30\/jump-out-the-window-the-brotherhood-story-part-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump Out the Window: The Brotherhood Story (part 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Serialized Feature in Ten Parts:<\/em>
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Drake\u2019s girlfriend at the time, Edna O\u2019Dowd<\/a>, designed the album\u2019s distinctive sleeve art. Her painting \u2013 which lent the record its title \u2014 is perhaps the most commercially accessible thing about Joyride<\/em>. The promising artist died of an apparent suicide within a year of the album\u2019s release. Joyride<\/em>\u2019s back cover included brief explanations for each of the record\u2019s six tracks, and detailed personnel listings gave credit to all of the \u201cmusician friends\u201d involved in the sessions.<\/p>\n

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Once Joyride<\/em> was concluded, both Ron Collins and Mike Smith left the group. \u201cSmitty left because he was moving to Monterey,\u201d says Phil. \u201cAnd he was starting to feel conflicts in the lifestyle, with smoking grass and living that life. And Brotherhood was floundering; I think he got tired of me and Drake arguing so much. He would just sit there while we would lock horns and have these fights about the music, the lyrics, the production.\u201d Phil recalls Smitty\u2019s typical rejoinder to their arguments: \u201cYou guys are nuts. You make me sick. All this time you\u2019ve been arguing, and we could have been playing music!\u201d Lynnette Stevens recalls that \u201cSmitty didn\u2019t engage in any of it; he\u2019d roll his eyes and walk away.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Smitty would eventually re-join the Raiders in time to tour in support of their last major hit, 1971\u2019s \u201cIndian Reservation.\u201d He remained with the Raiders into 1972, after which he moved to Hawaii. According to Brenda Hibbs, who married Smitty in 1978, the drummer never spoke once to her about Brotherhood. Michael \u201cSmitty\u201d Smith passed away in 2001, three and a half years after taking part in a Portland, Oregon one-off Raiders reunion also featuring Drake, Phil and Mark Lindsay.<\/p>\n

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Engineer Eirik Wangberg notes that from the beginning, Brotherhood was \u201c[Drake and Phil\u2019s] baby\u2026they were the ones running the sessions.\u201d Ron Collins describes most Brotherhood sessions as \u201claborious affairs\u201d in which he had little or no say. With perhaps a hint of bitterness, he draws a comparison between the situation Drake, Phil and Smitty found themselves in with the Raiders \u2013 namely, having little say in the music, and being junior members at best and employees at worst \u2013 as being very similar to his situation in Brotherhood. \u201cI never was even signed up on the contract Drake, Phil and Smitty had with RCA,\u201d he points out.<\/p>\n

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