{"id":1384,"date":"2008-04-21T23:18:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T03:18:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-16T01:30:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T01:30:06","slug":"paul-revere-and-the-raiders-give-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/paul-revere-and-the-raiders-give-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Revere &amp; the Raiders Give Arthur Lee &amp; Love a West Coast Slap-Down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a few free minutes this afternoon, so I swung by the trusty Goodwill to see what kind of dusty old vinyl I could score.  I found a couple of old <strong>Paul Revere &amp; the Raiders<\/strong> 45s I&#8217;d never heard before, and plunked down 50 cents.  <em>Score!<\/em>  The extent to which I enjoyed these singles got me thinking about this silly band, and I headed out into the wilds of the InterWeb to explore a bit.  I found the following video, which further made me realize how much I prefer Mark Lindsay&#8217;s message to Arthur Lee&#8217;s.  Talk about Winner Rock!<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GYeUZJdrTwQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Here are the Revere numbers I found in the 45 bin today &#8212; all of which totally kick Love&#8217;s pathetic, two-steps-removed-from-Skip-Spence, bong-water-stain-in-the-Oriental-rug asses.  The first, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/Leslie.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/Leslie.mp3\">&#8220;Leslie&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>, is a foot-stompin&#8217; ode to, uh, Mark Lindsay&#8217;s maid (check out the spoken word bits in the outro).  The second, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/GreatAirplaneStrike.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/GreatAirplaneStrike.mp3\"><strong>&#8220;The Great Airplane Strike&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>, is about as good a Stones raver this side of the actual Rolling Stones.  And the last thrifty track, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/UpsAndDowns.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/UpsAndDowns.mp3\">&#8220;Ups and Downs&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>, coincidentally, features a bullfighter trumpet section!<\/p>\n<p>Come on, Mod &#8212; are you with me?  Up Raiders!  Down Love!<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a few free minutes this afternoon, so I swung by the trusty Goodwill to see what kind of dusty old vinyl I could score. I found a couple of old Paul Revere &amp; the Raiders 45s I&#8217;d never heard before, and plunked down 50 cents. Score! The extent to which I enjoyed these <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/paul-revere-and-the-raiders-give-arthur\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[44,38,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}