If Madona get's in the Rock-n-Roll Hall of fame...

[WCGreen]

SHouldn't Paul Revere and the Raisers be there...


No other rock & roll band has experienced the rollercoaster ups and downs in reputation that Paul Revere & the Raiders have known across 40 years in music. One of the most popular and entertaining groups of the 1960s, they enjoyed 10 years of serious chart action, and during their three biggest years (1966-69) got as much radio play as any group of that decade, sold records in numbers second only to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and received nearly as much coverage in the music press of the period (which included a lot of teen fan magazines) as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. Yet when most histories of rock started getting written, Paul Revere & the Raiders were scarcely mentioned — at best, they were usually a footnote to the boom years of the late '60s.

By the late '70s, years past their last hit, they were playing lounges with a stage act that was just as steeped in comedy as it was centered on music, and in the 1980s they became a campy oldies act. By then, however, their songs had started acquiring a new luster and credibility. "Steppin' Out," "Just Like Me," "Hungry," "Him or Me-What's It Gonna Be" and "Kicks," in particular, were seen by oldies programmers and compilers as bold, unpretentious pieces of '60s rock & roll with a defiant, punk edge, and a couple — "Sometimes" and "Ups and Downs" — actually entered the repertory of outfits like the Flamin' Groovies and, from there, become part of the musical vocabulary of the so-called "Paisley Underground" psychedelic revival during the 1980s.

http://wm10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:h9fuxqugld6e~T1

Kicks just keep getting harder to find...

[6000eliot]

1. What is "get's?"

[WCGreen]

2. I don't know, a mistake....

[mark414]

3. mention the name paul revere and the raiders to most anyone under 45

and the reply will be..."who?"

only reason i know is cause my dad played their records all the damn time when i was growing up ;)

but that was a good thing

[Deja Q]

6. Some people say I was born 10 years too late...

I know who you're talking about. :7

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. I have fond childhood memories

of Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Love that 60s garage rock.

[donheld]

5. It's too late more than likely

If they haven't gotten in after all these years they probably will not get in. I can't tell you why that's just the way it is.