The Mourners Are Coming! The Mourners Are Coming!

Paul Revere, founding member of the near-miss band Paul Revere and the Raiders, has died, fittingly enough at the age of 76. Funeral arrangements will either be 1) by land or 2) by sea. Revere and the Raiders recorded Kicks, a sound alike for We Gotta Get Out of This Place, by the same songwriter. They also recorded Louie Louie in April 1963, the same month and in the same studio as The Kingsmen. It’s unclear who recorded it first, but we know which is the remembered version. They did hit platinum with Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" aka, “Cherokee people! Cherokee tribe! So proud to live, so proud to die.” Playing to the Paul Revere name, the band dressed the part of Revolutionary War soldiers as they combated a new British invasion, but had all the gravitas of the Funky Phantom.