RARE '60s ORIG Rave Up "LIKE LONG HAIR" PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS Frat GARAGE

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    MEGA RARE ORIGINAL '60s FIRST PRESS

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            " Like Long Hair "

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              USA - GARDENA RECORDS - G-1000

Major-rare! Original 1961 Pacific Northwest LOCAL only first pressing of the very first Paul Revere and the Raiders LP ...many fans for years didn't know this album was released, being that it was not distributed nationally.

And yes, earlier in the year, from the east coast we traveled to the Northwest to obtain this record (and others)

The Pacific Northwest’s Paul Revere & the Raiders, moved to Hollywood in 1964 to become that rare combination of rock ’n’ roll hit-maker/television star. With 15 hits on the American Top 40 between 1961 and 1971, they were one of the most consistent groups of the ’60s… but this is a rare album from their very beginning -- on the locally pressed "Gardena" label.

From the moment Paul Revere & the Raiders came together as a band, they were pretty much opposites in terms of their music, and what direction they wanted their career to be steered. In the wake of the Pacific Northwest’s first major hit in 1959 “Tall Cool One” by The Wailers, Paul Revere & the Raiders would follow with a rocker for their first chart breakthrough “Like Long Hair” (#38) on Gardena Records. These were groups who designed their sound by direct connection with an audience, as the Pacific Northwest was not necessarily going along with the teen idol crap radio was delivering to kids in those post-Payola scandal days when so-called “rock ’n’ roll” had gone soft.

In the rhythm and blues community, such vanilla airplay issues made no difference, but for Anglo kids, to strike out on your own with a rock ’n’ roll combo was now somewhat against the Bobby Vinton/Bobby Rydell grain. The Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles and uninfected-by-HUAC British towns such as Liverpool shared a similar independence during the early part of the ’60s in terms of their continued embrace of actual, wyld rock ’n’ roll delivery. L.A. developed a tremendous amount of Surf bands and Chicano rock ’n’ roll while Liverpool swarmed with beat-rocker groups. At the very same time in the Pacific Northwest The Wailers, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The Kingsmen, Don & the Goodtimes, Mr. Lucky & the Gamblers, The Sonics and many others came out with their own brand of rowdy rock music that came to be generalized as “Frat Garage-Rock” later on.

Vocalist Mark Lindsay remembers: "We were becoming the #1 band up and down, throughout Idaho and parts of Eastern Oregon, but then Uncle Sam came knocking on Paul’s door. I remember sitting in Revere’s Thunderbird and he said ‘Well, that’s it’ – he had a ’58 T-Bird – ‘that’s the end of it, it’s all over, it was fun while it lasted and that’s it,’ and I said ‘no, no, this is not the end of it, life is, you get knocked down and you get back up. Do your time with Uncle Sam, I’ll go to Gary Paxton, who we met when he came through Caldwell, Idaho with The Hollywood Argyles (‘Alley Oop’) on their nationwide tour, and Gary said ‘If you guys ever get through Hollywood, look me up.’ So I told Revere ‘Look, we’ve got somebody there, and our record company was based out of Gardena, so I said ‘I’ll go down, keep the record company in line, keep the name going, keep the business going.’ So I jumped in my Valiant and went down to Hollywood, and I hung around with Gary Paxton, and his partner was Kim Fowley. I slept on Kim’s floor, drove him around, kind of got into American Studios on Sunset Boulevard, and I did five dollar demos, singing background and playing sax, playing percussion, whatever I could for Gary, and survived for two years, just barely"

The 1961 Raiders didn't sound a whit like the band that would hit it big with "Just Like Me" five years later. Instead, they were a frat party band playing a selection of standard 12-bar boogie-woogie, r&b, blues, surf and garage-rock and roll hits on their piano, organ, saxophone, guitar and what-have-you. This low-fidelity debut features covers of Bo Diddley, The Wailers, The Gamblers, (etc.) as well as a few originals (the guitar-driven "Orbit" beats "The Ventures In Space" at its own game!) and two hit reinterpretations of classic material: the r'n'r title track and adorable Chopsticks speed-boogie "Beatnik Sticks" (which also quotes Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts").

Between the generic 12-bar boogie of "Groovy," generic 12-bar blues of "The Last Mile," generic surf of "Moon Dawg," pig-bleating saxophone of "Summertime," women who sound like idiots of "All Night Long" and the boogie-woogie original "Sharon," it's no wonder that you wind feeling like you're participating at a '60s beer-kegging frat party ... "Wabash Blues" sounds like "Sweet Little Sixteen" and therefore "Surfin' USA"; the whole album sounds like it was printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper. straight from the garage! And there's the charm....

A: Like, Long Hair ....1:58

All Night Long ....2:30

Summer Time ....2:17

Tall Cool One ....2:34

Wabash Blues ....1:40

Concert In "F" Sharp ....1:05

B: Beatnick Sticks ....2:00

Swinging Shepherd Blues ....1:55

Groovey ....1:50

The Last Mile ....2:35

Road Runner ....2:35

Moon Dawg ....2:20

CONDITION: The cover: rated: solid with a bit of light wear only, VG(+) while it still retains fresh original colors and is very all around solid with solid seams , there are no delete marks, no bends, and no writing ... High level collection worthy -in any condition- and IF luckily found , it is nearly always with considerable wear...

The vinyl: rated: "VG+" but only little fine scuff surface marks, nothing wasted or deep, so plays mostly with excellent audio. Anyone into original local garage LP from the '60s gets it...these things were pretty much NOT high-end when they were first released!

Both Gardena labels are clean

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record