{"id":1844,"date":"2015-07-03T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2015-07-03T00:05:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T05:05:42","slug":"we-miss-paul-revere-on-the-4th-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"We Miss Paul Revere On The 4th of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/B2-head-shot-Crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1835\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/B2-head-shot-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Berruy\" width=\"115\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PR-Head1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1877\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PR-Head1-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Revere\" width=\"132\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PR-Head1-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PR-Head1-135x150.jpg 135w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PR-Head1.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSad thought for the 4th of July: Paul Revere will not be with us.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of that All-American band, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/paulreveresraiders.com\/\"><em>Paul Revere And The Raiders<\/em><\/a><\/strong> , will miss the most American of holidays.<\/p>\n<p>And yet.\u00a0 There are memories of 50 plus years of the &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y5Lxd1ngi7s\">The Last Mad Man of Rock and Roll<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>On &#8220;Where The Action Is&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dick Clark reunion with Paul Revere &amp; the Raiders - 1979 TV Special &quot;The Good Old Days&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pJ8RdgHqk8U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And countless prime-time guest appearances, including &#8220;The Brothers Smothers Comedy Hour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Revere &amp; the Raiders -The Smothers Brothers Show - 1967\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ioufyn6j3cU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or even Paul and the Raiders&#8217; annual trips of the Epcot&#8217;s Flower Power Concert Series.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Revere and The Raiders 2013 - JUST LIKE ME - Disney World, Epcot\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NhsnepaQBCI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When Paul passed away last October, a fan wrote a letter that was published on the band&#8217;s website. In part it read:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world will be a lot less fun, a lot less kind and gentle without Paul Revere in it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Amen. Until we pull out the CD or Vinyl&#8230;.<strong>AND PLAY IT LOUD<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Greatest-Hits-Paul-Revere-Raiders\/dp\/B00701QRF4\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1875\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PR-Group-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Revere's Greatest Hits\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PR-Group-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PR-Group-150x133.jpg 150w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PR-Group.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Berry Sad thought for the 4th of July: Paul Revere will not be with us. The leader of that All-American band, Paul Revere And The Raiders , will miss the most American of holidays. And yet.\u00a0 There are memories of 50 plus years of the &#8220;The Last Mad Man of Rock and Roll&#8220;. On &#8220;Where The Action Is&#8221;. And countless prime-time guest appearances, including &#8220;The Brothers Smothers Comedy Hour&#8221;. Or even Paul and the Raiders&#8217; annual trips of the Epcot&#8217;s Flower Power Concert Series. When Paul passed away last October, a fan wrote a letter that was published&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,2],"tags":[165,164,161,162,163],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-berry","category-keener","tag-4th-of-july-music","tag-epcot","tag-paul-revere","tag-paul-revere-and-the-raiders","tag-where-the-action-is","wpcat-160-id","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}