{"id":1243,"date":"2009-07-11T01:53:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T08:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2009-07-27T12:50:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T19:50:03","slug":"more-on-drake-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"More on Drake Levin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Drake<\/p>\n

The past week has brought a lot of traffic to the website, with a lot of people paying respect to Drake Levin<\/strong>, guitarist with Paul Revere & Raiders<\/strong> that died on July 4th. Here’s a few things I want to share about him:<\/p>\n

1) Drake’s widow, Sandra Levin<\/strong> is selling Drake’s original guitar on eBay.<\/p>\n

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You can go to the eBay listing right now<\/a>, and bid on this guitar, which is a vintage 1963 Epiphone Sheraton 335 guitar. This is the very same guitar Drake used during his Raiders days – on stage, on TV, and in the recording studio.<\/p>\n

This was the guitar that Drake played with the Raiders when they played the Spanish Castle Ballroom, inspring a young Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>, who loved to see the Raiders, as well the Wailers<\/strong> play at this iconic Northwest establishment.<\/p>\n

If are you are lucky enough to be able to purchase this guitar, you’d be owning a very special piece of rock and roll history, and all the money would go directly to his family. The auction ends on July 14th.<\/strike><\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: The highest bid for this guitar was $12,100.00, which did not meet the reserve, so the guitar still available.<\/p>\n

2) There will be a memorial for Drake in San Francisco on Saturday, July 18 at the Hilton at 333 O’ Farrrell Street, beginning at 6 pm. It’s for family and friends, so if you knew Drake, please feel free to join us there.<\/p>\n

3) On Monday, July 6th, there was a special tribute to Drake on the Late Show with David Letterman<\/strong> TV show, led by Paul Shaffer <\/strong>and his band. Here’s what they did….<\/p>\n

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4) Finally, here’s a nice little clip of Drake Levin peforming at the last full-fledged reunion of Paul Revere & the Raiders – the original core members that generated the big hits :<\/p>\n

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ALSO<\/strong>….
\nIn midst of it all, I forgot to mention that Drake’s dear friend and fellow Raider Phil “Fang” Volk<\/strong> has a webpage where you can leave comments at the guestbook. Go visit him at:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.philfangvolk.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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