PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

STILL ROCKING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.....PAUL, 75.... LAST WEEK AND BETTER THAN EVER.

I REMAIN PAUL REVERE'S BIGGEST FAN AND CANT BELIEVE HE IS NOT IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME....NOT MUCH TIME LEFT FOR HIM TO ENJOY IT....HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE TO ENTERTAIN AND MAKE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAPPY TO BE ENSHRINED......NONE THE LESS PAUL LOVES LIFE AND ENTERTAINING AND ESPECIALLY ENTERTAINING FOR ME....50 YEARS OF FUN.

I MUST BE APPROACHING 50....THE NUMBER OF TIMES I HAVE SEEN THIS ACT AND I HAVE NOT YET REACHED THE SATURATION POINT....NEITHER DID TWO SOLD OUT CROWDS AT THE SOUTH POINT LAS VEGAS STRIP...EXTREME SOUTH.

GREAT THEATRE FOR THIS AND SIMILAR ACTS....GREAT PRODUCTION FROM PAUL'S TEAM AND THE SOUTH POINT AND A GOOD TIME HAD BY ALL....AS ALWAYS.

I FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS ROCKER CLOWN IN JUNE OF 1985 WHEN THE RAIDERS AND RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS FILLED IN FOR SEIGFRIED AND ROY AT THE FRONTIER....THERES SOME HISTORY....
PAUL AND HIS  RAIDERS OPENED FOR THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS WHO I REALLY WENT TO SEE AND I DETERMINED EARLY THAT THEY WERE THE ACT NOT TO BE TOPPED...CLOSING AT THAT TIME WITH "HATMAN" AND THE ORIGINAL 13 STARS AND STRIPES FLAG  BEHIND THE STAGE...IT WENT FROM THERE. NOT TOO MANY ACTS HAVE UPSTAGED THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS!

PAUL JUST HAS FUN...AD LIBS...GOOFS OFF...PLAYS A BIT...MAKES FUN OF HIMSELF AND THEN SORT LEADS THE MADNESS IN FRONT OF REALLY GREAT BAND....DARRIN DOWLER NOW LEAD SINGER FOR 3 YEARS AND A BEAUTIFUL FIT...HE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF HE IS UNDER FIFTY....RON FOOS AND DOUG HEATH WHO ARE PAULS BOOKEND GUITAR PLAYERS FOR 40 YEARS ARE NOW OVER SIXTY. THEY ROCK AND LOOK GREAT IN THOSE WONDERFUL COSTUMES EVERY NIGHT.

PAUL HAS BE DOING BRANSON AND NOW IS ON HIS YEARLY CARRIBIAN CRUISE...WHY CAN'T THIS GO ON FOREVER...PAUL IS ALREADY TALKING ABOUT THE SOUTH POINT JANUARY 2014.

THIS VENUE    797 8055    PLAYS WELL TO US WHITE HAIR NO HAIR TYPES WITH BUDDY HOLLY...KINGSTON TRIO...LETTERMEN AND SIMILAR TYPES...WE LOVE IT.

NOTHING BUT A FIRST CLASS EXPERIENCE HERE WITH STAFF....PRODUCTION AND THE ACTS...THEY START RIGHT ON TIME AND WE LOVE THEM....NOT TOO LOUD EITHER....

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