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CHECK OUT FANG'S NEW COUNTRY ARTIST
KELLY J
AND WATCH HER TWO NEW VIDEOS THAT WILL BE FEATURED IN HER NEW
CD RELEASE.
(All music and videos produced and arranged by Phil "Fang" Volk)

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Fang is currently working with Collector's Choice Music & Columbia Records on a 3-CD album box set which will include all the Columbia singles and B-Sides from Paul Revere & the Raiders. This wonderful, and historical collection of music will also include many incredible and never-before-seen photos, along with extensive liner notes by Ed Osborne who had the awesome task of interviewing all the Raiders and re-telling the story from the beginning. The songs are all being remastered by the talented Bob Irwin.

Kelly J. and Producer Phil "Fang" Volk have been working very hard in the recording studio for the past year and are eager for her fans and his fans to hear and enjoy this awesome collaboration of two great talents from two different eras and genres - she from country and he from rock. The cross-over appeal will be instantly noticable as you view these videos and watch the "groove" come to life before your eyes. Not since the collaboration of Shania Twain and producer Mutt Lange, has a team come along and merged these two musical worlds together with such great energy and class. Fang and Kelly are also adding a bunch of their original tunes to the stack, along with a number of gifted Nashville songwriters who were ready, willing and able to add their signature to this mix.

Remembering Drake Levin: August 1946 - July 2009

"...meet you on the other side of Forever..."

I've lost my dear friend, my Raider buddy, and the music world has lost a guitar icon.

Drake and I met over 50 years ago in Nampa, Idaho. He was a city boy from Chicago, and I was a city boy from Los Angeles. Our families transplanted us to the farmlands of Idaho, where we became fast and loyal friends, and aspiring musicians. I had just got a guitar for Christmas (1959) from my parents, and Drake and I set out to conquer the world with our music. Although we weren't sure how we were going to do that, we had a dream that some day it would happen. Five years later, the dream was happening. Drake and I were filming a TV show with Dick Clark called "Where The Action Is." Some of the guests artists were Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Jan & Dean, The Supremes, Bobby Rydell and Frankie Avalon. These artists were already well on their way to super stardom, and our little rock band, Paul Revere & the Raiders, was now riding the same "glory train" with them and the adventure of a lifetime had just started for me and Drake. Several national tours followed, along with 5 gold albums and 12 hit singles, before Drake, Smitty and I broke out on our own to form The Brotherhood, who produced 3 albums for RCA Victor. The last tour Drake, Smitty and I did together for the Raiders in March-April of 1967 was a massive success. We played almost every major arena in the country, and on many occasions had double-billing with The Beachboys & the Rolling Stones. Our music dreams that Drake & I had formed way back in the farmlands of Idaho, surrounded by sugar beet fields, corn fields, and golden fields of wheat & barley, had come to pass – we were actually living the dream. We were "brothers" in music, and The Brotherhood was a natural transition after the Raiders broke up. It was always our resolve to write music that would promote peace, love and unity in the world. We wanted to create music that had a real positive message. Drake and I became a very prolific songwriting team. At the end of that last Raider tour, I got a phone call from home that my older brother George had just died in Viet Nam. Drake was the first person I told, and he held on to me while I broke down in tears. He was a true and loyal friend. Drake always considered my family his "second family" because he spent more time at my place then anywhere else. George had helped him learn to play guitar, and because of our close friendship Drake was more or less "adopted" into our family When my mom passed away in 2006, he shed so many tears as if it was his own mom. I've always appreciated how much love Drake had for my brothers and sisters and my parents. We all will miss him greatly, as we do "Smitty" who we lost in 2001.

Drake leaves behind his loving and loyal wife Sandra of 37 years, his mom Charle, his brother Jeff, his sister Lori, and his two sons David and Darby. Our thoughts and prayers go out to them in their time of grief.

Drake Maxwell Levin also leaves us a stunning and soulful legacy of music as one of the seminal pioneers of some awesome rock & roll music and some of the most memorable guitar solos during the "glory days" of the 1960's.

One of my last conversations with Drake at the hospital in San Francisco was awkward and difficult. It's hard to know what to say when you know you won't see your buddy again, (that is, until the New World and the resurrection that Jesus promised in the Bible) I finally mustered the courage to say: "...alright my brother, I'll see you down the road..." I heard him say as I walked from the room, holding back the tears: "I'll be waitin' for ya..."

Brotherhood
Drake, Fang, Smitty

Fang & Drake at 16,
Nampa, Idaho

Smitty, Mark, Fang, Drake
1997 Raider Reunion Portland Oregon

Drake and Phil "Fang" Volk
in Concert Atlanta, Georgia 1966

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