Entering his fifth decade in the music business, Paul Revere continues the long dead sixties philosophy of taking your music to the masses and it's that same energy and spirit that fills the theatre at every Paul Revere and the Raiders show. All these years later, he's obviously sill getting his kicks doing it.

Audience interaction and one-of-a-kind stage shows have been key elements to the success of Paul Revere and the Raiders since the early days, when stage leaps and torched pianos were signature moves of their live shows. Today, the flaming pianos have been replaced with side splitting humor directed by Revere. Barely thirty seconds into the show, guitarist Doug Heath and bassist Ron Foos bolt into the audience at the behest of ringleader Revere for an up close and personal meet and greet with the audience. Poking fun at his band members and himself, the performance is peppered with stinging one- liners from Revere and hilarious repartee with his fellow musicians. "I treat being on stage like a backyard barbeque," says Paul. "I try to talk to the audience like I would if they were in my backyard or in my front room. We do it loose and off the wall yet we give them all the music.

The set-list includes gems from the past like "Just Like Me," (#11 in 1965); "Kicks," (#4 in 1966); "Hungry," (#6 in 1966); "Up and Downs," (#22 in 1967); "Him or Me - What's it Gonna Be," (#5 in 1967) along with covers of other classics that transport many in the audience back to the halcyon days of their youth and the soundtrack of their adolescence. "They enjoy hearing the music they grew up with and they enjoy hearing me relate to them and what we all grew up in and the fact that we're older now...and so what!"

Equal parts music and humor, the prime objective of a Paul Revere and the Raiders show is having a good time, "You can tell by watching our show that we have fun. This band has been with me an awful long time but we never get tired of doing our show because its never quite the same". The longevity of their tenure alone is a testament to the obvious joy the quintet gets from playing to a crowd full of smiling faces for more that 100 shows every year.

He continues to bring his music to his fans, "I figured out where our fans went. They were in places like Lake Tahoe, Reno, Vegas, places that we found we could draw a crowd. So, we survived. We didn't survive as being the hot group in the recording industry, but hey, been there, done that. We were lucky to have as long a recording career as we had. I just figured it was time to enjoy life and take people that come to see us on a time-warp trip. If they want to hear the music they grew up with, then watching our show is like turning on an oldies station. It was just a simple matter of figuring out where your audience went and following them. And that's what I did. As long as they're not throwing dirt on me I know I'm OK!"