Here is a quote from another site, from someone who had the inside scoop:

"I saw an old thread on Just Like Me and since I'm a PR&R fan, I figured I'd clarify some of the things some of the orignal posts had questioned.

Re: The Raiders' Vox Super Beatles - not really Super Beatles, per se. They had used Standel live but got the Vox endorsement due to their popularity on Action. When Thomas Organ started making some of the new solid state stuff, the Raiders thought they were unreliable and sounded like crap (too brittle) and told Vox so. Vox wanted to those amps on stage, so Lindsay had Vox gut the amps and place MacIntosh 175 power amps at the bottom of the Vox cabinets and Bogen preamps in the Vox heads. Speakers were replaced with and replace the speakers with JBL D-130Fs out of Fenders. (D-140s in the bass cab.) Lindsay says they weighed a ton.

Re: Studio amps - Not totally for sure but Fenders for guitars and Ampegs for bass. Fuzz bass was simply an overdriven Fender Princeton.

Re: Just Like Me- That's the Raiders, no studio musicians. The double tracked guitar part was an accident, per Drake. He was cutting various leads and when they wanted to hear the most recent one, the engineer played two takes at once. Producer Terry Melcher dug it, so they kept it. On the Just Like Me album called "Just Like Us", released in 1965, it's all Raiders. No studio guys.

Their previous album, "Here They Come", (recorded in 64 and released early 65)was their first "you're in the big time album". When released, it was a transition period when bassist Phil Fang Volk joined the band. His picture isn't on the cover but after the first pressing, they took Mike Holiday's name off and Phil's on. In 64, Melcher was use to using studio musicians and got irritated because it took the band too long in his opinion to work up the songs, so while the Raiders were on tour, he had studio musicians John Osborn-bass, Billy Strange -guitar, Larry Knechtel - organ, and Hal Blaine on drums record the song "Sometimes". Melcher phoned Lindsay on the road and had him fly down and do the vocals. When the Raiders found out, they were super ****ed but got their act together musicially, so much of Here They Come is the Raiders.

Midnight Ride" 1965 (with the hit "Kicks") was all Raiders. Although they didn't write Kicks, the song provided to them didn't have those memorable guitar and bass riffs. Drake Levin wrote that iconic lead riff you hear and Phil Volk wrote the countermelodic bass riff, according to Phil. Melcher felt the guitar and bass parts had to have the hooks before you could really construct the recording.

The songs on "Spirit of 67" which was released in Nov 66 were mostly recorded during spring and summer 66. Levin had left for military service, but on weekends he would still record with the band. So many of those tracks on Spirit of 67 (Good Thing, Hungry) are all Drake Levin.... even though his picture or name don't appear on the Spirit of 67 album.

There were a some studio musicians on Spirit, including Van Dyke Parks playing organ on In My Community (only because Paul Revere didn't really like studio work) and Parks volunteered. Lindsay says that Revere didn't even actually play organ on any of the Raiders albums from that time on. Didn't interest him. He loved to play live but when off tour, get someone else and just send him the check. Also, there were studio guitarists on Great Airplane Strike I recall, but Fang was still playing the bass parts.

The song "Him or Me", which appeared on Revolution (1967), had studio guitarist Jerry Cole, Ry Cooder and Keith Allision (who wasn't in the band yet but a good friend). There were actually three drummers on that recording, too. Phil Volk played bass on recordings up through either "Him or Me" or "Ups and Downs." I can't recall.

Volk, Mike Smith, and Drake Levin (who had rejoined to finish the 67 tour after Jim Valley got disillusioned when he couldn't get a song on Spirit of 67), all left in May 67. Their last gig together was in Cheyenne, Wyoming on April 22. Levin was suppose to play with the group on Ed Sullivan on April 30th, but Paul Revere had hired a new guitarist (Freddie Weller) and sprung it on Levin after he had flown to New York and showed up to perform. So he watched the performance from the side of the stage.

The main thing is that when Levin, Smith, and Fang were in the band together (65-67... including Levin as a session man on Spirit since he was in the Guard) those recordings are essentially them with very little exception (like Parks on keyboards and maybe Keith Allision on a background vocal or two). After the power trio left in May 67, there was a lot more use of studio musicians like Cole, Blaine, Parks, Ry Cooder, etc, from Revolution on.

This is probably more than you ever wanted to know, but the studio musician myth had gotten so pervasive, many people think they didn't play on any of the recordings.

I'm a big Drake Levin fan and did a tribute video after he passed in 2009. I did his lead part on Good Thing (which he is not credited for on the album since he was in the Natl Guard so technically just a session musician when he recorded it). "