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| From | "david henwood" <henwooddavid@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Eric Carmen |
| Date | Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:32:20 -0400 |
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On a completely different note...I also heard a lot of Beach boys on
Carmen's first solo album...I could imagine Carmen singing on the Beach Boys
song "Dierdre" from Sunflower...especially the chorus...
>From: "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Eric Carmen
>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:34:01 -0700
>
>
> > From: "floatingunder" <Steven.Durben@cignabehavioral.com>
> > Subject: Re: Eric Carmen
>
> > So I'm wondering how other's some up his first solo disc (esp. people
> > who were huge Raspberrie fans). Was it a major let down? What song's
> > stand out? Bruce, very curious which tracks you dug and didn't on
> > this one?
>
> > Steve D.
>
>It wasn't a letdown to me at all. I was a huge Raspberries fan ever since
>I
>saw them play live at my junior high school in May of 1972 (I wish I
>remembered more of that show!), and was really saddened by their breakup.
>When I heard "All By Myself" for the first time, a few months before
>Carmen's first album was released, my first thought was "I'm really glad
>he's recording", my second thought was "wow, this is way different from The
>Raspberries!", my third thought was "this is great!", and my fourth thought
>was "is this a song about the aftermath of the breakup?" (I didn't listen
>to
>the lyrics, and was just going by what I'd inferred from the title; it was
>quite an irony for me when I later found out that another song from the
>album, "No Hard Feelings", *was* about that!).
>
>When I finally got the debut album I was very pleased! I love "Sunrise"
>(one of my all-time favorite songs, and in my top 2 or 3 of 1975), "Last
>Night", "My Girl", and the hits in particular, but almost everything is
>great! I like Carmen's next album, Boats Against The Current, almost as
>much. Though some critics called it overwrought (and I can see where
>they're coming from), I still love it. "Marathon Man," "She Did It",
>"Nowhere To Hide," and "Love Is All That Matters"-great stuff!
>
>After that it's really hit and miss for me in the Carmen catalogue. Each
>succeeding album has a few tracks I like, but as whole works none of them
>really do it for me...and I just cannot get into the Geffen album at all.
>"You Took Me All The Way"; what a load of crap that is!
>
>Finally, I don't know that one can guage how a Raspberries reunion show
>would come off, based upon the "wimp factor" of Eric's solo work. After
>all, he'd be performing Raspberries songs, as a Raspberry, and I'm sure he
>would do his best to rock.
>
>--
>Pop Rules!!!!!
>Take Care,
>David
>
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