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  Eric Carmen, Raspberries Frontman ...
Posted by: IceWizard - 5 hours ago - Forum: World News - Replies (1)

Eric Carmen, Raspberries Frontman and
‘All by Myself’ Singer, Dies at 74





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Eric Carmen, who became an icon of early ’70s power pop as the frontman of the Raspberries
before achieving solo success with hits like “All By Myself” and “Hungry Eyes,” has died at age 74.

“It is with tremendous sadness that we share the heartbreaking news of the passing of Eric Carmen,”
his wife, Amy Carmen, wrote on the singer’s website. wrote. “Our sweet, loving and talented Eric
passed away in his sleep, over the weekend. It brought him great joy to know, that for decades,
his music touched so many and will be his lasting legacy. Please respect the family’s privacy as we
mourn our enormous loss. ‘Love Is All That Matters… Faithful and Forever.'”

The latter quote from Carmen’s wife is a callback to the song “Love Is All That Matters,” from his
1977 solo album “Boats Against the Current.” No cause of death or exact date of death has been
announced.

While mostly known as a balladeer, in his early years the Cleveland-born musician was the
primary singer and songwriter of the Raspberries, who rebelled against the heavy, glam and
progressive-rock scenes of the early ’70s and threw back to the Beatlesesque pop they were
raised on. Carmen was not only a deft (if deliberately derivative) songwriter but also a
full-throttle rock and roll shouter in the Paul McCartney/ Steve Marriott tradition, and the
author of several classic songs of the genre, including the band’s highly suggestive first and
biggest hit, “Go All the Way,” as well as “I Wanna Be With You,” “Let’s Pretend,” “Tonight”
and “Overnight Sensation.”

The group was often lambasted at the time for being too pop or wimpy, but the Raspberries could
be a powerhouse rock band when they chose to. Along with kindred spirits Badfinger, Big Star and
Todd Rundgren, they forged a model that has been revived multiple times over the decades, most
vividly in the early ‘90s with bands like Teenage Fanclub, the Posies and even Nirvana: Kurt Cobain
was a fan, as well as Bruce Springsteen — who contributed liner notes to a live reunion
album — Kiss and Motley Crue.

After the band broke up in the mid-’70s, Carmen established himself as a successful solo artist with
“All by Myself,” “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again” and “Hey Deanie” (a hit for Shaun Cassidy).
His run of hits continued into the ’80s with the “Dirty Dancing” song “Hungry Eyes.”

The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Carmen was born in Cleveland in 1949 and began showing
musical talent as a toddler. He began taking violin lessons at six — his aunt was a violinist in the
Cleveland Orchestra — and later piano (“Breezing through seven-and-a-half years of classical training in four”)
and, after seeing the Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” guitar. By high school was writing songs
and playing in rock bands, including one with the unusual name of Cyrus Erie
(inspired, like Buffalo Springfield, by a name on a tractor).

The vibrant Cleveland rock scene of the time — which also spawned Joe Walsh, later of the
Eagles — featured many of the same musicians playing together in a dizzying series of bands.
Cyrus Erie released a single on Epic called “Get the Message” in 1968 and continued for a couple
more years before Carmen and the band’s fiery lead guitarist, Wally Bryson, joined forces with
bassist John Aleksic and powerhouse drummer Jim Bonfanti to form the Raspberries in 1970,
with the intention of writing harmony-driven pop-rock songs. Bonfanti had played with Bryson
in local legends the Choir, who’d scored a 1966 nationwide hit in their mid-teens with the
garage-pop classic “It’s Cold Outside” and opened for many of their heroes, including the Who
and the Yardbirds. Aleksic soon dropped out and was replaced by ex-Choir singer Dave Smalley,
who’d recently returned from serving in Vietnam.

Not surprisingly, considering their years of playing together, the lineup gelled quickly and
powerfully, and soon united with producer-manager Jimmy Ienner (older brother and business
partner of future Columbia Records CEO Don Ienner) and signed with Capitol Records. An
inspired producer, the elder Ienner helped the band to attain their vibrant combination of
power and pop: Bringing together a wide range of influences spanning from the Beatles,
Beach Boys and girl groups to hard rockers like the Who and Free, those influences came
into vivid focus on “Go All the Way.”









The song reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, either driven by or — depending on one’s
take — held back by the controversy over the surprisingly explicit lyrics, still unusual for Top 40
radio in the summer of 1972.

”When I was writing ‘Go All the Way,’ I’d seen how the Stones were forced to change their lyrics
on Ed Sullivan,” Carmen said in “Overnight Sensation,” Ken Sharp’s history of the group.
“And I was listening to [the Beach Boys’] ‘Pet Sounds,’ where Brian Wilson is talking about sleeping
with his girlfriend, but in an innocent way, and getting away with it. ‘I thought, If we sing this
like choirboys and put the words in the girl’s mouth, maybe we can slide this by radio!’
And it worked.”

The group and Ienner never shied away from a gimmick — their debut album had a
scratch-and-sniff logo on the cover that smelled like raspberries — and for their second LP, “Fresh,”
they flew in the face of trends and embraced the ‘60s pop group imagery wholeheartedly,
appearing on the cover in matching white suits. While the album spawned two hits in the jangly
“I Wanna Be With You” (No. 16 on the Hot 100) and the ballad “Let’s Pretend,” and the determinedly
outdated look had its own kind of cool among fans, the group’s reputation took a beating in the
rock press — legendary critic Lester Bangs eviscerated their more derivative moments
(most of which would be considered “influences” today).

Apparently stung by the criticism, the group ditched the suits and fired back in 1973 with “Side 3,”
by far its hardest-rocking album. Ienner cranked up the drums, Bonfanti channeled his inner
Keith Moon, and the sound created a blazing contrast with Carmen’s complex melodies,
multi-chord song structures and the group’s harmonies, especially on the single “Tonight,”
which in many ways is the ultimate power-pop song. Other highlights from the album include
“I’m a Rocker” — featuring what may be Carmen’s most powerful vocal — and “Ecstasy.”










But “Tonight” stalled at No. 69 — possibly also due to Carmen shouting “Won’t you let me sleep with you!”
during the song’s finale — and the band splintered, with Nebraska-born bassist Scott McCarl and
former Cyrus Erie drummer Michael McBride joining for their final studio effort, 1974’s
“Starting Over.” The album featured another Carmen classic in “Overnight Sensation” — as calculated
a hit single as there ever was, its chorus goes “Want a hit record, yeah!” — which reached
No. 18. But the group’s moment, if it ever truly had one, had passed.

“We thought that we were being radical,” Carmen told the audience at a Raspberries reunion
show in 2004, “but FM radio thought we were being reactionary.”

However, within a year Carmen had joined forces with Clive Davis at his newly launched
Arista Records, and less than 18 months after the Raspberries released their final album,
he’d scored a No. 2 single with the maudlin “All by Myself,” a song that channeled and
subverted Nilsson’s smash cover of Badfinger’s “Without You,” complete with the soaring chorus
and tumultuous orchestra (and a Rachmaninoff lift in the middle section as unsubtle as
any of his rock or pop influences).










“Never Gonna Fall in Love Again” fared well as a follow-up, hitting No. 11 on the Hot 100 and
rising to the top of the adult contemporary chart. Carmen did not revisit the top 10 until
“Hungry Eyes” rode the “Dirty Dancing” phenomenon to a No. 4 peak on the Hot 100 in 1987
(the soundtrack also reunited him with Ienner, who served as executive producer), although
three years earlier he co-wrote the hit “Almost Paradise” from the film “Footloose,” which
was sung by Heart’s Ann Wilson and Loverboy’s Mike Reno. “Make Me Lose Control” rose one
notch higher than that, as a No. 3 hit the following year.

Carmen never again charted a single after the 1980s, nor did he release any studio albums
after 1984’s “Eric Carmen,” with one exception, 2000’s Rhino release “I Was Born to Love You”
(originally released only in Japan) in 1998, which found him reuniting with songwriting
collaborators like Dean Pitchford (with whom he wrote “Almost Paradise”) and Diane Warren.

Raspberries cultists were in for a treat when the band gave in to decades’ worth of reunion pleas
and got back together, briefly, in the mid-2000s. A 2005 concert at L.A.’s House of Blues was
released as the live album “Live on Sunset Strip,” for which Bruce Springsteen contributed a
quote to the liner notes. Another show from that reunion, recorded at the House of Blues in
Cleveland, was issued in 2017 by Omnivore as “Pop Art Live.”

”People used to ask me ‘Why don’t you guys get together and just play one gig?”’ said Carmen
in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. ”Because it takes the same amount of preparation
for one good show as a six-month tour. I never wanted to be the guy to put this band back on
a stage and pop everyone’s bubble and have them go home saying ‘Oh, they weren’t that good.'”
It didn’t help that things had ended acrimoniously back in the day, with a reported parking-lot
fight. “But 30 years have passed, and everybody is a grown-up now, with a life.”

In 2000, Carmen joined Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band on tour, performing his biggest solo and
Raspberries hits as well as sitting in with the performer whose band had provided a template
for much of his musical life.

In recent years, as he held back from releasing new music or performing in concert, fans 
communicated with him on social media — sometimes combatively, given his staunch 
conservative political views — until he withdrew from Twitter a few years ago.
He married his wife, Amy Murphy, in 2016.

Yet Carmen and the group’s musical influence has resonated throughout the years.
“All by Myself” was featured in a pivotal scene in the 1995 Nicole Kidman-starring film
“To Die For”; two years later Celine Dion took her version of it to No. 4; and two decades
after that, “Go All the Way” experienced a resurgence the original Raspberries scarcely
could have imagined in 1972, when it appeared on the first “Guardians of the Galaxy” soundtrack.











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  Dan Bongino Ends Show Early After Announcing ...
Posted by: IceWizard - 03-17-2024, 09:57 PM - Forum: World News - Replies (1)

Dan Bongino Ends Show Early After Announcing
The Death of His Mother,
Details Spiritual Experience







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During Friday’s edition of “the Dan Bongino Show,” host Dan Bongino closed the
episode early, revealing the news of his mother’s unexpected passing, and
explaining that the same night he experienced a spiritual encounter that
profoundly affected him.

Bongino came to the end of his show on Friday saying, “Folks, I’m going to end
the show early today. I’m going to tell you what happened last night because
I’m having a bit of a rough time, as you can tell.
I’m going to try to get through this, alright?”


“My mom died last night. Unexpectedly. She fell down a flight of stairs. And I found
out earlier this morning,” he said, pausing to hold back his emotions.
“I found out at about 4:43 in the morning.”



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He explains that he wanted to call his wife, Paula, as she was in Miami with their daughter
at the time, adding that he’s almost never home alone.

“Last night’s the first time I’ve been alone in my house in a long time,” he said, before detailing
an experience he had that night. “For those of you who don’t believe in God, I’m not here to
judge you…But I want to tell you something. I want to tell you in advance, I’m not crazy, OK?”

He explained that, at about 3:00 in the morning,
“Someone grabbed me. Like hugged me.
Like a mom.”

“Folks I’m telling you I’m not crazy,” he said, explaining that he frequently wakes up at 3:00, and
saying he got up that night to get water, so he could tell he wasn’t dreaming, and as he got back
into bed, someone grabbed him.

“It was real. I’m telling you it was real. I actually jumped up. I know it sounds crazy, but I was
looking for my gun. And I started looking around the house,” saying he ran through every possible
explanation, wondering if his wife had come home early, or his daughter returned from college,
or even friends had entered his home to play a joke on him.

“I’m telling you, if you don’t believe in God and the afterlife, I would after last night,” he said.
“You’re free to believe whatever you want, obviously. As I sat this morning, in my own shower,
hunched over, kind of crying a little bit, I’ve never believed more in the power of Jesus.”

Bongino concluded, “I’ll let you guys know about the show tomorrow, because you know, the
world goes on, and everybody’s suffering, and i think my mom wants me to do what I can do,
but obviously, I have to bury her, and my brothers and I, so we got some stuff to take care of.”

“But I’m going to do my best to be here with you, because there are other people suffering too,
and I have a job, and she understood that, better than anyone.
Thanks for hearing me out, I’ll see you guys later.”


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  HiYa's
Posted by: IceWizard - 03-17-2024, 07:24 PM - Forum: Family, Friends & Relationships - Replies (1)

Just had to make one more thread,,

It seems my 
"Made a Thread" count was at 1,666 and I ain't having that..

Okay, I reckon I'm happy now Big Grin

Ice

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  New dr** very dangerous
Posted by: esbayne - 03-17-2024, 11:57 AM - Forum: Blacklist - No Replies

I just read where there is new drug 20 time stronger than fent. Below i a little information


Nitazenes   discovered in the 50s.   Were so strong they never distributed them .  Pharma said they were too strong.  20 times stronger then fent


Coming out of you guessed by China precures


Please everyone do your research. I am not an alarmist but I just wanted to warn what I read. 

Please be careful ...


Sorry if i put in wrong section. I just felt it was important. Also Narcan does not work on it well at all.
Forensic experts have For

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  karens
Posted by: Charon - 03-17-2024, 01:13 AM - Forum: The Lounge - Replies (3)

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  St Partick"s Day 2024
Posted by: IceWizard - 03-17-2024, 12:59 AM - Forum: The Lounge - Replies (5)

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Wishing everyone a most enjoyable St. Paddy's Day

After the few years we have all endured, we could all use

a wee bit of the luck of the Irish!!

So don't forget to don ya green, throw back a few good ones,
and hold tight to yer shamrock...



The Scotsman
by Irish Rovers

Well, Scotsman clad in kilt,
left the bar one evenin' fair.
And one could tell by how he walked,
that he'd drunk more than his share.
He fumbled 'round until he could
no longer keep his feet,
then he stumbled off into the grass
to sleep beside the street.

Ring-ding-diddle-iddle-aye-dee-oh!
Ring-die-diddilee-aye-oh!

He stumbled off into the grass
to sleep beside the street.

-

About that time, two young and lovely
girls just happened by.
One says to the other
with a twinkle in her eye:
"See yon sleeping Scotsman
so strong and handsome built?
I wonder if it's true what they
don't wear beneath the kilt?"

Ring-ding-diddle-iddle-aye-dee-oh!
Ring-die-diddilee-aye-oh!

"I wonder if it's true what they
don't wear beneath the kilt?"

-

They crept up on that sleeping Scotsman
quiet as could be.
Lifted up his kilt about
an inch so they could see.
And there behold for them to view
beneath his Scottish skirt
Was nothing more than God
had graced him with upon his birth.

Ring-ding-diddle-iddle-aye-dee-oh!
Ring-die-diddilee-aye-oh!

Was nothing more than God
had graced him with upon his birth.

-

They marveled for a moment
then one said: "We must be gone.
Let's leave a present for our friend
before we move along."
As a gift, they left a blue silk ribbon
tied into a bow.
Around the bonny star the Scot's kilt
did lift and show.

Ring-ding-diddle-iddle-aye-dee-oh!
Ring-die-diddilee-aye-oh!

Around the bonny star the Scot's kilt
did lift and show.

-

Now the Scotsman woke to nature's call
and stumbled towards the trees.
Behind the bush, he lifts his kilt
and gawks at what he sees.
And in a startled voice, he says
to what's before his eyes:
"Well, lad, I don't know where you've been
but I see you've won first prize!"

Ring-ding-diddle-iddle-aye-dee-oh!
Ring-die-diddilee-aye-oh!

"Well, lad, I don't know where you've been
but I see you've won first prize!"



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  Bennyhunter80
Posted by: IceWizard - 03-16-2024, 02:53 AM - Forum: Welcome - Replies (3)

Hello all and thank you for allowing me the opportunity to be a part of your group. I was a member here in 2016/2017 but I took a step away for awhile to tend to some issues but now I'm back baby! I have racked my brain for days trying to remember my old email/login but it was all on a phone that is long gone. All I can remember is my screen name ???A?Anyway I'm here to start the process again lol


Hey... I remember you!! ole ???A? ...

How ya been... We still kickin,
Maybe not as high up, but still kickin..

Okay...
Just yankin your chain a mite..
I don't recall a ???A? ...

But you're here now and that's what counts...

Ice

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  Making Passwords
Posted by: IceWizard - 03-15-2024, 12:23 AM - Forum: The Lounge - Replies (3)

Having a tough password is most needed these days.
There are lots of "Password Managers" to not only
make good passwords, but keep them for you too..

I have also seen many online password makers as well..
Some really basic, some a wee more technical ...

I have close to 20 online makers and I lost track of the 
managers, but ran across this site from

Malwarebytes... Great proggie ...

It can make passwords up to (get this) 256 characters long!

You can't be too careful these days it seems... 

Check it out ... 

https://www.malwarebytes.com/password-generator


I keep my passwords on a word doc and in a Safe
Virtual Safe Professional 3.5.3.0 ...

>https://www.virtualsafepro.com/en/index.php

Quote:"Virtual Safe" encrypts data "Virtual Safe" encrypts data and
protects it from the prying eyes of unauthorized persons. As
soon as you lock the safe again with the tool, the safe directory
is also closed and can no longer be opened by strangers. The
powerful encryption algorithms AES-128 and AES-256 ensure
reliable protection. and protects it from "Virtual Safe" encrypts
data and protects it from the prying eyes of unauthorized persons.
As soon as you lock the safe again with the tool, the safe directory
is also closed and can no longer be opened by strangers. The
powerful encryption algorithms AES-128 and AES-256 ensure
reliable protection. the prying eyes of unauthorized persons.
As soon as you lock the safe again with the tool, the safe directory
is also closed and can no longer be opened by strangers.
The powerful encryption algorithms AES-128 and AES-256
ensure reliable protection.

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That way you only have one password to remember...

I have a working copy of it, if ya need one ... 

Better safe than sorry... (ya get that .. Safe than sorry Big Grin )

Ice

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  Forbidden Foods that are Banned ...
Posted by: IceWizard - 03-14-2024, 02:29 AM - Forum: The Lounge - Replies (2)

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Forbidden Foods that are Banned
in the State of Texas





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BELUGA CAVIAR.

According to an article in the New York Times, beluga caviar once cost $200
or more per OUNCE. However, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services decided to
ban the import of beluga caviar, which came from the Beluga Sturgeon,
an endangered species.




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Casu Marzu.

Until today, I didn't even know this existed, and now that I know what is I'd
rather not know. Casu Marzu is sometimes referred to as the 'rotten cheese.'
That's a good name for it because casu marzu apparently contains live maggots.
Um, if you'd like to learn more, please feel free to CHECK THIS OUT. I...I just can't.




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ACKEE.

According to Eat This, Not That, 'Ackee is the national fruit of Jamaica. However,
when it's unripe, the fruit contains high levels of the toxin hypoglycin A, which
inhibits the body's ability to release blood glucose (blood sugar). This can cause
people to fall into a state of hypoglycemia, a condition where glucose levels are
too low, which can induce vomiting, ultimately cause dehydration,
and even result in death."

The FDA banned it in 1973, although you can still get it through certain pre-approved channels.




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Ortolan.

I don't know about you, but I can't imagine looking at a tiny bird around the size
of a thumb and thinking 'That could be dinner!' But, ortolan is a wee songbird
that was considered a delicacy in France for years. It was eventually banned by
the EU and then in the United States.




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ABSINTHE.

It's been referred to as 'the green fairy,' and is known to have hallucinogenic elements.
The cause is the "chemical thujone, which is a chemical found in the wormwood herb
that's used to make the alcohol," according to an article from Eat This, Not That.

You may have seen absinthe on drink menus, however. So here's the deal.
'Absinthe' is still a legal beverage in Texas IF it contains no more than 99 parts of thujone.




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Haggis.

More like GAG-IS. Sorry, sorry. If you're a fan of haggis, I apologize. I love many Scottish
things very, very much, but this isn't on the list. And you won't find it on the menu in
Texas. At least, not in its traditional form--47 years ago, it was banned in the U.S.

Eat This, Not That describes it this way:

"Haggis is a savory pudding that consists of a
mixture of sheep's heart, lung, and liver, among other ingredients such as oatmeal,
minced onion, suet, and stock. The pudding is typically presented and served to guests
within the stomach of the sheep.
"

No, thank you.




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Shark Fin.

So, here's the thing. Shark fin isn't COMPLETELY banned in the U.S. Only 12 U.S.
states have an official ban on their sale, but 'shark finning' has been banned.

And rightly so, in my opinion.

It was common for a shark's fins to be removed only for them to be thrown
overboard. That is a cruel act. There are some loopholes, though. That means
you could still find, shark fin soup, for example on some menus.
But some of us certainly won't be ordering it.




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Japanese Pufferfish.

I don't look at this picture and think that looks like food. But that's just me.

An article from Stacker reports that "According to the FDA, Japanese pufferfish
contain tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin, central nervous system toxins that "are
more deadly than cyanide."

It may be served in fine dining restaurants in Japan, but you're not going to
find it on most menus in Texas. I say 'most,' because there are a select few
dealers allowed to sell the fish in America--which frankly surprises some of us.




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Horsemeat.

Unless I was truly without any other way of sustaining myself and was on the
verge of starvation, I can't imagine any scenario where I could bring myself to
consume horsemeat. That just doesn't seem right somehow.

So, it's not illegal to EAT horse meat, but it is illegal to slaughter them for meat.
That ban was renewed by President Trump back in 2018.




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  NY is filled with typeA flu and more
Posted by: Charon - 03-13-2024, 09:42 PM - Forum: World News - Replies (8)

/RSV i believe is the term and flu has devestated much of NY

i have a one year old nephew. he did not seem to have a cold or flu. but he began to burn up suddenly and had a seizure.

If u r around kids, scrub up and change before u go near other kids or adults

we wonder if the darn illegals are bringing in new illnesses

they get put in fancy housing which is free for them

word is that all these illegals are gonna vote biden in again

those of us facing evictions and food shortages are less than thrilled

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