One of the most underrated guitar riffs of all time. Love this song. Nice pick subby.

Always loved this song, too. I had to be in 3rd or 4th grade when it came out. I might have even seen this when it happened, I used to come home from school and my mom would be in the den watching Mike Douglas and ironing or something, I'd hang out and watch it with her.

Is his vocal the only thing that's live here? Seems that way.

Cameron Crowe showed Lester Bangs spinning this in "Almost Famous".

59? Does he still have Hungry Eyes?

Cartman is 59?

I just came to say, that Eric Carmen had the gayest hairdos on the planet. Even my gay uncle-in-law said they were too f@ggy.

And I think Eric Carmen was straight.

Underrated band
Underrated vocals

Oh wait, I was thinking of The Babies anj John Waite.

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/even if he does look gayer that 8 guys suckin 9 cawx

Crewmannumber6: Underrated band
Underrated vocals

This. Great freakin' band, incredible songs, gigantic hooks, great harmonies... the best American power pop band. Very influential also.

Is this the guy that did "All by myself?"

Got to be one of the worst "live vocal over taped band" deals I've ever witnessed.

Here's another catchy ditty of theirs, this one with better sound:

I Wanna Be With You

Okay, here's a pretty great live clip of both songs ("Go All The Way" and "I Wanna Be With You"). Awesome guitar sound. And I always like seeing someone playing an EB-3...

Lipspinach: Is this the guy that did "All by myself?"

Yeah but don't blame him for that.

I like this guy, but as a songwriter he had the Barry Gibb/Stevie Wonder Syndrome of not knowing when he was piling the cheese on way too thick.

I like pop. I like harmonies. I even like camp.

....but I just don't 'get' Eric Carmen, or the Raspberries. Hell, I like Abba, but the Raspberies just sound like utter crap to my ears.

And he's from the state that's round on the ends and hi in the middle! Just like Brainiac!

The way the rock pimps on WPLJ endlessly pumped Eric Carmen's solo turn locked in the fact that radio-rock was dead as anything musically significant from that point on.

--or maybe WNEW. Too far past.

/off my lawn

Me and my wife drove from Dayton to Cleveland to see the Raspberries somewhere around last November and it was fricken awesome. They were all on their game and the supporting musicians they had were top notch. Billy Sullivan played a slide lead that was as quality as anything I've ever heard.

We stayed at the hotel up the street and almost the whole band showed up at the lounge (never saw Wally Bryce though) after the show. On our way to the elevators, I ran smack into Eric Carmen. Got to shake his hand, said hello, and stuttered like a starstruck idiot.

Good times. Power pop - some of the best music evar.

Wally Bryce=Wally Bryson. Ignore the 'tard behind the curtain.

Starts off ok, kinda Humble Pie-ish, then degenerates into some of the worst wimp rock evar

Lead singer looks like the Peter Pan dude.

I think they would have been better off lip-syncing this time...

dereksmalls: Starts off ok, kinda Humble Pie-ish, then degenerates into some of the worst wimp rock evar

this

seriously what a letdown the chorus is after one of the most killer riffs ever.

almost sounds like two completely different songs spliced together.

the first rule of pop songwriting, don't let anything be better or catchier than the chorus.

Yes Eric Carmen did All By Myself, but he redeemed himself with Make Me Lose Control.

chucklesmcfarland:

dereksmalls: Starts off ok, kinda Humble Pie-ish, then degenerates into some of the worst wimp rock evar

this

seriously what a letdown the chorus is after one of the most killer riffs ever.


You guys are looking through the wrong end of the microscope. The song's a great bit of bubblegum with the killer riff as an extra bonus.

This song, along with Stay With Me, Baby Blue and Do Ya (Move original version) were great power pop that made 1972 AM radio tolerable. While the choice was to listen to freeform FM, at the time FM signals didn't carry as far. Road trip music could be horrid if your 8 track kept eating the tape.

Lord, there was a lot of crap on high rotation back then. You kids have no idea what it's like getting Gilbert O'Sullivan and Helen Reddy every hour.


/get off my transistor

I'm a pretty big power-pop fan, but I've never enjoyed a Raspberries song.
I don't know what the problem is, but something just doesn't click for me.

Good thing the James Gang chased those fag-posers out of Northeast Ohio and took over. Otherwise, my friends and I might have had hair like that in high school. Yikes!

I didn't know they had cordless guitars in 1972....

chucklesmcfarland: dereksmalls: Starts off ok, kinda Humble Pie-ish, then degenerates into some of the worst wimp rock evar

this

seriously what a letdown the chorus is after one of the most killer riffs ever.

almost sounds like two completely different songs spliced together.

the first rule of pop songwriting, don't let anything be better or catchier than the chorus.

Says the nobody from nowhere.

dholway: I'm a pretty big power-pop fan, but I've never enjoyed a Raspberries song.
I don't know what the problem is, but something just doesn't click for me.

This.

They're frustratingly petite.

I'm with Scott and dholway, except I like "Go All The Way" and "I Wanna Be With You" a lot.

/The band I was hoping The Raspberries would be would later be formed by Will Birch and John Wicks in the late 70s. I don't wanna argue, but I ain't gonna budge.