Raspberries, recorded at The Agora Theatre in Cleveland on July 10, 1974 and broadcast by WMMS-FM.
Diving into the era of swagger, power-pop and wide-lapels for this Friday Lunch compliments of Raspberries.
When Eric Carmen died in 2024, many obits concentrated on his solo career while giving a few scant sentences to his previous incarnation as lead singer/co-founder of Raspberries, the band that pretty much put Carmen on the map for his future solo career. The early 70s were a time of Polyester shirts, platform shoes, big-hair, wide-lapels, cocaine and raging hormones. Their innuendo-laced mega-hit “Go All The Way” was looked at as something of an anthem to the era of anonymous sex, wretched excess, edible panties and desperate promises…