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Happy Birthday young fella! - Don Krider and Eric Krider

My deepest sympathy, John. Don Krider

There's a neat fan-created video for Raspberries' "Play On" (the original 1974 version of the Scott McCarl-Eric Carmen written classic) with Scott's left-handed bass and John Lennon-ish lead vocal, Wally Bryson's great driving lead guitar, Michael McBride's powerful drums, Eric Carmen's perfect rhythm guitar and the best pop harmonies in rock at: The Beatles' fan who created that did a great job matching the lyrics to various still photos. Hopefully someone will post the band's live 1975 (aired March and August of that year in syndication) "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" appearance performing that tune on YouTube one day - Scott was such an incredible performer, "shy yet confident," like one magazine said back in the day. Don Krider

Happy Birthday, buddy! Don Krider

Happy Birthday, Chris! Don

How about Raspberries Wally Bryson on the dual neck lead guitar and Dave Smalley on bass (great close-ups of Dave) with The Secret singing one of my favorite Kinks songs, "Tired Of Waiting": Man, Eric Robertson was one very talented lead singer. What a rockin' performance! Don

I've seen short versions of this on YouTube, but someone just added the full video version of "Go All the Way" from November of 1973 (airdate) from "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" If there was a video definition of the word "cool," this would be it! Don Krider

Happy Birthday, MJ! Don

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/def-leppard-unveils-summer-tour-with-cheap-1003945528.story

I apologize if this has been posted before, but this Bryson Group (Wally Bryson and Jesse Bryson) videos from a live gig opening for Fastball in November of 2008 is new to me, so in case anyone else hasn't seen it, I thought I'd post them here (I would post them in the video section, but I'm afraid they would get lost there): Don Krider

To the first guy to call me "Raspbuddy," Happy Birthday, Bernie! Don

Thanks to everyone for the messages here and for the private emails. You made an aging Raspbuddy feel pretty good. Don

The author of that article, Christopher Bollyn, was profiled by CNN in an interview where he accused Israel and Jewish agents of plotting 9/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB6nDk_FEBs

As Rod Serling said, "Submitted for your consideration..." - Popular Mechanics investigation of the the 911 "conspiracy": http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html

The members of Magic backed Eric on that appearance (having been renamed The Eric Carmen Band) and one of the two drummers (the impressive blonde-haired lad) is Michael McBride, who played on the Raspberries "Starting Over" album (who also backed Eric in the bands Cyrus Erie and The Quick). McBride was a neat addition to the guys in Magic, who all played on Eric's first Arista solo album in 1975 (at the time, I considered it *almost* a Raspberries album since half the band was on it). Don Krider