Raspbernie Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Every Raspberries fan has seen the full-color poster that came with Starting Over. Here, for the first time is a scan of the actual full color slide used to make the poster. It was taken by photographer Richard DiLello: "I was living in Rockland County, New York in a small town called Suffern. I had previously shot two album covers for Badfinger and was doing a lot of work for Capitol Records. I had this lovely little cottage on 17 acres and we shot the Starting Over album cover there. We had lunch, played ping pong, and then I stood them against a tree and shot a few rolls of film. They were nice kids—very cooperative, and very photogenic. It was a relaxing and pleasurable shoot. My book, The Longest Cocktail Party, about my days at Apple Records working for the Beatles had just been published and I remember that Eric asked me some questions about what it was like working with them." After Starting Over came out to nearly universal acclaim, Eric, Wally, plus new Raspberries members Michael McBride and Scott McCarl, embarked on a string of live performances coast-to-coast. This ULTRA RARE live poster advertised a gig the boys played in Appleton, Wisconsin on December 28, 1974. The local joint Raspberries blew the roof off that night was the Cinderella Ballroom in Appleton. Opening act was progressive rock band Circus. Lead singer Bernie Millar was often compared to Mick Jagger for showmanship and stage presence. That night, Raspberries performed a selection of hits along with most of the tunes from their new LP. No live recordings of 'Berries Cinderella Ballroom show are known to exist, but this live recording of a GREAT Scott McCarl power pop classic gives you some idea on what the crowd heard that night: RASPBERRIES - CRY 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missm Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Ooh thank you, Bernie!! The guys all look great, but I love Eric's outfit in particular!! Thank you for the new photo!! And somebody said I need to get a life. Could there be anything more important than The Raspberries? I think not!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 And we still get something for Christmas? Wow! Thanks, Bernie. You ALWAYS have the best stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelley Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 ERIC=HOTNESS ...YUMMY Thanks Santa Bernie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missm Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Did anyone look at the ticket prices? For $3 you could see The Raspberries..Wow! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missm Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Double WOW!! The Raspberries for $5!! What a bargain!! You can't even get a CD for that price these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew C. Clark Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I thought that Bernie was going to put the song "Cry" into one of Eric's presents come Christmas Day. A very early present!! Thanks, Bernie!! Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianchick Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Nice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Early Wynn Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Cinderella Ballroom? If you showed me the picture and asked me to guess its name, I would have guessed "Bubba's". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 It was after midnight... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missy Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Great stuff Bernie thanks and have a very Merry Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austinberries Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 ok this was a cool photo update, w/ cool backstories.. way to dig 'em up bernie, your bench is deep, very deep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bessieboo Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I don't know which I like better the clothing or the hair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim From Wisconsin Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 If only I had my drivers license when I was 14, I could have driven from Milwaukee to see this show! Tim 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HT from Mo Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 On 12/17/2009 at 11:52 AM, Bessieboo said: I don't know which I like better the clothing or the hair I going for both! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missm Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Beth, I agree! Eric was working both like nobody's business!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonecimar Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 On 12/15/2009 at 2:25 PM, Early Wynn said: Cinderella Ballroom? If you showed me the picture and asked me to guess its name, I would have guessed "Bubba's". I was thinking "Porky's" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie Mississippi Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 There are always such great treasures to find... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 I still have that poster folded up inside the album cover. I bought the whole album at a used record store in very good condition about 1983 for $12. I was starved for new EC music that I had not heard and was not suprised there was the usual 8 out of 10 fine keepers on this classic LP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darlene Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 I was there that night at Rutgers, Rob. VERY very very cool! I believe it was at the Student Center, very intimate venue. missm, Eric always had the greatest clothes on. Great taste! I went crazy over the album cover and my uncle Steve and I decoupaged it onto a piece of wood and it hung on my apartment wall with other decoupaged Raspberries pictures and even newspaper articles. My boyfriend at the time was VERY jealous of Raspberries members, Eric in particular. He felt threatened every time he looked at that wall and called it "the shrine." Haha--great memories this photo evokes. I love it. I should get out all the old decoupaged artifacts--they're up in my memory box... --Darlene 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Earle Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 I was there that night at the Cinderella Ballroom! I grew up in Appleton, and my brother Mike got me a ticket as (part of) an eighteenth birthday present. (I found my way here to your web site because somebody posted a "what was your first concert?" question on Facebook, and I wanted to check the date: fourth, I think; Badfinger, Washington DC 1972; Beach Boys in Madison in 1973; and then Loggins and Messina in Oshkosh in Sept '74) I remember being a bit apprehensive about the new band lineup, but from what I remember they sounded just great. No recollection of "Circus" at all. I remember that my high school (and friends on the team) had a basketball game that night that I went to, so I might have missed them entirely. But I was certainly there in time for the Raspberries. The Cinderella was towards the edge of town, on the south side, and was on its last legs at that point; I don't remember how much longer it lasted; I think that was the one and only time I was ever there. Picture a 1930s or '40s dance hall, wide open wood floor, small rise stage at one end. At another time, maybe roller-skating, like the "Rock Around With Ollie Vee" scene in the "Buddy Holly Story". And speaking of... The other thing to know about the Cinderella Ballroom: everybody knows Buddy Holly (and Richie Valens and the Big Bopper) died in the early morning hours of Feb 3rd, 1959. And most everyone knows they played the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, earlier that night, Feb 2nd. Well, on Feb 1st, they were supposed to play an afternoon show at the Cinderella and then an evening show at the Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay. But they had bus trouble coming from a show in Duluth on Jan 31st, and ended up not making it to the show in Appleton; they did make Green Bay show. (When the Gary Busey movie came out, I got a copy of the book the movie was based on. And the book said they had played in Appleton. So this Appleton kid went to the local library to see what the newspaper had said about the show, only to discover that they had actually missed the show. I wrote to the author, he sent me a thank-you note - that I still have - and made the correction in the next edition of his book, and now histories of the tour have the detail about the Appleton-Cinderella show correct.) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prettymom777 Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Welcome, Mr. Earle! Very intelligent post. As for you, Bernie, you definitely need a vacation. All work and no play is no good. Then, please, bring on the garage sale! (Unlike some folks, I don't nag.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Cool that you got to see them back then, Robert. I am envious!!! Bernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 A nearly 10-year-old thread worth a new look. That Starting Over poster hung on my dorm walls all four years at college. They looked like a rowdy rock’n’roll band! (I wonder if I would have hung up a poster of the white-suit Raspberries.... Probably not. My buddies would have razzed me. 😂) Bernie, great story on the posters. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 That first poster picture would have made a GREAT, great, first album cover leaving fans and people "new" to hearing Raspberries music, perhaps wanting to buy the album to see fully what they were all about and also peeking their curiosity as well. Think this look is the real deal and what they "were" all about back then because it's natural and that look was them. Nice picture and naturally done. Very nice. Only thing is, Dave and Jim aren't in there. Love them too. Nancy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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