{"id":45182,"date":"2018-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/pop-art-live\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:00:00","slug":"pop-art-live","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/pop-art-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Art Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; vertical-align: baseline\">The Raspberries formed in 1970, and for five years and four albums, they produced an early form of power pop based on perfect harmonies and melodies. In some ways, their sound was almost too perfect for the era as they never received complete respect from rock audiences of the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; vertical-align: baseline\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; vertical-align: baseline\">On November 26<sup>th<\/sup>, 2004, the lights were turned back on the Raspberries. The four original members \u2013 guitarist\/vocalist Eric Carmen, lead guitarist Wally Bryson, bassist David Smalley, and drummer Jim Bonfanti \u2013 reunited for the opening of the Cleveland branch of the House Of Blues. That performance has now been released as a two-disc set titled\u00a0<em>Pop Art Live.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; vertical-align: baseline\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; vertical-align: baseline\">For a band that had not performed together in three decades, the Raspberries are in fine form here. Hit songs such as \u201cGo All The Way,\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s Pretend,\u201d and \u201cI Wanna Be With You\u201d are still examples of pure melodic pop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; vertical-align: baseline\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; vertical-align: baseline\">In addition to their well-known material, they dive a little deeper into their catalog as well as presenting covers of songs by the Beatles and the Who. The Beatles\u2019 \u201cBaby\u2019s In Black,\u201d \u201cTicket To Ride,\u201d and \u201cNo Reply\u201d are transformed into American pop songs. Likewise, the Who\u2019s \u201cI Can\u2019t Explain\u201d is filled out with tight harmonies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; vertical-align: baseline\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; vertical-align: baseline\">My only criticism is that there appears to have been a bit of overdubbing after the fact on this disc, which takes away from the purity of the live performances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; vertical-align: baseline\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; vertical-align: baseline\">The Raspberries are one of those artists who are more appreciated after the fact.\u00a0<em>Pop Art Live\u00a0<\/em>is a nice modern-day presentation of what you may have missed for the last 40 years or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":33366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10108],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-45182","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-raspberries","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45182"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}