Raspberries live on sunset strip cd

The Raspberries, whose lot of hits stayed on the airwaves and charts long enough to make them a recognizable band, were very good. But by , the band had disintegrated, leaving behind the legacy that still lives today. The 2CD set runs through 21 songs. The DVD provides a quick look at the show with 5 songs, their notable ones.

In the end, you still gotta listen. So there I was, waving around a CD copy of Pop Art Live, by s power pop band, The Raspberries about to launch into a tirade about how most bands from the '70s should just stop. Just stop taking the money of poor souls who by seeing them today or buying "new" records are desperately trying to grasp at the ghostly threads of their long departed youth. After a number of demoralizing experiences seeing acts that were great in and are much less so now, I have sworn off seeing older acts.

And one thing that they never did at the time was a live album, this despite the sterling accounts of their concerts, which were borne out in some of their surviving television clips. The ex-members must have looked on with astonishment as the band started getting written about as one of the most lamented losses of the s, and their albums especially the first three soared in value on the collectors' market. It ultimately took until -- from a gig at the House of Blues in Los Angeles -- to get this long-awaited document of the group in concert released to the public. The tendency toward unbridled enthusiasm among fans might be somewhat tempered by the fact that a lot of latter-day reunions of this type don't amount to much more than the bandmembers going through the motions of impersonating their youth. But in this case the right participants are here:

This live document contains 21 songs, most of which are original material. The band only released four CDs during its short half-decade together, so they had to throw in a few favorite outside songs just to keep their sanity. Sadly, the Raspberries broke up because their power-pop sounds were quickly being drowned out by all the progressive junk released in the '70s. Had there been more average fans that got it, perhaps the Raspberries back catalogue for this reunion tour might have been much bigger. Such are the breaks.