![]() Today I recognize Richard's considerable talents as an arranger, and Karen as a singer with golden pipes who also was one of hell of a great drummer. My own opinion about the Carpenter's has changed as I've grown older, but as a kid in the 70's I couldn't stand their music which I considered bland, corny "white bread" ballad-pop. How could he not see that a lot of the younger record buying public was not going to be enamored with the old style pop music more or less endorsed by the Nixon crowd? He had to know or if not, he's still living in denial. With the turbulence of the war and draft going on, civil unrest in the inner cities, there was an enormous cultural gap with the Carpenter's falling on the clean, safe side of. He didn't seem too defensive to me but what I couldn't understand was how could he have been unaware that what the Carpenter's were doing back in the late 60's and early 70's was not going to click with everyone considering the zeitgeist and radicalism of the period. I just listened to the interview with Richard Carpenter and thought Terri Gross was completely fair with her questions. ![]() I think I'll go to Amoeba and find some Carpenters and re-evaluate. The amazing thing is that Carpenters and all the others were on radio, Now much of the music sounds the same and it's difficult to hear the words because the singers are lousy. Yet I'm like Terry, it was corny when Stones, Zep and Who were raging. He was quite open.Īs for Carpenters I was into rock and roll and we used to joke about them tho very often I was quite taken with her voice and the wonderful production of songs. He countered it was great because his band would hang back and block the mob and let him escape, of course that meant all the more for his band mates. She said what's it like to be a sex symbol to girls when you're not interested in them? She has brought up the issue of sexuality on a couple occasions, once to a guy who'd been a teen star in a band with his mates. But she mostly is in her studio and guests aren't face to face but somewhere else over the phone I guess. I haven't listened to her in a long time. I like Terry, she does ask personal and interesting questions. I would find it extremely hard to not want to spend hours with him, although I'm sure that it's still hard for him knowing that Karen isn't here anymore, to share all of their past glories with. I took that as meaning that not many people can get into her skin, without ticking her off, but that I somehow had found, her soft spot.įor the record, I'm a huge fan of Richard and Karen and man, would I love to just sit down and talk music with Richard. Going back to my interview with Wynonna Judd, I found it funny when, after the interview, while she was outside signing autographs in the radio station parking lot, to about 30 people who heard the interview, her assistant came into the my studio and said, "I don't know what you said to her, but thank you". I had no trouble with her admitting that she used to think that their songs were "corny", that was her being honest, but, when she kept using the word and then playing that horrid version of "Superstar" by Sonic Youth, she lost him, as a good interview. I won her over and I'll be honest, it's not that easy with every artist, but if you're an honest fan, like I can tell that Terry Gross is not, of Richard Carpenter, it can fail miserably. She smiled and said, "REALLY" and I said, "sure". She said that she hadn't heard the finished product yet, so I handed her my CD and said, it's yours". I told her (off air) how much I loved the song that she and Kenny Loggins cut for the album. ![]() Thanks to a friend of mine who used to work for RCA Records, I had a real early advance on a new "West Side Story" project, that Wynonna was a part of. ![]() About 15 minutes later, ths sunglasses came off and she opened up to me. I once did an interview with Wynonna Judd and she came in with sunglasses on and a real bitchy attitude. An artist or group, can be as fussy when they arrive, as you or I can be, in the morning. I've done hundreds of radio interviews, some went well, some were better than expected and others, I'd rather just as soon forget. This is the second radio interview that I've listened to this week on this forum and both of them struck me the wrong way. ![]()
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