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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #25 on: February 04, 2013, 10:57:08 AM »
Quote from: Undies on February 04, 2013, 10:49:03 AM
Karen Carpenter died 30 years ago today.  I was 2.
Yeas, she died of Anorexia Nervousa
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #26 on: February 04, 2013, 11:33:21 AM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on February 04, 2013, 10:57:08 AM
Yeas, she died of Anorexia Nervousa

What a shame, too. IMO, that is.

I liked her and the Carpenters' music.
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #27 on: February 04, 2013, 11:42:24 AM »
Quote from: CG6468 on February 04, 2013, 11:33:21 AM
What a shame, too. IMO, that is.

I liked her and the Carpenters' music.
Yes i have one of their abulms!!! I love it...
The Cave always reminds me of Top of the World!!
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #28 on: February 04, 2013, 11:58:19 AM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on February 04, 2013, 11:42:24 AM
Yes i have one of their abulms!!! I love it...
The Cave always reminds me of Top of the World!!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1u6628Rdqs[/youtube]

Her brother Richard was supposed to have been such a perfectionist that 10 - 20 takes of a song was not uncommon.
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2013, 12:13:09 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on February 04, 2013, 11:33:21 AM
What a shame, too. IMO, that is.

I liked her and the Carpenters' music.

My mother loved The Carpenters.  I got sick of them after a while.
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #30 on: February 04, 2013, 12:16:46 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on February 04, 2013, 11:42:24 AM
Yes i have one of their abulms!!! I love it...
The Cave always reminds me of Top of the World!!

Karen had the perfect voice.  Karen rarely had to do a second take in the studio. 

(Every year, it's not Christmas until I hear a Carpenters carol.)
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #31 on: February 04, 2013, 01:47:33 PM »
Quote from: Undies on February 04, 2013, 12:16:46 PM
Karen had the perfect voice.  Karen rarely had to do a second take in the studio. 

(Every year, it's not Christmas until I hear a Carpenters carol.)

Richard would MAKE her do multiple retakes. If even one note or phrase or intonation wasn't done the way he liked, he insisted the whole set be retaken.

Richard was a prick. What is he now, without Karen?
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #32 on: February 04, 2013, 02:29:08 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on February 04, 2013, 01:47:33 PM
Richard would MAKE her do multiple retakes. If even one note or phrase or intonation wasn't done the way he liked, he insisted the whole set be retaken.

Richard was a prick. What is he now, without Karen?

Well, he may have been a prick (I'll have to take your word on that -- having been in a few dozen recordings myself, there's always somebody who wants "just one more take"), but he was a successful prick - with Karen's voice.

You can't knock his arranging skills. He did all of those himself and while the lead singer carries the torch for the rest of the group, his arrangements were clean, perfectly executed, and musical.

Karen's demons were her own, as were Richard's (he apparently had a quaalude problem). But the two of them were a breath of fresh air in a decade characterized by one hell of a lot of shit music.
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #33 on: February 05, 2013, 12:16:49 AM »
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #34 on: February 05, 2013, 06:21:51 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on February 04, 2013, 02:29:08 PM
Well, he may have been a prick (I'll have to take your word on that -- having been in a few dozen recordings myself, there's always somebody who wants "just one more take"), but he was a successful prick - with Karen's voice.

You can't knock his arranging skills. He did all of those himself and while the lead singer carries the torch for the rest of the group, his arrangements were clean, perfectly executed, and musical.

Karen's demons were her own, as were Richard's (he apparently had a quaalude problem). But the two of them were a breath of fresh air in a decade characterized by one hell of a lot of shit music.

I didn't know that he done all of the arrangements. I've always loved Karen's voice, but I've also loved their music. Their music had the subtle little riffs and turnarounds that would catch your ear. Never overdone like a lot of the music today. If he's responsible for that he deserves some kudos even if he was an asshole.
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #35 on: February 05, 2013, 09:25:25 AM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on February 05, 2013, 06:21:51 AM
I didn't know that he done all of the arrangements. I've always loved Karen's voice, but I've also loved their music. Their music had the subtle little riffs and turnarounds that would catch your ear. Never overdone like a lot of the music today. If he's responsible for that he deserves some kudos even if he was an asshole.

And no matter how many times Richard would change the arrangement -- Karen was perfect each time.  She was a stunning instrument.

What made the "Carpenter Sound" was that they did their own back-up parts layered over and over however many times it was needed.

Fortunately, Karen could harmonize with a dial tone if needed.
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #36 on: February 05, 2013, 10:27:48 AM »
Another interesting factoid about Karen Carpenter.

She was a drummer. Good enough to win Playboy's "Best Rock Drummer of the Year" in 1975. Granted, that was a popularity contest in which the readers voted their candidate, but she won it.

That little fact pissed off Keith Moon so bad he got drunk over it.  :rotf:

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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #37 on: February 05, 2013, 10:37:19 AM »
Yeah, I knew she was also a drummer. And a great drummer.
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #38 on: February 05, 2013, 10:56:28 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on February 05, 2013, 10:27:48 AM


That little fact pissed off Keith Moon so bad he got drunk over it.  :rotf:



What didn't Keith Moon get drunk over?
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Re: The Day The Music Died
« Reply #39 on: February 05, 2013, 11:21:56 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on February 05, 2013, 10:56:28 AM
What didn't Keith Moon get drunk over?

'Zackly.  :-)
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