Re: Carpenters - Goodbye To Love

Not good quality,I'm afraid - since I was recording a tv playing a VHS.(So it is not in synch :( )But here you see Richard describing the history,and Tony Peluso describing his involvement.Note,during Tony's Live solo,when it pans out from the tight shot you see Karen off to the right, dancing AND SINGING to the Guitar solo! Priceless

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[ThePearlofeire]

I wonder why I didn,t hear of Tony Peluso,s death in the news.

[ucfbtm]

@ThePearlofeire I still cannot understand why there was the delay in the original news even leaking out - ostensibly about a week after he actually died.But nobody seems to know for sure! Very strange for such an untimely death.Yet the greatest travesty on top of this tragedy,was the total omission of his name in that cacophonic In Memorium 'tribute' at the Grammys.

[ThePearlofeire]

@ucfbtm I THINK have just found out that it was last year (2010) that he died(Am I right?)-so maybe because (1)he wasn,t that well known to a lot of people(2)it was probably mentioned only once on the news in 2010(3)the 70,s were before my time so his name wasn,t familiar to me which is a reason why I wouldn,t remember if his name was ever mentioned on the news and probably (4)I am not from the USA so maybe it wasn,t ever announced on my countrys news.

[ucfbtm]

@ThePearlofeire Tony definitely died in 2010.If we beleive the concensus,it was on June 5th - but the news wasn't reported until a WEEK later.I've never heard of such a delay - and I can't believe he wasn't discovered for a week! An awful thought. Apparently Tony had become a significant producer,so he remained well known.But being the 'Third Voice" of the Carpenters is a massive legacy.Tony Peluso deserves a much better remembrance,but at least his music will live on,

[thebakerman1]

Gosh, I'm really sad to learn (just now at that) of Tony's death a couple weeks ago :( While I can rejoice in his reuniting with Karen (as I firmly believe in that), it's just so sad to learn yet another great artist has left us.

Man oh man . . . I know we all die at some point but the older I get I just see so many of what I always considered the truly *great* musicians going before me, and it's really saddening to see these legacies die off like this. Hell, I'm tearing up as I type this :(

[ucfbtm]

@thebakerman1 It was already a massive tragedy,that Tony went so young - at 61.But it somehow seemed much worse,that he wasn't even mentioned in the ever-worsening In Memoriam at The Grammys.(I was glued to the screen,trying to quickly pluck out the names from that dreadful cacophonic 3-way splt screen they did.But Tony wsn't there :(

[CoxandTanfield]

I'm not a fan of guitar solos but I make an exception for this hairs on the back of the neck job

[taildragger53]

I only recently learnt about this.

Wow, the endless days & nights i spent in 1973 trying to copy this wonderful solo.

Amazing thought and imagination went into the solo..i loved the way he stated the melody and then broke away to add blues phrasing. Very Larry Carlton-ish. Tony seemed like a really good guy and life is is just so damn unfair.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

this was on here with better quality

[94donnacone]

i was surprised to just find out he died one year ago today why was it never mentioned well any way rip maybe it was his wish not to make a big deal about his death