Scott McCarl - Play OnScott McCarl may have only appeared on a single Raspberries release (their 1974 swan song, Starting Over), but the bassist was a very talented singer songwriter one of the reasons why Eric Carmen and company enlisted him in the first place. So why it took McCarl so bloody long to issue a solo album in the wake of the Raspberries' 1975 split up was a bit puzzling to fans. Titled after his best known Raspberries composition, Play On surfaced in 1998,

she began writing songs that stripped away the masks and revealed the complex and often contradictory realities behind them

before meeting a sad fate

Still alive today are stories about musicians raising their own incubi

this deluxe edition of Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar

Mike Marshall

Jimmy Ryan

" according to a 1972 magazine article

The two started working together in 2011

Featuring such obscure gems as jazz guitarist Bucky Pizarelli’s lone 1961 venture into surf rock

two published versions from within his lifetime

Four Thousand Holes unfolds at a measured pace

The arrangement includes every note of the original keyboard part and is for no less than eight bassoons - all played by van Sambeek using multitrack recording technique