Eric Carmen of Raspberries fame is an unabashed Trump supporter and is now catching hell on Twitter.
The totalitarian left is trying to burn him at the virtual stake.
Who knew?
Buried deep in Ohio, Donald Trump has a former rock star as a major supporter.
Eric Carmen, lead singer of the Raspberries in the 1970s, has outed himself as a Trump backer. He loves his president. Carmen is most famous for songs like “Go All the Way” and “Let’s Pretend” in the early 70s. Then, when the band broke up, Carmen was fished out of obscurity by Clive Davis. He had two big solo hits on Arista Records with “All By Myself” and “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again.” Each of them were fashioned from classic music pieces by Rachmaninoff.
A decade later, Carmen scored one more hit with “Hungry Eyes” from the “Dirty Dancing” soundtrack. Since then, he’s lived with cult status outside of his native Cleveland.
More recently, Carmen has been on Twitter where he picked up more contemporary rock star fans from the E Street Band family like Steve and Maureen van Zandt and Nils and Amy Lofgren. An avowed Raspberries fan, I also followed him on Twitter.
So imagine everyone’s surprise when Carmen declared his fealty to Trump in the last week or so. He’s a hard line conservative, decrying socialism a la Trump and retweeting people like Fox News’s Jesse Watters, Seb Gorka and Charlie Kirk. He tweeted: “If you want to hate me, just know this. I love the USA, I support our brave military men and women, I support the police and firefighters, I support our President and the First Lady, I believe in civility, and I do not want to live in a Socialist country. That is what I believe.”
Since then, Carmen has been in a Twitter firefight, not just with former fans who can’t believe all this, but also with the Lofgrens. And he really loves those Trumps. Another Tweet in a response to criticism of them: “There is no excuse for that kind of sick, disrespect. The First Lady was speaking about the opioid problem while The President donated his salary to the fight against opioid addiction.”
Carmen is also against the impending impeachment and supports the Republicans who are on the House committee: “Nobody has any proof that Jim Jordan did anything wrong. All I know is what I saw during the impeachment nonsense. Jordan was a voice of sanity, along with Devin Nunes.”
He’s also traded contentious Tweets with rocker Peter Frampton: “I love your music, Pete, but I would never presume to tell you, or anyone else, what network they should watch. I respect your right to disagree with me, and you should respect my right to disagree with you. That used to be the way things worked here in the USA. Carry on.”
“I respect your right to disagree with me, and you should respect my right to disagree with you. That used to be the way things worked here in the USA.”
Used to be is correct.
Thank you Eric for standing up against the enemy!
PS: Uh..does Eric look more like an Erica or is it just me?
Ahhh! The summer of ’88 and ‘Make me Lose Control’.
Thank you Mr. Carmen.
Gee ya think the fact that Carmen’s parents were Russian Jewish immigrants who came here to escape persecution contributed to his views? The left dismisses such personal history and ignores reality. I’m proud to call Carmen a fellow buckeye! As for Frampton, not so much- its interesting that he chooses to live Cincinnati-but no doubt he’d espouse the same socialism which he left in the UK-
SAMENESS
That’s what communism is. Sameness in dress, thought, deeds.
There is no God above communism, and there is no thought other than what they say you should think.
It’s as if to be “woke” you need to deny your two eyes and two ears. Get rid of any sense of reality and truth. Just get on the bandwagon dammit! You have all these mega-stars like Bruce Springsteen espousing his life thoughts all over the freakin’ place like cat puke on a carpet and they want to pick on Eric Carmen who makes 10x more more sense in 2 tweets? Ugh!
I’m going to buy Carmen’s CDs with the money I saved from not buying ChicFilA
Something about 1972 too
Billboard Top 100 of 1972
01 – Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
02 – Gilbert O’sullivan – Alone Again Naturally
03 – Don Mclean – American Pie
04 – Harry Nilsson – Can’t Live if Living Is Without You
05 – Sammy Davis Jr. – The Candy Man
06 – Joe Tex – I Gotcha
07 – Bill Withers – Lean on Me
08 – Mac Davis – Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me
09 – Melanie – Brand New Key
10 – Wayne Newton – Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast
11 – Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
12 – Looking Glass – Brandy
13 – Chi-lites – Oh Girl
14 – Gallery – Nice to Be with You
15 – Chuck Berry – My Ding-a-ling
16 – Luther Ingram – If Loving You Is Wrong
17 – Neil Young – Heart of Gold
18 – Stylistics – Betcha by Golly Wow
19 – Staple Singers – I’ll Take You There
20 – Michael Jackson – Ben
21 – Robert John – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
22 – Billy Preston – Outa-space
23 – War – Slippin’ Into Darkness
24 – Hollies – Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
25 – Mouth & Macneal – How Do You Do
26 – Neil Diamond – Song Sung Blue
27 – America – A Horse with No Name
28 – Hot Butter – Popcorn
29 – Main Ingredient – Everybody Plays the Fool
30 – Climax – Precious and Few
31 – 5th Dimension – I Didn’t Get to Sleep at All
32 – Moody Blues – Nights in White Satin
33 – Raspberries – Go All the Way
Thank You Eric
Music definitely takes me right back to the times they saturated the radio dial. My childhood, teens, and all of the 70s, were great times for me. A walk through those 33 songs above was a walk through that time of my life.
Yet – In no way, shape, or form would I like to go back and re-live any of it. It was great as it was – nothing to try harder at or re-do. I might even consider it hell to have The Edmund Fitzgerald playing every day again. ugh
The only reason I would ever want to time travel backwards would be to witness historical events and see what really happened, not just the victor’s version.
@70s – Thanks for the trip down memory lane. A lot of great music on that list. Some of my all-time favorites – back when I listened to popular music.
And no. 15 My Ding-a-ling by Chuck Berry, his only no. 1 song ever, go figure. WHY!
Takes courage to stand against the tide.
Even when the tide is a tide of mendacity.
Bravo, Mr. Carmen.
izlamo delenda est …
@Toxically Masculine…
For some reason, I’m thinking of Tony Curtis in “Some Like It Hot”.
Great. A guy that looks like a lesbian is supporting Trump. What next? A 34% approval rate by the black community? No way! Oh……really?
Great tune but they need to turn up the banjo.
There are many recording artists out there who don’t buy into that leftist shit. They remember their own monumental struggle, every starving moment, every colossal failure, every moment of hell they went through to get there. If it was easy, everybody would be doing it.
So, putting all of their personal life’s work right into the MIDDLE of psycho leftist asswipes who want to take it all away and “dox” them because of politics is just not the smartest path to take.
I applaud Eric’s stance, but he’s going to lose half his audience. They will stop at nothing.
That’s funny – While listening to that song on my pathetic FM radio I always thought he was saying “Don’t Go Away…”
I follow Michael Quercio of The Three O’Clock on Facebook – another conservative rocker. Very entertaining page – he loves trolling the vile leftists that fester in the music biz.
Good for him for coming out of the political closet. I daresay it takes more courage for a person to come out as a conservative now then it did for a gay 25 years ago.
As far as the list of songs go I was depressed to learn I could sing the first few lines (in some cases most of it) of 30 of the 33 songs and can’t remember my bankcard PIN code. It did bring back great memories though.
I’ve got to believe there is a better picture of him someplace.
It figures that the person who sang a song endorsing rape would support a rapist.
“It figures that the person who sang a song endorsing rape would support a rapist.”
I doubt he voted for Clinton.
We are the majority, but silent no more.
Let’s push Eric Carmen for the Hall of Fame X2: for the RASPBERRIES and one solo.
Larry, I’m guessing you’re more of a Benny Mardones “Into the Night” kind of guy.
Eric and I follow each other on Twitter and I had no idea this was going on. Thanks for the heads up, BFH – I’m on my way.
Yours in Patriotism,
Barack Obama’s Dead Fly
Eric and I are friends and follow each other on Twitter. I had no idea this was going on. Thanks for the heads up, BFH – I’m on my way.
Yours in Patriotism,
Barack Obama’s Dead Fly