Cyrus Erie

CYRUS ERIE

I had always intended to write up something in Wikipedia about Cyrus Erie; this was the band that Eric Carmen was in shortly before the Raspberries were formed. Instead, Cyrus Erie became the third UARB that I wrote about in this series of posts. I included in that article information about the Cleveland music scene in the 1960’s and 1970’s that I had learned from writing the Wikipedia articles – and from that point on, I have generally included information about better known bands and musicians in the Under Appreciated Rock Band and Under Appreciated Rock Artist posts.

(September 2013)

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There are several videos by the Invisible Eyes on YouTube; only “Monster Beat” though has been viewed much – at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rns3nc0vSs – and evidently I was the first to view “Mother of Mystery”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEVVa8omw8g . I have difficulty with searches on YouTube, and maybe others do as well. Additionally, numerous videos (maybe the majority) don’t have any sound on my computer at home for some reason. I just updated Flash Player, and it helped get ones by Cyrus Erie to play, but not these for the Invisible Eyes.

(December 2014)

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However, I had not gotten around to writing up a Wikipedia article on a Cleveland band called Cyrus Erie, a rival of the Choir whose lead singer was Eric Carmen. Carmen was the future lead singer of the Raspberries and also had a successful solo career afterward as both a singer and a songwriter with hits that include “All by Myself”, “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again”, and “Hungry Eyes”. As only my third Under Appreciated Rock Band post, my entry on Cyrus Erie also talked extensively about the 1960’s Cleveland music scene.

(December 2017)

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My first post (on December 1, 2009 – they have been showing up very late in the month recently) was on Beast, a 1960’s “hippie-flavored” rock band that was introduced to me through a friend of a friend back while I was still in high school. On my third post, about the 1960’s garage rock band Cyrus Erie, I expanded the post to talk about the band more in context – in this case, as part of the 1960’s Cleveland music scene. Thus, in most cases I not only had to come up with a band that had no Wikipedia article yet (or only a “stub” at least), I wanted to find some aspect of music that I could talk about at the same time that hopefully had some sort of a connection to the UARB or the UARA.

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