Talk:Eric Carmen/Archive 1

Untitled
Hello, I have no idea how to edit anything here but i noticed that the link to "make me lose control" song leads to homoninous(?) Grey's Anatomy episode. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.108.206.82 (talk) 18:31, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Make Me Lose Control
I've removed the claim that The Beach Boys sing backing vocals on this song for the excellent reason that they don't. Brian Wilson allegedly sings bvs on "Hey Deanie" and "She Did It", but that's the extent of any BB involvement with EC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew G. Doe (talk • contribs) 16:31, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Question.
I thought he did a show out of Australia with Bill Medley. I don't see it mentioned, am I wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.22.218.208 (talk) 20:47, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

DUI arrest
Because of the publicity regarding the DUI arrest of which the video of Eric Carmen's arrest was shown on truTV Presents: World's Dumbest..., it should be noted in the Personal life section of the article. Along with the linked TruTV citation with the video segment included, a local news report is another citation which gives details not in the TruTV citation. Steelbeard1 (talk) 18:17, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

The stuff which Steelbeard1 tries (with perseverance worthy of a better application) to impose on us is totally negative. The only goal of Steelbeard1’s so-called «contribution» is humiliation and nothing else.The clip is not documentary neutral dashcam report. This is a stupid clown theatricality with a ugly grimacing and schadenfreude faces. The tone of clip is mocking, offensive and degrading. The sourse used in topic is kind of tabloid journalism and tabloid television.

«Material should not be added to an article when the only sourcing is tabloid journalism. When material is both verifiable and noteworthy, it will have appeared in more reliable sources»

″Biographies of living persons must be written conservatively and with regard for the subject's privacy. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid: it is not Wikipedia's job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives; the possibility of harm to living subjects must always be considered when exercising editorial judgment.″

Material should be immediately removed.

GATW (talk) 01:48, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

vandalism
This page is being vandalized repeatedly by an IP and a user name to include libel. Can someone help me stop this? Ip IP edits are 69.54.63.217 and user edits, almost word for word, is Cherrykid6. P37307 (talk) 12:59, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Update: the page is temp protected now. It would be good if we could get those libelous edits by 69.54.63.217 and Cherrykid6, locked and unviewable on Wikipedia. I'm not sure how to do that or even if they qualify from purging. P37307 (talk) 13:54, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * P37307, ✅, but next time email an admin in Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests who is online or go to on IRC. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:05, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * TonyBallioniThank you. I will. I'll add the IRC info to my notes. Still learning advanced editing techniques. P37307 (talk) 02:11, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

BATC album cites
Wanted to add a bit of detail on my edit for BATC. I changed "strong" reviews to "mixed". Of the 3 I found rather quickly the Marsh/Rolling Stone review is negative while the other two are somewhat mixed leaning towards positive. I realize these 3 sources are not conclusive, but they are not consistently positive either. I decided that the original editor likely meant strong to mean positive and the sources I found are not consistently positive. Please revert if you feel I overstepped.THX1136 (talk) 21:53, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * THX1136, I would think your edit is fair and more correct than "strong." At the time, 1977, the Rolling Stone review would have carried a lot of weight, as everything was in print then, than it necessarily would do now. Keep in mind, MTV wasn't even around then and wouldn't be for another several years. ;) After researching your edit, Carmen changed the 2007 remaster playlist order altered the "message" of BATC to Carmen's original intent. We'll never know what the 1977 reviews would have been if they had done the playlist different. For people wondering "what is he talking about, music is music," that isn't true. The emotional kick of a good playlist does change how people feel about an album and it's meaning/purpose/story, even when it's the same songs. P37307 (talk) 23:03, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Your use of the term "play list" made me smile as that is what album sequencing would be called today. MTV carries no significance for me. Didn't have rich man's tv and still don't. I get how a younger audience would ascribe weight to MTV. No worries. I agree that the album order has a significant effect on the listening experience, especially for vinyl, as most folks - myself included - sat the stylus down and listened without skipping tracks. It was so foreign to hear my son listening to Sgt. Pepper via CD and jumping all over the album track by track. Some artists took extra care in how an album was sequenced, Pepper being just one example, Dark Side of the Moon being another. A note on the RS review, Marsh always seemed to be more into "adventurous" music so it does not surprise me he held the opinion he did concerning this album. Reading reviews, if you did read a lot of them, allowed you to get to know the reviewer to the point you knew how to interpret their opinion compared to your likes and dislikes. Thanks for your comments.THX1136 (talk) 20:51, 25 August 2019 (UTC)