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 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rns3nc0vSs – and evidently I was the first to view “Mother of Mystery”: 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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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.
(Year 5 Review)
