Tony Peluso (March 28, 1950 – June 5, 2010) was an American guitarist and record producer. He was lead guitarist for pop duo Carpenters from 1972 to 1983.
Peluso is probably best known for his fuzz guitar solo on the Carpenters' song "Goodbye to Love", and his disc jockey impersonation that opens their "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" and also the deejay who links the medley of oldies tracks on Side 2 of the Carpenters album Now & Then.
Peluso came from a musical family, his mother being a successful opera singer and his father being the music director for NBC radio on the west coast.
He began his own musical career in 1968, when he formed a band called The Abstracts with three college friends. The band recorded one album for the small Pompeii label, on which he sang, played guitar and wrote most of the songs. However, the album was not a commercial success, mainly due to poor distribution, and the group disbanded shortly after its release
Peluso later played alongside Bobby Sherman and Paul Revere & the Raiders as well as leading the backing band Instant Joy for Mark Lindsay when Lindsay took a break from Paul Revere & the Raiders.
Marduk!!!
Lord of the earth
In power exalted above and below
In whose hand the son is a
Glittering and sword and the moon
Ppo mops igsnges opiko mops
Teletapkae epidezia kpsnikes
Epaiapistepo daimonos teg op gai
Pepi mops o asten ton pe
Nte, kai en tei steile o astep ton
Ezteke
Fire who measure your
Garments in the midst,
My vesture, trusseth, you are as
The palms of my hands brightened
Your vestments with
Dark infernal light, cover us
Made a law to govern the holy ones
And deliver a rod with
Wisdom supreme
You litted your voices and swore
Your allegiance to Him that lived
Triumphant whose beginning but,
End cannot be
Which shinneth as a flame in the
Midst of you palace, and reigneth
Among you as the balance of life
Move, therefore and appear!!!
Open the mysteries of you creation
And be friendly to me
I reign over them saith the lord in
Power the moon is ineriable, you are
As the palms of my hands and brightened
Your vestments with dark infernal light!!!
The true worshipper of the high priest