Registered: 10/16/01
Posts: 10626
Loc: Litchfield, NH, USA
DAMN! Really sorry to see you go Ric. Nice to see you made the Hall Of Fame last year.
I did FOH sound for The Cars in '78 at The Rat (Rathskeller) in Boston, and my rock band warmed them up at the same place the following year.
The were playing tunes like Just What I Needed and My Best Friend's Girl Friend way at least a year before I ran live sound for them. They had signed with Elektra before I did the FOH mix.
That first album was spectacular. Three singles, and three more that got substantial airplay. That's six out of nine songs on the album.
They were an easy choice to receive the Grammy for Best New Artist the following February ('79).
Anyway, sad to see him go. Seven albums with The Cars, seven solo albums, and a bunch of albums he produced for others.
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Registered: 04/24/99
Posts: 37248
Loc: Black Mountain Hills of Dakota
Elliot Easton (left handed guitarist for The Cars) crafted some of the most elegant, memorable, difficult yet singable solos for those great songs.
I bought the DVD where he shows some of those solos, the thought process that went into them, etc. Fascinating stuff.
There was also some other footage of him just jamming with some other musicians. Very surprising— he's really a below average guitarist when it comes to "winging it".
What he does best is thinking things through, creating great solos, and then playing them so well.
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Did they say what the cause of death was? I didn't know he and Paulina broke up last year. After how many decades of marriage? Would that end up hurting his heart or her bank account more? Yikes.
he's from a generation where the average life expectancy was 68, 69 or so, maybe a little less...
No fucking way. He's from a LIFESTYLE where life expectancy was late 60's, early 70's.
yes, way. lol
the life expectancy for an American male born in 1944 = 63.6 years. so he got a full 10 years and some spare changes over the expiry date , basically. not bad really.
Registered: 09/27/00
Posts: 19129
Loc: Sacramento, CA, USA
Like most people, I first heard of these guys when they hit it big in the late 70's, and I always assumed that they were a "young" band. But I never knew that they had been working at it for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Ocasek
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