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AFlowerKingCrimson 
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 Posted: September 15 2019 at 21:59 |
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RIP Ric Ocasek. Yep, I just heard this too(saw it on a classic rock and prog facebook group). Sad news and a rough week for rock artists.
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AEProgman
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Posted: September 16 2019 at 06:04 |
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RIP Ric. Just got into them over the past year.
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kenethlevine
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Posted: September 16 2019 at 17:40 |
this was a shock to me! Given their projected punk-ish pedigree, it could have almost been scandalous that he was as old as he was at the time, but I never remember hearing that. I even wonder if his age may have been fudged back in the day. I remember they made a big deal of Debbie Harry being 30 years old when Blondie broke in 1976. I just checked and she is only a bit younger than Ocasek was I disliked them initially because they were part of the movement that pushed aside prog and folk in the late 1970s, but reappraised them years later as being masters of the hook, particularly on that first album
Edited by kenethlevine - September 16 2019 at 17:42 |
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Prog Sothoth
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Posted: September 16 2019 at 18:04 |
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^Plus they had some real talent. Elliot Easton's knack for perfect guitar solos was something to behold. Songs like "Bye Bye Love" and "Just What I Needed" had these solos so carefully crafted, to an extent that most seasoned session players wouldn't have come up with something as professional sounding, that you could tell that he was a Berklee dude.
Funny enough, Panorama was one of my first non-Beatles related LP purchases. "Touch and Go" was being played a lot at the time on the radio (surprisingly enough), and I loved that cool looking guitar one of the guys was sporting on the back cover. Hey, I was young and that sort of thing mattered to me! Soon after that, my older teenage cousin introduced me to the debut, and yeah, became a total fan after that.
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Finnforest
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Posted: September 16 2019 at 18:09 |
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^^ Ken, speaking of pushing aside folk, did you know that Ocasek and Orr, the two older Cars, were a folk-duo in the early '70s before doing Cars? The band was called "Milkwood" and it's not bad: Edited by Finnforest - September 16 2019 at 18:09 |
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Finnforest
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Posted: September 16 2019 at 18:12 |
Right you are my friend....Easton is awesome. The "Touch and Go" solo gets me every time.
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kenethlevine
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Posted: September 16 2019 at 18:16 |
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^not bad at all, thanks Jim! Apparently Debbie Harry was in a folk group in the 1960s called "Wind in the Willows"!
yeah Cars were talented. The guy on the radio this morning said that they came out of the gate fully formed as the CARS. That first album was like getting the greatest hits package immediately :) I remember some neat synth solos in there too |
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Finnforest
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Posted: September 16 2019 at 18:35 |
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^ And "masters of the hook" was a great way to peg them. And the hard edge to that first album. Yeah, it's pop, but it also has this hard sheen to it that elevates it.
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Prog Sothoth
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Posted: September 17 2019 at 06:55 |
Yeah, I haven't played that album in ages but I remember that solo so well. I really should spin Panorama again, only the first two tracks have stuck with me through the years, though it's a good time when I do play it.
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octopus-4
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Posted: September 17 2019 at 07:05 |
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I love Candy-O. But I also have Ocasek's first LP which I still spin sometimes.
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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kenethlevine
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Posted: September 17 2019 at 09:49 |
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My mom, who didn't know from the Cars, had absconded with the Candy O cover from the second hand shop she worked at, and she put it up on her wall!
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: September 20 2019 at 07:14 |
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I just read on Wikipedia that Ric Ocasek of The Cars has died at the age of 75.
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AZF
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Posted: September 20 2019 at 09:45 |
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Ex-Pink Fairies and original Motorhead guitarist Larry Wallis has died.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/motorheads-original-guitarist-larry-wallis-died-2549936 |
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Tapfret
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Posted: September 24 2019 at 12:05 |
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RIP Sid Haig, actor and native of my hometown of Fresno, Ca.
Horror movie staple. Probably best known in the mainstream as the judge in Jackie Brown. Best known in the horror world as Captain Spaulding from "House of 1000 Corpses" and "Devils Rejects". Edited by Tapfret - September 24 2019 at 12:10 |
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Finnforest
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Posted: September 24 2019 at 13:10 |
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RIP Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead family.
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Posted: September 24 2019 at 19:22 |
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Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right. - RIP RH
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Atavachron
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Posted: September 24 2019 at 22:07 |
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One of the great lyricists. |
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Finnforest
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Posted: October 05 2019 at 11:36 |
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A lovely farewell piece for Rik Ocasek from his family... |
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AZF
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Posted: October 06 2019 at 04:40 |
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And now Eric Clapton is the sole survivor now.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/tributes-paid-creams-ginger-baker-died-2554354 RIP Ginger Baker |
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Posted: October 06 2019 at 05:08 |
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