Ric Ocasek, New Wave Rock Visionary and Cars Co-Founder, Is Dead at 75

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Ric Ocasek, New Wave Rock Visionary and Cars Co-Founder, Is Dead at 75

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  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    Major loss

    genius.  Great singer/songwriter/producer
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,489
    Damn
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    I loved The Cars: part of the soundtrack of my teens. 

    Plus, who can’t help the lovely entangling of Phoebe Cates and Moving in Stereo?

    RIP, Ric. 
  • lexicondevil
    lexicondevil Posts: 2,245
    So glad I got to seem them, though only once. The crowd was lame, but the band were tight. No one sounds like The Cars and no one ever will. Rest easy, Ric.
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,124
    One of my neighborhood friends was a few years older than me and had me listen to their first album.  I was probably only 11 or 12 but I remember being fascinated with the pictures on the record sleeve.  I had been recently turned on to KISS so they were drastically different.  I still have that album that I bought in 1979 or 1980.

    I didn't care much for Heartbeat City (1984) and anything after that but their first album is up there with any debut album.
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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,223
    First band i saw Live.

    RIP Rick Ocasek
  • pearljammr78
    pearljammr78 Posts: 1,613
    I’ll admit it since no one else is. Drive is an awesome song. Never got into the rest of the songs. But I just rock out 80’s style to Drive. Every time. The Deftones cover is awesome too. 
    Peace,Love and Pearl Jam.
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,862
    cutz said:
    First band i saw Live.

    RIP Rick Ocasek

    Same for me
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,683
    Dude produced bad brains 'rock for light'.... enough said...good life. Thank you.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,639
    About 12, maybe 15 years ago, a woman stopped me on the street and said, "Has anyone ever told you you look like Ric Ocasek?"  Must have been the hair at the time, the nose, the thin face maybe.  Anyway, I said, "No way, I'm not that cool."  Ric was though.

    Very sorry to see him go.  R.I.P Ric Ocasek.
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a29085514/the-cars-ric-ocasek-letters-to-cleo-kay-hanley-tribute
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,862
    dankind said:
    https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a29085514/the-cars-ric-ocasek-letters-to-cleo-kay-hanley-tribute
    WCOZ reference!
    Nice tribute, Kay is great.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • nycmale
    nycmale Posts: 258
    Sad news. Has Pearl Jam ever covered any Cars song in concert? 
  • manitouman
    manitouman In My Head Posts: 1,088
    Damn, RIP
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