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Permalink R.I.P Ric Ocasek

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Strange evening today. My lady and I attended a Cars tribute concert at Darryl's House in Pawling, NY. Halfway through the set, we learned Ric Ocasek of "The Cars" passed away at age 75. So far, death is from natural causes but I'm thinking a broken heart may be a factor. He and his wife of 28 years had recently called it quits.
"The Cars" weren't surf but did have a surf influence.. "Let's Go" by the Ventures and Wailers being the most obvious.
I'm going to miss this guy.
J Mo'

He created some really outstanding music, that's for damn sure.

He produced that Bad Brains LP just perfectly. And of course I love The Cars. Just What I Needed is an anthem!

Daniel Deathtide

Ric was a Baltimore boy and a Czech, like me. He was one of my greatest inspirations for writing music; we even put a Cars driving guitar and hand clap in our song "In the Shadows Shadow". His music was melodic, his lyrics poetic. I will miss him and the hope of any new music from him the most. Let's Go was the song that got me back into wanting to play in a band.

Agree with J Mo' above; he died of a broken heart...

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The Cars have been one of my favorite bands since the first album was released, and I also dig a lot of Ric's solo material.
He might just be my favorite lyricist.
RIP

Deal with reality, or reality will deal with you.

MichaelK7 wrote:

He might just be my favorite lyricist.
RIP

In the "old days" (1978-1984 Big Grin ) I used to pull the album sleeve out of each new Cars album and go through the lyrics with all their imagery and play on words. Definitely my favorite lyricist.

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