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RIP Ric Ocasek 1944-2019

This one hurts! Musician, singer, songwriter, producer, artist and music legend Ric Ocasek has died at 75.

Here is the obit from Rolling Stone.

Let me begin this obit by saying his band The Cars were one of the greatest bands of all time - hands down. They were music video pioneers with their ground breaking music videos, rock legends, performers at Live Aid and 2018 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

When I was a little kid just learning about music, The Cars’ music video for “You Might Think” was one of the early music videos I took a shine to. I thought it was so cool to learn that they were from the Boston area, where I was growing up at the time. That video ended up winning the very first Video of the Year award at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards. 

I soon got into The Cars. Their 1985 Greatest Hits album was one of my faves. The band’s mixture of new wave, synth-pop, and rock was so hooky and infectious. They had countless hits and even after the band’s 1988 breakup, they became a staple of classic rock radio. To this day, so many of their hits are in constant rotation. In the years that followed, I got into many of their albums including The Cars and Heartbeat City.

Its important to note that Ocasek also released several highly underrated solo albums. One of my faves of his was 1986′s This Side of Paradise. “Emotion in Motion” is Power Pop Gold!

He even did some acting, including his cameo as the beatnik in John Waters’ Hairspray.

The Cribs with Ocasek and Dave Grohl

By the 90s alt-rock boom, bands like Smashing Pumpkins (who covered “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight”), Nirvana (who covered “My Best Friend’s Girl” live), Letters to Cleo (who covered “Dangerous Type”), Foo Fighters (who covered “Let’s Go” when I saw them at Fenway Park in 2015) and Nine Inch Nails (who recorded at The Cars’ Synchro Sound studio) embraced their love of The Cars. So it made perfect sense that Ocasek soon became an in-demand music producer. I loved several of the albums he produced, including Weezer’s Blue Album, Hole’s “Gold Dust Woman” and No Doubt’s Rock Steady just to name a few.

In the mid-00s, I helped my good friend Memo Salazar out with a indie music biopic spoof about The Cars he was making with comedian David Juskow. The film Turbocharge: The Unauthorized Story of The Cars was taking The Cars story and telling it as a goofy comedy. I helped out as a crew member and an extra on a few occasions, I even got to act in a scene with Dave Attell when I played his cameraman. Juskow played Ocasek in the film. 

Around 2009, when I was making my documentary about Boston’s 1980s music video TV stations V66, it was important to me to have The Cars represented. We interviewed Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes. I was truly honored to have him in my doc. There is a segment in my doc about The Cars’ popularity on V66 too. Over the years, several Cars fanatics checked out my doc just because of The Cars and Mr. Hawkes. I’ve gotten tweets from tons of hardcore Cars fans who have been super supportive of my doc. 

After Ben Orr passed away in 2000, it was questionable if The Cars would ever reunite, but then it happened in 2011. The reunion album Move Like This was really good. It’s like they hadn’t changed at all in 23 years. Now I am kicking myself for not seeing them on that 2011 tour when I should have. In 2018, the band was inducted into the Rock Hall and they even performed. Nice to see that Ocasek got to be inducted. Here is my piece I wrote in 2018 when they were inducted.

Thoughts go out to Mr. Hawkes and his bandmates at this time. RIP Ric!

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