Dropping Like Flies

[hutch]

2011

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-cars/2011/930-club-washington-dc-43d3cf5b.html

[vansmack]

Me and Phoebe Cates are going to pour one out for Rick tonight....

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The Cars actually played the 930 a few years ago...

Wasn't that with todd rungrun on vocals
at the time $85 seemed steep, now that's normal concert price

[hutch]

The Cars actually played the 930 a few years ago...

Wasn't that with todd rungrun on vocals
at the time $85 seemed steep, now that's normal concert price

No way, it was with Ocasek

T went


Orr was long dead though of course

[kosmo vinyl]

Me and Phoebe Cates are going to pour one out for Rick tonight....

Judge Reinhold beat you to it...

[Space Freely]

I was once in line behind Ric at a record store, and he had a stack of CD's in hand. Madonna, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, and a bunch more I don't recall. I think it was Newbury Comics in Boston, but I'm not sure. I also saw him a second time somewhere, either in NYC or Boston again, I don't recall. I liked to Cars. Always thought he married well. That's all I have.

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The Cars actually played the 930 a few years ago...

Wasn't that with todd rungrun on vocals
at the time $85 seemed steep, now that's normal concert price

No way, it was with Ocasek

T went


Orr was long dead though of course

2011....only 10 shows and 930 got one of them
would have liked to have caught that
was in the process of moving back to DC, so couldn't have swung it

Didn't realize that Orr had sung some of these gems:"Just What I Needed", "Let's Go" and "Moving in Stereo"  Always thought they were sung by RO
(so the Fast Times ref technically is not accurate ...co-written by Ric Ocasek and the band's keyboard player Greg Hawkes, and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr. ) 

just stumbled across a demo with Ric singing Moving in Stereo https://youtu.be/cX-MOsg99jw made in his basement in 77 with just Hawkes

[hemisphire]

The Cars actually played the 930 a few years ago...

Wasn't that with todd rungrun on vocals
at the time $85 seemed steep, now that's normal concert price

No way, it was with Ocasek

T went

Orr was long dead though of course

I went to that as well.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/in-concert-the-cars-at-930-club/2011/05/24/AFJV4bAH_blog.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4iqhXc-XY

You might be thinking of this:
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-new-cars/2006/filene-center-at-wolf-trap-vienna-va-1bcd8954.html

[challenged]

Me and Phoebe Cates are going to pour one out for Rick tonight....

probably the wrong verb choice re: phoebe...

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Me and Phoebe Cates are going to pour one out for Rick tonight....

probably the wrong verb choice re: phoebe...

Wouldn't it be: Phoebe and I are planning to pour one out for Ric (and Ben) tonight for his (their) contribution to an iconic scene

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I'm sad about Ric, that debut album is soo good, what a catalog of just amazing songs they have

but the number of people who have talked about their love for him did one of two things:
called him RicK
or quoted a Orr sung song as their favorite Ric song: Drive, Moving in stereo, Just what I needed and Let's go

I do recall Orr doing Drive and always thought that was a one off kind of thing
but when most people (myself included) think of the Cars...they (incorrectly assume) that Ric did all the vocals
I hope people learn that Orr sung most of those classics they are attributing to Ric
Now Ric did write almost every song...so they are not totally wrong to attribute it to him

[hutch]

Problem is their voices sound similar


Orr has a bigger role at beginning but it diminished and Ocasek took over

[challenged]

Me and Phoebe Cates are going to pour one out for Rick tonight....

probably the wrong verb choice re: phoebe...

Wouldn't it be: Phoebe and I are planning to pour one out for Ric (and Ben) tonight for his (their) contribution to an iconic scene

It was something along the lines of: rubbing one out to the image of Phoebe, while remembering Ric and the band's contribution to that iconic scene.

[vansmack]

Ric died naturally of heart disease...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2e8mMWB2Ft/?igshid=bbexzha1xdk6

[shemptiness]

Cokie Roberts