#Rest In Peace Ric Ocasek

[dodinaslesavage]

The Cars - Dangerous Type (1979)

R.I.P. Ric Ocasek

[benjamin-orr]

My heart hurts. I cannot believe this is real. Words can’t help but fail me right now. I love you, Ric Ocasek. Your songs will stay with me forever. You changed my life. Rest In Peace.

[mannyblacque]

“Man, I love this shit. They just don’t make them like they used to”.

R.I. P. Ric Ocasek 

[dewitty1]

Ric Ocasek, Singer For The Cars, Dies At 75: Reports

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ric-ocasek-the-cars-dies-reports_n_5d7edd19e4b03b5fc885ca8c

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[the-cosmic-slop]

I know this isn’t Ric Ocasek on vocals,

but who did you think was going to welcome him to his new band?

this is so powerful i can feel my soul leaving my body

[stevienicksrarities]

Rest in peace Ric Ocasek. 🌷

[boobitchcraftt]

Rest In Peace, Ric Ocasek.

March 23, 1944-September 15, 2019

[thetimeoftheseason]

I realize that I’m a few days late, but on September 15th, 2019 Ric Ocasek passed away. The Cars are one of my favorite bands, and hearing about his passing last year was very upsetting for me. I have such fond memories of listening to their self titled album while driving through Colorado with my family, hearing their songs come on the radio as a kid, and receiving Heartbeat City on vinyl as a gift from a friend. Thank you Ric for everything that you’ve contributed to music. Rest in peace

[punk-chicken-radio]

ax trax of the week

the cars - since you’re gone

can’t believe the news that ric ocasek is gone. he was one hell of a musician. rest in peace...

-ax

[omegaplus]

# 3,350

Amityville Veteran’s Hall Record Fair, Winter 2002.

Somewhere in the local newspapers they listed a record fair for a late February Sunday. This was before postings went into full swing on the internet. I been to most Long Island record-stores at this point but never another venue to buy music. No real impetus other than curiosity had me ultimately arrive in my first visit in Amityville other than shaking it up for a change. Luckily for me, I had that Sunday off and there was nothing my manipulative bet-placing managers would do about it. It’s a go.

I enter the hall and pay my entrance to the kind trans-individual manning the cashbox who may or may not have been affiliated with Q104.3 FM, the rock station that was holding it. Five minutes in and maybe two tables deep I see behind me Kenyon, a WUSB dee-jay and journalist whom I met through my other musician “friend” Dede during his band’s nascent stages. Not too far behind Kenyon was a true-punk with a two-foot high mohawk. I knew that mohawk when I saw it. It’s Rick of The Casualties. Both came in with their girlfriends ready to shop but I didn’t even approach them. I simply didn’t want to be bothered. I usually don’t.

A moderate amount of vinyl buyers and collectors arrived to provide some good ambient action and camaraderie in the air. Everyone shooting the breeze and connecting about that one show in ‘85 that their lives peaked at or cock-fighting over record-grading, etchings, and first-pressing information. All the dealers manned one or two tables they paid daily space for with several crates of records ripe for perusing. Stickers affixed on record jackets came in all sorts of fluorescent orange, yellow, and blue dots with pen written on them. Some white ones cut out of corners of other fresh stickers, and those grocery style price-tags with smudgy purple ink printed on them, can’t forget. For the most part, pricing was a non-issue with zero haggling necessary. Take it or leave it.

I see Paul McCartney’s Back In The USSR to kick off the afternoon. This was a record that Bill told me about; a family friend of ours who once owned a movie rental store and considered one of the biggest Beatles fans ever to walk the planet. Back In The USSR, a gift full of covers from Macca to the then-Soviets as part of a world peace-treaty, would once be a Russia-exclusive release until the rest of the world got it a couple of years later. The time never came to see Bill about it as he was tragically beaten, robbed, and murdered the night he closed shop. Speaking of more “friends”, Dede used to enlighten me endlessly of The Smiths so Hatful Of Hollow became my first acquisition of theirs, and about time. It was the one good contribution of Dede’s and that says a lot about a self-centered narcissistic who’s superstar ego put himself over his own.

Around this time I was heavily into to Q104.3 FM due to riding around with my dad. No surprise that influenced my additional purchases I made and why I got Ric Ocasek’s Beatitude, The Who’s It’s Hard, and Carly Simon’s Playing Possum. The afternoon progressed and the finds got better: a picture disc of Eddie Murphy’s Comedian and Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity for $20.00 which was the most I paid for any title at the time. Finally, my first-ever Sex Pistols-related release: Public Image Ltd.’s Live In Tokyo to get that ball rolling for good. A couple of other odds-and-ends came as The Crusaders’ Street Life and my only industrial find of the day: Ministry’s “The Fall” / “Reload” on vinyl which I already had on disc. The only one what-the-fuck moment came when I somehow bought Melba Montgomery’s Don’t Let The Good Times Fool You. What? Who are you? And what is this? Either I had my impulse-buying moment or one of the vendors suggested I try “something new” and went for it. Yeah, went for it I did and I’m out $3.00.

There was only one vendor who sold CD’s at his table at the far back of the hall. Of everything he had, I bought Dinosaur Jr.’s Green Mind and Thurston Moore’s Psychic Hearts. About a half-an-hour to go I was still searching, putting down my stack of records to look for more titles and what do you know? It’s 4PM. Show’s over. I go to the bathroom, wash my hands, grab my stuff and exit the venue. $100.00 well spent. Not bad for a day’s off. To this day, it stands as the one and only time I would ever attend a record fair. Nothing stood out of it over anything I ever experienced at the stores I frequented other than location and the ability to meet many sellers instead of one. But I wouldn’t rule out not going to one again.

30 minutes later I arrive home. I take my purchases out of the bag and then I realized...what did I do with the Dinosaur Jr. and Thurston Moore CDs? Great. Fuck me. I totally forgot about them. I must’ve left them at the hall when I put my stuff down to browse for more vinyl. One of the dealers had kept their mouth shut and said “hey, free music!” or that they couldn’t catch me in time. By then it was too late for them to find who left them there (me).

Paul McCartney Back In The USSR / Cнова в CCCP

Smiths, The Hatful Of Hollow

Ric Ocasek Beatitude

Kraftwerk Radio-Activity

Eddie Murphy Comedian 12” picture disc

Public Image Ltd. Live In Tokyo

Crusaders, The Street Life

Carly Simon Anticipation

Ministry “The Fall” / “Reload”

Who, The It’s Hard

Carly Simon Playing Possum

Melba Montgomery Don’t Let The Good Times Fool You

Thurston Moore Psychic Hearts CD

Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind CD

[weezer]

The whole weezer family is devastated by the loss of our friend and mentor Ric Ocasek, who passed away yesterday. Ric meant so much to us. He produced 3 key weezer albums, Blue, Green and 2014's "Everything...", and taught all of us so much about music, recording and songcraft. But more importantly he taught us that one can be in a respected position of great power and yet be absolutely humble and have the biggest sweetest heart in the industry. Ric was so kind to us, and never faltered or changed a thing either professionally or personally in the 3 different decades we worked with him. When you were his friend, it was for life, and he was always as generous as could be with his time and care. He is the only producer to have worked with all 7 current and past weezer members, and all 7 love and loved working with him and hanging out with him. There is a massive hole in weezer's heart now. We will miss him forever, and will forever cherish the precious times we got to work and hang out with him. Rest in Peace and rock on Ric, we love you. #RIPRicOcasek #weezerfam #karlscorner https://www.instagram.com/p/B2dOSN_HN73/?igshid=fiu99hkb76gy

[aaronbleyaert]

So back in 2002 when I was living in NYC, my best pal Tony Zaret and I were taking a weekly sketch writing class at UCB from Ian Roberts. After every class, for some reason (mostly likely the reason being that McNuggets are fucking delicious) we would go to the McDonald's in Union Square and get food before going back to the Kingdom of Rock in Flatbush (aka our house). At this McDonald's, every single week, we would see Ric Ocasek. Without fail. Every week. For six straight weeks. Now, Ric was an easy guy to pick out of a crowd - and it's a bit of an understatement to say that I, being a 6'3" 276 lb white haired man with a smooth as silk baby face, also stuck out. So, by week three of us seeing each other, all of us knew all of us by sight. We would all see each other and nod and order our food and leave. Being a huge Cars fan, it was super cool. But here's the thing - even though we all exchanged nods every weekend and he CLEARLY recognized me, I was too nervous to actually talk to the dude. Sunday would come and we would all be in McDonald's and we would all see each other and we would all do the nod and I would think "DO IT SAY SOMETHING DO IT DO IT DO IT" and I wouldn't and we would all order our food and then leave. Every week. For six straight weeks. Anyway, the class ended and we stopped going to that McDonald's and I hated myself for YEARS for not saying anything. WHY DIDN'T I SAY ANYTHING. WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME (answer: quite a bit). Cut to something like 6 years later, and I'm at work, rushing from the studio back up to my office, not watching where I'm going, and I almost run into someone. I stop, look up, and start to apologize - and I lock eyes with, you guessed it, Ric Ocasek. I'm shocked. I'm sweaty. I want to say something but the words "I used to nod at you every weekend in a fast food restaurant" feel completely insane. Suddenly Ric cocks his head, smiles, and says "Heeeeeey. McDonald's." AMAZING. Rest in peace, Ric. Your music rocks. And you had great taste in nuggets.

[atomheartz]

well fuck. rest in peace ric ocasek.

[krispyweiss]

Reports: Cars Frontman Ric Ocasek Dead

Ric Ocasek, the rhythm guitarist, singer and songwriter for the Cars, died Sept. 15 in New York, according to multiple media outlets.

There has been no announcement on the Cars or Ocasek’s social media platforms. But friends, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea - who called Ocasek an “interesting, smart, kind, funny man who made incredible records” - have been eulogizing him online.

“I loved those Cars albums when I was a teenager,” he wrote on Instagram. “Perfect pop songs ... absolute candy.”

Ocasek, author of songs such as “Candy-O,” “You Might Think,” “Good Times Roll” and “Night Spots,” was reported to be 75, though many sources list his age as 70. No cause of death was given.

“So sad,” Peter Frampton tweeted. “Such a great writer, singer, player, producer. My thoughts are with his family.”

The Cars released their self-titled debut in 1978 and followed with a string of successful LPs before splintering in 1987. The band - minus bassist and co-lead vocalist Benjamin Orr, who died in 2000 - reformed briefly in 2011 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.

“Sorry to hear about Ric Ocasek,” Billy Idol tweeted.” “RIP. Loved his work with the band.”

Outside of the Cars, Ocasek released seven solo records and was a also a sought-after producer who worked on albums by Bad Brains, Suicide, No Doubt. Weezer and others.

The Cribs called Ocasek “a bona fide legend, who seemed to care as much about our record as we did” and said on Facebook he will be remembered for his “his friendship, his artistry, but most of all for his generosity and kindness.”

Ocasek produced three Weezer records and the band said Ocasek’s death left “a massive hole in Weezer's heart.”

“When you were his friend, it was for life, and he was always as generous as could be with his time and care,” Weezer wrote on Facebook.

“We will miss him forever, and will forever cherish the precious times we got to work and hang out with him. Rest in peace and rock on Ric, we love you.”

9/16/19

[getthatball]

The Cars - You Might Think (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

Because you'll have a hard time finding anything as weird and as 80s as this and rest in peace, Ric Ocasek.

[phroyd]

Rest In Peace Ric!

Phroyd