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Dec 7, 2020 · The guitar solo Elliot Easton recorded for the Cars’ Touch and Go is considered one of his all-time greatest performances, but producer Roy Thomas Baker and Easton’s bandmates weren’t completely convinced when the guitarist first recorded it in the studio.
Sep 16, 2019 · It’s been almost 40 years since the Cars - singer, guitarist and songwriter Ric Ocasek, lead guitarist Elliot Easton, bassist and singer Benjamin Orr, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson - released their self-titled debut album, and roughly 30 since they had their last true hit.
Aug 30, 2021 · The song was recorded for the band’s experimental 1980 studio album, Panorama, and features one of Easton’s most acclaimed electric guitar solos. “It’s one of the solos I get the most compliments about but it was rejected at first,” says Easton.
Actor. Composer. Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Singer and guitarist Elliot Easton was born Elliot Steinberg on. December 18, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the Berklee. College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Elliot joined the hugely. popular, successful, and innovative New Wave synth-pop band the Cars as.
Elliot Easton is an American musician who is best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the American new wave band the Cars. His melodic guitar solos are an integral...
About Elliot Easton. The left-handed lead guitarist for the Cars was born Elliot Shapiro (December 18, 1953; Brooklyn, NY). The Cars were active from 1977 to 1987, but Easton took a break after the best-selling Heartbeat City to record on his own in 1984.
Dec 18, 2023 · Elliot Easton, impossibly tasty guitarist of The Cars and the first real guitar hero of New Wave music, turns 70 today. The Cars’ debut record exploded onto the radio in the summer of 1978, with its perfect single “Just What I Needed.” That means Easton’s tasteful left-handed chops have been uplifting our existence for 45 years.
