#ellioteaston

Here’s my shot of Elliot Easton of The Cars at the World Premiere of Netflix's "Your Place Or Mine" at the Regency Village Theatre. @ellioteaston #ellioteaston @thecars #thecars #bostonmusicscene @netflix #netflix @westwoodvillage @yourplaceormineofficial #yourplaceormine (at Fox Bruin Theater) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoaVeXXvdS4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Yesterday, I found 10 minutes to stop in at a favorite record haunt and find this—a syndicated radio show from the 80s all about the Beatles, hosted by the late New York radio legend Scott Muni. He famously became pals with the Beatles when they first came to America and he was on AM radio (pretty sure it was WINS, which was pop radio back then; this is all waaaaay before I was even alive) and was a revered fixture on the city’s airwaves until his passing sometime in the 1990s I believe. Anyway, few bands understood the concept of the pop song as balance of invention, structure and melodic form as well as the Beatles—but you could put Boston’s own The Cars in that category, too. That group’s songs were as sleek, engineered and muscular as the band’s name suggests. So when I found this radio show on vinyl, my digging for the day was done—those two bands together, along with “the professor” as host, was an instant “must-grab.”

The Cars • Candy-O (Gamma, 1979) #thecars #ricocasek #greghawkes #davidrobinson #ellioteaston #benjaminorr #albertovargas #roythomasbaker #nowspinning #mysonicarchive #rockandrolllegacy #vinyligclub #vinyligcommunity #vinyljunkie (at Mexico City, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLkXrfrseHt/?igshid=9el3a2qj8mu5

#heartbeatcity #thecars #ellioteaston #benorr #greghawkes #davidrobinson #ricocasek #andytopeka #robertjohnmuttlange #nigelgreen #mikeshipley #georgemarino “this is 80’s pure pop record” the fair lights are a-blasting on this wonderful album. This album had such great fun videos #helloagain directed and makes an appearance by #andywarhol #drive ( biggest Car’s single) by Timothy Hutton everything about this album is so 80’s with the great production of Mutt Lange - to the Album cover design of drummer David Robinson - love the hits - #youmightthink - sad that both Ben and Ric and Ben are no longer here - however we do have this great pop records Enjoy! (at Hollywood Hills) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJXLyb0lC-6/?igshid=18wa1gkkk0yf6

When I left NYC last week I could only take one guitar that might get destroyed under the plane in baggage - it wasn’t gonna be my ‘59 Les Paul Junior so it had to be my ‘89 Kramer Baretta! But ya know what - it’s a pretty solid axe. I had my guy in NL fix her up & screw down that silly Floyd Rose tremolo and - Voila! I used this & my ‘68 Tele on tour with Company Of Wolves in 1990...and in the video for “The Distance”! (Find it on YouTube.) PS - When I got this at the Kramer factory in Neptune, NJ I refused to have a neck w/ the “hockey stick” headstock & requested their Elliot Easton neck, (the “E.E.” Pro 1 - ya know, the guitarist from The Cars!) Its great!! —————————— #Kramer #Baretta #ElliotEaston #neck #CompanyOfWolves #TheDistance #Video #1989Style #FloydRose #Tremolo #OneGuitar (at Goes) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-UNrG0Hm35/?igshid=112qcvr09eqy

The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll: #thecars - #greghawkes #ellioteaston #benjaminorr d. 2000 #ricocasek d. 2019 and #davidrobinson Music critic Robert Palmer described the Cars' musical style: "they have taken some important but disparate contemporary trends—punk minimalism, the labyrinthine synthesizer and guitar textures of art rock, the '50s rockabilly revival and the melodious terseness of power pop—and mixed them into a personal and appealing blend. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7xOnBiFykN/?igshid=1p4mgs1ctqkq2

Norm and Lemmo with the amazing #ElliotEaston at the #NAMMshow! #NormansRareGuitars (at Anaheim Convention Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Zm3uUHEUQ/?igshid=1r43df05unuc1

Southpaw City! #jimihendrix #paulmccartney #ellioteaston #electricguitar #rock #rocknroll #rockandrollhalloffame #music #guitarists #guitarplayer #electricguitar #guitariste #guitarplayers #guitarlegends (at Winter Park, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6T1iP3HZGp/?igshid=1ou3g7v237qzt