Jake in the desertMar 13

One of my favorite Cars records, 'Heartbeat City', was released this week in 1984. It's my favorite album from that year. Solid bangers, front to back.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQxo8OvVvJ1UqHvsuYGZXbxYMNPsOORAc

#TheCars #80s #1980s #80sAlbums #80sRecords #80sBands #80sMusic #HeartbeatCity

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@jake4480 Been working on a cover set of Cars songs for #ChicoCA's Bike Races (best party on Earth), but we only have one from HBC: You Might Think. Terrific album, but all the synth and studio work makes 'em really difficult to play live (at least for amateurs high on mushrooms).

We're mostly doing tunes from the debut, plus some other hits.

Mar 13 at 4:11pmWeb
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@n8dly ha! And amazing. My 2nd band in 1997, we basically started as a Weezer/Cars cover band. And both bands are so intermingled. We could do Blue and Pinkerton fully - I think the Cars songs we did were.. Just What I Needed and maybe like, a couple others. But yeah Greg Hawkes' synths are NUTS. And like, yeah, especially on boomers. hahaha
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@jake4480 The synths are tricky and the Elliot Easton leads are 🤯

We got lucky with a lead player who both shreds and is good about doing his homework.

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@n8dly woww so cool. I won a contest years ago and got one of Elliot's picks. We used to follow each other on Twitter. And he sent it in a handwritten envelope! Have it around somewhere.. Will hafta get pics. But yeah, one of my fave guitarists. Huge inspiration. Legendary