Elliot Easton

Elliot Easton (born Elliot Steinberg, 18 December 1953, in Brooklyn, New York) played lead guitar and sang background vocals for The Cars. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2085x2080, 926 KB) Elliot Easton performs with The New Cars at the Nokia Theater in Dallas Texas on May 14th, 2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2085x2080, 926 KB) Elliot Easton performs with The New Cars at the Nokia Theater in Dallas Texas on May 14th, 2006. ... In the Gregorian Calendar, December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years), at which point there will be 13 days remaining to the end of the year. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... Lead guitar refers to a role within a popular music band, especially a rock band, that provides melody or melodic material, as opposed to the rhythm of the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... A backing vocalist or backing singer (or, especially in the U.S., backup singer or sometimes background singer) is a singer who sings in harmony with the lead vocalist, other backing vocalists, or alone but not singing the lead. ... The Cars were a popular American New Wave band, fronted by Ric Ocasek, that emerged out of the early punk scene in the late 1970s. ... Music is a form of art that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. ... Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. ...

Easton released one solo album in 1985, Change No Change, featuring songs co-written with Jules Shear. A later band project, Band Of Angels, was formed with singer Danny Malone, and recorded one album, Band Of Angels, which was not released, but selections from which were included in the 1996 CD release of Change No Change. In music, solo means to play or sing alone. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jules Shear is an American singer and songwriter born in Pittsburgh in 1952. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

In 1998, Easton's playing was featured on No Cats, an album from bassist Lee Rocker of Stray Cats fame. He contributed guitar parts for "Rumblin' Bass" and "One Way or Another." According to both Easton and Rocker, the two have known each other since they were young boys growing up in New York. Lee Rocker is a rockabilly double bass player. ... // Formation and rapid U.K. success The Stray Cats are a rockabilly band first formed in 1979 by guitarist/vocalist Brian Setzer (Bloodless Pharaohs/Brian Setzer Orchestra) with school friends Lee Rocker (born Leon Drucker) and Slim Jim Phantom (born James McDonnell) in the Long Island town of Massapequa, New...

Easton then joined Creedence Clearwater Revisited, the modern touring version of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Stu Cook, bassist and co-founder of Creedence Clearwater Revisited. ... Creedence Clearwater Revival, commonly referred to by their initials CCR or simply Creedence, was an American swamp rock band, fronted by John Fogerty. ...

He has also played with Ric Ocasek as a solo artist. Ric Ocasek (born Richard Otcasek on March 23, 1949, in Baltimore, Maryland) is the former vocalist and frontman for The Cars and a producer for several other groups, including Bad Brains and Suicide. ...

Currently, Easton is a member of The New Cars, along with original The Cars member Greg Hawkes and singer/songwriter Todd Rundgren, along with former Utopia bassist/vocalist Kasim Sulton, and Tubes drummer Prairie Prince). In June 2006, the band released a live album, It's Alive!, that includes three new studio tracks. The New Cars, the latest incarnation of The Cars, is a supergroup comprised of Todd Rundgren, Journey/Jefferson Starship/The Tubes drummer Prairie Prince, original The Cars members Greg Hawkes and Elliot Easton, as well as a rotating membership between Meat Loafs bass player Kasim Sulton and legendary bass... The Cars were a popular American New Wave band, fronted by Ric Ocasek, that emerged out of the early punk scene in the late 1970s. ... Greg Hawkes is one of the most influential keyboardists of the new wave era. ... Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948 in Upper Darby, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. ... Utopia was progressive rock band led by Todd Rundgren that was together roughly from 1973 to 1985. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Tubes are a San Francisco-based theatre rock band, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s, known for their live performances that combined lewd quasi-pornography with wild satires of media, consumerism and politics. ... Prairie Prince Prairie Prince is a rock drummer. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (commonly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ...

He is left-handed, and now has his own signature Gibson SG. People who are left-handed are more dextrous with their left hand than with their right hand: they will probably also use their left hand for tasks such as personal care, cooking, and so on. ... The Gibson SG is a popular model of solid-bodied electric guitar that was introduced in the early 1960s. ...

Discography

• Change No Change (1985 Elektra Records, 2006 Re-Release & Remastered)

1. "(Wearing Down) Like a Wheel" (1985)
2. "Shayla" (1985)
3. "Tools of Your Labor" (1985)
4. "Monte Carlo Fights" (1995 Elliot Easton's Tiki Gods)