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In a band interview, Ocasek said, "I never knew any one Candy-O," to which Benjamin Orr joked, " [You] never told me about it." [2] When asked by Bill Flanagan of Trouser Press magazine if the Candy-O title was a reference to "Ocasek", or "Orr", Ric Ocasek dryly replied, "The O stands for 'obnoxious'."
"All Mixed Up" features bassist Benjamin Orr on lead vocals in the studio version, though Ocasek sang lead vocals on the demo version. The song afforded Greg Hawkes a chance to step away from his many synthesizers and play the closing saxophone solo, the only one in the Cars' discography.
Classic Rock History critic Brian Kachejian rated it as the Cars' 2nd greatest song, describing it as "a combination of Benjamin Orr ’s original-sounding voice, Greg Hawkes ’ fascinating keyboards, Elliot Easton ’s sparkling guitar, and that rock meets dance meets punk groove set up so perfectly in the rhythm section of Benjamin Orr and ...
"I'm in Touch with Your World" features many bizarre sound effects played by Greg Hawkes. Hawkes said, "That was always one of my favorite ones to play live." [1] He continued, "Plus, I figured it'd be fun for people to watch visually." [1] The line "everything is science fiction" was the result of Hawkes mishearing Ocasek's original lyric, "everything you say is fiction"; hence the spacey ...
This Place, This Time: Fans of the Cars leave personal items at Benjamin Orr's headstone in rural Geauga County
Also the Ben-Menashe court case in the US is reported very badly on the article. The American and Israeli governments claimed in court (under oath) that he was a low level Farsi translator with no access to secrets, but his 4 passports showed he had made dozens of foreign trips to Nicaragua, Peru and Poland as well the US every year, his pay slips sent from Israel by some supporters showed ...
He left college to play in various bands, including Martin Mull and his Fabulous Furniture, in which he played flute, saxophone, and clarinet. He also played in a band called Richard and the Rabbits, which included future Cars bandmates Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr. [2]
After another departure from Nugent, St. Holmes co-founded the supergroup Big People in 1999, which also included guitarist Pat Travers, bassist/vocalist Benjamin Orr (The Cars), guitarist/vocalist Jeff Carlisi (.38 Special) and drummer Liberty DeVitto (Billy Joel).