The Green Room with Jimmy Vivino with special guest Elliot Easton of The Cars.
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- The style of The Cars, Growing up in the band, How they became known as a Boston Band, The Cars, Where are the Cars from? Getting their music on the radio, Pedals, Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp, The Beatles, The White Album Solo, Layering vocals, How to build a guitar solo, Guitar solos, "Just what I needed", Steve Cropper, Cornell Dupree, Manny's Carwash, George Harrison, The Stones, The Ramones, Roxy Music, Freddie Green, Hal Blaine, Studio Sessions, New Wave Music vs Rock and Roll.
Roy Thomas Baker, Gary Lyons, David Robinson, The Cars, The Beetles, Queen, Dick Tracy, Sweetwater, 30MS Double Tracker, Abbey Road, The Grammy Museum, The White Album, Frank Agnello, Benjamin Orr, Ric Ocasek, Clive Davis, Cap'n Swing, The Band, Taj Mahal, Steely Dan and more on this episode of The Green Room with Jimmy Vivino.
The Cars music never gets old, in large part due to Elliot’s guitar solos.
How many great guitarists are this humble and genuinely open, honest and approachable?
Not many. Elliot is such a personable guy without any pretentiousness.
Not all great guitarists are known...Some do it on their own for their own...
@@StevieZero He's well known among guitar players -
He's "well known" amongst "some" guitarists and it's not what I said...Not all great guitarists are known is what I said...
All the greats actually
eg Tommy Emmanuel, Joe Satriani, EVH, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck etc
The two greatest bands from Boston-------Boston and The Cars. ironically, both of their debut albums are masterpieces!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Boston debut was absolutely, hands down, the best album released in the 70’s, maybe all time. There is not a turd on the whole album. Never get tired of listening to it. The Cars debut album was no slouch either!!!
What an absolutely pleasant man. Always been a big fan. One of the cleanest players I've ever heard. His solos were always so perfect. Way more nuance than you'd expect when you tried to play them. So happy to see him still active and in the game. Great story teller.
The solo in "Touch and Go" is one of his greatest guitar solos. Who other than Elliot is capable of conjuring up such a masterpiece?
Omh,, I just said wat you said!!! Lol
I never tire of repeating that. Absolute creative and exiting.
Elliot's solos are what made the Cars songs so memorable and fun.
Elliot and Greg’s keyboards also part of the unique sound. They are one of my favorites from growing up in the early eighties.
Elliot Easton is one the greatest guitar players of his generation. His solos always brought the song it served to it's pinnacle.
The cars were original and never duplicated. 💪🇺🇸
One of the best interview subjects ever. Elliot is humble, educated, experienced, excited, and transparent. What a refreshing personality. WOW!!!
Thank you.
All The Cars s much same personaly, cool, educated and of course no scandals, drugs or crappy behavior in or out of stage.. There will be no bands to match them, none.😎
Omg, I love this conversation so much. Two greats. Elliot is so amazing.
The Cars were a band that if you want to create it you can't. 5 guys with a great talent and that complemented each other perfectly. And the fact that they had a lead singer who far from being an egomaniac was the sweetest guy on earth I think was the icing on the cake.
Elliot is incredible. Listen to the solo on Just What I Needed, pay attention to what he’s playing. His sense of melody is impeccable. Learn about using 3rds, that is what he did all the time.
Easton is an Extremely underrated guitarist!
Who underrated him? What rating agency?
@@alexnutcasio936 Look at any published "greatest guitarist" list. Crappy Rolling Stone had a new one...plenty of evidence. He is not 'underrated' to me. I can't explain the shortsightedness of others
@@alexnutcasio936Thank you!!
It's clear you are like me and sick to death of every comment section having at least one idiot writing the musician is "underrated".
And, of course, their rating agency is always the dipshits at Rolling Stone. Notice that??
No, he's not underrated, where you been ? In a cave? 😅
@@FELIPEGARCIA-fk6zx Ummmm, obviously not to us. However, ask and average Rock fan and Easton's name will not be in many top10's. I stand by the original comment.
We love you ❤️ Elliot🎸🌹💪⭐🕶️
Thank you for your amazing work ⭐💪🌹🎸🎸🎸🎸👊😎✌️ 💫🌎🚗🚗🚗♥️♥️♥️ 👁️
Love Elliott, down to earth talented dude!!! He was the “ lead” of the Cars.
So true,,the culture is so different from my childhood in 70s 80s ..we had it good people!!! Great presentation
Elliot is such a cool dude. Put a guitar in his hands and the man is deadly--his soloing always lays me out (I'm still trying to do justice to his solo on "Shake It Up"). Catching up with him and listening to the autobiographical details of his career is a lot of fun. Elliot's voice has changed with age and he now sounds like a mellowed Sol Rosenberg.
Love Elliot, his spectacularly unique style of playing, and his memorable leads. I too still have problems trying to get his lead right, but in Just what I Needed. Just playing it makes me happy, no matter how bad I am. Elliot rules.
Ha ha, jerky boys!
He does he sounds like a sweet Jewish watchmaker.
He has always been so cool and so brilliant . Underrated
in my heart he is up there with the best of them.
Elliots solos are ones I hear in my head before I even hear the songs they're from.
Elliot is the ultimate example of somebody who is underrated. all his solos are damn tasty
I love how Elliot has kept his style throughout the years and hasnt done the typical lazy rocker all black with tribal logos look that everyone else has seemingly subscribed to.
The cars were actually cool and for everyone else it was just a "phase".
I start hearing Elliots solos playing in my head, and I have to listen to the songs.
Every time!
@@thegreenroomwithjimmyvivin6877That's exactly it. While so many of his solos are stand alone works of art, they are also perfectly crafted for the song. All Mixed Up, Cruiser, Candy O, Double Life, You're All I've Got Tonight, Good Times Roll, Victim of Love-- and many, many others. They were the perfect solo for the songs for which they were created.
One of my favorite guitarists. He’s so underrated and his name rarely comes up on other favorite guitarist lists.
Incredible guitarist. Incredibly gracious person.
Met him MANY years ago at New Orleans NAMM Show.
It was so nice we spoke about how incredible the show was at the Warehouse New Orleans in the late seventies and how it was so hot "it was like a sauna"
glad to see he is still just a good genuine human being.
Congratulations and thank you for your wonderful career
All the stuff with The Cars was absolutely brilliant.
Your friends Ben and Ric are missed
I found the details on layering backing vocals back in the analog days, quite fascinating. By having all 3 of the backing voices sing in the same key, then repeating the process for each harmony part, what's created is basically a 4th voice (the mix down of the 3 voices) that we hear on all the albums, and on basically all of The Cars music. This "4th voice" is integral to The Cars sound and is very much missed when you listen to the solo projects by members of the group. Also, if we listen closely to those Cars backing vocals, no single voice can ever be distinguished over another, they all blend together seamlessly into one harmonious chorus like no other. I always wondered how this was done. Now I know. Thanks for sharing this behind the scenes production peek. Loved it. ✌❤🎶🤘🎸🎤
Elliott! Pure genius.
Elliot is such an awesome person and guitarist he Rocks! 👍😎🎸🤘
Elliot so talented, thank you.
I was a junior in high school when the Cars came out and it was love at first listen. My band was performing most of thier first album as house band at Fantastic Fenwicks in Charlottesville Va. None of us were old enough to be in there. I've always felt a kinship with Elliot. Still do.
Thank you Jimmy Vivino for giving us a listen to a great interview with the Legend Elliott Easton. It is as much fun to listen to EE’s stories as it is hearing him play!!! He is delightful and loving in each story he tells…Love the stories and Love EE!!! The CARS were no doubt trailblazers and still have a huge following 😎🎶♥️💯
Fantastic interview... Elliot Easton has been a huge influence on me going way back... The first record I heard from them was Candy-O... I was about 13 years old... loved his playing from that moment and still do... 🎸☕
I loved The Cars and think Elliot Easton is a highly underrated guitarist. He belongs in the RRHOF in a category all his own. Got to see him live at a free concert in broolyn ny, back in the mid-late ‘90’s, with Creedance Clearwater Revisited. The show was incredible, as was Elliots shredding guitar licks….’run through the jungle’ was 🔥
Not sure if Elliot would ever see this comment, but I was 9 when you guys blasted on the scene and the effect seemed to be equivalent to the Beatles coming to America. Disco was the rage, rock was lacking, and then the cars came along...holy hell
I wouldn't say rock was lacking. There was the Eagles' "Hotel California", and a certain band founded by Tom Schultz that also put out an epic debut album that included the hit "More Than A Feeling".
@@MisterMikeTexas agreed, but shitty disco was dominating at the time
I’d put Elliot Easton up against any guitar player of the modern era.
Those solos on the Cars songs were just smoking!!
We all just took them for granted.
Eliots solo on Touch n Go is one of the hottest ever!
🤘🏻😁 I'm back that was a great interview !! And well informidable !!
Elliot has always been such a monster player! One of my absolute favorites of all time. I wish I were… A THIRD of the player he is!
Thank you for this great discussion 🎶🎶
Elliot Easton should be rated in the top five Guitar Players ever. Soft spoken but, extremely educated in music. It would be great if Elliot Easton, Gregg Hawks, and David Robinson would get together and produce one more Cars Album.
The Cars! Easy one of 20 best american bands in history. And they live are unbeatable!
So, Elliot Easton: a master! I'm 54 and group up listen The Cars here in Brazil and out of nowhere I just star a new Carsmania in my head, and to me is much better today than in the 80s.
My parents kept me away from learning music and pursuing rock music because rock musicians were all trouble makers and druggies - and then you see guys like Elliott. Amazing player, great guy.
My dad wouldn't buy me a drum set for the same reason. My mom sent me to work with my uncle on the family cattle ranch every day sun up to sundown for $30 a day. Finally purchased my Ludwig kit and ended up playing guitar with several local bands. Lol.
The Cars were one of the tightest live bands I have ever seen. Blew me away. I happened to be in Salt Lake City Utah at a great concert venue called The Salt Palace. I came away with a new appreciation for that band and Elliot Easton specifically.
Fantastic Interview, Great Person, Legendary Guitarist! Can't get enough of the Cars!
I remember hearing My Best Friends girl on the radio and then staying up to hear the complete album at midnight on the local FM rock station. I went out bought the album and put it on a cassette tape so I could play when I went to wrestling camp. I had never heard anything quite like it and was so hooked on it that I hardly listened to anything else. I is still such a fresh sound. I think Elliot's guitar solos are what hooks me in. He is really awesome.
Hi. I was a teenager in the second half of the 70’s in the Boston area. Loved the Cars. First saw them early on in a great lineup - The Cars opening for The Robin Trower Band who I also loved being a Hendrix fan. I think the venue was The Orpheum Theatre in Boston. Thank you! And on another note, I had saved all concert tickets stubs back then. I went the concerts almost every week because I had money from a paper route. But now that I look at them, the torn half I got at the door, half don’t have the band name on them. Tickets were small, cost $7.50 on average and weren’t very well designed. I wanted to make a shadow box of 70’s concerts attended. I caught all the good bands. Bummer.
In my mind Elliot Easton punctuated the sound of the Cars, his soloing and composition of the solos and guitar parts were so set apart, he really is an unsung hero not only of the 80s but just simply a solid meat and potatoes guitar player all around kind of like Neil Giraldo from Pat benatar, who is an amazing guitar player again scorching solos amazing composition, Elliot Easton is badass.
what a great interview. 😀 as a Brit I say The Cars are the greatest American band ever 🎸
God this is great. I love The Cars. When I was young my family would drive to Iowa for X-mas to see grandparents, cousins..allthat. My dad and I would listen to The Cars (and others) late into the night in an old Chevy Nova on a stereo system he had wired out himself. It was magical and The Cars are such an huge piece of those memories. Thank you for the stories about how it all came to be.
That solo is absolutely perfect for that tight arrangement box. Get in, deliver the goods, then get out cleanly, with that flawless ascending double-stop finale.
Perfect.
Elliot Easton! I’m all ears!
This is a fantastic interview. Elliot seems like such a genuine person. He wrote some of the best guitar parts in some of the greatest songs ever!!
What a great interview with one of the greatest underrated guitarist of all time, looking forward to more Vivino interviews
So fantastic to see and hear Genius player and great soul and down to earth person. The Cars first album is superb with leads spot on with the melody !!
I'm with you guys as loving The Beatles and Steve Cropper . What about Larry Carlton with Steely Dan ! Beatles are number #1 in my book. Bad Finger was so talented and had such a tragic ending . Pete Ham was phenomenol as all members were. Danny Kirwan with Peter Green were magical with their expressive melodic playing. Danny's voice was amazing back then." Woman Of A Thousand Years" We can't forget Thirty Days In The Hole / Humble Pie Listen to Steve Marriot's amazing soulful voice. That's Passion my friend. I'm a classic rock and blues guitarist like you guys. Keep it going !
I am a huge cars fan! Elliot maybe does not agree, but I always thought that Elliot should have been given song writing credit on many songs, and also Greg on some. The solo on "Just What I needed" and other Cars songs was critical to their success. Really enjoyed the depth of this interview. Thanks!
Writing /production credit is where the $$ is at and unless you have that, you’re just a performer. Sadly, he didn’t get the recognition he deserved.
They did a concert a small venue in 2012 in the Philadelphia area it really pops on CZcams, especially at the end with his guitar solo the crowd got into it. I recommend you look it up and watch it. I'm from the area Rick says best crowd yet does my heart good❤
The coolest scenario of Elliot Easton is not on stage rocking out to each finely crafted note, it's his shoving off to the studio wearing black jeans tucked into black and white tall Cowboy Boots with graphics of musical notes. Then, loading a Strat or Tele into the back seat of a British Green Jaguar XJ6. The camera now pans to the car's (no pun intended) grill and the symbolism of the finely crafted Roll Royce style grill. (Royalty and Success). A big switch from being a kid visiting music stores and staring into guitar brochures dreaming away...
Such a great conversation.
Hi Jimmy Hi Ellliot, I really enjoyed the interview. i'm from Worcrester (pronounced Wustah) MA. The Cars like BCn were totally Boston. Here iin Worcester, our go to station was totally BCN and that was all definitely all things Boston, and BCN really lays claim to "The American Revolution" of album oriented FM progamming format and the Cars wre there. -I believe Elliots's story of being signed was from the Winter's night Gig The cars played at Holy Cross College in Wustah. Thanks for being so great Elliot. You too jimmy! -doug
Very cool! Enjoyed this! As a huge Cars fan, any interview like this is a treat! Love hearing Elliot play and tell stories. He always is so fun and cool and gives a lot of great background. Interesting stuff and I learned a few new Cars facts too which is awesome. Thanks for having him on! He is such an amazing guitar player. He rocks! 😁😎
This is flat out brilliant. I"ve watched quite a few interviews with Elliot Easton in an effort to understand more about his playing, composition and general knowledge of music and bands. Lots of good videos . . but this. . .tops what I've seen so far. I remember Jimmy Vivino from his days on Conan O'Brien. (Seems he didn't like to wear shoes while leading the house band ) so you know Jimmy is going to conduct a solid interview based on his own musical chops and experience. Elliot is so generous with his time and willingness to share his craft. I've always been intrigued with how he came up with his solos on CARS songs. Now, thanks to his precise definitions, I get it. Well done Jimmy. And thanks to Elliot Easton. . .truly one of the finest guitar players in modern music. Watching this was a treat.
I absolutely playing with both of these wonderful musicians and friends.........
We need a part 2. Pure gold!
This was a great interview with a guitar legend. Loved it.
Elliot's leads were always so amazing and their debut album is one of the finest freshman efforts ever! Thank you for this informative and wonderful interview!
I love the Easton always shouting out Grateful Dead.
Great show, Jimmy! I ❤Elliot!
So, so good! Love EE and his interviews. Huge Cars fan here. Love listening to him talk, tell stories and play. Yay! This was great! Looking forward to Part 2! Rock on EE!
Great interview - so good to hear from this brilliant musician - thank you!
Oh Elliot..i love him. Elliot is a fine guitarist so gentleman and humble man . Elliot is my fav , after to Ben , of course 😊
Elliot , i love you ❤
Elliot!! Your Cars lead compositions were equal to the best of the Fab Four (and I was blessed to be around for both).
Just listened to Double life ....love is reverbed guitar cool lonely sound, and the solo is great. Hes definitely a cut above a lot of the big dogs.
Love this podcast! Great discussion. Love to hear Elliot tell his stories. In each telling, something new is revealed. Insightful questions Jimmy Iovino and a whole lot of fun! Thank You!
Thank you Mary 🙏
Glad you enjoy it!
Genius guitar player ! One of my Favorites back in the 80's and still trying to get his sound. Thanks Cheers.
The solo on Shake it UP is one of the best ever! His solo album cowrittern with the grear Jules Shear is a gem
One more comment, I agree that Elliot's crafted solos were so impeccable all the time. Totally George Harrison way to play with the melody with nothing frivolous at all. " The Best" Donald Fagan of Steely Dan was one of my favorite writers also. As Elliot stated ,we learned all about "the hook" as bringing the listener into the transition giving the song magic. Example:Bye Bye Love with the late great Ben Orr singing sexy and passionately. Awesome !!
Love it very informative and just the history on influences etc ..
We appreciate it JTC! 😎
Thank you very much!
@@ellioteaston your one of my biggest influences on guitar .. and Jimmy V is a great friend and mentor to me
“You can’t tear something down from the outside”-truth by Jimmy Vivino
Under 500 views? Legends ...should have way more!!!!! Thanks for doing these videos Jimmy and Elliot
We are just getting started! Please share GC. 🙏
I hum his solos out lout all the time; they're so damned catchy and brilliantly played. I don't do that with many other guitars. Eddie, Edge and Elliot.
Wow- that was awesome. Thank you Jimmy, and Elliot!
Great exchange with Elliot talking about Iphone addicted kids. You guys live to play and enjoy being with other musicians and lots of fans. Sad that the younger generation is missing out on so much.
He was playing those first Cars solos at age 23.
What made the Cars sound like a New Wave band were the tight arrangements; the self-possessed, almost cynical vocals; the icy, clinical keyboard sounds; and the soulful leads by Easton in contrast to the rest of the mix.
Best first alblum Ever. Still sounds ridicous fresh ..even though have listened and played it 1000's times
So fabulous- love you guys! ❤️🎼❤️
Jimmy, such a great conversation with one of my all time favorite players, EE. Asking all the best questions, I was getting stressed as time was running out. I’m so glad and can’t wait for part 2! I’d really like to know if Rik played many rhythm parts on the records or was it all EE bounced down?
AWESOME 👌
THANKS AGAIN JIMMY 😊
Jimmy, great fun to see you in your element. Excellent show, thanks.
Just found you - as a long time guitar picker and professional grinner , I'm all about your content - You are very good at this - you're very relatable - and you ask smart questions - Thanks -
you got a fan in the stable yard on the backside of Churchill Downs
Fun interview
That was the most nerdy, geeked out interview with guitar players I've ever seen. I loved it!
If you're not a guitar player, you might want to just move along 🤪
What a great interview❤
Awesome interview thank you
EE is a monster, a humble, down-to-earth monster.
Great…Great interview
Just wow!!
Very interesting, thank you!!
Great show Jimmy and Eliot...
Bloomfield Cropper Dupree...
I know we're in good company...
The best interview in my opinion of a rock star; LA college of music, Let’s Talk Music withe guest Joe Walsh. A guy name Native Wayne did the interview. After he asked the question you never heard him until Joe was completed finished answering no matter how long his answers were. Respectfully
A guitarist who GETS IT. Wise composition --- chief above chops....more miles per umphs.
"The Fab Faux", what a brilliant sense of humor! This interview is so important to me!
Rock On!!!
MaybeImAmazed100 asked:
Elliot: I heard that your solos on the first album were recorded in something like a day and half. Is that true and were all the solos already written?
Elliot will answer asap...
Yes, I did all the guitar parts for the 1st Cars album in a day and a half. All the solos were already prepared except for "Doncha Stop", which was improvised on the spot.