Cars Guitarist Talks Reunion
Elliot Easton reveals how the reunion came about
A few years ago a Cars reunion would have been unthinkable. Following keyboardist Greg Hawkes and guitarist Elliot Easton's decision to form The New Cars and replace Ric Ocasek with Todd Rundgren. However, six years later all four surviving original members of the band are back together for a brand new album.
In a new interview with Music Radar Easton has revealed a little more about how the reunion came about.
"My recollection of things is that I felt that a good amount of time had passed, and I hadn't spoken to Ric in a while," the lefty guitarist recalled. "So one day I just picked up the phone to call an old friend, you know? Ric and I chatted, and it was nice. I asked him what he was doing, and he said he was writing songs. He said they were kind of different from other things he had written before, but he was very excited. I asked him what he was going to do with the songs, and he said, 'I'll probably make another solo record.' So I said, 'Why don't we make a Cars record?'"
Easton says the off-the-cuff joke turned into the real deal shortly thereafter.
"I guess he thought about it for a few weeks and called around to David Robinson and Greg, and everybody was up for the idea. Suddenly, it was like, 'Yeah, let's do that!'"
The Cars' brand new studio album, Move Like This, is released on 16 May.