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The New Cars were a band formed in 2005 by two of the original members of the 1970s/1980s new wave band the Cars. The band was composed of original Cars members Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes, along with vocalist/guitarist Todd Rundgren, bassist/vocalist Kasim Sulton, and drummer Prairie Prince. The band performed the Cars' songs, some new ...
It's Alive! is the only album released by The New Cars.The album features fifteen live tracks, twelve of which are songs known as being performed by the original Cars.The remaining two, "I Saw the Light" and "Open My Eyes", were popularized by New Cars member Todd Rundgren ("Open My Eyes" was originally performed by Rundgren's earlier garage rock group, Nazz).
The Road Rage Tour was The New Cars' first tour, the first time an incarnation of The Cars has toured in seventeen years. VH-1 Classic sponsored the tour, and commercials were aired frequently on VH-1 and its sister channels to draw attention to the tour.
In 2007, Easton and Hawkes joined Todd Rundgren and others to form the offshoot band The New Cars. The surviving original members of the Cars reunited in 2010 to record the band's seventh and final album, Move Like This, which was released in May 2011. [4] Following a short tour in support of Move Like This, the band once again went on hiatus.
Gregory A. Hawkes (born October 22, 1952) [1] is an American musician who is best known as the keyboardist and founding member of the American new wave band the Cars.Hawkes is credited with helping popularize new wave and synth-pop in American popular music as a member of the Cars.
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Ocasek was born in Baltimore on March 23, 1944. [a] [12] His paternal side was of Czech descent, [13] [14] [15] and he grew up Catholic. [16]When he was 16 years old, his father moved the family back to the Otcasek hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, where his father worked as a systems analyst with NASA at the Lewis Research Center. [17]
The band would not release another studio album until Move Like This (2011). Although by 1987, the Cars had reached the heights of superstardom, their last few albums had relied heavily on studio tricks [ clarification needed ] and machines, but this album was an attempt to return to the group's original roots.