Hi Ric:

Welcome to MySpace.  You're not late, things are only just starting to get interesting now that you're here.

Thank you for your amazing songwriting skills; your music has touched many lives.  I enjoy your poetry and art.  You are truly unique.

peace & take care,

debm

Hi Ric!

Thankx so much for sharing all of those great years with Benjamin you guys were truly an inspiration to a lot of people. UNLOCKED was marvelous I hope you will consider sharing more memories of your musical career ,we truly enjoy it.

Much love and always know were out here listening

Love Dawn-Marie( Orr Zone Lair Manager and founder)

Hi Ric!

I'm so excited to find your post!

 I have loved your music for a long long time (but your lyrics are too difficult for me, because I'm a Japanese not good at English...)

It's a great fun for me to check here. 

Please come to Japan to play again.

Thank you!

Hello,Ric!!

I 'm very excited to find your words here.

I listened to your music which you posted . I love them.Thank you so much Ric!!

Warm sunshine through a clearing after showers and for awhile, the scent of lavender flowers.

Thank you Ric for feeding us.

with kindness,

Susan (smile...)

How Ya Doin ?  I was once a drape.

Peace,

Fletcher Monroe

SLYGUESS
vous aime !

Hey Ric,

Welcome! I saw the Cars in 1986 D2D tour and it was phenomenal. I also saw you at the Paradise on Troubilizing 1997 tour and that was great especially hearing Up and Down. The new DVD is great, BUT wish you had put some other tunes on it like Since Your Gone, Your All Ive Got Tonight, Since I Held You, Its all I can do, oh well, I saw you mentioned b4 that you could do a part 2 on the DVD - All your solo CDs are great and Silver certainly brought a tear to my eye thinking of Ben Orr. Always look forward to a new Ric CD and DAMM I missed your show in Boston last October because was recovering from hip replacement surgery but I tried to go and my wife was ready to kill me cuz it was only a little over a week so anyways another Boston show would be sooooooo great for your next CD which I hope will be out in the Spring. Take Care Ric! Marc

Hello.

Being born in 1990, I never got to see the Cars live, so I must thank you for Unlocked. You got some cool art and deep poetry going on here too. Anyway, thanks for adding me to your friends list.

Rock on.

CR

Hi Ric, 

are you coming to Argentina?.

If you`re not I invite you to come some day

Bye

Emy

Hi:  "all in an endless line waiting for equal time"; "not found...when you look into the scorcher's eyes"; "so i'm filled with hope in a simple way" : thanks for letting the beatitudes seep in and sprout hope, faith, confidence.  I'll keep an eye out for you.

And thanks for the concentrated melodicism and jouissance on "Nexterday"!

Hi Ric,

Saw you at Nintendo yesterday. Hope you enjoyed the day.

Let the good times roll!

Jim

Hey Ric, How ya doing???

I a Massive fan of yourself< Ben and the Cars and have been since the early 80s.

Im English so there isnt much stuff avliable over here.

Ive got your Unlocked DVd, but can only watch it on the computer as its the wrong region.

Love all the other videos(Musikladen, Heartbeat city and 1984/85,) and the music!!

Keep rocking

Hug Jojo

Hi Ric,

   When we were little kids we had Captain Kangaroo,when we were teenagers we had Ric Ocasek and The Cars. It's wonderful that you are still here for us all today. Thank you for 'Unlocked', it's lots of fun. Thank you for adding me to your friends list.;) .   Best Wishes, Colleen.

If RicO is really reading this, I will say these things...I remember the first time I heard a Cars song on the radio in High School...everyone loved the Cars back then.  I started learning to play the guitar right before college in 1981.  I learned to play every song on the Cars albums.  I mostly focused on learning the RicO rythmm parts and I loved your writing style...I learned a few of Elliot's solo's, but most of them were a little beyond my ability. I was inspired by him as a guitarist (especially being a fellow lefty player).  I saw the Heartbeat City tour in Portland Oregon (must have been fall of '83 or spring of '84- it was awesome.  I went with my bandmates at the time, and I remember we tried to get a demo tape to you by giving it to one of the security guards.  Our wet dream (at the age of 20) was that you would listen and be blown away and sign us to a record deal...Looking back on it...the quality of the recording was far from professional (recorded in my parents living room on a cassette using borrowed mikes).  I still think the songs were good, but back then we didn't have access to affordable home recording like now.   I actually have 2 songs posted from that era in my own songwriting from a demo tape recorded in 1985.   The quality is still pretty bad, but I still think the songs are good...as a matter of fact my current band The Treading Lemmings is in the process of reworking those songs.

Thanks for being an inspiration to a generation,  and I'm glad you have a MySpace page (if this is really you....)

hey Ric buddy.gosh you were a fun guy.Thanks for the memories.

vikki

Ric!

You are one of my ALL TIME heroes. My life would not be the same without your music and The Cars. I became a songwriter because of you!  I landed a Top 20 Billboard AC hit in 2005 as a writer. Your writing and influenece on me is deep. I hope to interview you for my nationally syndicated radio show, Retro Rewind someday. It'll be a major moment in my life. Please checkout my songwriting page. My friend stars on "ER" and "American Dad" and he's the one who sang our hit song.

www.myspace.com/grimesharris