Cars' Ric Ocasek on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Missing Benjamin Orr

. It’s the town where he learned to love music and first met his future Cars bandmate Benjamin Orr. It’s the first place he ever played his songs in front of an audience. And on April 14th, he’ll go back there to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “It’s kind of a whole beginning and end,” he tells us by telephone, “although I don’t think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the end, but it’s a long journey that vaguely started in Cleveland and vaguely comes to some resolve in Cleveland again.

Cleveland is pretty dear to me since it was a launching pad for a lot of things. The first time I ever saw the Velvet Underground was in Cleveland. I went to a party at somebody’s apartment with the Velvet Underground. La Cave was a great new-music kind of place in the 1960s. Ohio was good for that. Back then, it was wonderful. Of course, the 1960s were a very vibrant time anyways. Everything was going on between 1963 and 1969 or something. It was pretty exciting.

It’s funny. Before all this, I was planning on writing a record this year. I don’t know whether I would have put it out myself or asked the Cars to come along. We all live far from each other. I don’t know. Maybe so. Maybe this will be a good reason to do it again, though I really miss Ben as part of the thing. As much as I want it to be the Cars and I love everyone so much in the Cars, without him it just feels different. It feels different.He was certainly my closest friend.

He will always be Emotion in Motion forever.

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