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[Troubadour]

I don't know if any of you have heard this, but it's David Gray and Annie Lennox with "Full Steam". They performed it on Children In Need on Saturday night, and I loved it straight away. (All proceeds from the sale of this song go to CIN.) I was going to post that live performance, but I watched the official video on youtube and thought it was fantastic. So classy! Enjoy.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvxyDgqxmM[/ame]

[Maleah]

I like to look on youtube for acoustic covers of songs and I ran across this guy accidentally last night. I absolutely LOVE him! He's from Liverpool/London,UK and I guess just formed a band called Lawson. Anyway, this is his cover of Eric Clapton's "Change The World." He also has covers of Marvin Gaye's "Heard It Through The Grapevine," Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," and others. I love his voice and he's adorable

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrnFnVdhtj0[/ame]


ETA: I should probably add that his name is Andy Brown lol

[EasyFeeling]

Wow, he sounds really cool I like that.

A month or two ago I came across these older concert videos from a Toto tour in 1990 in Europe, Paris. I always liked their music but when I saw these video clips I was stunned

Steve Lukather's vocals, the feelings he put into the songs... incredible. The piano intro here is so emotional. Every time when I watch this I don't notice anymore what happens around me, I'm mesmerized

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epqQvQfyubc[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eduD6BqDI-Y&feature=related[/ame]

[TimothyBFan]

Most of you here know that The Cars and Benjamin Orr is one of my all time favorite bands. To be honest never paid much attention to what Benjamin or the other members did before becoming the Cars. Recently started looking into it and found out that Benjamin and Ric Ocasek had a couple of other bands before. One was called Milkwood which put out one album called How's The Weather in 1972 and then later with Cars guitarist had a band call Cap 'N Swing.

Anyways been listening to some of the Milkwood music, Benjamin sang lead on, and I think some of you here may really like it. It's kinda folksy, CSN like.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjn8WB14m1Y[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDXKZxaqxgQ[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CodUa5iKfJ8[/ame]

[TimothyBFan]

In the Rock N Roll birthday thread PM was saying that she hadn't realized that "my Car", Benjamin Orr, had sung a couple of her favorite Cars songs instead of the other lead singer Ric Ocasek. I remembered this thread and thought I'd add a few for her to check out. As you can see, the last stuff I posted in this thread was some of Benjamin's pre-Car stuff.

Everything You Say
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7PWMeaqkZU[/ame]


Not only is his voice amazing in this but his bassline also.
Moving In Stereo
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o_JNTPs--Y[/ame]

Oh my.....
All Mixed Up
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDnvHZO3zSg[/ame]

Their most popular song ever.
Drive
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbTjzZzfR7w[/ame]

I know I've posted this before but this is my all time fave vid of theirs-Benjamin's is so frickin' sexy and very very stoned by the look of his eyes.
Just What I Needed
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPh-EgH65M[/ame]

This was his very first solo hit (only had 2) from his one and only solo album. Unfortunately he was in the process of getting music together for his second one when he discovered he had the pancreatic cancer. I am lucky enough to have a bootleg of what he had done till he was forced to stop recording. To date, it has never been released tho there is still talk that it could happen.
Stay The Night
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwWTLREMpTc[/ame]

And here is the other hit off of that solo album. For a bass player with rhythm, he doesn't dance worth crap. Extremely 80s! Yikes!
To Hot To Stop
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RQYWC1JzTg[/ame]

I'm also posting this one even tho Benjamin didn't sing the lead here. This song just cracks me up live. Watch keyboardist Greg Hawkes (a friend of mine of Facebook-just had to add that-he's such a sweetie!) doing all the strange sounds in the video. He's great!
In Touch With Your World
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmGkuiC9hM4[/ame]

[Prettymaid]

Thank you Willie! I'm only home for lunch right now but I will be watching these ASAP!

[Brooke]

Thanks for these Willie! I've always loved the song Drive and never knew The Cars did it! See there? This is an educational site-I learned something new today! lol

And Benjamin is beautiful! I did not know how good looking he was. Those cheekbones in Just What I Needed?! Swoon!

(Don't worry Glenn, you're still my main man, but hey!)

[TimothyBFan]

For lack of a better place to put this. This greeted me this morning when I brought up my Facebook. It's a picture of the 4 remaining original Cars in the studio working on something. Taken just days ago! How freakin' exciting is this? Supposedly they are getting ready to put out a new remastered Heartbeat City to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album that will include 2 never released songs sung by Benjamin. But this looks as if they are working on something more!!! Dare I hope it's a new Cars album, albeit without Benjamin but this is better than nothing!


Left to right--Ric Ocasek, Greg Hawkes (keyboardist usually), David Robinson (drums and who hasn't been in the music business for years now) and Elliot Easton (guitarist-but looks as if he's playing bass here?).