The Cars performed September 28, 1979 Follow us on Social Media: / themidnightspecialtvshow / themidnightspecialtvshow / themidnightspecialtvshow / tmstvshow
Awesome song from an amazing band, The Cars had terrific albums and performed even better live. Thank you, The Midnight Special for keeping this treasure.
The Midnight Special, was the place to be to watch the best rock bands. It was worth staying up for on Saturday nights. I miss these times most definitely.
Love the tapping technique being used by EE. Of course, I was fortunate to see EVH do it live in 1980. Even though a big fan of The Cars, I never got to see them in concert. Great guitarist in a really great band. RIP Ben and Ric.
Elliot had an amazing solo in "Take What You Want" from the Musikladen concert. At least 2 minute solo where he worked some magic. I was hooked before that but dayum. Also Greg gets a guitar and jams with Elliot as well! LOL I love how Greg is so quirky. And they performed hungover too. David Robinson doesn't even remember it.
I've always loved Elliot's solo on this track. All of his solos are terrific. Eddie Van Halen was a master tapper. The earliest tapping I've seen is from Steve Hackett in Genesis in the early 70s.
The Midnight Special, once again you did!!! Thank you sooo much for keep uploading more performances by The Cars!!! At this point, I don't know how many performances of theirs are missing but please keep uploading more of The Cars!!! And thank you very much!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
@@CraigHollabaugh And they sounded so good even people who didn't like new wave still played their albums. Really really loud. I think the first time I heard their first album was on Cerwin Vegas at a party.
Ric Ocasek, at one time, wanted to be an HVAC installer. But he was so cool that, when he put in the air conditioning, the pipes kept freezing. So he had to become a rock star instead.
One of my favorites by this innovative and awesome band who were still a pretty relatively fresh band in 1979. Interesting that Rick and Elliot are both using Dean guitars too.
I saw The Cars first and second tours and the one thing that does not transfer over well on any of the videos I have seen is how powerful they are live. Saw them in Louisville on the Candy-O tour just to see how Elliott was playing that riff in this song (no RU-vid then, heh).
Not many could pull off wearing red boots on stage but Ben Orr did and looked cool AF, lol I got the see The Cars in Denver in the summer of 79 with about 3 other bands and they were the top for me. Honestly i don't even remember the other bands, i was pretty high at the time, but i think Heart was in there, ha.
This is very close to the track on Candy-o. Ric would change up the lyrics as Long Blonde Hair, Curly Hair, Long Black Hair in different live versions like Musikladen.
The interesting thing is to observe the evolution of the audience throughout the 70s. At first, most of the time, the public was very shy and in 1979 the public was already participating more.
I don't remember this song from the VH-1 broadcast. This is the one they left out, I think. He had that Eddie Van Halen tapping thing going on in that.
@@Bonnev-jt8hl no interaction with the audience not even an acknowledgement went home shit I just traveled 60 miles for this I could of stayed home and listened to the album
Most musicians look like douchebags when they wear sunglasses on stage. There are a few notable exceptions. Ric Ocasek is one such exception. There’s something unpretentious about him and the few who pull it off.
