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Article: Ric Ocasek.(Concert Review)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- October 3, 2005
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(CBGB: 285 capacity: $15)
Presented inhouse. Band: Ric Ocasek, Catherine Culpepper, Harold Griffin, Ted Casterline, Aaron Carroll, Shawn King. Reviewed Sept. 29, 2005.
Former Cars frontman Ric Ocasek recently ended an eight-year hiatus from recording with "Nexterday"--released on his own Inverse label--and, true to form, decided to support it with two shows, the first of which took place at this endangered punk mecca CBGB. Backed by the members of the Hong Kong--a New York-based power-pop band also signed to Inverse--Ocasek delivered a set that was, much like his earlier band efforts, at once affable and distant.
Rather than try to force-feed ...