Elliot Easton

Elliot Easton

Infobox musical artist
Name = Elliot Easton



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Born = December 18, 1953 (age 54)
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Genre = Rock
New wave
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Years_active = 1978 - present
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Associated_acts = The Cars
The New Cars
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
URL = [http://thenewcars.com thenewcars.com]
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Notable_instruments = Gibson SG
Dean ML

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Early years

Elliot Easton (born Elliot Steinberg, 18 December 1953, in Brooklyn, New York) played lead guitar and sang background vocals for The Cars. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music.

Easton released one solo album in 1985, "Change No Change", featuring songs co-written with Jules Shear. A later band project, Band Of Angels, was formed with singer Danny Malone, and recorded one album, "Band Of Angels", which was not released, but selections from which were included in the 1996 CD release of "Change No Change".

In 1998, Easton's playing was featured on "No Cats", an album from bassist Lee Rocker of Stray Cats fame. He contributed guitar parts for "Rumblin' Bass" and "One Way or Another." According to both Easton and Rocker, the two have known each other since they were young boys growing up in New York.

Easton then joined Creedence Clearwater Revisited, the modern touring version of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

He has also played with Ric Ocasek as a solo artist.

Currently, Easton is a member of The New Cars, along with original The Cars member Greg Hawkes and singer/songwriter Todd Rundgren, along with former Utopia bassist/vocalist Kasim Sulton, and Tubes drummer Prairie Prince. In June 2006, the band released a live album, "It's Alive!", that includes three new studio tracks.

He was featured and played the solo in the Click Five song Angel To You (Devil To Me).

Trivia

Easton shares a birthday with fellow guitarist Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones.

He plays guitar left-handed, and has his own signature Gibson SG.

He also had a Gretsch Signature Model DuoJet.

Discography

* "Change No Change" (1985 Elektra Records, 2006 Re-Release & Remastered)
# "(Wearing Down) Like a Wheel" (1985)
# "Shayla" (1985)
# "Tools of Your Labor" (1985)
# "Monte Carlo Nights" (1995 Elliot Easton's Tiki Gods)


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