Monday, September 15, 2025

Ric Ocasek of The CARS

If Ric_Ocasek was still alive in 2025, he would be 81.

https://www.celebheights.com/s/Ric-Ocasek-53151.html 

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/tallest_rock_musiciansbig_guys.html 

https://www.celebheights.com/tags/240.html Most accounts of him considered him to be the height of 6'4". 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama_(The_Cars_song) - 1980 The video is interesting, but campy. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama_(The_Cars_song)#Music_video , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0anMOaCH1o The video is hardly Cyberpunk, yet seeing the tall and thin Ric Ocasek reminded me of how this could have been a little more like a pre-cyberpunk or pre-matrix type of video. 

Someone of similar size and shape to Ric Ocasek in the 1980s was, William+Gibson, who was gradually working towards his cyberspace stories in the matrix. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/txw7vb/william_gibson_cyberpunk_author_1980s 

https://www.filfre.net/2016/11/the-prophet-of-cyberspace WG might have only been 1 or 2 inches taller than RO. 

https://www.gq.com/story/william-gibson

https://hightimes.com/culture/high-times-greats-william-gibson/ 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/how-william-gibson-keeps-his-science-fiction-real 

Its too bad that they didn't get to work on some kind of a project together.           


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