Three Tune Tuesday With The Cars and a Silver Guitar Pick!

Here we are again on another Tuesday, they seem to sneak up on me faster and faster each week. I've not been as active this week as some health reasons slowed me down a bit, but welcome to life! Today before we dive into any music I wanted to share a really cool item I saw recently and would love to own one. Alas, they are sold out everywhere!

APMEX.com

The other day I saw this really cool poured silver one Troy ounce guitar pick that fits perfectly for Three Tune Tuesday. So I had to go ahead and add in in here! It's produced by Shiny Bars and it is hand poured silver, an art that is slowly disappearing from the world sadly. I did see this on APMEX, but they had none in stock and I couldn't find any on eBay at the time. It wouldn't be useful to play with at one solid ounce of silver however, but it sure looks cool doesn't it?

But first off, I want to say thank you to Hive account@ablaze for starting and continuing to sponsor this fun weekly event where you can share three songs that you enjoy. One lucky participant will win some HSBI units, you can't have too many of those! So if you don't already participate feel free to jump in, just use the tag #ttt or #threetunetuesday and it's never a bad idea to do a shoutout to Hive account@ablaze .

This week I decided to go back to a band from the late 1970's and early 1980's that helped define the rest of the decade. I even recall their guitarist Elliot Easton being voted guitarist of the year back in the day, even beating out Eddie Van Halen. That should tell you something! This band is of course a band from Boston, The Cars.

The Cars were interesting in that they didn't have one dedicated lead singer, splitting the role between Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr. Sadly both have since passed on and may they rest in peace. Elliot Easton was on lead guitar, David Robinson on drums, and Greg Hawkes on keyboards. They were active from 1976 until 1988 before disbanding, but produced some great hits along the way. They did get together in 2011 and produced an album minus Orr who already passed away of pancreatic cancer. They were inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 2018 and once again reunited for some shows. A truly legendary band!

This first one was release in 1981 and was a top ten hit for the band. This is "Shake It Up" with Ocasek on vocals:

This one is from 1984 called Drive with Benjamin Orr is on vocals. I I featured Paulina Porizkova the Czech supermodel who later married Ocasek. This one is called "Drive":

And this last one came off their 1978 debut album, but is a classic, called "Just What I Needed":

That will do it for me and this Three Tune Tuesday. I hope you enjoyed the music and the silver guitar pick. I really wish I could find one, and afford it too! I hope you're all having a great week, and please feel free to leave any comments or questions below. Thanks for all of your support!

References:

https://www.apmex.com/product/96263/1-oz-hand-poured-silver-guitar-pick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cars

Disclaimer

The video links I am sharing are not mine, I am only sharing the link to the copyright owner's video. No copyright infringement is intended. Used under fair-use section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976.

Header generated with ideogram.ai

Canva.com used in the arrangement of silver guitar picks