Billy Corgan paid tribute to Ric Ocasek and recalled the time the late Cars frontman taught him how to play “My Best Friend’s Girl” on the guitar used in the original recording
. “Then it was just: ‘Do some songs with me, if you would.’ I love his music. I think he’s just such a musical genius, and I love his perspective on arrangements.”In his tribute, Corgan described his lengthy conversations with Ocasek and said of the musician, “It’s hard to share the measure of a man in so few words, because, despite his greatness, Ric was open and down to earth in a way that surprised me.
Corgan also recalled a special moment that took place in Ocasek’s basement studio. “I was asking him a 1000th question on the Cars; in this case, the sound of the keyboard solos. He pointed at a relic. ‘Well, that’s it’ he said. ‘THE keyboard’, said I? It was, and ironically at that moment Greg Hawkes stopped by and he demonstrated all those great sounds!”
Corgan continued: “But then I went for broke. I wanted Ric to show me how to play [‘My Best Friend’s Girl’]. He picked up a guitar, played it perfectly and handed it over. The sound, I noted, was exact. It was the pink Fender pictured above, and I dutifully played the opening riff as he’d showed. So what was the guitar, I asked? Ric pointed at the flamingo in my hands. My jaw dropped. It was THE guitar! Love you Ric! Gonna miss you forever.
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