Ric Ocasek's Negative Theater???

Mitch Franchini

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Mar 20, 2001, 10:28:27 PM3/20/01

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Anybody know where I can find a copy of this one????

Christopher

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Mar 21, 2001, 11:17:47 AM3/21/01

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there was a album and a book keep a eye out in ebay , you'll probably
find the book

i have the cd…

Peter Perpetua III

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Mar 21, 2001, 6:01:38 PM3/21/01

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Are you interested in trading Car's ?

Christopher <ccon...@fast.net> wrote in message
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> there was a album and a book keep a eye out in ebay , you'll probably
> find the book
>

> i have the cd.

Milo762

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Mar 21, 2001, 10:15:43 PM3/21/01

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I tried to bid on a sealed copy on eBay and the bidding went up to around $130.
That was a little ridiculous. The other one that I saw was opened and went
for around $85.

I really like Ric but I have to draw the line somewhere.

Milo

Keith Piddington

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Mar 22, 2001, 1:17:59 AM3/22/01

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Milo762 (mil...@aol.com) wrote:
: I tried to bid on a sealed copy on eBay and the bidding went up to around $130.

: That was a little ridiculous. The other one that I saw was opened and went
: for around $85.

: I really like Ric but I have to draw the line somewhere.

So what are the chances of getting it in a real store?

Anyone know its catalog number?

Keith

Christopher A. Leonti

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Mar 22, 2001, 1:48:50 PM3/22/01

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This was an import only version of Quick Change World. The story has been
that the label did not think QCW was exceptionally marketable, so they had
Ric work with a different producer and change about half the tracks. I was
able to round up an original sealed copy in a trade with a Cars fan in
Europe. Typically this is relatively difficult to come by and I have never
seen or heard of a copy appearing in a US store. As noted by others, this
CD tends to go for quite a price tag on eBay nowdays, but you may be able to
find a fan willing to trade you for a copy.

If memory serves the unique tracks on this release are:
Ride With Duce
Shake A Little Nervous
Take Me Silver
Telephone Again
Race To Nowhere
Who Do I Pay
Wait For Fate
What Is Time
Fade Away

It is a pretty solid release and several of the tracks are excellent
examples of Ric's work.

Negative Theatre was also the name of a Ric Ocasek collection of poetry with
some very interesting pictures (very Warholesque for the most part). A
member of the Frozen Fire Cars e-mail list was able to locate copies for
sale through Ric's legal representatives a couple years ago. Those of us
who were fortunate enough to get a hold of these got the pleasant surprise
of receiving a Ric Ocasek signed copy of a fairly rare book. Prior to this
I tried to round up copies through numerous book search companies and they
were not able to dig anything up.

Hope this helps out,

-=-> Chris

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