Biography

Singer and guitarist Elliot Easton was born Elliot Steinberg on December 18, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Elliot joined the hugely popular, successful, and innovative New Wave synth-pop band the Cars as both a lead guitarist and backing vocalist in 1976 and remained a member of the group until the Cars broke up in the late 80s. Easton released the solo album "Change No Change" on the Elektra record label in 1985. His later group Band of Angels recorded a self-titled album which was never released. In 1998 Elliot played guitar on the songs "Rumblin' Bass" and "One Way or Another" on the album "No Cats" by bassist Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats fame. Easton was a member of the roots rock group Creedence Clearwater Revisited and a revival version of the Cars called the New Cars from 2006 to 2007. Moreover, Elliot has also played with fellow Cars band member Ric Ocasek as a solo artist and played guitar on the song "Angel To You (Devil To Me)" by the power pop band the Click Five.
- IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders

Incredibly Fast Guitar Solos

Lead guitarist and background vocalist for the 1970s-1980s synth-pop band The Cars.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Cars) (2018).

His moody and sinister, surf guitar (mostly) instrumental for Jackie Brown was basically the theme of Sam Jackson's character Ordell Robie.

Although The Cars are historically known as a synth-driven, new wave band, Elliot Easton's style, and his lead guitar solos, were often of the extremely speedy hard rock nature, sometimes rockabilly, other times jazz, blues, country, a reverberated surf guitar sound, or, on their later albums, played through a processor.

Some of his guitar solos for The Cars would mimic the notes of the chorus, but only at first before igniting into lighting-fast fretwork.