Episode 72 of No Guitar is Safe featuring Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Elliot Easton.

Yes, we can say that now.

Congratulations, Elliot.

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No guitar is safe.

Oh, no. Now guitar is safe. Okay, check it out. What an incredible rock and roll story you're about to hear today. I mean,

just imagine it for yourself. Imagine you're like 20 or 21 years old. Your roommate is like a sound guy and he wants to go respond to some ad in the newspaper for some club band that needs a sound person you

tag along you check out the band kind of like them you hook up with them and man

flash forward to the present 2018 and you're being inducted into the Rock

and Roll Hall of Fame with those same cats. And you've sold tens of millions of records

and your music, hit song after hit song, is part of the fabric of American life over the past

30 or 40 years, whatever it's been. If that's your story, well, you might be Elliot Easton from the

cars. Elliot is on the show today. Thank you, Elliot. He's going to play so much guitar for you

and show you how he created all those parts and not just the great solos, but also how he

thinks about constructing the perfect part underneath the vocal. We all love that about

Elliot Easton. He's just an American treasure. That's how I think of him. And honestly,

when I heard a few months ago that Elliot Easton and the cars were going to be inducted into the

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which they were just two or three weeks ago, I was kind of surprised.

I was like, you mean they're not already in the Hall of Fame? I mean they've had so much success and they're just such an iconic band.

It was just a matter of time.

And this was their year, along with Bon Jovi Dyer Straits, Nina Simone, Moody Blues,

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