Ben Orr may be little known because of the way Cars was structured and sold to the public. The Cars was one of those groups that only had a one main face that I recall, that being O’Casek. It could be that be the time I was paying attention to them, Rick had taken the lead and had become ‘the face of the group’.
Another group like that would be U2.
When I think of U2, I first think of Bono. For someone more attuned to their music, you would know the names of the other guys. To me, they just never became anywhere as distinct a persona as Bono. Same with Sting, formerly of Police.
Who can name anybody else in Police other than Sting?
Not me.
That’s how it happened with me with Orr, I saw some concert footage and I was like ‘whoah the bassist sings this and this this?!’
Freegards
Andy Summers, guitar. Stewart Copeland, drums. I had to think for almost a minute, but they came back to me ;))