[SamAdams76]

I was 15 when this first came on the radio. It was my gateway to New Wave. Within a year, I was listening to Talking Heads, The Police, Elvis Costello, Gary Numan, etc.

June of 1978, I was in Downtown Crossing, which was sort of an outside shopping mall area in Boston and next to the Strawberries - a sizable record store chain at the time - there was a photoshoot going on with a rock band. From a distance, I thought it might be The Ramones. But as I got closer, there was tall, lanky Ric Ocasek and the rest of the band. They weren't world-famous yet but starting to break nationally with "Just What I Needed."

[mdittmar]

Use to cruise the ave listening to them.

[rlmorel]

LOL, we had a friend in our group who was a musician and he looked just like Ric Ocasek...his name was “Mick”...:)

Good times. I enjoyed “Cruising in Stereo”