Talk:Benjamin Orr

message: Although Benjamin Orr was born in Lakewood, OH, I have heard he attended high school at Valley Forge High School in Parma Heights, OH, and this is the school from which he dropped out.  Anyone know any facts about this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.43.171.240 (talk) 00:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes....He dropped out of Valley Forge HS...He dropped out to pursue his musical career.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.102.190.22 (talk) 17:28, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: To answer the question Mr Orr again is Slavic.
His birthplace, Lakewood, Ohio lists its ethnic composition as 5.8% Polish, .7% Russian and .7% Czech. Nothing will dissuade you from removing him from the Russian category, not even the facts. This does not help your credibility. Before you came along I only read Ben Orr was of Polish descent.  ````
Orzechowski is an anbsolutely Polish surname, not Russian or Czech. "Ski" is a typical Polish surnames ending. Ask other Polish Wikipedians. Maybe Orr have Polish desant who was living in Russia, that is possible. Many of Poles was living in the Russian Empire. See History of Poland. Kowalmistrz 18:24, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Czech, Russian? 

message: I'm strongly thinking of making a section called performance disaster in... "Will find out where". I have to recheck my information about where it takes place, but sometime in 1978 the cars were at a concert in i believe germany and they were performing bye bye love and people in the crowd were disasterously throwing stuff at the band duriong there performance. When i was watching it on youtube and something hit benjamin orrs guitar right before he whispered either "im going to get you or" im looking at you". just look for yourself.....  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.253.96.52 (talk) 22:17, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  performance disaster in .... 

message: I just added a citeneeded to the statement that "Stay The Night" reached "number one" on both MTV and VH1. That is impressive, but it needs a citation. I'm not even aware that those cable-TV channels even have a Top Forty, or Top Ten, or whatever it is. How does a cable channel pick a number one, when they don't ever get requests? I was a pretty big watcher of MTV in the glory days of the 80s, and I don't remember them having a Top Whatever list. And did VH1 even exist when this song came out? Anyway, if I don't know this, then a lot of people don't know it, so a citation is definitely needed.
--Ben Culture (talk) 05:13, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: MTV had a weekly Top 20 Countdown program at the time but I don't how the number one video could be documented. Billboard verifies that it was in heavy rotation on MTV but that's all. Piriczki (talk) 13:20, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number One on MTV and VH1? What does that mean? 

message: Orr died from pancreatic cancer.  About 25% of cases of pancreatic cancer can be traced to smoking (it is the biggest risk factor).  Did Orr smoke?  Thanks in advance to anybody who knows.Betathetapi545 (talk) 21:50, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've seen several picture on You Tube where Orr is holding a cigarette in hand. Yes, he smoked. 2600:8803:AE03:4B00:899:4F78:382E:3022 (talk) 07:03, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death from pancreatic cancer - did Orr smoke? 

message: While keyboards are secondary instrument. Guitar was an instrument that Benjamin Orr played before he switched to bass before joining the Cars and he played guitar instead of bass in his solo career after The Cars disbanded in 1988. GTAGamer245 (talk) 16:57, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Regardless, he's best known as a Bass player, the guitar should be brought up in prose. - FlightTime (open channel) 16:59, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't even know what "prose" means. I thought we bring this up in the talk pag. GTAGamer245 (talk) 18:29, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Prose = The article body. - FlightTime (open channel)  — Preceding undated comment added 19:05, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guitar