Ride

[pocaloc]

I'm new here, so this might've been pointed out. Ride, in my opinion, the second best shoegazing group used a duel ringing Rickenbacker attack. At least on Nowhere, there best album, and one of my top ten albums of all time. Just checked out a youtube video of Ride playing Seagull live. One black 330 and one fireglo 330. Very much a chiming assault of guitar.

[scotty]

This one?

[Kekke]

Awesome! I like Ride a lot.
On the right boat with this one!

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[Kekke]

I have grown up in the 90's and this is pretty much homecoming, together with slowdive for me.

[pocaloc]

Scotty, that is the video I was talking about. I was going to post a link but my work won't let me go to youtube.

[Trav]

I vaguely remember Andy Bell using Weller's 330JG (the battered one with no tailpiece) on TOTP - or was I dreaming, something to do with Ride flying out to the States the next morning and their kit having gone on ahead?

[pocaloc]

Hey Trav, that's cool, he used Paul Weller's Rickenbacker? It would've been cool to be in the UK during the shoegazing era. I was in college in Pullman, WA at the time, about as far away from the UK as possible.

[DOUBLEUman]

I'm new here, so this might've been pointed out. Ride, in my opinion, the second best shoegazing group used a duel ringing Rickenbacker attack. At least on Nowhere, there best album, and one of my top ten albums of all time. Just checked out a youtube video of Ride playing Seagull live. One black 330 and one fireglo 330. Very much a chiming assault of guitar.

I got to see Ride with Lush in America not long after this performance in Britain. I have to say that between Lush and Ride there was almost always a Rick on stage cranked, and the treble was a bit out of control -- my ears still hurt. The bands were unbelievably LOUD.

[pocaloc]

Those shoegazers were loud. I'm pretty sure My Bloody Valentine literally caused deafness while playing You Made me Realise live. I didn't see it myself, but have read about it.

[DOUBLEUman]

I'm pretty sure My Bloody Valentine literally caused deafness while playing You Made me Realise live...

dude, now that's rock n roll, though not as good as a spontaneously combusting drummer named Stumpy.

[1a12]

I'm of the camp that believes this band just got better as they matured.

[DOUBLEUman]

I'm of the camp that believes this band just got better as they matured.

That may be true, but I'm not sure that means the music got more memorable. I find Ride's earliest stuff the most distinctive, though I like most everything they did. Here's one of my all-time faves, from the early days, and if you can imagine this so loud live that you felt like the soundwaves were razoring through your flesh, that's something like what it was like to see them live in a small venue (see if you can spot the Rick, btw, around 1:55):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APqGzOD0fUk

[sloop_john_b]

I'm pretty sure My Bloody Valentine literally caused deafness while playing You Made me Realise live. I didn't see it myself, but have read about it.

It was the most insane 15 minutes of my life. An experience that literally shook my to my core. I really can never truly describe it. THAT was the best concert I ever saw.

[analogpackrat]

One of my faves from the 90s! I've got the purple CD Smile (with tracks from the early EPs on it) which is OK. Nowhere, which has some killer songs and rather raw production. And Going Blank Again which is also really good, but different with the production polish and more synth stuff on some tracks. What are the later albums like? Worth buying?

[DOUBLEUman]

One of my faves from the 90s! I've got the purple CD Smile (with tracks from the early EPs on it) which is OK. Nowhere, which has some killer songs and rather raw production. And Going Blank Again which is also really good, but different with the production polish and more synth stuff on some tracks. What are the later albums like? Worth buying?

Their last two albums are often seen as mixed. The very last one, Tarantula, is IMHO the better of the two; I really didn't like the flower-power grooviness of Carnival of Light. Still, overall, their creative direction seems a little unclear on the later albums. If you're hoping for any songs like Vapour Trails, forget it. This is from around when I saw them (note the Rick -- should I say, two Ricks? Mark Gardener's is obvious, but is Andy Bell also playing a Rick, I think maybe a jetglo 330 with the pickguard removed?????):