Ride

while bassist Steve Quercio left professional music to focus on interests and work elsewhere

Steve who???

Ha THAT was a weird glitch. I'll get it fixed.

seeing them in sept... would prefer they'd avoid stuff of third album but ehh

enjoying this a lot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1322&v=Vy4dItfxZis

Some more tickets available for the Roundhouse on Sunday:

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/320476

Gah. I needn't have forked out for expensive tickets for that Field Day festival after all.

Listening to Hunter's link and not liking how Mark's got this strange pretend American pronunciation on Like A Daydream now (and possibly other tracks, I haven't got that far yet)

Yeah thought the same thing upon hearing Dreams Burn Down

manchester was beyond words tonight. album tracks greeted like they were Bridge Over Troubled Water. longest set so far on the tour.

They were fantastic in Amsterdam yesterday. Had to leave before the encore so sadly missed Tomorrow Never Knows...

Leave Them All Behind
Like a Daydream
Polar Bear
Seagull
Sennen
Cool Your Boots
Black Nite Crash
Twisterella
OX4
Dreams Burn Down
Time of Her Time
Chrome Waves
Paralysed
Taste
Vapour Trail
Drive Blind

Encore:
Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles cover)
Mouse Trap
Chelsea Girl

totally jealous

Ah, wow, that was fucking great. I've got to say, I genuinely hadn't been feeling it leading up to this gig - I bought the tickets because I felt like I'd kick myself if I missed it, but I haven't had any real enthusiasm as the day approached. And then finally tonight, six months after I bought the tickets and more than 23 years since I last saw them, I saw the gigantic 'RIDE' backdrop go up at the back of the stage and I finally started to feel excited. Started off a fair way back but when they started up 'Seagull' I just forced my way right to the front where it was mayhem. Great gig (though it dipped a little in the middle, not performance-wise, just songs I'm less keen on), from what I can remember the set list was pretty similar to the Amsterdam one above (but we didn't have Twisterella, Paralysed or Tomorrow Never Knows).

https://youtu.be/mS8x5ltXQpc

x-post setlist for Amsterdam has been corrected, it was "Nowhere", not "Tomorrow Never Knows".

By the way, I don't know if this is news, but last night Andy Bell said something like "this is the last of the gigs we planned six months ago and we thought we'd see how it went before deciding what to do next...and now we've decided we're going to continue." He also said (after Drive Blind's 'You Made Me Realise' interlude) "That one was for the Valentines. We might not have invented it, but we were the first to rip it off." Or something.

Hope they start adding "Unfamiliar" to the list.

Good call. I was quite surprised that was missing, actually.

It's one of their four or five greatest songs, I think.

they played it in LA, see my above post with the set list.

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/ride-au-primavera-sound

awesome

I was expecting this show to be nice in that it was a band that I liked playing the songs that I liked, but I was not expecting the actual performance to be anywhere near as great as it was. Hearing "Chelsea Girl" without the layers of sludge was like hearing it for the first time, and the vocals were mixed perfectly. I guess I never quite realized how big of a component vocal harmonies are to their sound?

Definitely. Not super complex like the Byrds (to whom they were sometimes compared). But they did it well.

By the way, new UK tour announced for October. Tickets go on sale officially tomorrow morning, but if you're with O2 you could buy advance tickets yesterday. I am with O2, but annoyingly the London gig is a date that I absolutely have to work in the evening. I'm hoping they addd an extra London gig the night before (it can't be the night after as they'll be in Liverpool then).

It's worth buying this fanzine: http://www.ride.network/

In-depth interviews with each band member individually. I used to buy this way back in 91/92 - this is the first issue in over 20 years.

Rhino has a remaster of Nowhere currently on offer with the Today Forever EP and a live set: http://www.rhino.com/product/nowhere-20th-anniversary-edition

The price is exorbitant but if there's one CD I own that would benefit from a remaster, it's Nowhere

Nice - is this distributed in Europe by any chance?

I dunno. It would be wise of them to do it, but the Rhino Handmade is usually a limited-run deal. I listened to the clips on the site and it sounds as if the remaster is a huge improvement.

Just listened to (the remastered) Nowhere for the first time in 20+ years. I remember it being thought of as a misstep at the time, failing to match up to the promise of the EPs. But it's beautiful from start to finish. Also, so many little bits that I forgot influenced me - a rush of melody parts that I would adapt for myself.

More West Coast dates announced for November

https://twitter.com/rideox4/status/620640031221354496

Live at Melt festival, Ferropolis, Germany, July 19th

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/ride-melt-2015

I think I prefer the Primavera show tbh. Maybe because it's longer or mixed slightly differently.

And another full show: La Route Du Rock, Aug 15

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/ride-la-route-du-rock

Even though it's the same festival setlist, I think it's fascinating to be able to compare these shows - here it's like they're the most energetic of the three

Or am I comparing sound mixes and video directors?

really fukkin good live in dc damn. dunno about the fedora tho, other guitarist had a neu! trucker hat

yeah I laughed out loud when I saw him come out with a muscle tee and a fedora. Andy looked a bit like a hip Mike Love in that hat.

I was on the fence about the show... the analog tracks were great as was their overall sound. On the other hand the overdubbing was very obvious and distracting, and they sometimes had trouble keeping to the beat.

The hat is a key part of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG6jlkOkw8E

LOL.

what was overdubbed, vox? didn't notice but i was far away

The first three songs all used a backing track. The first two were pretty well done but the whooshy guitar on Polar Bear was the one that set me off. Presumably the third vocal and third guitar on Leave Them All Behind were tracked. It's not clear what they needed for Like a Daydream.

I had to leave early and am sad to have missed Dreams Burn Down > Taste > Vapour Trail > Blind.

OX4 seems to be the new opening theme tune on Football Focus? Huh.

intrigued/disappointed by this 'overdubbing' theory.

christ is genuinely 'live music' a thing of the past? when did this become common practice i wonder.

There was not much overdubbing. On Like a Daydream it's just that backward cymbal crash. In NYC they also put in the string quartet at the end of Vapour Trail, but they nailed it. Not sure Polar Bear was backing track; might have just been a pedal out of sync with the beat.

The hat sounded amazing.

Going see 'em tonight & totally stoked - last saw 'em in the UK in 1990.

Saw themtwice back in the 90's and can't see why they'd need to use backing tracks nowadays unless they've just become lame.

christ is genuinely 'live music' a thing of the past? when did this become common practice i wonder.

A friend in her 20s saw Lana Del Rey a few years ago and enjoyed the show but complained that she didn't hit some of the notes properly. "If you can't sing a certain part live, you use a backing track. It's just what you do. Taylor Swift does it, so you can't say it's not legitimate."

https://youtu.be/O3ZSFj_A0KE

The Field Day Festival that I saw them at in June

Taylor Swift does it, so you can't say it's not legitimate.

words that chill the bones

(I'm actually in that video for about three seconds after Chelsea Girl - fame at last)

From Andy on the upcoming RIDE UK tour -

I’m so excited about playing 'Nowhere' in full. We are going with the 11 track CD track listing, not just the 8 tracks from the original vinyl, so the set will end with the title track on every gig of the UK tour, which is going to sound epic. I didn’t realise how few times we’d actually played most of the songs. And of course we have never played the album in its original track order before.

We have been throwing in versions of some of the songs at our US dates but the majority of the preparation for these shows was done during rehearsals in London in-between our festival shows this summer. I’m especially buzzing about how 'Kaleidoscope' is sounding. It’s going to be amazing playing it for the first time.

All in all, it’s a big deal to us, and we haven’t been certain we could pull it off until now. We, as a band, are so proud of the album and we are aware that fans have been campaigning for us to perform it in full on this tour but it’s only now that we are sure we can do the album justice.