Ride私人小简介

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Andy (Andrew) Piran Bell
                
                
What he does in Ride: plays guitar and sings
Born in: Cardiff, Wales, 11 Aug 1970
Appearance: ultra-thin, 6'70” tall, blue eyes and blond hair
Educated at: Headington Middle, Cheney Upper and Banbury Art School
Musical education: none
Musical career: The Atomic Apples, Ride
Other or previous occupations: cowboy, waiter (Café Français, Headington, Oxford), hearing aid factory (true!)
Favourite records: The Beatles “Revolver”; The Rolling Stones “Let It Bleed” and “Exile On Main Street”; The Byrds “Notorius Byrd Brothers”
Favourite bands: The Stone Roses, The Small Faces The Byrds, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Likes: Idha (his wife), hanging out, being a human being, dinosaurs, staying all day in bed watching telly, “eating, living and sleeping music”, green flares, “Top Cat” polo necks, Kojak-like mirrorshades
Dislikes: reality, getting up, crowds, natural disasters, full cream milk
Favourite films/TV shows/books: Mike Leigh, adverts, JD Salinger
Biggest influence on career: playing guitar in the bath, hoovers (“My first memory of music is listening to 'The Beatles For Sale' on a Dansette record player while my Mum was doing the hoovering and thinking 'In ten years time I'm going to combine the two sounds'”)
What would you like your epithaph to be? “1970-1966. He invented the backwards guitar pedal.”
Residence: Oxford and Stockholm
Make of Instruments: Gibson, Rickenbacker and Fender guitars; Hiwatt amps and Marshall speakers; Gator picks
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Mark Stephen Gardener
                
                
What he does in Ride: sings and plays guitar
Born in: Oxford, 6 Dec 1969
Appearance: 5'11” tall, greeny bluey grey with a bit of brown (!) eyes, long and dark hair
Educated at: Cheney Upper and Banbury Art School
Musical education: none
Musical career: singing and strumming for Ride
Other or previous occupations: waiter, barman, technician, illustrator, midfielder at The Manor (home of Oxford United Football Club), definitely not a gardener!
Favourite records: Jimi Hendrix “All Along The Watchtower”; Otis Redding “Try a Little Tenderness”; Van Morrison “And It Stoned Me”; Iggy Pop “Lust For Life”
Favourite bands: The Orb, The Black Crowes, Primal Scream, Beach Boys, The Faces
Likes: Oxford Utd. F.C., plain chocolate digestives, stripey shirts
Dislikes: nothing in particular
Favourite films/TV shows/books: “Goodfellas”; “Delicatessen”; “Nuts In May”; any book by Herman Hesse; “Wonderland Avenue” by Danny Sugerman
Biggest influence on career: George Best and Neil Young
Residence: East Oxford
Make of Instruments: Rickenbacker, Fender, Takamine and Gibson guitars; Marshall amps and speakers
Loz (Laurence) John Colbert
                
                
What he does in Ride: plays drums
Born in: Kingston, 27 June 1970
Appearance: 5'9” tall, blue-green eyes, blondish hair
Educated at: Kingston Primary, Burford Secondary and Banbury Art School
Musical education: records; he first got into drums while in Germany on an exchange programme
Musical career: Trashing Bastards
Other or previous occupations: “You name it, I've done it!”
Favourite records: The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy “Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury”; Echo & The Bunnnymen “Heaven Up Here”; Eric B Rakim “Paid In Full”
Favourite bands: Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys, Mercury Rev, Smashing Pumpkins, Funkadelic, R.E.M., Can
Likes: Jaguar cars, Twirl chocolate bars, Australia, smoking, pineapple as pizza topping, bungee jumping, abseiling the walls of venues while on tour
Dislikes: not being with a woman
Favourite films/TV shows/books: “Cyrano De Bergerac”; “Catchphrase”; “15 to 7”; “Ren & Stimpy”; Mark Radcliffe dj-ing on Radio One
Biggest influence on career: “not thinking of it as a career”
What would you like your epithaph to be? “I don't know! I'm not dead yet!”
Residence: Oxford
Make of Instruments: Premier Resonator and Yamaha 9000 drumkits; Paiste and Zildjian cymbals
Steve (Stephen) Queralt
                
                
What he does in Ride: plays the bass
Born in: Oxford, 4 Feb 1968
Appearance: 5'4” tall, blue eyes, brown hair, a small scar on the right eyebrow (souvenir of a “bizarre boating accident”)
Educated at: Cheney Upper School, Oxford
Musical education: self taught
Musical career: Big Spider Back (a reggae band)
Other or previous occupations: Our Price record shop manager (Oxford), petrol pump attendant, hairdresser, professional fooball spectator
Favourite records: Massive Attack “Blue Lines”; The Velvet Underground “Loaded”; The Shangri-La's “Past, Present And Future”; Errol Dunkley “Sit Down And Cry”; Albinoni “Adagio”; Henryk Gorecki “Symphony n°3”; The Specials “Do Nothing”
Favourite bands: Kraftwerk, New Order, Sonic Youth, Brian Eno, Harold Budd
Likes: his son Jamie, just football (supports Oxford Utd. F.C. and Tottenham Hotspurs)
Dislikes: a messy kitchen
Favourite films/TV shows/books: “Blade Runner”; “Raging Bull”; “Life Is Sweet”; “Wonder Years”; “Do The Right Thing”; “Brazil”; “The Simpsons”; “Central Goals Extra”; “Big”; “Look Back In Anger”
What would you like your epithaph to be? “Here lies Stephen Queralt, bitterly disappointed”
Residence: East Oxford
Make of Instruments: Musicman Stingray, Fender Jazz and Westone basses; Hartke amp and speakers; Peavey amp head