Taken from the current issue of MOJO that is on sale now.
"Ride were recording in late ’93, early ’94, and that’s when I first saw them and we heard the tape. I heard Bring It On Down, and to me it sounded like The Jesus And Mary Chain. I didn’t think Beatles or Sex Pistols or anything; I heard Mary Chain first, and then everything else afterwards.
It was like, Oh yeah! Pop songs and distortion! The fourth Ride album, which happened after that, where we sort of fell apart in the studio and split up, I was really trying hard to put all the distortion and energy back into it again.
It was like, Oh yeah! Pop songs and distortion! The fourth Ride album, which happened after that, where we sort of fell apart in the studio and split up, I was really trying hard to put all the distortion and energy back into it again.
The sound of Oasis is like a big rhythm guitar... a solid wall. If you play a bass line that takes it away from the frequency you hear in the rhythm guitar, then you’re playing it wrong. If the drums get away from a piledriving beat, then you’re doing it wrong as well. It all should sound like it’s got a forward momentum.
Sometimes it can be slow like a juggernaut or a battle-ship, and sometimes it can be fast like a Lamborghini, but it’s the same intense, driven sound. When you’re getting a song together, if you do it a shade too fast, you lose all the menace of it. If you do it just that bit too slow, it gets really evil, and that’s good. With the music, Liam and Noel both go on instincts.
Even though Noel’s more patient and takes more time with things, and Liam is more living in the moment, they’ve both got the same instincts, and they trust them all the time".