Tuesday 30 September 2008

T-Ride

T-Ride were one of the best bands to come out of the 1990s. Not your typical 90s music though, T-Ride were not a grunge band. Instead, they played metal! Hair metal if you like. But with a complexity that few other bands could muster. Sure you may listen to the likes of Metallica, Megadeath, Anthrax, Sepultura, Suicidal Tendencies who tried to play faster, louder, more insane music than before. And all these bands delivered great music, but few could muster the kind of tight syncopation and complex musical interweaving that T-Ride did. And with only 3 members in the band.

T-Ride's fate though was not in rock stardom. They burst onto the scene with a critically acclaimed album and then dissappeared just as fast. Their band members moving on to other projects and producing gigs. The money just wasn't there for the second album because grunge had hit the scene and T-Ride just weren't playing grunge!

I've decided to move this blog over to my new address: http://t-ride.blogspot.com
Go check it out: T-Ride

Thursday 4 September 2008

Working for a living is a social disease

So say the rock gods that are T-Ride. Playing geetar aint a social disease.....

So why isn't T-Ride around anymore? A first album of such brilliance should have sent them into the rock stratosphere! Especially with fans like Joe Satriani who called them "The future of metal". They were favourably compared to Queen and Van Halen by some critics, but somehow, just didn't make it big and they eventually faded away.

Jeff Tyson is credited as the guitar man for T-Ride, and he can be found in Prague at the moment. Check out his new website: Geoff Tyson.