RIDE at Reading Festival August 25, 1990 -- Polar Bear Seagull Taste Dreams Burn Down Like A Daydream Drive Blind Vapour Trail Perfect Time Chelsea Girl
Thanks for posting this - only just looked it up. I think I still have the setlist from this one. It was my last gig with them as roadie (I was 18 at the time and failing my A levels!). I'm visible just to the right of Steve keeping my eye on him and Loz - Pete Plank was on Andy/Mark duty that day. A real highlight of my teens.
My first Reading Festival - Ride were the band I went for as they were also my first gig. Continued with Reading for the next 23 years but 1990 and 92 were my favourites
LIKE.... I WAS READING FESTIVAL 90 ...... I'm thrilled, had never seen or found a video READING FESTIVAL1990 .... 25 YEARS AFTER I FIND A VIDEO OF THIS memorable moment
Blimey. I was 19 and everyone was hearing 'polar bear' and 'seagull' for the first time. Had to rely on memory and attempts to reproduce the chords until Nowhere. Try that, millennials.
I can't speak for anyone else but I saw people with video cameras at festivals in the late eighties/early nineties and paid it no mind. So, for me: I did notice but thought nothing of it. Perhaps others felt the same way.... (By the way, security wasn't as prevalent as it became later, so people could get away with a lot more openly) 🙂
![Ride - Live @ Brixton Academy, London - 27th March 1992 [FULL SET]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hL-bffg1fXo/mqdefault.jpg)
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Thanks for posting this - only just looked it up. I think I still have the setlist from this one. It was my last gig with them as roadie (I was 18 at the time and failing my A levels!). I'm visible just to the right of Steve keeping my eye on him and Loz - Pete Plank was on Andy/Mark duty that day. A real highlight of my teens.
00:00 polar bear
2:46 Seagull
8:27 Taste
12:26 Dreams Burn Down
18:00 Like A Daydream
20:51 Drive Blind
26:21 Vapour Trail
30:05 Perfect Time
33:20 Chelsea Girl
My first Reading Festival - Ride were the band I went for as they were also my first gig. Continued with Reading for the next 23 years but 1990 and 92 were my favourites
I was there. Soooo long ago.
Superb trip down memory lane. I think this was the first time (of many) that I saw Ride when I was a 16 year old Indie Kid.
Andy shredding his fingers on seagull !!! Awesome. Was there , and the 92’ show. Amazing. Cheers Kimberley
One of a kind. Unique sound - always with me. Thanks boys.
Mark is playing all Fender before he threw some Rickenbacker into the mix. Either way, he loves jangle. Thanks for posting this gem.
great to see this, I was in the crowd, a great day! still love this band!
THANKS.... I SAW LIVE 1990 .. AMAZING
THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS VIDEO! I can see Ride when they was young. Thank you!
THANKS FOR POSTING VIDEO. I was a 28 year old Indie-Punk-Alternative Kid.I WAS READING FESTIVAL 90 ...... I'm thrilled,I am very happy
Was 16 years old at first festival weekend. Blown away by ride. Thanks for posting this.
same here, tho i was 15, Loop, Wedding Present, Pixies, Mudhoney, Mega city four, senseless things all played too, not bad at all!!
Went to Day 1 of Reading that year. Discovered Ride a month later.
LIKE.... I WAS READING FESTIVAL 90 ...... I'm thrilled, had never seen or found a video READING FESTIVAL1990 .... 25 YEARS AFTER I FIND A VIDEO OF THIS memorable moment
bless you for all the ride vids!
I was there!
I was there. I remember it being really violent down the front and for a long way back.
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Blimey. I was 19 and everyone was hearing 'polar bear' and 'seagull' for the first time. Had to rely on memory and attempts to reproduce the chords until Nowhere. Try that, millennials.
Just a thought... how did nobody notice the tall fella carrying a massive video camera filming this ? This was 1990 after all
I can't speak for anyone else but I saw people with video cameras at festivals in the late eighties/early nineties and paid it no mind. So, for me: I did notice but thought nothing of it. Perhaps others felt the same way.... (By the way, security wasn't as prevalent as it became later, so people could get away with a lot more openly)
🙂
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