Ride - Like a Daydream

Sometimes I wish I'd had a cool older sibling who would have guided me into things. In 1990 I was listening to Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Eddie Money and the Rolling Stones. Don't get me wrong -- they're all great -- but I wish someone would have slipped six-year-old me a copy of Swervedriver's Rave Down or the first Stone Roses album.

I'm going to Austin in three weeks and I'll probably just play this song 225 times in a row and forget that I have other music to listen to. This is "Like a Daydream" from Ride, originally released in 1990. I spruced up the audio but the video quality is the same as the others on YouTube.

Greg Sage

The Wipers were at once the most musical and visceral band of the late 1970s and the 1980s.  I listened to them for the first time in about two years and it reminded me of why I tried -- and failed -- my hand at guitar.  One of their best songs reminds me of the ugly do-nothing winters in my nowhere college town, even though the song is pretty.

"I was really into Mick Taylor, because he was so melodic...Keith Richards, and Greg Sage from the Wipers.  Greg Sage was totally underrated.  Everyone should check him out.  I ripped off a lot of stuff from him.  Somehow, by combining those influences I tried to get my own style." - J Mascis, Guitar World, December 1995

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