The Long Ryders

February 28, 2008
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The Long Ryders were formed in late November 1982 out of the ashes of the Los Angeles punk scene. Kentucky born guitarist Sid Griffin left his band The Unclaimed after having bonded musically with former Boxboys drummer Greg Sowders at a jam session in a Mexican transvestite bar in Silverlake. The other guitar player was Steve Wynn but he left to form the Dream Syndicate whereupon Virginia’s Stephen McCarthy, a country music loving newcomer to L.A., stepped in after answering a “Musician’s Wanted” ad in a local Korean newspaper.

I remember hearing and enjoying their poppy melodic punk-jangle when hearing it on college radio.  You’ll also hear a couple of their tracks on Deeper and can download one mp3 here now.
The Best Of The Long RydersThe Long Ryders
“And She Rides” (mp3)
from “The Best Of The Long Ryders”
(Prima Records Ltd.)

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