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  <h3>The Long Ryders</h3>
  <h2>Sunday Times, June 2004</h2>

    The rock band reunion is no longer an inherently embarrassing concept. 
              This Summer, their reputation having swollen considerably in their 
              absence, and their influence evident from Nirvana&#8217;s Nevermind 
              onwards, the 80&#8217;s American alternative band The Pixies are 
              playing to packed stadiums of former fans, more used to seeing them 
              in tiny clubs, and curious latter converts. Television, Wire and 
              Mission of Burma form a trio of serious-minded punk experimentalists 
              who have returned to touring and recording with their dignity and 
              credibility intact. And the unduly obscure 60&#8217;s psychedelic 
              icon Arthur Lee, fronting a youthful version of Love, has re-emerged, 
              energised and acclaimed, playing shows with the fearsome, righteous 
              commitment of someone who feels he still has something to prove. 
              These non-appalling reunions mean that even the re-emergence of 
              less well known groups, whose return is unlikely to trouble the 
              front covers of the music monthlies, is suddenly possible. Early 
              80&#8217;s post-punks The Moodists recently reassembled for some 
              shows in their hometown of Melbourne, and Birmingham&#8217;s own 
              Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band, The Nightingales, played their 
              first date in fifteen years earlier this month. Anything could happen. 
              Make a wish list and your nostalgic dreams might yet become reality. 
              </font><br><br> The Long Ryders, for example, burned 
              briefly but brightly in the mid-80&#8217;s, playing a punk-country 
              hybrid to a world full of DX7 synths and Flock Of Seagulls hairstyles, 
              a decade before the generation of bands they inspired found themselves 
              christened as the Alternative Country movement and granted their 
              own rack in the mega-store. You might remember the lone 1985 hit, 
              Looking For Lewis &amp; Clark, which sounded like The Who playing 
              country and western and boasts one of the great harmonica breaks. 
              Jeff Tweedy of Wilco and Chris Robinson of The Black Crows number 
              amongst The Long Ryders&#8217; famous fans and the major label roots 
              rockers The Jayhawks, who used to open for them, recently recruited 
              their former co-frontman Stephen McCarthy to their own ranks. His 
              one-time partner Sid Griffin today lives far from his Kentucky roots 
              in North London. Griffin has a loyal cult following that offers 
              him an infinitely sustainable, if not massively lucrative, career, 
              and his current band The Coal Porters will be playing the Kentucky 
              World Of Bluegrass Festival this autumn, a fact which fills him 
              with enormous pride. Given this, why risk it all and reassemble 
              The Long Ryders?<br><br><br>
              &#8220;I never thought The Long Ryders would play together again.&#8221;, 
              says Sid, sounding genuinely surprised. &#8220;I&#8217;d had offers 
              before to tour as &#8216;Sid Griffin and The Long Ryders&#8217;, 
              a kind of karaoke version of The Long Ryders playing Long Ryders 
              songs, and it&#8217;d be easy to do that and get a couple of thousand 
              pounds, but there&#8217;s something distasteful about it. If you&#8217;re 
              a big music fan you&#8217;ll know why. You go to the shows and there&#8217;s 
              only one guy from the band onstage. But this offer was to get all 
              the originals together, so I passed it along. Our drummer, Greg 
              Sowders, who now works in music publishing for Warner Chapel in 
              LA, said &#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;ll do it on my summer vacation.&#8221; 
              Then bass player, Tom Stevens, who I had not communicated with for 
              seventeen years got in touch and said he was in. But Stephen McCarthy 
              is now in The Jayhawks, touring and making money. I thought he&#8217;d 
              be too busy. But The Jayhawks said he had to do it, and scheduled 
              a break. I thought if we don&#8217;t do it now we never going to 
              do it and we&#8217;ll do it when we&#8217;re old and grey and using 
              Zimmer Frames. We&#8217;ll record one of the concerts for a possible 
              live album but as for actually recording again, the logistics are 
              impossible. Everybody in the band is at least 600 miles apart.&#8221;<br><br> After their 2002 performance at Camber 
              Sands&#8217; All Tomorrow&#8217;s Parties weekender, Wire were overheard 
              around the lace tablecloths of a local bed and breakfast&#8217;s 
              dining room discussing whether the previous night&#8217;s performance 
              had maintained or compromised &#8216;the legend of Wire&#8217;. 
              A second hand record dealer recently informed me that original Electric 
              Prunes vinyl has plummeted in value since the seminal 60&#8217;s 
              garage band reformed to tour a dreadful set of 80&#8217;s metal 
              style interpretations of their old songs and I, for one, could have 
              lived without seeing a wobbly version of The Incredible String Band 
              at The Bloomsbury Theatre three years back, although it was enjoyable 
              watching some would-be hippies who had ill-advisedly ingested acid 
              before the show struggling to negotiate with the blue florescent 
              lighting above the gents&#8217; urinals. The Long Ryders finished 
              on a creative high in 1987. Even The Clash petered out with the 
              conveniently forgotten Cut The Crap album. Is there a danger of 
              a re-union undermining fans&#8217; perfect memories of a band in 
              its prime? <br><br> &#8220;If you are a snotty record 
              collector like me you know that Rock and Roll reunions stink,&#8221; 
              agrees Griffin. &#8220;There&#8217;s about nineteen different bands 
              all called The Drifters. And a few years ago, before Brian Connolly 
              from The Sweet died, I saw this news story on TV. Peter Sissons 
              was explaining, with a perfectly straight face, how The Sweet With 
              Brian Connolly and The Sweet without Brian Connolly had both somehow 
              pulled up on the same garage forecourt in Devon or somewhere and 
              started arguing about who was allowed to play Ballroom Blitz. I 
              was in tears of laughter, but thought &#8216;There but for the grace 
              of God&#8230;&#8217; But in the last few years Wire at The Royal 
              Festival Hall was great , and The Blasters, who I saw 30 times in 
              LA, were as good as they&#8217;ve ever been. I saw The Who with 
              Zak Starkey on drums five years ago and it was the best I ever saw 
              them. So with Wire, The Blasters and The Who I started thinking 
              maybe you can have a re-union that works.&#8221; <br><br> Does Griffin secretly harbour dreams 
              of, belatedly, being vindicated in some way? &#8220;I saw Love with 
              Arthur Lee in the 70&#8217;s and he was not on form, but I saw two 
              of his shows recently and I couldn&#8217;t believe it. I thought 
              &#8220;Way to go, Arthur!&#8221;. I&#8217;m older myself now and 
              I don&#8217;t want Arthur Lee to die with just an arrest record 
              and thirty years of being ignored. I&#8217;m thrilled for him. You 
              do want that kind of recognition.&#8221; And then, perhaps wary 
              of seeming bitter or ambitious, Sid Griffin, former and current 
              Long Ryder concludes, &#8220;And you know what? I&#8217;d really 
              like my little girl to see me play Rock and Roll.&#8221;<br><br> The Long Ryders play the Glastonbury 
              Festival and The SpydaFest, Portland on June 26th, followed by London 
              Dingwalls 29th and 30th, Nottingham Rescue Rooms July 1st, Manchester 
              Academy 2nd, Glasgiw King Tuts 3rd, Leeds Irish Centre 7th, Bristol 
              Fleece 8th. Prima Records&#8217; Best Of The Long Ryders (SID016) 
              is out on June 28th. <a href="http://sidgriffin.com" target="_blank">sidgriffin.com</a><br>
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