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The Rides is a new band that includes Stephen Stills and Kenny Wayne Sheppard.  You can hear their new song on Rollingstone.com by clicking HERE.

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When I read who these guys were I was excited, when I listened I gave them the benefit of the doubt, by the middle of the sing I was losing interest, by the end I concluded that this is TRASH.  Sadly, this had all the earmarks of a cool thing but maybe this is an early demo???  Just thinking because the sound was raw and the song sounded basic, kind of like it needed to go through some more writing sessions.

I totally agree that it sounded raw.  I'm not ready to say trash, I'll go stash for now.

I'm going to give this a QUALIFIED Smash.

It is an interesting song, but I'm not sold on the sound mix and the delivery of the vocals. The raw sound is fine if the mix of the song is done right, but here the vocals sometimes come off as rushed and not clearly defined.

But the guitar work is nice and overall, I am intrigued enough to want to hear more.

I like the geetaring. Tageryche hit the nail on the head about the rushed vocals, sound like sometimes he was just trying to throw too many words in. Maybe that was the point, I dunno. But I KINDA like it, so I'm going with STASH for now.  

In the article that accompanies the song on rollingstone.com, Steven says that he needed a little more vocal practice, but the drummer was groovin'  so they went with it.   Or something to that effect.  Here, I'll just quote the article:

With their new blues-rock group the Rides, Stephen Stills and the Electric Flag's Barry Goldberg reached across generations to team with guitar wizard Kenny Wayne Shepherd. The trio are readying their debut album, Can't Get Enough, for this summer, and they dipped into some old favorites for the record. Here, the Rides dig up "Word Game" – an old, never-before-recorded Stills acoustic live track – and adapt it to a diesel-fueled jam with crunchy guitar riffs and loads of cowbell.

"To me, this is classic Stephen: conveying the type of message about the world that he is so well known for," Shepherd tells Rolling Stone. "He's just calling people on their hypocritical bullshit." Stills had a blast making the track electric, and the band whipped it into shape on the strength of drummer Chris Layton's chops. "It probably could have used an extra day of practice, but because Chris' groove is so good, we chose to go with what we had," Stills says.


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