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the taste just slips away	4:48pm 4/16/2003
we fill up our days and nights we fill up the gaps in our empty little lives but we know we are doomed the moment we walk out the room Last night was a religious experience. Mark Gardener, former guitarist and singer for godlike British shoegazing pioneers Ride, made a stop in Cambridge. He's in the midst of a small acoustic tour through the U.S., playing a collection of his songs as well as a smattering of Ride classics. For someone primarily associated with a band famous for its epic, enormous sound, the idea of doing a worthwhile acoustic set may seem an impossibility. The set opened with "See What You Get", a folky jam that works fine with just Mark and an acoustic guitar. You can download this one as part of Excellent Online's Flirt compilation. The set evolved as alternations between Mark's solo material and Ride songs, and soon enough my doubts over representing the towering melodies and pounding drums of Ride with a voice and a twelve string guitar had vanished. In my opinion, Mark's voice has matured over the last ten years, so that he can carry with his vocals the emotion that was previously embodied in a wall of guitar effects and percussion. The highlights of Mark's performance were the twin masterpieces of Nowhere, "In A Different Place" and "Dreams Burn Down", "Chrome Waves" from Ride's pinnacle Going Blank Again, and his debut solo effort on Shifty Disco a few years back, "Magdalen Sky". Making the night even better, opening for Mark were Junior Panthers, old friends from San Francisco. Their debut self-released album is terrific, and it felt great to go to a show and see familiar faces. They headed down to Providence with Rob and Roo after the show. I hope those two survived the drunken night that must've ensued.
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Rob (www)	1:39pm 4/17/2003
Actually, the drunken night was pretty tame. Anthony passed out on the couch and the rest of us, completely worn out from rockin' out, followed suit soon after. Of course, we had to tell them about the ghost priest before they headed off to slumberland. ;)

vroo	7:04pm 4/17/2003
huh? What ghost priest? :) And I so knew you guys weren't staying up. How could you top a visit to Redneck's? :) My apologies to anyone I was rude to that night...especially Ted. <3

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