HAPPY MONDAYS: Drummer Gaz on Paul Ryder, Gigs with Oasis & Solo UK Tour
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
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My Happy Mondays story, I worked at HMV years ago, me and my mate were told to do a display for the sale in the front window. We did a big Happy Mondays display and wrote in huge letters on the window, GET BUMMED FOR £2.99.
Fair price
I assume there was a sale on?
What year would that be?
Late 90’s I assume? You old dog..
Lmao!😁🤣🤣✌
Really impressive James, how you handled talking about Paul's death was an exemplary example of an intellectual way to interview.
Gaz was the drummer that got me to pick up sticks and a drum kit great interview ...... Certainly more than just an oasis nerd James 👌👍
Nice interview with Gaz. Paul was a great bass player, quite underrated - big influence on me. I'm lucky to have his old Ibanez bass that he used on Squirrel... and Bummed, videos, TOTP, GMEX.... Exchanged messages with him over the years. He was always gracious, friendly & humble.... asking me if I still had his old bass & to look after it.
Legend...Love to see that..😀❤️
I loved the happy mondays. At the time they were such a totally new sound. Great memories
Incredible band...the first 3 albums are fantastic and have stood the test of time.. totally original sound
Yeah. Fantastic band.
About 6 years ago Bez started a political party called, We Are The reality party, and ran for the post of Mayor of Salford. I attended, and gave speeches at party rallies. He didn't win but he did get more votes than the Greens. Black Grape played a fund raising gig at Granada studios which attracted people and supporters from across the whole country. That's my sort of Mondays story. And if anyone wants to know, yes we All got off our faces and partied like it was the old days.
Straight up wow .
Gary Whelan and Paul Ryder were and are a massively under rated rhythm section
Damn Right..
Much love to this man, talking about this. Life changing band for this Old UK head living in Australia. And a great interview. Gaz seems earnest and straight up. Could listen to him for ages.
I Really enjoyed this video James. Gaz tells a great story. I was in a band “Big Arm” with Paul Ryder some years ago. Like many others, I was gutted to hear of his passing. The questions you asked Gaz were incredibly respectful. Much love to you.
To be honest, when I heard 'Hallelujah' I was hooked. Bought the 'Madchester' 12 inch which I still have then bought 'Bummed' with the naked inner sleeve.
I lent it to a mate as you you do and by then I was into the roses and manyany other Indie bands.
Then I saw Paul Oakenfolds remix of Hallelujah in woolworths with another few tracks and snapped it up.
Few years passed and Bummed never got back to me.
I was fuming.
Bought another copy but the inner was a plain card.
25 years later I saw someone selling the original on a Facebook page..
HAPPY FOOOOKIN DAYZ
.Humanity restored ..Great interview BTW..R.I.P Horse.❤️
In my pre RUclips days I bought the Call The Cops DVD and was mesmerized by the close ups of Paul's fretwork. I love playing the bass and really paid attention. And I must say this was a very well done and respectful interview.
You can see him using slap technique on that DVD if I remember correctly?
@@larrydavid6852 Yes. And as an added bonus you get to see comedian Keith Allen dancing like a constipated gorilla onstage during the song 'Wrote For Luck'.
Great groovy drummer! Thanks Gaz.
Thanks for the quirky songs, rythmns and fun.
RIP Paul Ryder.
James, I’m dead impressed that good pals of your guest all know exactly who you are. You’re the most impressive channel I’ve come across in Brit rock & more widely in music this year.
I’ve loved Justin Hawkins Rides Again channel for a while & he’s great & a deeply talented musician, a funny sympathetic character and roams widely, I particularly enjoy your deep focus, with a gradually widening scan. No faking what you do. I also get a kick out of the detective part of your character. Also your candour in sharing your take while not being an arse is quite a balancing trick.
Nicely done :)
We need more bands like the Monday’s
My guitar teacher is Seth Leppard of Black Grape.. he’s a good guy.
He wasn’t the guitarist on the first two albums, that was Wags from Paris Angels
My favourite band. Well done and thank you x
Fantstic and very sensitive interview James - I have such great memories of the Mondays while I was at Uni - such an amazing few years to be at that age. RIP Paul.
I knew Paul when were kids at school. Best pals for a couple of years.
I saw Paul last August. He insisted we went to a cafe not a bar 🙂
He was a great friend at school and it was great to catch up with him after 40 years.
He spoke of Gaz. My barber also knows Gaz too.
RIP Paul.
I was 14 when Pills and Thrills came out. That album changed me and my life forever. And i havent ever looked back.
What a legend, an influence on generations of drummers... still my favourite band
I went to see the Happy Mondays when I was 13. It was the pills n thrills tour.my first gig and remains to this day my best ever gig.
Absolute legend.... followed the Mondays since 89......rip horse
Another great video James, your channel is really taking off and you are becoming the RUclipsr that all the stars are going to want to talk to and that's testament to your knowledge and attention to detail. Someday it will be Noel sitting there (and/or Liam). Stoked for you mate.
great interview James, Gaz played on some of my favourite albums
Good work James. Well done
Great interview, Gaz is a legend. Cheers both
Top interview. Love the mondays were and still are favourite band. Rip Paul ryder
Gaz is a legend, love the Mondays …..
Superb interview. Love the Mondays .
Cities in the park was a great gig . Heaton park 1991. 👍👍
Definitely the best band to come out of Manchester!😁, RIP Paul!😔🙏 gone, but will never be forgotten ,Madchester forever!😜💜✌
The Mondays were a massive part of my life growing up in Manchester, as were a few manc bands back then. I was in my late teens and I blame my bad behaviour on these guys 🤣
Thanks for another great video
I had no idea Paul Ryder had passed. R. I. P. So many in the last few years.
Allo Gaz,been watching Paul's story, sorry for the loss of your friend x
Good work, James--very kind and empathetic. Well done. I worked as flyposter for out of a depot in King's Cross back in 1988-89, and one of the bands whose posters I pasted over North London were for a new, emerging band. Guess who. --Kevin Whelan (no relation to Gaz)
Superb chat, lads. What a treat. 😎♥️
Great interview!... Your channel gets better all the time!
Anything about the Mondays is worth a listen/watch.
Nice one James, such a relaxed interview/chat considering how recent his passing was.
When the Mondays played Glastonbury, hundreds of lads from Salford turned up, some were mates of the band from the Little Hulton Estate and Salford precinct. Lets just say thatThese lads had a free for all on site
First band that I really fell in love with.
That little anecdote about Paul's reason for not smoking is hilarious. "All that back and forth, seems like too much exercise" :D
1st lads off a ruff astate! Top
Re: Glastonbury 1990... The fence was the same in 1992 as it had been in previous years so I'm not sure there's any truth to your notion that anything changed on the perimeter at all. The big noticeable change came in the early 2000's when they put up a second fence around (or inside) the main one.
For the record though, there were major incidents with travellers at that event. As a result, the travellers area that had existed previously was dismissed for previous festivals and security stepped-up.
One thing I will say I noticed from the Mondays presence at the festival in 1990 was a huge increase in chemicals in effect. Drugs had obviously always been present at Glastonbury but, that year, the amount of folks either tripping or on E was impossible to ignore. A great vibe all the same though.
And I pretty sure that the absence of the festival in 1991 was simply to let the ground rejuvenate. The organisers had done this (and continue to do so) throughout.
And the second Wembley gig in 2000... Shaun didn't do The King for the majority of the support slot but there was an instance where he did croon out a little Elvis in-between songs (in Elvis shades too). And, yes, Liam did make a brief appearance, arms aloft, to embrace Shaun and make his presence known.
Cheers. Another great podcast.
I went to the Elland road gig and what a concert!
I remember some guy dancing on top of the flood lights and the police trying to get him to come down!
I could tell you some Jay Rhodes stories, but I probably shouldn't. The Mondays Glasto 1990 escapades wasn't just about copying passes, it was about taking a fully featured and colour photocopying machine down there in order to facilitate the copying that was impressive.
Great Video James.
Great interview James
Oh yeah I was at the second Oasis gig in 2000 when the Mondays supported them - not just saying this cos he's on your podcast. but the Mondays blew Oasis away that night - obviously Liam was having an 'off' night to put it mildly, but musically the Mondays were superior: just full of beans and vibrance and showed Oasis who was boss (at least in terms of live performance). The dark energy was evident from the second Oasis strolled out (apart from Liam's earlier stage entrance when he danced with Shaun and flipped the bird to the audience, which suggested good things to come...). I remember sleeping on it and waking up the next day remembering how much better the Mondays had been compared to Oasis that night - even if it had been their headline show, it would've over-shadowed Oasis's set by a mile...they just got the crowd in the right mood and had a nice, colourful vibe. Sorry folks, but that's the truth, and I say that as a fan. Even when I saw Oasis play the third night at Finsbury Park in 2002, the Black Rebel Motorclyce Club blew them away (albeit they did far shorter set, and this was still much better than the Wembley gig). Maybe Oasis were just complacent and older by this point (essentially becoming more corporate and doing it for the money, which they'd be stupid to turn down), and the support act is just has more to prove. But on both occasions Oasis felt largely lifeless, a bit static, even by their usual standards. I will caveat that I think seeing them in the 90s would've been a much more enjoyable, rounded experience - judging by clips of the band playing on RUclips from the 90s, the gigs looked far more heterogenous (a nice mix of ages, boys and girls) and a band full of energy and passion - especially between 1994-1998 -, whereas the post-2000 audience, in the UK anyway, felt almost exclusively made up of laddy blokes lobbing pints of piss (i.e. not the kind of cultured or mixed demographic that makes a gig feel special, or where you might even meet your future partner). Wish I'd seen them in the 90s, basically, before they got bloated and started phoning it in. Having said that, Liam supporting the Stones in 2017 was great fun! Much more on form that I'd ever seen him with Oasis. That one time I saw the Mondays at Wembley, they were peerless! Twisted my melon man!
@@BlueValerie_ lol, thanks...I have noticed people's inability to read more than two sentences is a major inhibitor when you want to get some substantive point across. I suppose stripped to its bare essentials. Oasis pre-2000 = pedestrian music but full of beans, great gigs, epic energy. Post-2000 - phoning it in, static stage who's, booooorring.
Oasis are pony overrated, boring live, and there songs sound all the same.. blur was much better then oasis
the happy mondays backedup oasis at hampden n loch lomohd rlp horse
Really good iv James! I love your channel - all this was my era. I've still got all the ticket stubs from when I saw Oasis - 1st 1 was 18th Dec 1994 at The Academy - £8.50! Mad that price seems now! Anyhow saw The Mondays a couple of times - 1st time at The GMex which used to be a train station so the acoustics were terrible but very entertaining band to watch. Black Grape were really good too.
I'm so sorry to hear Horse has died. What a time to be 19 and a Manc! Excellent ( but hazy!) memories - Thank you James - you are doing great job documenting these times ☺👏✌
That G-mex gig on RUclips is excellent 👌
kegalormoon. Don't get me wrong - we had an amazing night and The Mondays were incredible but there's a reason why The GMex only exhibits motorbikes and wedding stuff now and not bands - I think that's coz of the acoustics ✌☺
@@ChorltonandtheWheelies yep I believe you but mad Cyril live in G-mex is awesome love the keyboards and drum beat I'm up in Scotland the Mondays our band up here G-mex was somewere that that was a mecca to go and see the Mondays 😂 now I know it's and old railway station and rotten acoustics... But a bet many people will remember it 😁👍
kegalormoon. So you're from Scotland? Had one of the best weekend's of my life seeing Oasis at Loch Lomnd. Me and my mate had tickets for both the Sat and the Sun and we stayed at a lovely hotel that was above Glasgow train station -is it still there? We were properly pleasantly surprised - it had a pool! Glasgow itself was nothing as we'd imagined it - was super clean and quite posh! Loch Lomand was beautiful, we spent the majority of the weekend E'd off our faces but I remember that the Bootleg Beatles were a definite highlight - all the support bands were good but nothing can beat The Beatles in my head so it was double bubble! Thanks for replying, they really were Happy happy days! 😊✌
@@ChorltonandtheWheelies yep the hotel is still there there was a guy on national news hanging out a window in that hotel can't remember if he fell the city centre has been going down hill the last few year lots of homeless and lots of drug addicts have took too hanging under the bridge at Glasgow Central its all ove you tube and argyll St but most city's a similar atm . But the Loch lomond gig I fell out with OASIS at that gig as it was first time credit card was used for a gig at the time we got through on the phone and it eventually went threw and told us to say the number followed by hash key none of us new what that was an 5 hands start pressing buttons 🤦🏻♂️and we lost the call we were young at the time and didn't have credit cards and queuing for tickets was normal., your right tho great time seeing oasis charlatans Inspial carpets stereo mcs primal scream just to mention a few I was sure great times 👍
the mondays made summer 1990, imho. A fantastic band with great tunes and still sound brilliant. RIP Paul Ryder. 🙏💯💯
1990 was one of the best years of my life. Cheers Gaz!
Elland Road Live is a reaaly great live gig in my opinion. Loads of atmosphere, fun and groove. Apart from the synth voice on Walking Miracle. Which may have inspired Cher later in life! Just kidding.
I was at the 2004 Clapham Common gig and it was being professionally filmed; and I've seen a few seconds of it on a documentary since -- but I wonder if the whole footage will ever be released? I remember the gig being awesome.
Good work James. Any chance you could do some stuff on the most underrated band of the 90s, Shed Seven?
RIP Paul
Mondays legends.
Them GOLD are amazing
My first and forever lasting love those lads, Squirrel and Bummed are still to this day my favourites. The originality and sheer ball's of those albums make everything else pale by comparison .
Proper Lads......
3:13 you were there for the first
Only heard that great solo towards the end of Lazyitis on Bummed (cut to 1:26 - ruclips.net/video/90-F5KTy2ak/видео.html ) and realised its similarity to the opening of another, even more successful Manchester bands' debut album's opening salvo...the original of course being far superior and showing scally Noel's incorrigible theft of nifty little riffs. RIP Paul Ryder. keep up these great vids, James.
“They were very Manchester, didn’t know if they were too Manchester!?”
Ah, you earned everyone of them discs on wall pal. Ya mum is right to have em on display.
Mission Impossible ... Get an interview with Reni...
Don't bother trying! Possibly my favourite drummer of all time but I imagine he'd spend the whole interview tryina one-up or outsmart James!
There’s no footage I’ve spent days looking
This needs subtitles
Please make a video about the hate between Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher
Glastonbury 1990 yep next big event the poll tax riots.
If it wasn't for Paul's bass...I probably wouldn't have listened to the band
Look at you being posh saying Mum, and not mam
Did Paul have the vacs?
Yes
James get in contact with me if you want to do something on flowered up... im on Instagram messages me
Be brilliant if someone did something on Flowered Up - great band
@@elfranco7011 there maybe a documentary coming next year with the release of weekender video coming on blue Ray.
Plus weekender video is going to be showing at the BFI flim Festival in London October and thank you for saying we was a good band.. it was short lived, plague with problems from the very start..drink drugs, money, and a wan8er of a manager.. in fact he's a dog he should have been sack maybe things might of been different for us.. 2005 when we played after 17 odd years was fantastic being round them boys was such a heart warming affair..
@@johntuvey3636 You’re very welcome Sir - yeah really sad how it all turned out for your band. That music is with us all forever now tho. Wow you were the drummer (sorry just googled you) i only remember the Maher brothers names. Must’ve been great fun drumming in that band, the drums sound superb on those songs. Vive La Flowered Up
@@elfranco7011 yeah boss I was that man behind the drum kit..and it's was brilliant playing live it was all the other stuff that was crap..