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Andrew Piran "Andy" Bell (born 11 August 1970) is a Welsh musician who plays guitar in the band Ride. He is a songwriter, singer, producer, DJ and former member of the band Hurricane #1. He is also well known as the former bass guitarist for the British rock band Oasis and the guitarist for its successor band Beady Eye. ==Ride== (詳細はRide with Mark Gardener (guitarist), whom he met at Cheney School in Oxford and Laurence Colbert (drummer) and Steve Queralt (bassist), whom he met doing Foundation Studies in Art and Design at Banbury in 1988. While still at Banbury the band produced a tape demo including the tracks "Chelsea Girl" and "Drive Blind". In February 1989, Ride were asked to stand in for a cancelled student union gig at Oxford Polytechnic that brought them to the attention of Alan McGee. After supporting The Soup Dragons in 1989 McGee then signed them to Creation Records. This was a key musical event in Bell's life. With Ride, Bell released three EPs between January and September 1990, entitled ''Ride'', ''Play'' and ''Fall''. While the EPs were not chart successes, enough critical praise was received to make Ride the darlings of music journalists. The first two EPs were eventually released together as ''Smile'' in 1992, while the ''Fall'' EP was later incorporated into CD releases of their debut LP, ''Nowhere'', released in October 1990, which was hailed as a critical success, with the media dubbing Ride "the brightest hope" for 1991. There was a rumour that as part of the Great British Music Weekend concert in 1990 (approx) that Robert Smith (The Cure) refused to appear unless Ride were also in the list of acts playing. Ride did appear along with The Wedding Present, Carter USM and The Cure. ''Nowhere'' was followed in March 1992 with ''Going Blank Again''. The twin rhythm guitars of Bell and Gardener, both distorted, both using Wah-wah pedals and both feeding back on each other was seen as the highlight of the album's critical and chart success. Despite having a solid fanbase and some mainstream success, the lack of a breakthrough contributed to intra-band tension, especially between Gardener and Bell. Their third LP, ''Carnival of Light'', was released in 1994, after shoegazing had given way to Britpop. ''Carnival of Light'' was oriented towards this new sound, but sales were sluggish and the shift in musical tastes devastated much of their original audience. The band were joined at Creation Records by Oasis, who shot to fame in 1994 with their debut ''Definitely Maybe''. As label mates, Bell came to know the band's Gallagher brothers well and often shared in their partying, if not their success. 1995 saw the dissolution of the band while recording their fourth album, ''Tarantula'', due to creative and personal tensions between the two guitarists. Bell penned most of the songs for the album, one of which – "Castle on the Hill" – was a lament for the band's situation and contains references to Gardener's self-imposed exile from the group. Upon release of the album, it was announced that it would be deleted after one week. Since the break-up, both Bell and Gardener have been more reflective on the reasons why the group disintegrated, with Bell especially admitting his own part in the process. In 2014 it was announced that Ride had re-formed and would perform a series of tour dates in Europe and North America in 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andy Bell (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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