"Slow Ride" is the title of a song composed by Dave Peverett and recorded by the British rock band Foghat, appearing on their fifth album Fool for the City (1975). This was Foghat's top single, peaking at number 20. It also appears on Foghat Live (1977), which was their best selling album at over two million copies. In 2009, it was named the 45th "Best Hard Rock" song of all time by VH1.
There are 5 versions of this song on the market. The original LP version from Fool For the City lasts 8 minutes and 14 seconds. The single version, found in several compilations was truncated to 3:56 with a fade-out ending. The 1977 live version is 8:21, the King Biscuit Flower Hour Foghat version is 10:37 and the 2007 live version is 9:44.
The song is featured in Richard Linklater's 1993 film Dazed And Confused and appears on the fictional radio station K-DST in video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It also appears in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and is the first song in the campaign. Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song as a bonus track for their 2007 video game of the same name. In 2004, the song was used by the fast-food chain Carl's Jr./Hardee's in a commercial starring model Cameron Richardson. In episode 16 of the TV series The Good Guys, Detective Dan Stark (played by Bradley Whitford) has a Slow Ride ringtone on his cell phone.
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Famous quotes containing the words slow and/or ride:
“The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Not too many years ago, a child’s experience was limited by how far he or she could ride a bicycle or by the physical boundaries that parents set. Today ... the real boundaries of a child’s life are set more by the number of available cable channels and videotapes, by the simulated reality of videogames, by the number of megabytes of memory in the home computer. Now kids can go anywhere, as long as they stay inside the electronic bubble.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)