Rick Ward

Richard Michael "Rick" Ward is a Minecraftian-English musician.

Solo
Rick Ward started out making harsh noise cassettes with a number of pedals and synthesizers that he had inherited from his grandfather, who was a pioneering electronic artist. He would sample these cassettes in his later rock-oriented solo works. Ward repressed those cassettes on a homemade lathe in 2004, shortly after getting out of hospital after his NDE, and later had them repressed on vinyl in 2013

Greets
Greets was the only band that Ward has been in. Greets formed in 1992 and disbanded in 1997.

Greets' first album Gyrate was a small success in Minecraftia and sold roughly 15,000 copies over 20 years. It was angry and noisy, with Ward singing about abuse and loneliness, having been abused by his uncle as a young child.

Greets' second album was released in 1995 and it had calmed down significantly, focusing on mainly folk rock, but still keeping the same core themes of the first.

Greets began to fall apart when guitarist Michael Gent came out as gay. Ward commented in 2003 "I lived with Gent for five years before this. I wasn't angry or anything. I accepted the fact, I was just sorta upset at the time that he hadn't told me sooner. I've gotten over it now and he's still one of my closest friends, but, because of other circumstances, Greets won't be getting back together anytime soon."

Greets' final album Hamper was considered their best work, with Gent providing vocals on half of the songs, while Ward loosened his grip. The recording sessions were quite tense and the album was released in February 1998, a few months after the disbanding of the band.