Ryan Adams Related Material
06/11/2009
“Ballad to a Wigged Dog” on Ryanada.ms homepage as of 5 Nov. 2009.
needs no explanation. just is.
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in other news: Ryan Adams is now 35 years old! Happy Bird-day
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Happy 35th David Ryan Adams.
Nov. 5, 1974
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31/10/2009
“Halloweenhead” by Ryan Adams and The Cardinals, BBC Sessions
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"Not Safe For Work or Play"
"Not Safe For Work or Play"
10.31.08 Apollo
10.31.08 Apollo
10.31.08 Apollo
10.31.08 Apollo
classic slab of meaty pink marble vinyl
October 31st
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One year ago today, Ryan Adams was playing the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NYC, with his then band, The Cardinals.
Who would have guessed one year later RA would be releasing his “classic slab of meaty pink marble vinyl” on Ryanada.ms, (of which is now Sold Out,) and working on his third book/novel “about nothing,” all while sporting a scruffy beard and exposing “Not Safe For Work or Play” photos?
Jump for the Apollo gig’s entire sound recording
(*All ‘10.31.08 Apollo’ photos taken by Chris La Putt at BrooklynVegan.com)
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At least we now know where DRA has been these past few weeks of hibernation from the ‘public eye,’ so to speak, of hardcore fans — a highly exclusive and special sect of the human race spread across the surface of the globe; a reaching that extends from great centers of human activity, to earth’s equivalence of outer space’s black holes.
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Halloweenhead (posted Thanksgiving 2008, with Wilson and Barnabus (?)) but pretend it’s a Happy Halloween song from RA to you.
Happy Halloween, have a good one, DRA fans
“This song is only relevant to the general public one day a year, but I’m a Halloween Head EVERY DAY!”
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23/10/2009
Wow, I’m thinking this is from when Ryan & the Cards played “Fix It” on Letterman, but he didn’t wear those shoes…or maybe this was from another concert.
(*art by funrama on flickr)
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ryanada.ms homepage as of 12:00am 23 Oct. 2009
can anyone explain?
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ah! thanks for the answers! I had no idea. Conclusion: It’s a death star that looks like a pumpkin. For some reason Star Wars never occurred to me.
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21/10/2009
(*mandella45’s flickr photostream)
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20/10/2009
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Some photos from “LIVEfromtheNYPL’s” official photostream on Flicker.com
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giftwrapped reblogged this from you and added:
You have to love the way he talks with his hands. :)
Oh we do.
We.
Do.
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Guitar Player of the Week. Week #32.
Ryan Adams
Mixing the heartfelt angst of a singer/songwriter with the cocky brashness of a garage rocker, Ryan Adams is at once one of the few artists to emerge from the alt-country scene to achieve mainstream commercial success and the one who most strongly refused to be defined by the genre, leaping from one spot to another stylistically as he follows his increasingly prolific muse. Adams was born in Jacksonville, NC, in 1974. While country music was a major part of his family’s musical diet when he was young (he’s cited Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Merle Haggard, and Johnny Cash as particular favorites), in his early teens Adams developed a taste for punk rock and he began playing electric guitar.
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18/10/2009
Blackbook: Ryan Adams & Yoko Ono: What Lies Beneath
Blackbook interview, by Ryan Adams, 14 Oct 2009
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Some illuminating excerpts from the interview:
RA: Sean was my neighbor in L.A. He seems like he was such a prodigy. Was he a precocious child?
YO: He made himself, by himself. John and I never wanted to push him into music, so I was prepared that he might become an archaeologist or something. John didn’t even want to tell him that he was a Beatle. Sean found out from someone else. One day, he even asked John, “Were you a Beatle?” But he was always there when I recorded something. I think it started when John and I did Double Fantasy, and John would say that Sean should come. After John’s passing, Sean was always there at my recordings. And he experienced it—he remembers that I used this instrument or that instrument. Later, when Sean was in his twenties, I found out that he knew all of the Beatles’ songs, all of John’s songs and all of my songs—every lyric.
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RA: When I used to play music with him just for fun, he was never really assertive about his ideas.
YO: He is very sensitive and very careful. That’s the difference between his dad and him, in a way. His dad was more arrogant. Sean is just as complex as John, but he has a kind of sensitivity that makes him not arrogant. While we were recording, I remember watching Sean and thinking, “Is that my son in there?” Whenever I’m talking to him—I can’t help it—he’s still my 5-year-old son. He’ll say, “I’m not 5 years old anymore, mommy,” and I’m like okay, whatever. But this time around, he made a big jump into becoming a very experienced and talented musician. That helped this record, in a different way than I ever could have imagined.
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RA: Do you have any rituals that you do before you play a concert? I always change my shoes three times, because it calms me down.
YO: Nothing calms me down. I just try to drink sparkling water and then when I get on the stage I forget about the fact that I was nervous—it’s strange that way. But before that, it’s terrible.
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Conclusion: Ryan Adams has been neighbors with every amazing person ever.
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