convince me to see Ryan Adams live

[Bonochick]

Word at the Ryan board is that the rest of the tour has been cancelled.

[Bonochick]

The Moore Theater in Seattle has put on its site that tonight and tomorrow night's shows are cancelled, so that's our first confirmation.

[BVS]

[Bonochick]

Apparently, someone at the Moore told a caller that Ryan "has fallen ill and is cancelling the rest of his West Coast tour dates."

[Bonochick]

Ticketmaster shows that Oakland (8/14) has been cancelled.

[Bonochick]

What a bummer. I know of some people flying to go to these shows. One girl was planning on coming from Ireland for her birthday to see (I think) the Oakland show.

[Bonochick]

Someone called the Wiltern in Los Angeles and asked if the show was cancelled there. The guy said no.

[Snowlock]

Originally posted by elevation2u
well do it.
please convince me to go see him [them] live?
take into consideration i have yet to hear any of his music. i havent been to a concert in a good while and im interested to see one that im not that familiar w/ the music, try something different for once.

thank you,
jazmin

Seen him live twice. Both times sucked horribly. Love his music, but he's an ass. And I'm not trolling or anything either. I own every album he's put out going back to Whiskeytown. It just his live shows do not come near to expectations and he can be a flat out dick to the crowd

[Bonochick]

Ryan isn't always an ass. I mean, everybody can be an ass sometimes. But Ryan has done a lot of really great things too. I have wonderful memories of him.

[Snowlock]

Originally posted by Bonochick
Ryan isn't always an ass. I mean, everybody can be an ass sometimes. But Ryan has done a lot of really great things too. I have wonderful memories of him.

Saw him once at the State Theater in Minneapolis. He played like 10 songs, all off the current album; then unceremoniously left.

Saw him again at 1st Ave in Minneapolis. He was high or drunk (or both) off his ass. He was slagging Paul Westerberg for saying he ripped paul off (which he does do; shamelessly). Only played songs from the current album again and then was too drunk to continue. But he did leave the stage and keep coming back to antagonize the crowd about four times.

[Bonochick]

Originally posted by Snowlock


Saw him once at the State Theater in Minneapolis. He played like 10 songs, all off the current album; then unceremoniously left.

Saw him again at 1st Ave in Minneapolis. He was high or drunk (or both) off his ass. He was slagging Paul Westerberg for saying he ripped paul off (which he does do; shamelessly). Only played songs from the current album again and then was too drunk to continue. But he did leave the stage and keep coming back to antagonize the crowd about four times.

I have the banter transcribed from the show he was slagging Westerberg at. Kinda sad to listen to. He was really hurt by the comments and just lashed out.

[Bonochick]

http://come_pick_me_up.tripod.com/concerts.html#14Dec03

I'd offer you a bootleg of the show...but I doubt you'd be interested.

[BVS]

Never seen a bad show. I've seen some very unpredictabel shows, but I loved them. But never saw a show where I'd say he qualified as an ass.

[Snowlock]

Originally posted by Bonochick


I have the banter transcribed from the show he was slagging Westerberg at. Kinda sad to listen to. He was really hurt by the comments and just lashed out.

Yeah, I know. But the thing that was really disgusting about it was he was doing it in Paul's house. You could tell he was really hurt, because you can tell he's a huge fan. And Paul shouldn't have said the things he did; lord knows he ripped off enough bands in his time. But do it in the media, or call Paul up; don't pull that when I paid my 50 (or whatever it was) bucks to see him.

And play some freakin' whiskeytown; it's the best work he ever did!

[Snowlock]

Originally posted by Bonochick
http://come_pick_me_up.tripod.com/concerts.html#14Dec03

I'd offer you a bootleg of the show...but I doubt you'd be interested.

I'd be EXTREMELY interested, if for no other reason than to see if it was as bad as I remember.

Oh! And if you can faintly here members of the crowd singing Westerberg's Can't Hardly Wait during the last couple rants, that was me and about 50 others from the balcony

[Bonochick]

I'll drop you a PM.

And...yeah, all of the shows have been cancelled, but we still don't know why. Some people are speculating that Ryan is down a couple band members, but I have no idea where that rumor came from.

[Bonochick]

http://www.jessemalin.com/

The Ryan Adams tour with Jesse Malin has been cancelled.
So very sorry not to be there.
Jesse

[Bonochick]

Well, someone transcribed some details from the Vancouver show on the 9th...which is the reason for the rumor of band members gone, I suppose:

It started playful, but by the end of the exchange, Ryan was being unfair and Catherine seemed upset. She didn't seem impressed by his rantings before this, and after the incident she seemed really upset by it. It happened during Let It Ride. Catherine was playing it in the wrong key. Here's what was said:

-everyone stops playing

-Catherine - chuckles..."What was that?"

-Ryan - "Catherine, how much scotch does it take, really? There's not many rules. One fret makes a difference."

-Catherine - chuckles..."I've got four strings - I don't think I could fuck up again"

-some idiot in the crowd yells out "Freebird!" for the 50th time that night

-inaudible banter between bandmates

-Jon - (trying to take the pressure off Catherine, I'm assuming) "It was meee"

-Ryan - "Ladies and gentlemen, Josh Rouse's new guitar player, Jon Graboff!"

this is where the playfulness ended:

-Catherine - (sounding unimpressed) "But it's ok, apparently I can go fuck myself"

-Ryan - laughs..."It's a free country"

-Ryan - "Well, I don't know...i mean it's not just...it's not my imagination, I don't think anybody was playing the same notes I was, but don't mind me, I just WROTE THE FUCKING SONG!"

crowd boos

-Ryan - "Sorry, I just wrote it, so I kinda know what key it's in...I dunno...that's weird...(looking at Catherine) you might notta been there, though"

crowd boos again

band, looking kinda startled and upset with the whole thing, launch back into a GREAT version of Let It Ride.

~~~

[Bonochick]

[tuwie]

which show would you go to? because he's cancelled some of his shows =(

gosh, i just LOVE his cover of Wonderwall. <3<3