Anyone going to see Ryan Adams in London?
Posted by: ChrisG on 20 November 2003
If so get there early and make sure you catch "Steve Wynn and the Miracle Three", who at Mr Adams request are opening for him.
Steve had almost completed a European tour when he got the call to open on all Ryan's European dates. The story goes that during the recording of Ryan's new album he listened to the Dream Syndicate's "Days of Wine and Roses" album in heavy rotation. Steve was the frontman, writer and guitarist in "Dream Syndicate".
If you go to the gig, you can also pick up Steve's last two excellent albums, "Here Come The Miracles" and "Static Transmission" both doubles at an attractive price. They may even have the vinyl versions there.
This is a fine band who really come into their own in a live setting. I've seen upwards of 40 gigs this year (including Arthur Lee at the RFH) and Steve and the band are amongst the top three.
You have been warned!
Chris
Posted on: 21 November 2003 by ChrisG
Jeremy
Not heard the "Rock n Roll" album, I'n not a great fan, most of his stuff sounds like a pastiche of other artists to me, but I'll give him a chance to prove me wrong live. The chance to see Steve Wynn with a decent PA was too tempting!
It could be a case of "Follow that Ryan"!
Chris
Chris
Posted on: 21 November 2003 by Minky
Despite early "reservations" about "Rock and roll" I can now say without a doubt that, as with most worthwhile music, perseverance definitely pays off. This album has some great tracks on it and yes, some crap ones too, but it has an undefinable magic that keeps you coming back for more. If you took a bunch of otherwise pro-Adams reviewers, I would say that any rating from 1 to 5 stars would be appropriate, depending on the number of times they have listened to it.
Posted on: 22 November 2003 by kan man
I have Heartbreaker, Demolition and Gold that I have managed to get on vinyl and rate them in that order (not listened to Gold much yet). Can anyone suggest the next one to go for?
Thanks
Steve
Posted on: 23 November 2003 by kan man
That's a help - I didn't realise I had the first three - maybe I should go look on Amazon or something. I came across him because I saw someone raving about him here and located the relevant mp3's for a listen.
The pressings I have are pretty good. Heartbreaker especially is a nice thick slab and is quite jaw dropping at times in terms of fidelity and emotion. Demolition is a bit flimsy but still sounds very good and Gold is on chunky vinyl too.
Regards
Steve
Posted on: 23 November 2003 by redeye
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Originally posted by kan man:
I have Heartbreaker, Demolition and Gold that I have managed to get on vinyl and rate them in that order (not listened to Gold much yet). Can anyone suggest the next one to go for?
Thanks
Steve
Couple of superb albums with his former band Whiskeytown.
If you don't own Strangers Almanac in particular you are missing out in a big way. Actually, buy 'em all then start building your Steve Earle collection. Even better..
red
Posted on: 27 November 2003 by ChrisG
Last night was Ryan Adams at The Forum, this is the first show of his that I've seen and I was a little less than impressed. A workmanlike band, with a toatlly(IMHO) contrived frontman.
After telling us that he "would be playing all night" he played barely an hour, before leaving the stage and returning after what seemed like an age for the encore. There were long gaps between songs and Ryans verbals were somewhere beneath 6th form poetry.
There was a point when he complained that his band were terrible and grouped all five players around him for a pow wow. This seemed quite an off the cuff thing until a friend pointed out that he did exactly the same "spontaneous" act at the Manchester gig a few nights earlier!
The songs were mostly from "Rock and Roll" and live they all sounded like Nirvana to me, oh apart from the one where Ryan announced after he'd played it "that's my favourite Oasis song".At least he has a sense of humour.
As he left after the first set he announced "I'm off to commit suicide" which was a fib cos he came back for an encore!
Naturally the audience loved it all.
Glad I went, it was an interesting evening, and Steve Wynn who opened was something else, despite having to cope with a muddy sound mix, but I gues that's the lot of the support act at a rock gig. He went down well and there were a lot of names on his e-mail list on the merch desk.
Anyone who likes intelligent(or not) songs with great guitar, should get a copy of "Here Come The Miracles" or "Static Transmission" both double CD's at £10 on Blue Rose.They even have vinyl copies of the latter.
Next gig Suede at The Astoria.
Chris
