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 Post subject: Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:12 pm 
wilsmith wrote: bigideas wrote: he started up his blog.
he's already demoed a whole record's worth of songs at Electric Ladyland. various GarageBand demos and videos. http://foggy.davidryanadams.com/ Rollingstone had an article about it, he compared it to Love Is Hell, so I will be a very happy camper as they gave those songs great treatments as a band live. I went and got Heartbreaker and Jacksonville City Nights the other day, and I get why people who liked his countrier vibe didn't like alot of what's come sense, it's all pretty good if you're in that mood. Funny, the songs I like on those records are NOT the ones everyone raves about. Ever the contrarian... which songs do you like? _________________ I am Torgo. I take care of the place while the Master is away. |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:50 am
bigideas wrote: wilsmith wrote: bigideas wrote: he started up his blog.
he's already demoed a whole record's worth of songs at Electric Ladyland. various GarageBand demos and videos. http://foggy.davidryanadams.com/ Rollingstone had an article about it, he compared it to Love Is Hell, so I will be a very happy camper as they gave those songs great treatments as a band live. I went and got Heartbreaker and Jacksonville City Nights the other day, and I get why people who liked his countrier vibe didn't like alot of what's come sense, it's all pretty good if you're in that mood. Funny, the songs I like on those records are NOT the ones everyone raves about. Ever the contrarian... which songs do you like? Give me a day on that, I am in the midst of randomizing my playlist to get on the lastfm bandwagon and represent my taste "accurately" I know most people love "Come pick me up" and "to be young is to be..." but there are others I love more. I'll do the due diligence and follow up. _________________ yup, that's my name. FOR YOUR RATING PLEASURE: 4 LIKE Buttons, 1 NEUTRAL, 1 VEXED, 5 DISLIKE buttons. LC > FB           
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:29 am
wilsmith wrote: bigideas wrote: wilsmith wrote: bigideas wrote: he started up his blog.
he's already demoed a whole record's worth of songs at Electric Ladyland. various GarageBand demos and videos. http://foggy.davidryanadams.com/ Rollingstone had an article about it, he compared it to Love Is Hell, so I will be a very happy camper as they gave those songs great treatments as a band live. I went and got Heartbreaker and Jacksonville City Nights the other day, and I get why people who liked his countrier vibe didn't like alot of what's come sense, it's all pretty good if you're in that mood. Funny, the songs I like on those records are NOT the ones everyone raves about. Ever the contrarian... which songs do you like? Give me a day on that, I am in the midst of randomizing my playlist to get on the lastfm bandwagon and represent my taste "accurately" I know most people love "Come pick me up" and "to be young is to be..." but there are others I love more. I'll do the due diligence and follow up. Day = ? in your language? ***something tells me this don't last***
http://cave.cardinology.com/ me- 34-a non smoker and happy, for the first time in my life.. i am excited to finish this wonderful time i have had with the cardinals and whatever new adventures may come after march. atlanta will be my last venture with the band and i am grateful for the time we have had and maybe someday we will have more stories to tell together. i am however ready for quieter times as i think it is very evident i am struggling with some balance and hearing issues. also, no drama or anything but i am okay to step back from all of this right now and i think i did enough manic blogging when i felt alone and isolated during the last few years of travel. these last few years were the hardest i can remember and the most rewarding but i have loved ones to care for now and i am lucky i have been given a chance to turn around and see just what i am capable of as a friend and as someone who is not gone forever every year- it rendered me incapable of things i needed to be to myself and others- and my schedule sometimes never ended when the shows did- and some of that was my doing. and i lost someone i loved, and i lost myself. that changed. i got to know just who i am in this little spell of time here recently. and change is the nature of the world and i naturally embrace that. i won’t be blogging here anymore either- but not for effect- it just is not being kind to myself- i need a life that is mine- i need to grow up and grow in to who i have subtly been working back towards since i stopped all that nonsense and i know also no matter what i choose to do in the music world, because i chose to do things my way and never lie i will always be viewed as an “$#@!” ( i hear and have seen things in the past) and i am not, and i know the truth and i know who i am. also it is kind of ridiculous to blog as i am a musician and anything i say here just gets reprinted at some point out of context. i say NOT FAIR but it doesn’t matter what i say anymore or what is fair anymore really does it- the 21st century media has it’s own rules about what is true and what is not. it is not a life- not one i want to live anyway and i don’t really care to participate in narcissistic over-indulgent behavior anymore- that was never my intention- i just wanted to fight for my right to make music and to be given the benefit of the doubt. now, because i have stood up for myself and fought for myself i am labeled all kinds of awful things. well, i will walk away now and it will not matter what anyone say’s. there are other things i can do in this life, other ways to be creative and to try and help others and be expressive without being demonized for attempting to gain the same things any other human being desires- love- friendship- understanding- and being able to express yourself without constant fear of being mistreated for speaking up i have friends to make, brand new books coming (two of em’ not counting that one already printed and on it’s way out there and i LOVE writing….yay!) and a whole lot of living and learning to do. i am excited to step away. i lost more than anyone will ever know (hearing, someone i loved, my sense of dignity, a never ending losing battle with stage fright and now my hearing and balance due to an inner ear issue- people accusing me of not being sober when i am suffering tremendous pain and nausea from my inner ear symptoms- people accusing me of theft (THEFT- ….awful) and this is not much of a life, not glamorous like those ridiculous video’s a long time ago television played and no it is not monetarily as rewarding as people would like you to believe and yes, it is soul destroying. especially when you spend your life trying to write about the really difficult stuff and you stand there losing your way and people yell at you like you were in a circus. when it was your dream to matter and you realize one day, it never mattered- i mean, i am a punch-line and a footnote in what is worse to yell at someone besides “free-bird”. i mean, i lost. and it’s okay because i seriously snuck some pretty neat idea’s in there in the work when i was making those mistakes or they were being made by others. this business is no science. andf you know, whatever this is- it’s not my dream. and it is a punishing thing to endure when you are getting worse and worse- it’s not my dream, my dream was to try and tap into that energy i saw watching Minutemen vcr tapes when i was just a little $#@! in NC of mike watt’s crazy shaking leg and his electric fingers- or how sonic youth droned into beautiful clouds those guitars shaking, kim and steve rattling the pulsing lines into feverish thudding imaginary subway cars racing through my heart- and how it felt to just let go and static up a riff and find the sweet spot- but getting yelled at for just being a songwriter- to be called so many horrid things because i chose to love music so much, and also to look for peace and balance in my life- that is not kindness and just not my thing. at least not now. and i loved somebody. and i let others decided if that was okay and that was wrong and i was wrong and no one should deny themselves or others love or understanding because people don’t get it. that was an awful mistake. i always make big mistakes. it’s like i let myself learn that because that was a role, a niche’ i filled that make sense to a loud voice of strangers who would never really play a real part in my life. never become that if you choose this path- if you go this route with your art. never listen to those loud dissatisfied bystanders who only want to see you fail because that will be entertaining for that moment. hold fast to your dreams, hold faster to your heart and never step out of the light of that love that made you whole. i did. and i know better now. and better late than never i suppose. but i am okay now. i see a peaceful way to better days now. i am healing. and most importantly i feel loved and i have learned to treat myself with that same curiosity and lover that i have been lucky enough to feel and to learn to let guide my life. love is the great teacher and i am happy to be learning now. happy to be listening to that over this never ending painful ringing. this is the great lesson of my life. for once i want to be dignified in my study and in one place long enough to hear and understand without my pride or my lack of faith in myself leading me further away from things i need to know once and for all. this is the real work now. the rest is something else entirely. quitting smoking was a good step and i am happy i also am just now beginning to understand how important it is i take better care of myself in every way right now. hell i am even beginning to sleep a little and i can feel the things good and bad that i did not have time to feel when i was running towards a new oblivion of work, hoping somehow someday what i did would be accepted and maybe that would make me feel loved. how foolish. that is not love. love is being accepted for who you are. love is taking care of yourself and caring for others and dreaming out loud when it matters. not chasing rainbows. not hoping for some eventual collective sigh of approval which will never come. how did i ever think in those terms? i always knew better. thank goodness i know now how to be honest with myself. anyway, enjoy these shows ( i will enjoy them immensely and i will miss them just as much) and know that i am not abandoning anyone, not the cardinals and not the fans, this is just something i need to do now, and that i loved playing music in the cardinals and hell, even before i was in a place to try and learn to be well, music was my life source- and cardinals was such a heavy crush and a real dream…i honor it too much to have any regrets right now, i am just proud. maybe we will play again sometime and maybe i will work my way back into some kind of music situation but this is the time for me to step back now, to reel it in and i wish everyone peace and happiness and if music is your dream, or if just dreaming is your dream, may you find your way through the rough patch with ease and i hope you let go and it takes you all the way there- loving kindness to all. 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Post subject: Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:06 pm
Wow, I totally forgot about that, I've been so wound up in other stuff, that I never got back about the tracks I liked. and here I am posting this link from the cardinals blog to a really incredible solo piano take on Fix It: http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/a-special-performance-ryan-adams-2463617/vi deo as for the songs I like the most on those two records... Heartbreaker Bartering Lines (live this one really brought the house down) Call me on your way back home Damn Sam Why do they leave In my time of need Jacksonville City Nights Dear John (Follow the Lights version is my pref though) the Hardest Part Games Peaceful Valley (they rocked this one out Live) Don't fail me now _________________ yup, that's my name. FOR YOUR RATING PLEASURE: 4 LIKE Buttons, 1 NEUTRAL, 1 VEXED, 5 DISLIKE buttons. LC > FB
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:40 am
re: Dear John w/Norah Jones on JCN I really think they must have recorded that via live telephone conference or something. The song is really good, but their vocals do not mesh. And it's not that Ryan can't sing it, as evidence of live versions. Call Me On Your Way...I think he broke that out on his Cold Roses era ACL TV performance. And he has some EP coming out on Valentine's Day. I don't recognize the song title, "Extra Cheese." _________________ I am Torgo. I take care of the place while the Master is away. |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:02 am
Yeah, I saw that too. Extra Cheese was the only I didn't recognize either, but they say that only one of the tracks is previously unreleased, the rest are all love songs from the catalog, which is pretty massive when you throw in Whiskeytown material. and oddly enough, he's been putting up some really cool demos on the Vimeo channel they have, really good indie rock stuff, and I watched one before, but I'm home sick from work, so I'm checking out the rest today, and man, I'm diggin I Surrender and Sunflowers and Hotels. http://vimeo.com/2445137 _________________ yup, that's my name. FOR YOUR RATING PLEASURE: 4 LIKE Buttons, 1 NEUTRAL, 1 VEXED, 5 DISLIKE buttons. LC > FB
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:54 am
Pitchfork clarified that 'extra cheese' is the name of the EP. I wonder if they'll make everyone re-buy all the songs they already have just to get the one new track? _________________ I am Torgo. I take care of the place while the Master is away. |
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:41 am
bigideas wrote: Pitchfork clarified that 'extra cheese' is the name of the EP.
I wonder if they'll make everyone re-buy all the songs they already have just to get the one new track? Yeah, I caught that update, and was let down, cause I was curious what "Extra Cheese" was gonna be about and sound like... Oh well, that pizza looks tasty though. As far as Lost Highway, since he's not there whipping boy anymore, I imagine they'll try and cash in as much as possible, but who knows, they might do individual tracks since he puts out so much material people aren't as familiar with songs titles and might just blindly buy the thing. Who knows? If he's played it live it's probably up on the i archive site in high quality format from a soundboard and the rabid collectors have it. Speaking of which, the version of Crossed Out Name he did in St. Louis kills the studio version. http://www.archive.org/details/radams2008-10-04 I opened up the track, cause it's a full show and each track has the banter tacked on and audience response, which is cool, but I just wanted a straight "single" so I trimmed it and converted it, if you want that just PM me with an email address. _________________ yup, that's my name. FOR YOUR RATING PLEASURE: 4 LIKE Buttons, 1 NEUTRAL, 1 VEXED, 5 DISLIKE buttons. LC > FB
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:18 am
I'm still waiting for the Dallas show. Apparently it was recorded from the soundboard, but the guy hasn't had time to put it up anywhere yet. I saw that Fix It piano link finally. Very nice version, but I can't believe they just ended the clip in the middle of the song. _________________ I am Torgo. I take care of the place while the Master is away. |
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:15 pm
I know you have a slower connection, but if you can find a good place to get a broadband connection, check out a lot of demos for this last record and the next Ryan Adams project that he's got posted as videos on Vimeo. He may have taken down the blog, but these are still up, and still rule: http://www.vimeo.com/ryanadams/videos/sort:date if you google for dear impossible demos you'll eventually find someone who has the mp3 available for download of a handful of these songs, in high quality, and the vids as well. and in unrelated related news, Juliana Hatfield has brought back her "Honor System" mp3 sales, where she puts up unreleased songs to download on her site, and a paypal link where you can chose to donate for downloading, in good faith. I know some of you joker's won't pay, but there's some good material to be had if you're a fan. http://www.julianahatfield.com/downloads.htm _________________ yup, that's my name. FOR YOUR RATING PLEASURE: 4 LIKE Buttons, 1 NEUTRAL, 1 VEXED, 5 DISLIKE buttons. LC > FB
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:47 am
I can watch Vimeo at work...and the other week I noticed YouTube and Facebook were unbanned again.......shhhhh.
We totally skipped that he got married - or did we talk about that in the Mandy Moore thread? I noticed his European setlists now only have 2-3 songs off of Cardinology. Seems his euphoria over those songs didn't last. _________________ I am Torgo. I take care of the place while the Master is away. |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:18 am
Yeah, well, if this is the "Farewell Tour" he's made it out to be, a "Best-Of" show would be appropriate. And you know, I'm not even sure we mentioned it too much in the Mandy Moore thread. And wasn't there a Juliana Hatfield thread??? It wasn't THAT long ago. As long as he keeps doing "Fix It" Cardinology is being done justice. That is one sticky song! _________________ yup, that's my name. FOR YOUR RATING PLEASURE: 4 LIKE Buttons, 1 NEUTRAL, 1 VEXED, 5 DISLIKE buttons. LC > FB
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:52 am
http://twitter.com/ryanada_ms werewolph _________________ I am Torgo. I take care of the place while the Master is away. |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:38 am
bigideas wrote: http://twitter.com/ryanada_ms
werewolph  Dead People Unite...
the riff on Evil Weekend is pretty good though Mega Wizard... dude remains entertainingly whimsical and charismatically ridiculous _________________ yup, that's my name. FOR YOUR RATING PLEASURE: 4 LIKE Buttons, 1 NEUTRAL, 1 VEXED, 5 DISLIKE buttons. LC > FB
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:59 pm
I've seen him 3 times and every single time he does something to top the show before.I love the Easy Tiger album have listen to a track from it every weel since the album came out and will continue to do so.I met most of the Cardinals at the show I saw in Tuscaloosa and they were very approachable.I know he said he is quitting playing live and recording but I just hope its a phase hes going through.The last show I saw in Birmingham,Al was great and I wish I could find that as a download because that is one cool thing about Ryan,he lets his fans record the shows. _________________ 
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