Thursday, April 17, 2008

D.R.Adams Films Inc.

Friends of mine can attest to my obsession with Ryan Adams. Yes, he’s known to lack the self-editing skills of a normal artist and he’s had many on-stage meltdowns that have alienated some fans and turned a large segment of the press against him. At the same time, the guy isn’t shy about his life (he admitted in a NY Times piece to doing speedballs — snorting heroin mixed with coke — every day for years before recently sobering up) and his Tumblr account is a wide open book that is a confusing, yet highly entertaining, read.

This week he posted eleven facts about himself, including his take on an incident that has followed him around for years. Legend has it that he had a concert goer booted from a show for requesting Bryan Adams’ Summer of 69.

From Ryan:

3. I never KICKED OUT anyone from a concert. The Ryman Auditorium (a shit hole in Nashville) has the balls to charge you for security when you play there but if some college kid, and I mean SOUTHERN college kid decides to get wasted and scream through 7 songs of a solo acoustic performance, they could give a fuck. I went into the audience and handed him what I thought the ticket price was (40 bucks) and asked him to leave. I said “you have successfully ruined this concert so here is your money, now will you go home now so I can at least try and give the rest of this audience what they paid for.”

How can you fault him for this?

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