― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)
And kick him for me. Hard.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― nick.K (nick.K), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)
You can leave it in 'though - might be good for a laugh.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.nihilistdisco.matterwave.net/images/yakidk.jpg
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)
“Rock, it needs to be true. When the guy sings, ‘I’m going down to Kansas City to get me some crazy little women and I’m gonna get me one,’ you have to believe he’s going to Kansas City, he knows about crazy women and he wants to get him one. And if we do that, bingo, it rings.”
And when he does laugh and point at him and say "Dude, you just agreed with Huey Lewis! How lame are you?"
― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― athos magnani (Cozen), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)
except huey always seems like a nice guy
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)
Some of his stuff is piano-only. Now he detest music made by completely electronic goodies.
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 13 November 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 13 November 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 13 November 2003 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)
"Do you ever get confused for alt-country singer Ryan Adams?"
"Are you running away or dancing on the cover of Cuts Like A Knife? Or is there a third, more risque reason for the pose?"
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 13 November 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 November 2003 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)
Because I'd rather be asking "How come everything I've heard from you wants to make me stab you?"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Vic (Vic), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)
david, hm...
― typo acapulco (gcannon), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Christian Rawk (Christian Rawk), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)
I didn't know about him having beef with Robbie Fulks - what's that about? Somebody fill me in.
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 14 November 2003 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Vic (Vic), Friday, 14 November 2003 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)
do you think that kevin costner will approach you to do a soundtrack for one of his films?
who's fatter, jim derogatis or jim o'rourke?
in a bar-room brawl between you and jeff tweedy, which one of you would be the one who gets dragged along the counter?
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)
who's filthier, you or andrew wk?
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Friday, 14 November 2003 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 14 November 2003 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil, Friday, 14 November 2003 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.jjrecords.com/Images/Imagesevents/ORourke.jpg
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Friday, 14 November 2003 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)
Sadly not the Spandau Ballet song of the same name.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 14 November 2003 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)
October 17th, 2002Piss off Ryan Adams, win a prize!Site user HiramW1 was the first to report the following amusing anecdote:
"Singer-songwriter Ryan Adams is not amused by the similarity of his name to Canadian rocker Bryan Adams. At a Ryan Adams concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, someone in the audience yelled out a request for Summer of '69, a Bryan Adams hit. Ryan Adams, former leader of the band Whiskeytown, reacted with a stream of expletives and ordered the house lights turned on. The alternative country musician found the fan who made the joke request, paid him $30 as a refund for the show, ordered him to leave and said he wouldn't play another note until that happened. The auditorium's general manager, Pam Matthews, stopped the fan on his way out, "apologized profusely" and allowed him back into the concert. The fan kept Adams's $30."
We here at RobbieFulks.Com find that just too damn funny. So much in fact that Robbie made this offer:
"Any reader on this site who attends a Ryan Adams show and disrupts the show with a Bryan Adams song request will receive in return merchandise of his or her choice, equal to the cost of the ticket, from my online store. You're on the honor system, necessarily; but please provide the date and location of the show, what you yelled, and what Ryan's reaction was."
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)
On a more serious note, perhaps you ought to ask him about Elliott Smith.
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)
It occurs to me (being a person who at one time counted Whiskeytwon as one of his favorite bands) that Ryan could avoid all the "Bryan Adams" crap by going by his real name, which, if you read the liner notes to Faithless Street, isn't Ryan at all - it's DAVID.
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)
It's small wonder that rock critics love Ryan Adams: Dude sure knows how to push their buttons. On his breakthrough solo album, 2001's ''Gold,'' the young, ex-Whiskeytown singer-guitarist came on like 10 different great '60s/'70s artists, recalling everyone from the Rolling Stones and Neil Young to The Band and Traffic. Playing spot-the-influences was half the fun with this guy (although, truth be told, he did manage to stamp every song with his own distinct persona). On kcoR N lloR, Adams seems to have moved on to cribbing from '80s and '90s role models. ''So Alive'' channels early U2, while ''Burning Photographs'' could be a lost B side from A Flock of Seagulls. Despite its title, ''This Is It'' evokes not the Strokes but the Replacements. (Indeed, the shadow of former 'Mats main man Paul Westerberg hangs heavy over this album -- not to mention over Adams' own booze-stoked, I-toss-off-future-classics-between-boilermakers cartoon image). In keeping with the alt-rock aesthetic, there is a primitive urgency to many of these tracks -- in particular, ''Note to Self: Don't Die,'' which sounds like the best Nirvana pastiche Bush never got around to doing -- but it doesn't all add up to a CD that's as good as ''Gold.'' That's probably because the source material carries considerably less mythos. Will '60s/'70s always beat '80s/'90s? You betcha -- until someone manages to convince us that Bush were greater than the Stones. Grade: B
― Vic (Vic), Saturday, 15 November 2003 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Saturday, 15 November 2003 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)
When was this published? I used this EXACT phrase in my review a month ago. (I'm sure I unknowingly ripped it off someone else, but still.) (also I know it's horrible writing.)
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― HuckleberryMann, Saturday, 15 November 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)
He thinks he must have been a slave trader in a previous life for all the shit he's getting now.
There's a convenient dodge. "Clearly it's not my OWN fault people hate me!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)
So, how's olde England treating you?It's fuckin' depressing. We're at the BBC studio to perform on Jools Holland's music show, and it's dark at 4:30 so it might as well be fuckin' midnight. It's fucked up. I miss being home in New York.
Are the Brits giving you slack over your president's visit?Aw, I don't give a fuck about that guy. He's not my president. I don't think he's anybody in the US's president. Apparently he didn't even win the election. He's an idiot. I think he bumped his head on the plane on the way here. He's just a masthead, it's Donald Rumsfeld who's running stuff. But what do I know? It's none of my business, they're the ones that control the world, I just wanna play music.
Rock N Roll is lot heavier and less polished than Gold. Was that a deliberate attempt to rough things up?It's more interesting for people to say I have a masterplan or something, but I just wrote a bunch of songs and put them on the record. It happened that me and Johnny [Pisano, Adams' bassist] don't have an acoustic guitar in our rehearsal space, just electrics. We wanted to play more loud and obtuse, like a live show. No plans to release a trendy electronica record then?Well, I've got some pretty weird shit at the house. I'd like to write an opera or something, but there's not enough fuckin' time in the day. I have a new band, Werewolph, with me, Johnny on drums, my friend Spanky singing, and this girl Sarah on bass. It's really fuckin' heavy stuff. Really, really, really. Goth-heavy. Like the Sisters of Mercy?No, more like The Melvins. Some of the other guys think it sounds like Black Sabbath or Voivod. It's gonna come out on my label when it's done, but I have to get home from touring to record it. You're not playing any older music on the tour.I played songs [from the new albums] on the first night and people bitched about 'em online and stuff. But then I thought, "fuck everybody," so now I'm only doing songs from Love Is Hell and Rock N Roll. It's like, shit man, I just released two fuckin' records, I should probably be playing them on tour. Maybe the new stuff doesn't make people happy, maybe they want me to stay the same. It's not gonna happen though. I have to grow up. Music journalists tend to be quite snarky about your image as a rock 'n' roll hellraiser. Y'know, whatever karmatically I've done to end up in this position where I seem to be in constant quarrel with people, people havin' problems with me, it's just fuckin' amazing. Y'know, I must have lynched the fuck out of somebody in a past life, or maybe some of my relatives were in the slave trade, or like they were the guys that invented bullets. Something very wrong.
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 27 November 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 27 November 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)
I want to kill him.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 November 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 27 November 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 November 2003 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)
My favourite part, which I edited for, um, clarity, was him saying: "I'd like to write an opera. (Pause.) Or something. (Pause.) But first, there's not enough fuckin. (Pause.) Time in the. (Pause.) Say. (Pause.) And second. (Long pause.) Second is that there is also not enough time in the day."
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 27 November 2003 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 27 November 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pete S, Thursday, 27 November 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)