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UghHH!! I hate this video for “The Heinrich Maneuver”!
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Holy crap! Ryan Adams is on TOP of his game! Tonight’s show at Hiro Ballroom was nothing short of stellar. The sound was crystal clear and Ry Ry’s voice sounded as pure as snow. He didn’t play any guitar, so he poured 110% of himself into his vocal performance. He did an amazing rendition of “I See Monsters” that made me want to throw up all over myself–that’s how good it was.
Uh… did someone bootleg it? That was truly a fantastic performance.
Ryan looked quite spiffy–somehow reminding me of a young Tom Cruise a la “Risky Business”–with a neat little hair cut, clean shaven, sunglasses, and a button down shirt, tie, and jacket.
Also I spotted former Adams flame, Parker Posey walking south a block from the venue–so it’s probably a safe bet that she was at the show.
SETLIST (via Alt-Country.org BB):
The Sun Also Sets/ Please Do Not Let Me Go/ Oh My God, Whatever, Etc./ Let It Ride/ Dear John/ Nightbirds/ Two/ Rip Off/ Carolina Rain/ Elizabeth/ I See Monsters/ Blue Hotel/ Halloween Head/ These Girls/ Starlite Diner/ How Do You Keep Love Alive/ Winding Wheel/ Blue Sky Blues/ Goodnight Hollywood Boulevard. ENCORE: Down In A Hole (Alice in Chains cover)
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Dramatic Prairie Dog
24/7 Dramatic Prairie Dog! I laughed for hours.
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On Tuesday, 6/26, Ryan Adams will play Hiro Ballroom here in NYC. Check out the Ryan Adams Archive website for the FULL details:
Thanks to Ryan Adams, we are proud to exclusively offer tickets for the upcoming Hiro Ballroom show in NYC on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007.
This event is 21 and over and you must have valid identification. There will be a two (2) ticket purchase limit per household. All tickets are Will Call only.
The sale thru RAA is available to you now thru Monday morning when any remaining tickets will be made available to the general public.
Click here to order your tickets
Thank you and we hope you enjoy the show.
Joel
Always look on the bright side of life! ~Monty Python
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…will go here. In the meantime, read my 5-minute knee-jerk review from the night of the show.
What I have so far…
Opening act The Citizens Band came on around 9:40pm. As I described to people on the line last weekend, The Citizens Band is a cabaret-style collective–“kinda like the Pussycat Dolls”…meaning that there was a rotating cast in the band, not that they were scantily-clad ladies gyrating around a stage. The performance included members Karen Elson, Rain Phoenix, Angela McCluskey, Sarah Sophie Flicker, Ian Buchanan, Jorjee Douglas, and Amy Miles.
Photo courtesy of Press Here/Gaetano Salvador
Of course many people in attendance were only familiar w/ the Citizens Band due to the fact that Jack White’s wife, the aforementioned Karen Elson, is a sometimes member of the band. The funny thing is, that’s all some people know of the band–they don’t even know who “Jack White’s wife” is…despite the fact that Karen is a world-famous international supermodel and (not as famously) a musician. I overheard the people in front of me have this conversation:
MAN: Jack White’s wife is in this band.
WOMAN: Which one is she?
MAN: I don’t know
WOMAN: Oh I think she’s the one all the way over there
Perhaps it’s better this way though–I would hope that people would judge the merit of The Citizens Band not on who they are married to, but the quality of their performance. I found the high theatrics of the CB to be a bit jarring at first–after all, we were supposed to be at a ROCK show, not theater camp–but after the first song or two, I forgot about where I was supposed to be seeing (a rock ‘n’ roll concert), and was able to appreciate the homage to politically-minded German stage shows (in the vein of Bertolt Brecht) that CB is so rooted in.
Read more impressions of the show at RS: Rock Daily, Product Shop NYC, Village Voice, Newsday, New York Magazine (they might want to brush up on their Dolly Parton–or have their copywriter learn how to spell “Jolene”)
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WCSH6.com – Woman Claims She Is Kidnapped To Get Out Of Blind Date
A California woman who set off a massive police search earlier this week after claiming she was kidnapped in order to get out of a blind date is now facing criminal charges.
Q & A with Adrien Grenier: Music & Celebs: janemag.com
Entourage hot-ay
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I wasn’t as daring as some with bringing a camera, so my cellphone photo isn’t as nice as these, but hey–I didn’t want to give anyone a reason for me not to see the show.
SETLIST (as I kinda remember it–please correct! I think he did Rag and Bone guitar part somewhere–just can’t remember where):
When I Hear My Name/ Dead Leaves/ Icky Thump/ [Guitar interlude]/ Cannon/ John the Revelator/ My Doorbell/ I’m Slowly Turning Into You/ Jolene (cut short)/ Hotel Yorba/ I Think I Smell a Rat/ Effect and Cause/ Apple Blossom/ Same Boy You’ve Always Known/ Catch Hell Blues/ St. James Infirmary Blues/ Cold, Cold Night/ I Want to be the Boy to Warm Your Mother’s Heart/ You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket/ [Guitar solo]/ Astro/ Union Forever (with some lyrics to Little Cream Soda thrown in)/ [Crazy speech about drinking coffee, lattes, cappuccinos, at the bottom of the Empire State Building, Ellis Island, Chrysler Building, Battery Park, staying in Brooklyn, getting a cab back into the city, etc.]/ Blackjack Davy/ Black Math
ENCORE: Blue Orchid/ [Story about camping when he was 12 with a boy who killed a squirrel with his bare hands and brought it into the tent, with a sister who took swimming classes, but who wasn't allowed to take a course on using farm equipment, which didn't make much sense since he was also from southwest Detroit, etc]/ A Martyr for My Love for You/ I Don’t Know What to Do with Myself/ Ball and a Biscuit/ Bo Weevil
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