For those of you who pay attention to the music scene, you know that Ryan Adams is a twit. Anyway, he put on an insane concert in Chicago last month and here’s an extended quote from my favorite music critic, Jim DeRogatis, review from the Chicago Sun Times:
Then things started to go to hell. Adams played “Wish You Were Here” (his song from the new album, not the Pink Floyd classic) four times in a row, giving it to us straight, then as hard-core punk, then as a spoofy country ditty and finally rendering it as sung by Cookie Monster, simultaneously dissing the barked vocals of the nu-metal genre and paying homage to “Sesame Street.”
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Later, he improvised an acoustic song about the snow in Chicago, using it as an excuse to further his pointless feud with local alternative-country heroes Wilco. “Buy me a video camera so I can make a movie called ‘I Am Trying to Bore You to Death,’ ” he crooned, sneering at the Wilco film, “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.” (full review)
So Mr. Adams apparantly read this review and left a really insane, profanity filled voice mail to the critic. You can listen to that voice mail here.
I wonder what sort of world it would be if Ryan Adams wasn’t a dick.