Posted 5/08/2005 01:10:00 PM by Douglas

I found this amusing for some reason. I think it's the "storming offstage when drunks holler "summer of '69" part that I find particularly amusing.

Ryan Adams is a walking, talking one-man Molson Blind Date show — you never know who's going to show up, but it's pretty much a given that alcohol will be involved somehow. The mercurial singer-songwriter's mood is as unpredictable as Halifax weather and each night's performance lives and dies on which attitude the capricious star brings to the rink. The question isn't what will Ryan Adams play tonight, but who will Ryan Adams be tonight? The shambolic country-rawk showstopper of Gold or the pill-gobbling scuzz-rock anti-star of Rock N Roll? The tortured romantic balladeer from Love Is Hell or the petulant, self-indulgent man-child who storms off stage when drunken louts holler for "Summer Of '69"?

Kinda funny. But Ryan, what did you really think?

Few in attendance have heard these songs and even the band seem a little confused. "Thanks for bearing with us," Adams muttered into the mic. "We don't really know all of these yet, so we sorta suck." At least he's honest.

Hah! You sorta do.