http://www.tennessean.com/celebrities/index.shtml People sometimes confuse petulant rocker Ryan Adams with Canadian hit-maker Bryan Adams, and apparently Ryan finds no humor in the moniker mix-ups. Monday, during Ryan's peculiar Ryman Auditorium show, an audience member jokingly shouted out a request for Bryan Adams' Summer of '69. Ryan went ballistic: Spewing expletives, he ordered the house lights be turned on, asked the audience to point out the offender, pulled $30 of ticket refund money from his wallet and gave the money to the fan, ordered the fan to leave and said he would not play another note until the fellow was gone. As dozens in the crowd shouted and pointed angrily at the Summer of '69 guy, Ryman General Manager Pam Matthews hustled down from the balcony and attempted to remedy the situation. She reached the ticket-holder as he was being escorted out by security, ''apologized profusely'' (her words) on behalf of the Ryman and eased the confrontation's aftermath. With Ryan's tour manager's blessing, Summer of '69 guy was quietly relocated to the balcony. And he kept Ryan's $30. Here is the actual review of the show: http://www.tennessean.com/entertainment/music/archives/02/10/23817856.shtml?Element_ID=23817856
I think that's funny. Even funnier is the fact that the track "Starting To Hurt" off Ryan's new Demolition CD sounds very much like a good, older Bryan Adams song (yes there's such a thing...). Even the raspy vocals sound like the pockmarked Canadian.
People do and say stupid-ass things at shows, and I'm sure performers get sick of it after a while. "Just joking around" can also be called "heckling", and if you heckle, you get what you get. The easiest way to keep things like that from happening to you at shows is to not be a douchebag.
i assume you mean ryan adams if he cant take it then dont play shows in public where people can pay their money, and then who knows what might happen i think with some genetic engineering ryan adams could possibly get some new "thick skin" grafted over his old " really really thin skin"
I'm not saying what he did is right. I'm just saying I understand. People have the right to say what they want when they buy the ticket. And I have the same right to say something right back. The times it's happened to me in my band, I handle it like a comedian: Never let the heckler get the last laugh. It's less angry that way, and people don't start calling you a prick because of it. To each their own. I just look at it from the other side of the coin.
I really, really like his music. He even put on a decent show, but I've just heard to many reports of him being an ass. I mean for Christ sake get a sense of humor, man.
I'm not really interested in this guy, but the local newspaper reported that he did almost exactly the same thing in Detroit recently. If true, it sounds like a stunt, which, if anything, makes him even more of a turd.
Man, sounds to me like he's gonna be taking unwanted requests for Summer of 69 for the rest of the tour.
If he comes to my town I may go just to chant "Summer of '69" repeatedly during breaks between songs. Nothing like an angry 20-something who thinks his pop songs are serious art. Lighten up Bryan...err...Ryan. Nothing like biting that hands that feed you. I would venture to say that if he's playing the Ryman auditorium (a decent sized venue) then he probably makes more in a week of shows than a lot of folks make in a year. I've never heard the guy's music, but I have no desire to hear him now. There is such a thing as bad publicity. This sounds like an Oasis stunt. I literally got so turned off by that band's behavior that I stopped listening to them.
What he did was stupid and only makes him look like an uptight idiot. I used to have a live recording of Oasis, and somebody yells out a request for "Fools Gold" (this was the first tour and they were getting ragged on all the time for being Stone Roses clones) and Liam responds back with "...that joke isn't funny anymore" (a reference to the Smiths, another Mancunian band). It was a perfect response and it didn't make him look like an idiot. That's the way you should do it.
I wonder how many people show up at a typical Ryan Adams concert actually expecting to see the pockmarked Canadian rocker?
Sounds like someone needs to remove their head from up their own arse. Jesus christ, this Ryan (never heard any of his songs) bloke was a right tit. The best way to counter this sort of thing is to come up with a witty retort. It happens all the time at gigs, get over it.