Confessions of a Fanboy

Leeds was a marathon.  Edinburgh was classic.  Birmingham?  Not bad at all.  I’d probably give those other shows the edge, but there’s nothing wrong with this one at all.

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I had fallen down on the job with some of these Ryan Adams set lists but remembered last night as I was listening to Cardinology, etc.
We resume our trek with our lad RA now in Europe, specifically Edinburgh, Scotland.  This show drew heavily from the amazing Cold Roses record, with “Magnolia Mountain,” “Meadowlake Street” and [...]

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If you paid to go to the Newcastle show, don’t look at this set list until you’ve called your lawyer because you got fucked.  Newcastle got 18 fucking songs.  Leeds got 29, ending with “Desire.”  If that was the last song I heard at the end of this kind of marathon set, I’d have burned [...]

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Wow, this one is a bit of a disappointment, being trimmed down to a rather lean 18 songs.  Our boy had played the night previous in Manchester.  Maybe that took something out of him and the band, because this is really short on songs.

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Okay, here’s a Cold Roses song I fuckin’ love that doesn’t get dusted off often enough.  Let’s hear it for “How Do You Keep Love Alive?”  That’s a good one.  Otherwise, this set draws pretty heavily from the fine Cardinology record.
“Fix It” is still my favorite song on that record.

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There are a lot of great songs on this set list and I’d have enjoyed it but there is only one song on here that stops me dead in my tracks.  The heavens would open and time would stop when “La Cienega Just Smiled” was played.    Okay, strike that.  They would have opened for “Desire.”  [...]

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Welcome to the newest addition to the Fanboy factory: my new MacBook Pro. I’ve spent the last 24 hours migrating, customizing, upgrading, and tweaking this bad boy and only now am I really getting a chance to dial in and put it to one of its preferred uses: writing.

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I just got my copy of Cardinology and have nearly reached the midway point of my first listen through the album.  My thoughts so far?

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We hadn’t had any Ryan Adams set list updates in some time because illness forced a few cancellations.  Starting with Tuscaloosa, AL, the band got back on the road but all is not completely back to normal.  Apparently, Ryan lost his voice and there was no real second set to the Alpharetta show.  The show [...]

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If Alabama had lost to Ole Miss this weekend, I’d have had to blame Ryan Adams.  Fortunately, the Tide held on to win so all is forgiven.  Well, almost all.  Co-Worker Drew got to go see Ryan’s show down in T-Town and I didn’t.  The set list is good (although I’ve seen better on this [...]

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