ryan adams "demolition"

He is a real talent but to add to the stories above I saw him about 4 years ago with his previous band Whiskeytown and he was indeed on another planet-he rushed off stage and threw up.
I haven't heard the new one but it is indeed a compilation of unreleased stuff -he had some 4 complete albums he didn't care to release.

I just saw him a few weeks ago at the Beacon Theatre in New York and he is a talented man. He did not interact well with the audience. His arrogance gets in the way of his natural ablity.

Demolition is by far his weakest release. His best, in my opinion, is Heartbreaker. He played almost every song from that album at his live show. As others have previously mentioned the cuts on Demolition are taken from four albums of material that he wrote between the release of Heartbreaker and the release of Gold. I assume that some of the better material from that period appears on Gold. The rest of the material is not as strong and so we have an album comprising of filler cuts.

Let us hope for a better album next time.

I have been collecting Ryan Adams boots since he was in Whiskeytown. The man is talented, but definitely immature and a jerk. I have many shows were he goes off on an audience member or on a stage hand. I can't listen to some of his live shows when the kids are home because of his swearing tirades... but, hey, it's only Rock 'N Roll.

John

WOW this is unusual EVERYONE dislikes this punk- its seldom we audiophiles agree on something. I was intrigued by his music but will never buy a CD or go to one of his shows after reading this, he is an entertainer/musician, if you can not entertain and treat those supporting you with respect then you can live your life with out any of my $$. I don't care how good he is

I went to the nashville show a couple of weeks ago, and was very disapointed. I loved his whiskeytown albums, but his concert kind of put a bad taste in my mouth.