Ryan Adams quitting music?

[212margarita]

www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/148460--ryan-adams-is-quitting-music-says-ryan-adams

I really enjoy a lot of the music he makes...but he does seem to be really crazy. Is this for real?

[anniehall]

He's always had serious stage fright issues, hence all of the drinking and drugs in days past. There was the famous "free bird" incident when he kicked out a guy for yelling it over and over. He's been known to flip, and falling off a stage breaking his wrist didn't help. The fact that a lot of critics (coughDeRogatiscough) don't take him seriously because of the quantity of music he releases has also taken its toll.

It's too bad he wants to give up, because I know he's still got good music up his sleeve. I saw him live in 2005 and 2006 and now wish I'd continued the tradition...

I'm sure he'll be back in some time. He will definitely benefit from a mental break...

[kim]

Hasn't he said that he was retiring/quitting before?

Also, is it mean that I sort of laughed in my head at him having balance issues? The idea of Ryan Adams not being wobbly is kind of funny...right?

[missalabamanobody]

Didn't he also lose a lot of hearing in one ear? (I haven't read the article yet, so sorry if that was mentioned in there.)

But...bummer.

[reallowvibe]

Here's the post from Ryan on which they're basing this article, if it helps:

cave.cardinology.com/post/70399338/me-34-a-non-smoker-and-happy-for-the-first-time

[hard corey]

well i guess its good i didnt buy those ryan adams tickets for february yet.

[lee]

i'll believe it when i see it, like jay-z.

on the other hand, i haven't really enjoyed much of anything he's done since about "jacksonville city nights". i just listened to "rock and roll" again the other day, and now think it's mostly terrible. about half the songs on "love is hell" are great ("hotel chelsea nights" makes me swell with joy. sort of. it's a pretty sad song, so...). beyond that... meh. he was really good when i saw him after "demolition" came out, but since then he seems...scattered.

[blackbeard]

Yay!

[heidivandernice, nice]

that sucks. i like ryan adams a lot, and he is, admittedly, batshit.

[stevedave]

I keep trying to like him as he seems to make the sorts of records I should love. Guess I can put that effort somewhere else. If, I was a sculptor...

[missalabamanobody]

Only hours after announcing that he plans to break up the Cardinals and step away from the music world entirely, Ryan Adams has retracted his latest statements. “Of course everything I said got taken out of context, as always,” Adams wrote on his blog this evening. “I did not say I was quitting. I said was taking a step back. So thanks…..thanks again.”

Adams’ retraction came shortly after numerous online magazines and fan sites linked to the early afternoon blog post. In that long-winded post Adams declared, “Maybe we will play again sometime and maybe I will work my way back into some kind of music situation, but this is the time for me to step back now, to reel it in.”

The singer/songwriter pulled down the statement almost immediately after the post hit the blogosphere. At first he replaced his seemingly heartfelt words with a blog about cereal, but eventually posted the above retraction.

Adams closed his latest entry with a stab at the media. The image-heavy blast includes a black and white photo of a Dunkin' Donuts advertisement and a billboard declaring "Christ Died for Our Sins," a series of UFO shots and an extended caption that reads “this was in the 70’s and if what i read is right a crap in pants moment- made the headlines- they ( if that is a they in there) kept on cruising- is suspect to DunkinDonuts ( i mean, that would be my hang after that kind of a trip) what ev.”

www.relix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=60&Itemid=149

[212margarita]

can't we just get a Whiskeytown reunion out of this guy?

[laurenjean]

Jan 15, 2009 14:22:55 GMT -5 212margarita said:

can't we just get a Whiskeytown reunion out of this guy?

Please