Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Ryan Adams is nice, but drinks a lot of wine

so yeah, today im working with mr ryan adams, who, while friendly and likeable, is also a huge lush and quite intense and antsy. the schedual today consisted of arriving at the studio at 9am. setting up for 3 hours. then waiting until 9pm for mr adams to show.
after all that waiting, you may be inclined to think that the session would have a relaxed, take-it-easy pace. not so.
once he arrived he was like the Tasmanian Devil, spinning around at a million miles an hour, a whirling tornado of pot smoke and orange hair.
anyway, the idea was: two days in the studio to come up with a song for Cameron Crowe's new movie, Elizabeth Town. A song, ONE song. Ryan being the overachiever that he obviously is, decided to write 10 songs. That's right, I said WRITE ten songs. Not only were we going to record 10 songs, but first he would have to write them. An impossible task you say? obviously not, because the next evening, not 12 hours later, Mr Crowe was sitting in Sound Factory Studio A listening to Ryan Adams' latest album! Sure it was loose, sure Ryan played ALL the instruments, sure I worked 36 hours in two days, but somehow, the end result is surprisingly good and certainly an interesting listen.
i'm afraid there is no way I can let you hear it however.

No comments: