| 12/01/02 | Ryan Adams | Reported Set List: | Previous |
| 013 | Sweet Lil' Gal (23rd/1st) | Next | |
| Tilburg, The Netherlands | To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) | ||
| Firecracker | |||
| The Ballad Of Carol Lynn | |||
| Oh My Sweet Carolina | |||
| Touch, Feel & Lose | |||
| Shadowlands | |||
| Thank You Louise * | |||
| I See Monsters | |||
| Not Gonna Make It Out Of This One This Time | |||
| Bartering Lines | |||
| My Winding Wheel | |||
| SYLVIA PLATH | |||
| Lovesick Blues | |||
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Encore (New Song Debut): |
Hard Way To Fall | ||
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Like A Virgin | ||
| Dear Chicago | |||
| You Will Always Be The Same | |||
| La Cienega Just Smiled | |||
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| Review: | |||
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I've been waiting to see Ryan play solo for a long time!
Yesterday he gave his first Dutch show of this tour. (Don't believe the
tour-T-shirt were it says: Goteborg - The Netherlands LOL) The 013 is a
small but excellent venue in Tilburg and the concert was sold out. Ryan
arrived very late (he had to fly in from Madrid and take the tourbus from
Amsterdam with a couple of cabs in the middle, so there was little time
for a decent soundcheck). That didn't matter tho because the sound
was excellent and Ryan's voice was in great shape! He told the crowd
that he'd been sleeping in the bus and that he dreamd that Chief had
killed somebody, even after waking up he still believed that. He
fell asleep again and when he woke up for the second time he thought he'd
already played the show! But before he started talking he came on stage
sat down behind the grand piano and started to play (Sweet Lil' Gal) with
a hat deep over his head. (He didn't say a word) After finishing the song
he stepped in to the "light", put his hat even further down over
his eyes and started with "To Be Young". The photographers from
the newspapers started making pictures and Ryan turned around and finished
the song with his back to the audience. When he sat down to sing
"Firecracker" (without Chief this time) the crowd began to shout
things and he finally started to respond. At first you could hardly hear
him but later on he was all over the place joking and bantering. We
had noticed that there was no setlist and Chief told us (after the show)
that Ryan had decided to play the rest of the tour without a setlist! When
somebody called out for new songs he inmediately asked Chief for his
notebook and started a few (not entirely) new songs: "Thank You
Louise" and "I See Monsters" among them. He did one
completely new song (at least for me it was) which was beautiful and
reminded me of another song of his (don't know which one tho!) As I said:
Ryan's voice was excellent! He hit all the high notes, even played a song
(by accident) in the wrong (much higher) key! I didn't keep track of the
setlist but you can find it on www.answeringbell.com. (I have to
"correct" Stefan's list a little ;-) because as I recall, Ryan
played "My Winding Wheel" before the three song encore which
was: Dear Chicago/ You Will Always Be The Same and La Cienega Just
Smiled.) = I was so impressed with Ry's performance that I had to look at
the setlist Stefan provided to remember the songs he played! = He did a
Whiskeytown song: "The Ballad Of Carol Lynn" (hope he does more
in the (near) future)! He fell down while singing "Lovesick
Blues"; he threw his harmonica on the ground after playing
"Firecracker"; he dropped a wineglass on the floor and when he
left the stage for the first time he threw his mike-stand into the
monitors. One hilarious moment was when Ryan was behind stage (before the
encore) and Chief put a big furry monkey with an operette mask and
bullhorns on his head in Ryan's chair! Ryan almost freaked out when he saw
that thing. He started playing with his back to the chair and after a
little while he kicked the monkey out of the chair without looking! Extra special: Ryan played (in full) a Bob Dylan version of "Like a Virgin". There wasn't anything Madonna in this version! It was a great show, even when Ryan stated it as: a "career-ender". Such a talented man with so much insecurities! Wednesday it's off to Utrecht and I hope he will play as well as he did tonight! Bert |
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