Maybe this explains why he seems to have so little time for personal hygene maintenance.
Ryan Adams is set to release his third album of 2005. This third full length album of all original material is currently slated for release in December of 2005. One of his albums this year (Cold Roses) was even a double disc! I did the math- that's fourty-three tracks. Ryan Adams will have released in one year, the amount of music it took u2 twelve years to release. TWELVE YEARS!
Here's how I see it: If you are a professional musician like Adams or U2, your job is to make music, to write songs. It's why you get paid. If you can't turn out AT LEAST ten decent tracks a year, then maybe you're in the wrong line of work, you know what I'm saying? I mean what are these rock stars doing all day? I'll tell you. They're going to Hollywood Movie Premiers with their ex-supermodel girlfriends and crap like that. (I should probably cut Bono some slack for saving Africa or whatever) But still! Take your guitar with you and write me some freakin' songs on your lunch break.
Anyway, props to Ryan Adams for being the hardest working songwriter in rock and roll. And let this be a rebuke to all the bands that release one album every four and half years with every third one being some crappy live- acoustic rehash of previously recorded material.
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