{"id":3275,"date":"2011-08-09T12:59:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2011-08-09T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T20:00:11","slug":"bryan-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/bryan-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"BRYAN ADAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BRYAN ADAMS<\/h1>\n

Why strip his hits down to their bare bones? He does it for you<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A few songs into Bare Bones<\/em>,\u00a0the live album he released late last year, Bryan Adams pauses to make sure the audience knows what it\u2019s in for. \u201cI don\u2019t know if you got the memo about tonight\u2019s show,\u201d he says, \u201cbut this is the band.\u201d By \u201cthe band,\u201d the veteran Canadian rocker meant the minimalist lineup of himself and pianist Gary Breit, his lone accompanist. Judging by the applause, fans knew exactly what to expect: heartfelt, unplugged versions of \u201cCuts Like a Knife,\u201d \u201cHeaven,\u201d \u201cSummer of \u201969\u201d and \u201c(Everything I Do) I Do It For You,\u201d among other hits. We spoke with Adams during a tour stop in that most rockin\u2019 of locales, Damascus, Syria.<\/p>\n

Is Bare Bones<\/em> from one show?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s from different shows. Ideally, I wanted it to all come from one show. However, the first show I recorded was in Norway, and that was more or less an experiment to see if I liked the way it sounded\u2014and if I could tolerate listening to myself with an acoustic guitar. I thought it was OK in principle to try to record one night, and I was happy with how it sounded. But that night there was one guy in the audience who was really drunk, and he kept yelling, \u201cI love you, man!\u201d So in a quiet moment in a song, he would just tell me how much he loved me, and everyone would giggle, including myself. I walked offstage that night and threw my hands up and said, \u201cI guess we\u2019re going to have to\u00a0do a couple more nights.\u201d<\/p>\n

How did that change your approach? <\/strong><\/p>\n

It was good, because if I didn\u2019t like something\u2014if I thought I could change a monologue or thought the tempo of a particular song was too fast\u2014I was more conscious of it the next night. I was also able to experiment with lots of suggestions that came as a result of asking my Twitter community what songs they wanted.<\/p>\n

Are you into social networking?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t dislike it. In this particular case it was quite useful, even though I wasn\u2019t able to fulfill all requests. It\u2019s interesting, but where it goes and what happens in the future\u00a0is to be determined.<\/p>\n

Had you played acoustic much?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working with an acoustic guitar isn\u2019t unfamiliar to me, but it is unfamiliar to the audience. Most of the songs were written on acoustic guitar. What I\u2019m doing is just showing everyone a different side of me. I love the songs in their simplest form,\u00a0which is one reason I\u2019ve wanted to do\u00a0this for such a long time.<\/p>\n

Have you been writing lately?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m constantly creating new things. The only reason I did the Bare Bones<\/em> record in the first place is because people\u00a0were asking about having a recording\u00a0from the shows.<\/p>\n

Your parents were English. How did you discover American music?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I discovered it through people I was listening to. For example, I was listening to Humble Pie, a British rock band that covered a Ray Charles song, \u201cHallelujah I Love Her So.\u201d I looked at the credits and saw it was written by Ray Charles. I thought, \u201cHe\u2019s not part of the band.\u201d Then I researched Ray Charles and found out who he was. Or Led Zeppelin, who recorded Willie Dixon songs. I discovered blues and R&B through white heavy metal and rock.<\/p>\n

\u2013Russell Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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