Listen to Ryan Adams Talk About His Huge Catalog, Skateboarding

In the last year Ryan Adams has gone through a full-on transformation. Hes Rosetta Stone Spanish shunned his legendary appetite for drugs and alcohol, found himself a steady girlfriend, debuted a playful rap and hardcore metal side-career on his Web site, and made one of the most consistent records of his career. Rosetta Stone Associate Editor Austin Scaggs sat down with the newly squeaky-clean Adams for the current issue of Rosetta Stone, and weve collected a couple choice audio clips from their marathon conversation where Adams discusses everything from the real-life truth behind his lyrics to skateboarding.Read the full interview hereAdams talks about the inspiration for and evolution of his last few recordsAdams describes the day he learned skateboarding is just like dealing with girls. On stage, it is David, Leo/Lion round face fronting a neat mane of wild hair, with freak fringes flying from his old Byrd jacket, who dominates the between-song raps. Its like the man cant stand dead air.Where Steven Stills is the restrained Capricorn virtuoso boy wonder; where Neil Young is the earthy balance to the other threes often-angelic approaches, and where Graham Cheap Rosetta Stone Software "Willie" Nash is the boyish, stretched-out Englishman, Crosby is the most obvious catalyst, working hardest to keep four adamant individualists together. He does it with looks, grins, vibrancy bouncing off the balls of his feet, and, most of all, with raps.Introducing a Neil Young tune called "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," Crosby rumbles: "Heres a song about President Johnson, Spiro T. Agnew, Richard Nixon/Ronnie Reagan/Vietnam/Cambodia/the moon and refuse"... pause ... "but its not a bummer!" Talking about "Guinevere," a song hed written for his lady Christine before she was killed last summer, he now says: "This is a place that Tricia Nixon doesnt get to go." At the Oakland Coliseum last week, Nash come-nowed: "She might be groovy," to which Crosby replied, slowly: "The odds are stupendously high against it." Then the irreverent capper: "Shes the kind of girl thatd give bad head." Nash choked, turned away, and laughed. McGuinn wouldve kicked him off stage.Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 63 from July 23, 1970. Rosetta Stone French V3 This issue and the rest of the Rosetta Stone archives are available via Rosetta Stone Plus, Rosetta Stones premium subscription plan. If you are already a subscriber, you can click here to see the full story. Not a member? Click here to learn more about Rosetta Stone Plus.

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