Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Lollapalooza, Chicago, August 2006 

Agree 💯 what an incredible, imaginative jamming’ rock festival set! Wow, they worked their asses off in spite of the heat, sweating & delivering like true professionals across the board. Gorgeous Neal harmonies & guitar work. Love Ryan with this band & the wacky egg police tuning banter 👍

Ryan's magic lays in that grey zone of humans interacting in a single take..

It's sloppy but really good and Neil is ridiculous rip. The back-to-back Jerry tunes really stand up!

hahaha! it fucking is!

Lucky you John!

Well since Neal and Chris are dead, you’ll never see this version again.

@@marktruslow1376 You're replying to a comment I made six years ago. :)

nealbook I was there too. Saw and met him and the Cardinals in ATL about a week before. A friend was like ya wanna go to Chicago? So we drove up to Chicago overnight and stayed for Lollapalooza with a friend of ours.

NEAL was amazing. Such an integral foil to that peak Ryan Adams cardinals stuff. Absolutely heartbreaking that he passed away. Huge deadhead, too.

Ryan is a huge problem though. Hope he gets appropriate help.

The thing you have to understand about Ryan Adams is that both of his biological parents were extremely absent in his life growing up. His grandparents raised him. He likely has had to carry that wound on his back his whole life, a perennial chip on his shoulder. Yeah, it led to some incredibly detached and poignant music, but he has left a trail of destruction in his wake. When is he going to realize that whatever his ego has been doing for 50 years hasn’t been oh the whole positive and seek help? Maybe it’s impossible. Maybe he has some autism spectrum disorder. But he treats people like they are disposable and that he is entitled to special treatment. Love his music, but what an ass 🙃

​@@DrKennyWang his bi-polar/mental issues feed his music though I'm pretty sure.

Parry Wolfe Was that expressway to your skull?

Hand it over to Neal Casal?

Fender Princeton reverbs, guitar with humbuckers (notably Gibson’s), a good overdrive/boost pedal, and the amps built in reverb. Hope this helps

also playing outside in high heat and high humidity- playing outdoors in July-August in Chicago ----(or other mid-country cities like St. Louis, Memphis) can really affect guitar's tuning)

Matthew McLaughlin totally agree ! It's the bass player and out of tune guitars

not a real Ryan fan...

Why do you get to be hypercritical ? YOU DONT

I was there, it was very hot.

Scott McArthur it was hot as shit! My face was bright red from the day before. Still glad I got to see this show. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

do you play guitar? please explain to me where it sounds out of tune. Don't think you know what you're talking about

It was the shite in yer ears

Who is m hed burg

Tune these nuts 🥜

Catherine Popper was a founding member of Ryan Adams & The Cardinals. Have since left and of course Ryan is no longer with the Cardinals altogether.

niebuhrsongs I don't know who any of these people are, it's just this performance is not very good and that bassist is a big reason. Its not the greatest representation of a brilliant songwriter or his bands.

Your input is valid, I just thought you meant she wasn't his bass player, but I guess you mean she's not gelling with the band in this performance. She's quite legendary in Ryan Adams lore as a founder of his legendary Cardinals. I'm glad you enjoyed the 2017 show! The full Apollo performance is available. Also I've put together a page of the show (videos, photos, setlist, etc) comepickmeup.org/?page_id=6&show_id=1212

The out of tune guitars really do kill it. They figured it out a few songs in though. Catherine Popper is a great bassist though. She played bass on both Jacksonville City Nights and Cold Roses and plays bass on most of the III/IV tracks. Check out Ryan's performance with The Cardinals on Austin City Limits from 05'. Great performance there.

Sun, heat and humidity play hell on a guitar's tuning. It's hard to keep even the best guitars in tune under those conditions.