acoustic theater run, Bryan Adams keeps up

An acoustic tour of the US early two months, Bryan Adams [ tickets ] has added a handful of new gigs to his fall itinerary.
The journey, which got underway early last month, continues Friday (10/23) in Miami, then works its way north along the East Coast. Since last check, Adams has tacked four new stops onto the schedule; shows will now take place in Minneapolis (12/4); Waukegan, IL (12/5); Joliet, IL (12/6); and Dearborn, WI (12/8). Details are shown below.
The Canadian singer/songwriter, who will spend November performing in Europe and January touring the UK, most currently released "11," his aptly titled 11th studio set. The effort hit shelves last year exclusively at Wal Mart and Sam's Club retailers. Adams followed the album's arrival with an "11 Days, 11 Cities" acoustic tour of Europe, as well as a late year solo acoustic run of the US.
Earlier this summer, Adams was rewarded for his contributions to music and philanthropic initiatives with a Canadian postage stamp bearing his image.
"I never thought about it," Adams said of this recognition during a recent interview with LiveDaily. "I got a message from a friend of mine saying, 'Congratulations getting on a stamp, but I'm not sure I'll be too keen about licking the back side of it.'"

Perfection was Bryan Adam

Perfection Two hours and 10 minutes. He is so charming and funny. To look Bryan at the Orpheum was such a treat. Their sound was amazing. Just him and his guitar, unplugged. Piano player by a attented for a few songs. Jim Vallance also came out for a couple of songs. Bryan gave some history behind the hits. Added some humour when allow. I was lucky to be able to enough stand right in front of him. Sheer perfection.

Multitalented man, Adams is busy

Everybody knows Bryan Adams the rock star.
In the '80s, Adams was on top of the music world with a pair of multi platinum selling albums "Cuts Like a Knife" and his 1984 chart topper "Reckless."
But do you also know Bryan Adams the award winning photographer? Or Bryan Adams the philanthropist?
Nearly 30 years after his debut album, the 49 year old Adams has become as synonymous with Canada as Rush and the Toronto Maple Leafs. He even had his own postage stamp issued in his home country earlier this year. And he continues to stay busy with a plethora of activities, all of which he's proven to be very good at.
He will play in Salt Lake City on Sunday, his first gig in Utah in many years. Adams himself told the Deseret News he couldn't remember the last time he was in the Beehive State.
For his current tour, Adams is playing solo acoustic, And fans are being treated to songs spanning his entire career, including some deep cuts off his earliest albums.
Adams said, "It's something I needed to do forever but didn't actually have the (courage) to do it"

Bryan Adams with Q and A

Bryan Adams is on the short list of the most successful and popular of rock singers to issue in the '80s. The Canadian born Adams has had a string of hits in the last three decades, while 1983's Cuts Like a Knife and 1994's Reckless are albums that became part of the musical vocabulary of anyone who grew up during that decade. In 1991, Adams won a Grammy for the then ubiquitous "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You," from the soundtrack to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Throughout his career, Adams has been a visible and wide-ranging activist for social issues including human rights, poverty and the peace process in assorted parts of the world. He has also become a well known and sought out photographer whose work has appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar. In 2008, Adams released his latest studio album, 11 and received lukewarm reception from critics, despite being well received by fans. We had a chance to speak with Adams in London as he prepared for his first acoustic tour. Read the full interview after the jump.

Paramount Arts Center 'Bryan Adams' to perform

ASHLAND, Ky Bryan Adams brings his highly successful solo acoustic concert tour to Ashland with a special, confidant concert at Paramount Arts Center on Oct. 29.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.com.
The show at the Paramount Arts Center provides a rare chance for fans to look Adams as they’ve not seen him before: solo-acoustic and confidant. Here’s what the critics are saying:
“Armed only with a small array of acoustic guitars, Adams packed enthusiastic fans sometimes a bit too enthusiastic into the confidant Sheldon for a great night of music and insight.” St. Louis Post Dispatch
“They sang along with the ever so familiar choruses, filled in vocal gaps he left for them, clapped the missing drum parts, hummed the missing solos, and roared their blessing after every offering, right up to a long and hearty standing ovation after ‘Run To You’.” Toronto Star
Adams has sold more than 65 million records, toured six continents and achieved #1 status in over 40 countries around the world. With hits like, “Cuts Like A Knife”, “Summer of ‘69”, “Kids Wanna Rock”, “Can’t Stop This Thing We’ve Started”, “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”, “Open Road” and most currently “Thought I’d Seen Everything”.
Tickets go on sale on Friday at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.com, Paramount Arts Center box office or charge by phone by calling 800-745-3000.

Announce South Florida Shows, Jackson Browne, Bryan Adams, and Saosin

A few more concert listings today for your viewing pleasure:Jackson Browne is his sloughing band and striking out on a solo tour. The singer/songwriter will play an acoustic set at The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater on November 21. Tickets aren't on sale yet, but check the Ticketmaster place for more details.Following in the acoustic footsteps of Jackson Browne, Bryan Adams announced an unplugged tour as well. Adams is pimping his 11th studio album, ingeniously titled 11 at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets for the October 23 show will be available through Ticketmaster.Saosin, P.O.S., Innerpartysystem, and Eye Alaska will not be playing entirely acoustic sets when they come to Culture Room on December 8. Instead, they'll be delivery a blend of hard rock, post hardcore, and pop all pumped out through distorted guitars and effects pedals. Tickets go on sale September 12 through Ticketmaster.

Vanilla Ice is coming, why even if no one knows?

I am excited but I'm not conform why. Maybe it's the pull of nostalgia. Maybe it's morbid fascination. South African shores have proven hospitable to acts that are somewhat past their prime. In crrrent years we've had Foreigner, Air Supply, Jethro Tull, Rod Stewart, Simply Red, Cliff Richard, ZZ Top, Bryan Adams, Bread and many many others. Don't get me wrong. Some of these acts are nice but none of them are at the height of their fame. Are they hoping that SA is hiding a musical fountain of youth?

Think of it as the Cold Factor. American folk musician Rodriguez had elderly from music after failing to succeed in his home country. He then found out that he is super famous in South Africa and came to tour, enjoing a career reappearance. Who knows… Maybe SA can do the same for Mr Ice aka Robert Matthew Van Winkle (a much better stage name, if you ask me). And if it works for him, maybe it'll work for other bands whose star power has used in the heaven. I need to see MC Hammer's pants making a return. I need to see Boy George, pot belly and all. I need to see Ringo Starr doing his solo shtick. I need to see Hanson now that they're grown women. I need to see Europe doing one Final Countdown. I need to see Billy Ray Cyrus stepping out of Miley's shadow. Come one! Come all!

Bryan Adams commits to UTEP

Bryan Adams older defensive end Tajh Fite said Thursday that he has orally committed to UT-El Paso, choosing the Miners over SMU and North Texas.
Fite (6-3, 230) said he will start at defensive end and tight end this season. Fite, who only played defensive end last year, had 35 approach and four sacks. Fite said UTEP beginner him as a defensive end.
Oral commitments are non binding. The first day a football player in the Class of 2010 can sign a national letter of intent is Feb. 3.
Brandon George

Rolls out hits in solo show to Bryan Adams

It appeared only fitting that the hall with such a abundant history would play host to a musician with such a deep schedule of hits.
Perhaps even more fitting was how the Massey Hall stage was so abnormally barren, matching the rather sparse, solo acoustic evening Bryan Adams had in store for the near capacity army on Thursday evening in Toronto.
The two-hour, 29 song show was the first of three Adams has in Toronto this week, two at Massey Hall and a Roy Thomson Hall agreement on Friday. And fortunately it was empty of the slick, road polished performance Adams has perfected with his longtime bridle over the years.
With six studio lights in a semi circle and a piano off to his right, Adams desolated no time delving into his heap of singles with Run To You and briefly inviting the crowd to clap where the kick drum would be heard.
"Thank you good evening everybody," Adams said prior to Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven, the first of several softer, romantic ballads on the way.
Looking in 2009 the same way he did in 1989 and 1999 with the boyish look, denim jeans and raspy voice, Adams appeared to enjoy himself throughout on Let's Make A Night To Remember and the poppy Can't Stop This Thing We Started from the album Waking Up The Neighbours.
Adams played a similar show last year at The Carlu but definitely preferred the acoustics, intimacy and vibe in this hallowed venue, recalling how his first Massey Hall show was supporting an unnamed bridle who messed with his sound cables onstage.
Other stories about performing at Casa Loma of all places early in his career were told when not replying to shouts and screams from female fans. "It's the Toronto mating call," he homoured after one shriek early on.
While the night ended with different hits, the middle portion of the show was perhaps the most entertaining overall. Following his stomping during Heat Of The Night, Adams brought out his early writing partner Jim Vallance to play piano on the astralThe Best Was Yet To Come.
How to top that? Well, Stompin' Tom Connors of course. Adams jokingly started a verse of The Hockey Song before performing the entire number as the crowd clapped and sang. He also ad-libbed that he didn't know what happened to the Leafs while a fan shouted "the Blue Jays suck too."
Another effective one-two alliance was (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (a song not heard on radio in over 2 hours) and Cuts Like A Knife as the audience supplied the "na na na" harmonies to the latter.
After accepting a BRYAN ADAMS allowance plate from a fan, Adams nailed This Time before giving Please Forgive Me a humorous country feel complete with the twang and southern Nashville drawl.
Heaven, Somebody, Summer Of '69, Straight From The Heart and Never Let Go (dedicated to Canadian soldiers overseas) fleshed out the performance, one which breathed some fresh life into the older nuggets.