Concert Review/Photos: Ryan Adams @ the Grand Opera House 5/12
Please note: This article is published as an archive copy from Philadelphia City Paper. My City Paper is not affiliated with Philadelphia City Paper. Philadelphia City Paper was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The last edition was published on October 8, 2015.
Last Tuesday, the 1,200-seat intimacy of the Grand Opera House in Wilmington was shaken by the rock machine that is Ryan Adams.
Last Tuesday, the 1,200-seat intimacy of the Grand Opera House in Wilmington was shaken by the rock machine that is Ryan Adams. With a stage setting emulating a phantasmagoria of an ’80s teenager — arcade games, incense, a soda machine and gigantic speakers — Adams and company unleashed a 21-song strong set. Opening with the brilliant “Gimme Something Good” and powering through such numbers as “My Winding Wheel” and the expansive “Magnolia Mountain,” it was a stunning and memorable show. Adams would unfurl guitar solos on a whim, reaffirming his rock star status with every chord and body jerk. And to have Natalie Prass join him on “Oh My Sweet Carolina” was an extra, unexpected treat for sure.
Philly-based Strand of Oaks warmed up the crowd with 30 minutes of metallic folk.
SETLIST
- Gimme Something Good
- Let It Ride
- Stay With Me
- Dirty Rain
- This House Is Not For Sale
- Dear Chicago
- My Winding Wheel
- Magnolia Mountain
- To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
- Love Is Hell
- Peaceful Valley
- Wonderwall (Oasis cover)
- Kim
- Nobody Girl
- Oh My Sweet Carolina (with Natalie Prass)
- Shakedown on 9th Street
- When the Stars Go Blue
- Houses on the Hill
- New York, New York
- I See Monsters
- Come Pick Me Up
