![]() ![]() We recorded the song three or four different ways, and we still weren't convinced we had it right! Bryan even considered dropping the song from the Reckless album, and I agreed. In fact, we toiled over the musical arrangement for several weeks, maybe longer. but on subsequent demo's we replaced the 12-string with a chunky 6-string intro. On our very first basement demo of "Summer of '69" we started the song with the 12-string riff, exactly like the "break down" section in the middle of the song. Man we were killin' time, we w ere young and restless, we needed to unwindĪt this point the song goes into an electric twelve-string guitar break, a nod to The Beatles ("Ticket To Ride"), The Byrds ("Tambourine Man"), The Searchers ("Needles And Pins") and We Five ("You Were On My Mind") - some of my favourite music from the 1960's. Morrissey, whose classroom was directly across the hallway. When the music room was occupied, Whitty and I would practice during lunch-hour in the school library, which annoyed my French teacher, Mrs. I'd pound on the school band's snare drum and cymbal while Whitty played his electric guitar through a small amp. Whitty is the first musician I ever played with, and I have very fond memories of those mid-day "jam sessions". "Walk Don't Run", "Wipeout", "Perfidia" and "Apache" were some of our favourites.īefore joining The Tremelones I spent most lunch-hours in the school music room with Alan "Whitty" Whitmore. Chuck was really old (twenty-one), plus he'd recently travelled to England, so he had instant credibility!Ĭhuck had an electric guitar with a silver sparkle finish - a marvelous thing to behold - and a Fender amp! None of us could sing, so we mostly played instrumentals by The Ventures and The Shadows. We changed our name to The Fourmost when my neighbour Chuck Davies joined the band. Your browser does not support the audio element. Bryan Adams - Summer Of 69 (Official Music Video) Bryan Adams 5. radio airplayġ986 - Procan Award (Performing Rights Organization of Canada) for Canadian radio airplayĢ000 - Socan Classics Award for more than 100,000 Canadian radio performances #42 - UK Charts / August 1985 (7 weeks on the chart)ġ985 - BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) Citation of Achievement for U.S. #40 - Billboard Top Rock Tracks Chart / 1984 (8 weeks on the chart) #12 - The Record (Canada) / Octo(17 weeks on the chart) ![]() #5 - Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart / August 1985 (17 weeks on the chart) Reckless - 30th Anniversary Edition (November 2014) And finally: Has Ryan thought about covering “Everything I Do (I Do It For You)” yet? Because I think that would sound good.Bryan Adams Unplugged (A&M Records, 1997) ![]() Third: I think we can all agree that “To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)” is the Ryan Adams song that Bryan Adams should cover. Two guys sat in the basement studio of a Vancouver town house, working on a song that neither of them was particularly satisfied with. First: How nice is it that the two Adams boys are now emailing each other about their cover plans? I think it’s pretty nice! Second: It’s always funny when singers refer to their own song as “a great song,” though Bryan is totally right in this case “Summer Of ’69” is a great song. Bryan Adams’ hit single Summer Of '69 wasn’t about childhood innocence and forgotten friendships it was an ode to topsy-turvy lurve-makin’ (Image credit: Paul Natkin / Getty Images) It was the winter of 1984. I’m not sure which one, though.Ī few things here. So I think in some ways, he has been haunted by the song somewhat, which is a shame because it’s a really great song. BBC Music reporter Summer of 69 is Bryan Adams signature song - a rock hymn to forming your first band and falling in love thats become the stars most-streamed single. I think it was some sort of cathartic release for him to return to that venue and play that song, as you probably know the story there. Ryan wrote to me to tell me the day before that he was going to do it. Bryan and Ryan are friendly with each other now, and the San Francisco Chronicle had the very good idea to ask Ryan Adams about his soundalike homeboy’s cover of his most famous song. Depending on who you ask, this was either a funny callback to a funny incident that went viral in a paleolithic era, or it was Ryan Adams exorcising some old demons that he’d never quite dealt with. Last week, Ryan Adams took to the stage at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and played a solo acoustic cover of Bryan Adams’ “ Summer Of ’69.” This was more than a decade after he’d kicked a heckler out of the same venue for requesting that song. ![]()
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