Instead of just playing with a backing band, Ryan prefers to name them, and give them billing on show flyers, posters and promotion materials. They include, "The Pink Hearts," "The LAX," "The Sweetheart Revolution," "The Ryan Adams Killers" and "The Cardinals."
Ryan has stated that his album 'Gold' is a love letter to Los Angeles and the lose of his ex-girlfriend, Winona Ryder. He has also said it is an concept album about the 70s radio. Each song should have a different 70s feel about it.
Has had high profile relationship/flings with Winona Rider, Beth Orton, Parker Posey, Alanis Morissette, Minnie Driver and even Lindsay Lohan.
Toured in 2005 with, "Phil Lesh & Friends" in which Ryan sang and played mainly Grateful Dead songs with the Grateful Dead bassist, and a revolving door of other musicians. As of 2006, he was still doing on and off gigs with them.
While taking vicodin for a tooth abscess, Ryan recorded the “Strokes – This Is It?” cover album on a 4-track recorder. He later told the band that he would never release it, because “it'd be like riding their coat tails. To me that would be stealing their thunder.
During a Nashville show at the Grand Ol' Orpy, Adams ejected a fan who jokingly requested the song "Summer of 69" (written and performed by Bryan Adams) on October 14, 2002. According to an interview with Pitchfork, Adams later explained that he was upset with the disrespect of a fan's Bryan Adams-related screams during a three-part harmony between Adams, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and the fact he was screamin' about BRYAN Adams.
Although Adams is not personally involved, his label's parent company, Universal Music Group, is engaged with the FBI and the United States Attorney's Office in prosecuting the first arrests on violation of the prerelease copyright provision law passed in 2005. The law makes it a federal offense to release copyrighted music before its scheduled time without permission of the copyright holder. Two separate individuals, one in Wisconsin and one in Tennesse, were charged on March 18, 2006, for posting portions of Jacksonville City Nights on a message board forum in September 2005, shortly before its release.
Ryan shares a birthday with both Gram Parsons, one of his major musical influences, and his near-namesake Bryan Adams.
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