If you are not only a fan of Ryan Adams, but of freestyle music in the park, this video clip is for you.
On Friday, October 3rd, while playing the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, Ryan Adams broke into a totally improvised song about the people in the audience, a man who had been holding balloons in particular.
He began by thanking people for playing with their cellphones while he was performing, for showing up at the wrong concert wearing Black Flag t-shirts, for looking like Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, offering to buy a woman a coffee so she could “wake up”, until he finally pointed out the man holding the “Three F****ing Balloons”, which ended up being the topic and title of the song.
Fully backed by his band and back-up vocalist, Ryan begins singing about the balloons, and how he didn’t “think they would last this long/ are they full of helium?” Then by the next line he realizes there is actually four. As the crowd cheers, realizing Adams is writing the song on the spot, he lets them know he was never really “good with numbers,” but that he likes to play his guitar in the park.
An American singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina, Adams has been married to popular singer and actress Mandy Moore since 2009.
Adams ended the song joking by saying, “That’s always everybody’s favorite song off Heartbreaker,” his 2000 debut album.
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