Edmonton’s City Streets frontman Rick Reid admits to Reckless being the reason he decided to play guitar.  Bryan Adams’s 1984 spawned six top-40 hits.

“If I am going to be honest, I have to go back to grade 4,” Reid says.  ”When I was a kid, I was really into sports, but it was that album that got me into music. That was the album which eventually led me to pick up a guitar.”

There was no escaping Reckless. Songs like “Summer of 69,” “It’s Only Love” (with Tina Turner)  ”Heaven” and “Run To You” were on hit radio non-stop.

“You still hear songs from it on the radio all the time,” says Reid. “Really, Bryan Adams is a great songwriter when it comes to melody. OK, a lot of his lyrics are really cheesy, but some of his songs sound really, really good. I’m not ashamed to say that.”

Reid actually thinks that you can make some kind of link between how he turned on to Bryan Adams years ago and where he is now as a musician. But City Streets doesn’t sound anything like Bryan Adams. Make no mistake.

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Comments:

1. johnny Says:
   July 4th, 2006 at 1:11 pm

   cheesy , this guy is an idoit , bryan adams is a genius with melody and words

2. johnny Says:
   July 4th, 2006 at 1:12 pm

   this rick reid guy is a complete moron , bryan admas is a genius with his profound poetry and his great melodies

3. johnny Says:
   July 4th, 2006 at 1:13 pm

   bryan adams that was typo the reid guy is a dork

4. Janet McNulty Says:
   July 7th, 2006 at 10:00 pm

   Rick Reid is big stupid jerk. Rick Reid, if you ever, ever come near Bryan Adams & insult him, you will answer it to me because no one, NO ONE will never, ever come near the people I care about.

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