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29/07/04 - 'OPEN ROAD'
VIDEO SHOOT, TORONTO, ON Bryan
shoots the 'Open Road' video:
Story by Lisa LaDouceur (Toronto Sun)
Truckers,
it’s time for a new mixed tape. Canadian rock superstar Bryan Adams’
first single from his upcoming album, Room Service, is delivered to radio stations
July 30. ROCK ... Bryan Adams shifts his career back
into drive. He was shooting a new video in Toronto this week. Called Open Road,
the rock track is instantly recognizable as Adams, sounding a lot like his smash
1984 hit Run To You crossed with that other classic Canadian road trip song, Tom
Cochrane’s Life is a Highway. Room Service hits stores Sept. 21. July
29, Adams was stopped in downtown Toronto traffic while shooting the Open Road
video. On a small street dressed to look like New York City, the Vancouver singer
sat stalled in a classic silver Mustang. Acting bored, he mouthed along to the
song’s lyrics about breaking out and hitting the open road. Unlike folks
gridlocked in real life, Adams gets to walk away. Beforehand
in his trailer, Adams told the Sun: “The concept is that the traffic is stopped
and I can’t go anywhere. I get out of my car and go into a building, past
all the people who are controlling it. I get into this boardroom and start opening
up a winch, which opens up the road.” He says the the clip is not so much
about traffic as “power, authority, holding everyone back. “It’s
an anti-establishment statement.” NEW WORLD ORDER
Adams’
music always does big business, in Canada and around the world. To date, he has
sold more than 65 million records. Besides Celine Dion, few Canadians can match
his global recognition and South Park spoof-ability factor. Adams, 45, not only
sounds the same as ever, he looks forever teen. For the video clip, he sported
a leather jacket and jeans, his hair slightly shorter now but still slightly spiked.
Maybe it’s the fame that keeps him young, or perhaps keeping a motorcycle.
(He says he stills rides even after having been shot in the back with an air rifle
in the streets of London, England, last year.) Or maybe it’s the travel.
Adams still routinely tours the world, living out of suitcases. This is where
he recorded Room Service. “I had a big studio which used to travel with me,
but you couldn’t move it from place to place. I would need to rent a house
for six months and work. This time, I got rid of that system and got it into two
suitcases. It’s the marvel of digital technology.” Adams says Room Service
is his most global record. The song Open Road, for example, was completed over
two continents while he toured. “The basic track was recorded in Vancouver,
at the Warehouse studio,” he said. “The vocal was done in Paris, and
my guitarist Keith (Scott) did his part backstage in Lethbridge, Alberta.”
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