Ryan Adams rants

Ryan Adams rants

MINNEAPOLIS — Ryan Adams pitched another fit for a Minneapolis audience, a few years after his last local meltdown. Throughout a show Thursday night, the 32-year-old singer-guitarist complained about the sound monitors onstage at the State Theatre. At one point, he moved two monitors, his microphone and his guitar pedals. After 70 minutes he’d had enough. Adams announced “the last song,” played it and didn’t return for an encore. Many fans stood and booed.

Today’s birthdays

Writer-director Robert Benton is 75. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 72. Jazz musician Jean-Luc Ponty is 65. Lech Walesa, the former president of Poland, is 64. TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 59. Rock singer-musician Mark Farner is 59. Comedian-actor Andrew “Dice” Clay is 50. Singer-musician Les Claypool is 44. Actress Jill Whelan is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer Devante Swing (Jodeci) is 38. Country singer Brad Cotter (“Nashville Star”) is 37.