It's the fees that really put things over the top, because in the end, what the fuck service is Ticketmaster even providing?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 February 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
their business is charging fees basically
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 February 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
It's frustrating because it's not a new problem, but everyone went along with it.
From 1996:
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― birdistheword, Friday, 24 February 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link
Everyone tweeting about their Bruce tickets as if I haven't had mine for months pic.twitter.com/cfYuAtPMrR— Mike Scollins (@mikescollins) February 24, 2023
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 24 February 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
Everybody cross your fingers and hold your thumbs for me that I get to see Bruce Springsteen tomorrow and don't get derailed by a migraine!
― Lily Dale, Monday, 27 February 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
🤞🫰
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 February 2023 04:04 (one year ago) link
bala be dur, fingers crossed! ♥️
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Monday, 27 February 2023 08:15 (one year ago) link
Lily, iirc, your first show, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 February 2023 13:05 (one year ago) link
aw, he played I'm on Fire in Portland... I wanna hear that one live!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 27 February 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
I've posted it before, but his spooky banjo version of that song is one of my faves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4WKYtS4JDk
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
wow, that IS spooky! and awesome.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 27 February 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
hope the show is great lily dale!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 27 February 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
Thanks, everyone! And yes, this will be my first Bruce show.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 27 February 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
Oh Yeah!
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― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 February 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
That brief look of terror on Courteney Cox's face never gets old.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 27 February 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
have fun!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 27 February 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
It was awesome! I can't imagine how exhausted he must be right now. It's crazy because you see him in interviews and his age really shows, so even though I knew this was supposed to be, like, an actual high-energy three-hour Bruce concert, it was hard to believe he could do it. But aside from a few creaky-voiced moments (all on songs from Letter to You) it was like he just willed himself to be 15 years younger and it worked.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 07:54 (one year ago) link
It seems like he's got a standard setlist that he follows for this tour, but with a couple of slots that change from show to show. We didn't get "I'm on Fire" but we did get "Trapped," which was pretty awesome.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 08:26 (one year ago) link
how awesome that you finally got to witness it!
i think i read that "i'm on fire" was a replacement for "night shift," which he couldn't do because the e street covid variant had left him short on the horns needed to play it. i wonder if "trapped" was added for the same reason?
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 08:47 (one year ago) link
Yeah, even when I saw Springsteen back in '99 or so I remembered thinking, man, how does he pull it off? And then I thought, wow, imagine what he was like when he was 28 or so.
Tix for Milwaukee next week still hovering around $150 minimum for behind the stage seats. I'd maybe consider if they dropped to ... $50.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 12:30 (one year ago) link
I kind of wish I had gone for behind the stage. I went with the only tickets I could afford, which were pretty far away, and people in my section were sitting most of the show and only stood up for the encore. So I do feel like I missed out on some of the immersive quality of a Bruce show. Behind the stage looked a lot more in the middle of things.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
Service charges for DC Nats Park tickets that went on sale today were crazy. $35.50 service charge plus $6 facility charge for the $120 tickets. Also high for $59 tickets
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
Random question: does anyone know what Bruce means by "Valentino drag" in Backstreets?
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 05:14 (one year ago) link
I would’ve guessed it meant having slicked-back hair like Rudolph Valentino, but that’s probably wrong (would Bruce use that sense of the word “drag”?).
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 05:20 (one year ago) link
i always thought in the context of the song it was a location - irl drag racing on a road called Valentino the next line is *where* dancers scraped the tears off the street dressed down in rags etc so it always seemed like a place but idkmaybe it is just dudes dressed like valentino
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 06:05 (one year ago) link
One of the main memories I have of him playing Wrigley Field around the time of Wrecking Ball and was in awe of how he could play for three hours and then pull out "Born to Run" and these other high-velocity numbers, with no lagging.
― made a mint from mmm (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 06:39 (one year ago) link
i love how he’d swing around off his mike stand like a pole dancer, like dude pulls out these moves like he’s ~twelve~ it’s so wild
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 06:43 (one year ago) link
I guy I know from long ago was at that Seattle show and posted these pics.
― made a mint from mmm (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 06:49 (one year ago) link
I think the "Valentino" reference is indeed to a look, not a place. Came across this, which I never knew:
According to Diane Lozito, his girlfriend from 1971 to 1975, Bruce "wrote "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" in bits and pieces and didn't have a title for it. My mom is Rita Lozito. Then he met my grandma. So I assume that's where he put it together." Diane's grandmother's full name was "Rose Lozito"; In that part of Jersey, it's pronounced Lazita, so "Rose Lazita". Also according to Diane, and confirmed independently by her sister, Carol Lisa Lozito, though the song name came from her grandmother, the song was about Diane. Carol also said her sister was Crazy Janey in "Spirit In The Night", Sandy in "4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)", Terry in "Backstreets", and the girl in "Thundercrack".
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 12:14 (one year ago) link
the drag racing thing never even occurred to me, i always took it as valentino the actor, and the sexual ambiguity he sadly shed as the years went on
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 12:52 (one year ago) link
btw "revved up like a deuce" refers to a two-seater hotrod, hope this helps, carry on
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
for example, a little deuce coupe
no vaginas were involved, carry on
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
I thought Bruce was just invigorated because he had pooped.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
wrapped up like a bruce, another pooper in the night
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
Deuce Springsteen's Greatest (s)Hits
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
He wrote this song about the one time he asked a friend to play lookout while he pooped in some dude's car:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/CoverMeSingleFront.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
Frankly this is just too easy, and it makes the baldness joeks better by comparison.
Greetings from Assbury Park
Born to Run (in my pants)
The Darkness on the Edge of my Pants
Tunnel of Love (no alteration needed)
(My Pants Are) Goin' Down
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
You guys are being gross
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
Josh started it
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
accident on 57th street
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago
Cool version! Also that’s not technically a banjo but a guitjo or banjitar. Basically a six string banjo that can be tuned as a guitar but sounds like a banjo.
― âś–âś–âś– (Moka), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
57 Flushes (And It Still Won't Go Down)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
State PooperMy Father's OuthouseAtlantic ShittyPoop It All Night
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
Tickets may be expensive, but the lols come cheap.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
Heard on Sirius XM some of Springsteen and band show from February 16 in Austin. He did a spoken intro to "Last Man Standing" from his Letter to You album about being the last guy left from his early band the Castles after the 2018 death of bandmate George Theiss from cancer. Live he slowed the song down and the drums were more subtle. It sounded much better and more poignant than the album version. He then segued into "Backstreets" and soon followed with "Because the Night." A strong run of songs
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 March 2023 05:28 (one year ago) link
He did the same at the show I saw, but there was also a spoken "Backstreets" interlude where he's talking directly to Terry, in which Terry is George Theiss or another of Bruce's friends of that era. It was a really cool bookend to those '78 performances with the spoken interludes where Terry is a girl.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 3 March 2023 05:41 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I think he started switching to talking about the real life Terry during "Backstreets" after his friend/PA Terry Magovern died in 2007. He's the Terry from "Terry's Song," on "Magic." Terry in "Backstreets" is largely a creation.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 11:48 (one year ago) link
This is what guys who pay 15 thousand dollars for suite tickets to a springsteen show look like during born to run https://t.co/114TBtS0vj— eve6 (@Eve6) March 3, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 13:28 (one year ago) link
Born To Run Things
― nickn, Friday, 3 March 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
Absolute cheapest I see for Milwaukee tomorrow night is still about $150 (before fees) for the cheap seats, which is too much. I'll make a call tomorrow morning, but weirdly not feeling a bunch of fomo this time around, and already have Unwound and Iggy to distract me this week.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 March 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link