screen door slammed too hard got concussed
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 21:33 (nine months ago) link
It’s a cover for plastic surgery. He’s already changed his clothes & hair… time for the face work.
― You have been verified with your voice (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 22:02 (nine months ago) link
Got thrown off the tilt a whirl when his shirt ripped
― that's not my post, Thursday, 17 August 2023 12:38 (nine months ago) link
Checked the engine but she ain’t turning
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:45 (nine months ago) link
In the shower, slipped up on the douche
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:50 (nine months ago) link
I had never seen or heard of this before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5rb6ev25eM
― the pinefox, Thursday, 31 August 2023 09:13 (nine months ago) link
I wonder if the ulcer was the reason for his past postponements/cancellations? Glad he's taking it easy now.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 7 September 2023 04:03 (nine months ago) link
(also not to sound morbid, but if Bono's the first to go, I can see that being a preview of the Grammy tribute)
― birdistheword, Thursday, 7 September 2023 04:07 (nine months ago) link
postponing all of the remaining September gigs because of the peptic ulcer
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 September 2023 04:56 (nine months ago) link
poor Boss, that sounds painful:(
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 September 2023 04:59 (nine months ago) link
oof.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 September 2023 16:57 (nine months ago) link
Someone online mentioned that they “used to love Springsteen,” but then read his autobiography… and that ended that. What’s in the book that would cause such a turnaround(?)
― Taylor Swift Reporter (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 03:37 (nine months ago) link
Nothing I can think of. Some vague stuff about emotionally abusive tendencies that he had to unlearn in therapy, but nothing damning as far as I know. I would it expect any turnaround to be in the other direction; the book is so human and funny and weirdly relatable, I feel like you could walk away with a personal liking for Bruce where you hadn't had one before.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 03:54 (nine months ago) link
Just saw that the U Talkin' U2 to Me? people are doing a Springsteen podcast. I think I may have reached the stage in my Bruce fandom where listening to something like that just frustrates me because I'm not the one talking, but I'll probably give it a try anyway.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 03:58 (nine months ago) link
The only thing I can think of is that if you weren't already aware of how much self-conscious myth-making there was with the boss, the book makes it pretty plain. But there's no real dirt there that would turn off a fan.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 03:59 (nine months ago) link
omg i cannot fathom loving Bruce LESS after reading his book! it’s written so well & he’s so candid about his mental health. it’s one of my favorite autobiographies
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 05:27 (nine months ago) link
One thing that irks a friend of mine is that Bruce never says when or how he learned the piano! It's all guitar guitar guitar, but he's a fine piano player, most of Born to Run was written on piano, it would have been nice to learn about his introduction to playing piano.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:31 (nine months ago) link
I could see the book turning off people in the habit of looking at their favourite musicians as superhuman. Like my dad with "outlaw country" nonsense. I once showed him the "Guy Terrifico" movie, a great send-up of those tropes involving his beloved Kris Kristofferson. He was legitimately pissed off when I told him it wasn't real.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:36 (nine months ago) link
I tend to think all guitar players play a bit of piano, some better than others (i.e. Mick Ronson, Keith Richards, Lennon, Bernard Butler, etc.)
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:37 (nine months ago) link
I think it was/is pretty common to have a piano around the house, or to know a bit of piano, certainly more than guitar. I think that's why Bruce (and others) know some piano. But for example, I saw Crowded House recently, and Neil Finn revealed it was more or less mandatory for everyone in the family to learn piano (specifically "Lara's Theme"), so that's his musical origin story. I assume Bruce learned piano well before he picked up a guitar, and if he didn't, that would have been good info, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:56 (nine months ago) link
Bruce's book is readable and likeable. I agree that no reasonable person would be deterred by it, probably the opposite.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 13:04 (nine months ago) link
Bowie and Edge play both reasonably well too.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 13:12 (nine months ago) link
Here's Bruce talkin' 'bout (and playing) piano on Howard Stern. He says he wrote all of "Born to Run" on his aunt's piano, but who taught him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZi79ulSp4E
Anyway, just for point of comparison, here's Bowie's "Life on Mars?" demo, which sounds pretty solid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8mm-hWAv4
Not a lot of clips of him playing piano, though, but here is a clip that has him playing with Iggy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2eB8f020Pc
The way I figure, if you're good enough to play live, in any context, you're good enough. Still, I'd love to know if they took lessons, did the family teach them, did they pick it up at home, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:17 (nine months ago) link
Bowie played the piano on "Oh! You Pretty Things." On later records he plays more piano and keyboards than guitar.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:28 (nine months ago) link
I'm sure, though in the studio it's a little hard to know who is contributing exactly what. I mean, why would Bowie play much piano when he's got Mike Garson, you know? Same with Bruce and Roy.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:33 (nine months ago) link
The person on social media expanded on their comment re: the book. Without directly quoting (to keep it from being searchable) I'll sum up the complaints as involving: (a) the manner in which Bruce talks about the women in his life; and (b) his "playing favorites" with band members (including one who requests more money, and Bruce responds with a joke). This person feels that Bruce comes off as petty, unkind, and lacking in self-awareness.
Oh well – I'm interested in reading it (based on the comments above, which I certainly trust more)
― Taylor Swift Reporter (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 20:29 (nine months ago) link
I love that delivery of the word "wheels."
I think he talks somewhere about practicing piano at his aunt's house because he spent a lot of time hanging out there after school. I don't remember him saying who taught him, maybe the same aunt? Presumably he learned piano like a lot of kids do, but didn't associate it with rock music until after he'd learned the guitar and was playing in rock bands, so it just doesn't come into his formative "this is how I became a rock musician" story.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:25 (eight months ago) link
Bruce Springsteen has continued to recover steadily from peptic ulcer disease over the past few weeks and will continue treatment through the rest of the year on doctor's advice. With this in mind, and out of an abundance of caution, all remaining 2023 tour dates for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be postponed until 2024. Rescheduled dates for each of the 2023 shows, including those postponed earlier this month, will be announced next week, all taking place at their originally scheduled venues. When the new 2024 dates are announced, those unable to attend on the new date who purchased their tickets through official ticketing companies have 30 days to request a refund. All tickets for postponed performances will remain valid for the newly announced dates.Said Springsteen: “Thanks to all my friends and fans for your good wishes, encouragement, and support. I'm on the mend and can't wait to see you all next year."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:52 (eight months ago) link
:(
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 23:25 (eight months ago) link
Interview with David Sancious:
https://timmorse.com/david-sancious-interview
Iconoclassics is issuing Sancious & Tone's Dance of the Age of Enlightenment, a lost album that was supposed to be released by Arista back in the '70s. (This is the band Sancious formed with Ernest Carter after they both left the E Street Band.)
At the end of the interview, Tim Morse asks Sancious this:
I’ve heard you’ve been working with Bruce Springsteen - is there an album coming out with you on it?
Yeah, but I’m not sure when it’s coming out. When I was working on it I was told it should be released sometime before the end of this year. It’s the second volume of the soul music project that came out, called Only The Strong Survive. He called me in last November to do publicity for the first volume - Jimmy Fallon for four nights. We did four songs from that album, it was great fun. We had like a nineteen piece band, we had a horn section, a choir - it was brilliant, really cool.
How did you get involved in recording Volume Two?
I got a phone call saying that he was working on a volume two of this project, would you like to come into the studio? And I said, “Yes, absolutely.” I was there four or five days and we did about fourteen songs. Most of the songs were already recorded, it was just me and him and an engineer. Me overdubbing keyboards on a bunch of tunes. We finished that in March of this year, I don’t know when it will be released. But he said he’d very much like to do a tour with that ensemble from the Jimmy Fallon show.
So it’s possible you could be touring with Bruce next year?
It’s more than a possibility, I’m in. We’re both looking forward to it!
― birdistheword, Monday, 16 October 2023 23:57 (seven months ago) link
For no particular reason, I was just thinking about how much I like this outtake. I love the bridge: "I want to weep but I'm broke inside and the tears won't run/ I want to sleep but there ain't no dream and the sleep won't come."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAEphLhWX0w
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 19 November 2023 03:21 (six months ago) link
Didn't know that song, but yeah that's a great lyric
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 November 2023 04:26 (six months ago) link
So apparently Bruce is planning to do a feature film about the making of Nebraska, which seems like not a great idea, but maybe he'll surprise us? I read the Warren Zanes book about Nebraska recently, and all the interviews with Bruce are just kind of meaningless filler, the kind of thing he trots out when he either doesn't remember or doesn't feel like saying anything personal.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 14 January 2024 21:35 (four months ago) link
disagree this seems like a great idea100% will watch
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 January 2024 22:13 (four months ago) link
I hope you're right! I can imagine a version of a Nebraska doc that I would love. I'm just not sure if we'll get it from current Bruce, but I hope we do.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 14 January 2024 22:40 (four months ago) link
What could be so compelling that would warrant an hour plus doc? I thought he just wrote those songs in his kitchen or something and recorded them simply
― calstars, Sunday, 14 January 2024 22:51 (four months ago) link
I can see an interesting doc for diehards that would accompany a box set, but hard to imagine what this would look like that would play in a cinema.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 14 January 2024 23:23 (four months ago) link
Maybe we'll get Unsolved Mysteries-style dramatic enactments of the songs?
CHANNING TATUM IS...JOHNNY 99
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 January 2024 23:27 (four months ago) link
I really need to get into this C5X 40558… I inherited it from my dad:https://i.imgur.com/FXZGIYF_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand
― Wooly Bully (2005 Remaster) (morrisp), Monday, 15 January 2024 00:39 (four months ago) link
(he’s still alive, for avoidance of doubt)
― Wooly Bully (2005 Remaster) (morrisp), Monday, 15 January 2024 00:40 (four months ago) link
Box set glory days
― calstars, Monday, 15 January 2024 00:41 (four months ago) link
Nebraska remains the high-water mark for four-track cassette Portastudio recordings.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 January 2024 02:30 (four months ago) link
I would happily watch at least 45 minutes of someone interviewing Chuck Plotkin about Nebraska. He was my favorite part of the Darkness doc.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 15 January 2024 03:14 (four months ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/C20aKzMIGVW/
― birdistheword, Thursday, 1 February 2024 21:10 (four months ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 1 February 2024 21:13 (four months ago) link
RIP mrs springsteen <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 February 2024 21:28 (four months ago) link
RIP.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 03:56 (four months ago) link
One thing I'll always remember from his Broadway show:
My mother loves to dance. She grew up in the ‘40s … with the big bands and the swing bands, and that was a time when dancing was an existential act. She’s 10 years into Alzheimer’s and that’s taken a lot away from us. But the need to dance hasn’t left her. She can’t speak. She can’t stand. She can’t feed herself. But when she sees me, there is always a smile. Still a smile. And there’s still a kiss. And there’s a sound which she makes when she sees me. It’s just the sound, but I know it means ‘I love you.’ And when I put on Glen Miller and she starts moving in her chair … she starts reaching out for me, to take her in my arms once more and to dance with her across the floor.
It's probably the only truly positive thing I can think of when dealing with someone lost to Alzheimer's, like the one thing it can't take away.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 3 February 2024 02:18 (four months ago) link
I should say "when coping with someone lost to Alzheimer's"
― birdistheword, Saturday, 3 February 2024 02:19 (four months ago) link
The Tracy Chapman/ Luke Combs duet is reminding me of how much I love this video: the warmth, the mutual respect and friendship, the brilliant and subversive choice of verses for Chapman to sing, and the way Bruce turns away from the audience to sing the last "This is your hometown" directly to her.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCYbnLNEPD4
― Lily Dale, Monday, 5 February 2024 03:42 (four months ago) link