:(
― 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
I heard "Brilliant Disguise" in the supermarket this morning and almost just stood there to listen.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 18:40 (four months ago) link
Kind of crazy that the original Wailers (i.e. Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Livingston) did their first shows in the U.S. opening for SPRINGSTEEN in 1973 (sadly, the only tour they'd do before Tosh and Livingston split). Springsteen doesn't mention them at all in his book, but I was wondering, has he ever talked about them or at least say whether he caught their opening shows?
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 03:09 (four months ago) link
is it you babyor 20% off chicken thighsxp
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 03:36 (four months ago) link
xp That's funny, I just saw an "Upstairs at Max's Kansas City – BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and THE WAILERS" ad posted on social media earlier
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 05:03 (four months ago) link
No Woman No Sex In A Car
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 06:16 (four months ago) link
Inspired by snagging two tickets to see Jon Brion here next week, did I ever post this recording of Brion and pals improvising a Springsteen show on New Year's Eve here some long time ago?
https://robby-blog.s3.amazonaws.com/2008/jon-brion-does-bruce-springsteen/jon-brion-springsteen-song.mp3
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 22:04 (four months ago) link
hey Springsteen thread, this is a really dumb + annoying question, but if anyone wants to team up with me to pitch a 33 1/3 book, let me know? They've already done one on Born in the USA, which kind of included Nebraska, but that's it as far as I know. I would be most interested in The River or The Wild, the Innocent and the E. Street Shuffle.
I have nothing to offer the team in terms of writing cred or musical knowledge, so I would not be a very sensible choice of co-writer, but just throwing this out there.
(also if anyone wants to write about the Vulgar Boatmen, lmk)
― Lily Dale, Friday, 9 February 2024 03:36 (four months ago) link
Springsteen is being sued for "negligent misrepresentation and unjust enrichment" due to the use of a 1968 Pontiac GTO on the cover of Only the Strong Survive. The car's owner, Louis A. Billotti (who later died of COVID):
was asked to bring his classic car, which is registered with the state as a historic vehicle, to Colts Neck, New Jersey, for a photo shoot on Oct. 18, 2021, the complaint said. He did not know who would be involved in the session, but Springsteen arrived, posed with the car and spent some time talking with Billotti about vintage cars.At the end of the photo shoot, the photographer gave Billotti a check for $450, the court papers said. The words "car prop" were written in the memo field of the check.Billotti was told by someone "acting with authority" that if the photos with his Pontiac were chosen for the album cover, he would receive a contract offering him terms of compensation, the amended complaint said.
At the end of the photo shoot, the photographer gave Billotti a check for $450, the court papers said. The words "car prop" were written in the memo field of the check.
Billotti was told by someone "acting with authority" that if the photos with his Pontiac were chosen for the album cover, he would receive a contract offering him terms of compensation, the amended complaint said.
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 01:07 (three months ago) link
A plaintive note: From the time of the photo shoot and through his hospitalization, the GTO owner "often spoke of the October photo shoot to several witnesses to nearly the day he passed and asked his son about whether the contract had come in the mail," the complaint said.
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 01:08 (three months ago) link
He should be rolling in dough 'cuz that GTO really sells the cover.
https://www.nj.com/resizer/k_WNhmsw7L8xuz-byOEqPnbYsLc=/1280x0/smart/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/DHFWHFK34RBWVIQLXIHEOF537I.jpg
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 03:12 (three months ago) link
They totes could have gotten away with a LeMans or Tempest.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 03:27 (three months ago) link
Li'l Springsteen cameo in the new Curb Your Enthusiasm season, identical delivery to his High Fidelity cameo. It's as if he says "I'll do it, if I can tape it at home and send it to you, just gimme the lines."
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 04:35 (three months ago) link
xpost Funny, because this comes about a year after this:
Max Weinberg, the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, has filed a lawsuit in Palm Beach County court against a classic car restoration company alleging that its owners defrauded him of $125,000 while promising to restore a 1957 Mercedes-Benz to mint condition.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/local/boca/2023/12/02/springsteen-drummer-max-weinberg-sues-for-fraud-over-cars-restoration/71754048007/
Classic cars, man, what you gonna do?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 06:51 (three months ago) link
I am not a lawyer but I cannot imagine the legal basis of suing someone for *taking a photograph of a thing that exists*.
Like, that describes almost every photograph
And it sounds like this person agreed to having the car photographed, and was in fact paid. Just... not enough, after finding out who would be leaning on it?
― Sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 12:03 (three months ago) link
Yeah the car doesnt get residuals
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:22 (three months ago) link
Someone should have informed the car that this town rips the bones from you back. I am given to understand this it is, in fact a death trap. One might even suggest that it is a suicide rap.
I have hear that the best remedy is to be (1) chrome-wheeled, (2) fuel injected, and (3) to be willing to step out over the line.
― Sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:25 (three months ago) link
* your, * heard, sorry
― Sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:26 (three months ago) link
I don't know, that sounds like it's a set-up for liability.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:31 (three months ago) link
"The court will now hear the case of Classic Car Vs. This Town, all rise."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:32 (three months ago) link
There does seem to be some nuance, in that Team Boss apparently thought that payment was sufficient, but did not follow through with contractual paperwork.
Personally I think $450 and talking to His Bossness would be pretty cool. I would take that and walk, knowing I would have a good story. But clearly the heirs and estate have a different agenda. I can sorta understand that too.
― Sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:39 (three months ago) link
Springsteen is doing another Greatest Hits album, this one spanning his whole career.
https://pitchfork.com/news/bruce-springsteen-announces-new-greatest-hits-album/
Now obviously this is all pointless in the era of streaming when this exact playlist probably already exists on Spotify, but I am curious: given that he seems to be trying to include about two songs per album, give or take, what would you all change about this list?
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 03:57 (three months ago) link
"Racing in the Street" instead of "Prove It All Night," "I'm on Fire" or "My Hometown" instead of "Glory Days."
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 04:09 (three months ago) link
Feels more like a “Greatest Hits” (in fact the selections are fairly similar to that 1995 comp) than a “Best Of” (which to me implies more interesting selections).
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 04:49 (three months ago) link
(To gesture toward answering the question – "Walk Like a Man" instead of “Tougher Than the Rest”)
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 04:51 (three months ago) link
What’s interesting is that the CD and 2x LP versions up for pre-order both only seem to have 18 tracks. So is the 31-track version just basically going to be a playlist?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 05:24 (three months ago) link
I mean, I’m not sure what “digital edition” would mean? I’m assuming streaming and those who pay for FLACs I guess?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 05:25 (three months ago) link
xp Same as tipsy mothra except "Darkness on the Edge of Town" instead of "Prove it All Night."
Agree that it feels more Greatest Hits than Best of. If it's genuinely Best of, then I'd like to add in one more each from The River and Nebraska - maybe "Wreck on the Highway" and "Open All Night." I get that he's trying for something that genuinely spans his career, but I think he can still go a little heavier on his classic period. We don't need fully half of the songs to be post-BITUSA, it could be 2/3 early, 1/3 late and people would still get the idea.
I think after "Human Touch" is where my idea of Springsteen's Best of really diverges from his. I'd probably do something like this:
Human TouchLocal HeroStreets of PhiladelphiaYoungstownHighway 29The RisingLiving in the FutureWrecking BallWestern StarsHello Sunshine (or Stones, which I actually like better)Ghosts (or Rainmaker, or Burnin' Train)One Minute You're Here
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 05:38 (three months ago) link
did yall already post that amazing story he told on graham norton's show about his relationship with this family in st louisreally made me happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx0GllhVJks
― Swen, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 06:00 (three months ago) link
I love how Bruce gives absolutely no explanation of why he did this, because to him it's clearly just "eh, why not?" And meanwhile everyone else is going "OMG this is the craziest thing we've ever heard!"
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 06:21 (three months ago) link
100%
― Swen, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 06:25 (three months ago) link
Local news story on that story where they interview the family:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezPRW1wt0NE
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 06:40 (three months ago) link
*news report on that story
solid
― Swen, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 07:14 (three months ago) link
that's a great story, the kids that approached him must have been terrified it would become a "don't meet your heroes" moment
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 16:00 (three months ago) link
TIny bit of Rashomon to this but still a great story
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:53 (three months ago) link
The third Passaic night (sept 21st) of the legendary 1978 Darkness tour has now been released officially too (aka Coup De Grace) - and even though it may not one of The Big Five (the 5 shows that were broadcast on the radio & became the most bootlegged & wellknown), you can't go wrong with any of these shows, really.
― StanM, Saturday, 9 March 2024 09:36 (three months ago) link
Been digging a live version of “Because the Night” by Patti…Lupone. She makes it sound like an outtake from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2024 11:50 (three months ago) link
From this: https://playbill.com/article/patti-lupone-at-les-mouches-vintage-lupone-club-act-arrives-in-stores-nov-11-com-155028
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2024 11:57 (three months ago) link
Which was a midnight Saturday cabaret show she was doing in 1980 while she was in the midst of doing Evita.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2024 11:59 (three months ago) link
From old cassette tapes! Pretty appropriate.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMRF7PiJBAs
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2024 12:04 (three months ago) link
Anyway, sorry for the seeming derail. It’s just the only version I’ve heard that seems to take the Patti version and put a tiny bit of spin on it rather than just being…okay and similar but not quite as good like every other version.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2024 12:06 (three months ago) link
The performance clips from the video are on the verge of being an SCTV parody, and I mean that in the best possible way.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2024 12:18 (three months ago) link
Even redeems a crummy Kinks song.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2024 12:24 (three months ago) link
If one can redeem something terrible by making it terrible in a brand new way. You weren't kidding about SCTV!
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 9 March 2024 12:59 (three months ago) link