Better not play a Glenn Frey song tonight. Don't see why he would, honestly.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
think i read somewhere that "new kid in town" was inspired by broooce in some way
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
Bruce is the 'New Kid'.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link
well yeah
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link
Henley:"It's about the fleeting, fickle nature of love and romance. It's also about the fleeting nature of fame, especially in the music business. We were basically saying, 'Look, we know we're red hot right now but we also know that somebody's going to come along and replace us — both in music and in love."
...and the guy who came around was Bruce at the Roxy.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
bruce singing "take it easy" with jackson browne four months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUh7HtXyiWg
i'd be surprised if he didn't play it tonight.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
but i'd rather hear him do "one of these nights."
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link
The Heat Is On, or one of the other sax-y solo songs.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
He can't do this every time someone dies, so I doubt he'll play it, though you never know. It's 90% his pal Browne's song, anyway.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
no, he MUST do this every time someone dies! whoever has tickets for tonight, please report back on which blowfly song he does, kthxbye.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
Actually, I could totally see him doing this on past tours, when he was taking tons of requests and the sets were changing all the time. But since he's playing The River start to finish, plus a handful of other songs, that means he's got 22 or however many songs that can't change from night to night. So for every Smuggler's Blues he plays that's a Thunder Road or whatever that has got to go.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link
waiting for Bruce to start "Born in the U.S.A." only to start, say, "Just foolin', y'all!" and launching instead into:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7EjD3SIReM
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
Haha!
He could pull off "Smuggler's Blues" as well as anyone.
― Longform Gordon Lightfoot (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 23:27 (eight years ago) link
bruce doing smuggler's blues would be rad
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 23:28 (eight years ago) link
Man, one day I will see one of these shows and not be among the youngest 10%.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 01:00 (eight years ago) link
Crowd surfing:
https://twitter.com/thekapman/status/689644189471096836
― Longform Gordon Lightfoot (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 03:56 (eight years ago) link
Parade float!https://instagram.com/p/BAv0C0hkyFv/
― Longform Gordon Lightfoot (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 04:44 (eight years ago) link
He's playing Take It Fucking Easy, for real.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 04:48 (eight years ago) link
So he did play it, acoustic and slow and supported by fiddle, so it was OK. Highlight of the night might have been Bruce fucking up the intro to "No Surrender" like three times in a row, which had the band in hysterics.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 06:05 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h3ubC3PkTo
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 06:06 (eight years ago) link
And, other highlight was "Cover Me," which was weirdly intense and featured a ripping Nils solo.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 06:11 (eight years ago) link
Chicago show being offered as a free download until Tuesday night:
http://live.brucespringsteen.net
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 January 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
Check out Nils on this around 3:10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO-YZEQRxYM
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 January 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
New York, NY, February 11, 2016 -- Simon & Schuster is proud to announce the world-wide publication of Bruce Springsteen's autobiography, Born to Run, which will be released internationally on September 27, 2016. The work will be published in hardcover, ebook, and audio editions by Simon & Schuster in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and India, and rights have already been sold to publishers in nine countries.Mr. Springsteen has been privately writing the autobiography over the past seven years. He began work in 2009, after performing with the E Street Band at the Super Bowl's halftime show.In Born to Run, Mr. Springsteen describes growing up in Freehold, New Jersey amid the "poetry, danger, and darkness" that fueled his imagination. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized."Writing about yourself is a funny business," Mr. Springsteen notes in his book. "But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this.""This is the book we've been hoping for," said Jonathan Karp, publisher of Simon & Schuster. "Readers will see their own lives in Bruce Springsteen's extraordinary story, just as we recognize ourselves in his songs." Simon & Schuster acquired Born to Run in an exclusive submission from Mr. Springsteen's legal representatives, Allen Grubman and Jonathan Ehrlich of the law firm Grubman Shire & Meiselas, P.C.. Simon & Schuster previously published Mr. Springsteen's illustrated book with Frank Caruso, Outlaw Pete, in 2014.
Mr. Springsteen has been privately writing the autobiography over the past seven years. He began work in 2009, after performing with the E Street Band at the Super Bowl's halftime show.
In Born to Run, Mr. Springsteen describes growing up in Freehold, New Jersey amid the "poetry, danger, and darkness" that fueled his imagination. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized.
"Writing about yourself is a funny business," Mr. Springsteen notes in his book. "But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this."
"This is the book we've been hoping for," said Jonathan Karp, publisher of Simon & Schuster. "Readers will see their own lives in Bruce Springsteen's extraordinary story, just as we recognize ourselves in his songs." Simon & Schuster acquired Born to Run in an exclusive submission from Mr. Springsteen's legal representatives, Allen Grubman and Jonathan Ehrlich of the law firm Grubman Shire & Meiselas, P.C.. Simon & Schuster previously published Mr. Springsteen's illustrated book with Frank Caruso, Outlaw Pete, in 2014.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 February 2016 14:09 (eight years ago) link
http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/i/%5Bcurrent-date%3Acustom%3AY%5D/%5Bcurrent-date%3Acustom%3Am%5D/%5Bcurrent-date%3Acustom%3Ad%5D/autobiography.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 February 2016 14:10 (eight years ago) link
actually just transcripts of his onstage intros to "Growin' Up" and "My Hometown."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 February 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
I wonder how many unreleased pictures of Just Woke Up Bruce they have in archives.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
the opening paragraph:
"Screen door slams, Mary's dress ..." what? Waves? Blows? No, that wasn't right. Something was missing. Was that something ... America?
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/its-funny-ive-actually-only-been-to-new-jersey-a-c-30611
http://www.theonion.com/article/bruce-springsteen-releases-new-sci-fi-concept-albu-21358
http://www.theonion.com/article/bruce-springsteen-on-fence-about-playing-assads-bi-33727
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
This excerpt gives a clue as to the ghostwriter:
Then one day this fella Jon Landau said he wanted to be my producer. Well sir, I was ecstatic: the great Jon Landau! I'd been reading him since his brilliant takedown of Cream in Rolling Stone, and his work on the MC5's seminal Back In The USA was, for me, the pinnacle of rock 'n' roll production. Surely, I could give this Springsteen guy -- I mean, surely, Jon could give me a sense of direction, and maybe I could get him to read a few books -- um, that is, maybe JON could introduce ME to some great literature. Yeah, that's what I meant to write, sir. Anyway, without Landau, Born To Run would never have happened. In fact, you could say that I -- I mean, um, he, Landau -- he really kinda wrote the song.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
I saw the future of rock and roll and it was ME
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
Now, *that*'s specific!
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/02/boss-slide-animated-gif.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
Legend aside, I could never imagine the Ramones recording "Hungry Heart." But even beyond the most obvious reason, they would have done a great "I Wanna Marry You."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 February 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
Our non-"River" portion of the show in Cleveland last night:
Prove It All NightLonesome DayCandy's RoomBecause the NightYoungstownThe RisingThunder RoadGrowin' UpBorn to RunDancing in the DarkRosalita (Come Out Tonight)Bobby JeanShout
Also, I shot a little video of Bruce crowd-surfing during the last minute or so of "Hungry Heart." He was grabbing audience members' cameras/phones and taking selfies while he surfed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbhnqx0zSo
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
I heard he called Cleveland "Pittsburgh." A mortal sin...I didn't think he was capable....
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 25 February 2016 12:18 (eight years ago) link
Ain't no sin to forget where you are.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 February 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
I love how he's playing 10+ songs on top of doing The River in its entirety.
Got tickets for the Wembley gig this morning, although I really need to familiarise myself with the second half of The River.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 February 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
The River is fantastic, but there are a few duds on the 2nd half. Drive All Night was always my least-favorite Bruce song until Waitin' On a Sunny Day emerged.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
Paris show announced finally today, can't bear to look at ticket prices bc I want to go so badly
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
Drive All Night is interminable. But Stolen Car and Wreck on the Highway are as good as anything on Nebraska, Point Blank a neat dramatic experiment (could be an Elvis Costello song), The Price You Pay kind of a somber rewriting of some Darkness stuff, and Ramrod and Cadillac Ranch two of his most fun barnstormers.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 February 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
Stolen Car was great the other night, and Point Blank prefigures 41 Shots in an interesting way.
Loved the 4-way guitar/fiddle interplay on Cadillac Ranch with solos from Bruce, Steve, Nils and Patty.
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 25 February 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
Still think Nils in the E Street Band is a bit like Darryl Jones in the Stones. It probably takes Nils more effort not to play really well than to play really well.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 February 2016 23:35 (eight years ago) link
https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/disp/ce310d29769629.5602cba90ecf4.gif
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
Funny, I don't feel tardy ...https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/springsteen.jpg?quality=100&strip=all&w=1328&h=882&crop=1
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 March 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
:D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 March 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
As you, my fans, know I’m scheduled to play in Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday. As we also know, North Carolina has just passed HB2, which the media are referring to as the “bathroom” law. HB2 — known officially as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act — dictates which bathrooms transgender people are permitted to use. Just as important, the law also attacks the rights of LGBT citizens to sue when their human rights are violated in the workplace. No other group of North Carolinians faces such a burden. To my mind, it’s an attempt by people who cannot stand the progress our country has made in recognizing the human rights of all of our citizens to overturn that progress. Right now, there are many groups, businesses, and individuals in North Carolina working to oppose and overcome these negative developments. Taking all of this into account, I feel that this is a time for me and the band to show solidarity for those freedom fighters. As a result, and with deepest apologies to our dedicated fans in Greensboro, we have canceled our show scheduled for Sunday, April 10th. Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write — is one of them. It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 April 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-04/8/16/imagebuzz/webdr11/anigif_optimized-21065-1460145772-1.gif?no-auto
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 April 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
That is very cool. I'm sure it's not inexpensive to cancel a concert 2 days before. He continues to be, well, Bruce Springsteen.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 8 April 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
<3
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 April 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link