Bruce Springsteen - Classic or Dud ?

for example, a little deuce coupe

no vaginas were involved, carry on

I thought Bruce was just invigorated because he had pooped.

wrapped up like a bruce, another pooper in the night

Deuce Springsteen's Greatest (s)Hits

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

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

You guys are being gross

Josh started it

accident on 57th street

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

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.

57 Flushes (And It Still Won't Go Down)

State Pooper
My Father's Outhouse
Atlantic Shitty
Poop It All Night

Tickets may be expensive, but the lols come cheap.

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

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.

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.

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

Born To Run Things

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.

Putting my videos of Bruce Springsteen bangers in one post. Was my first time seeing him (happy birthday mom!) and I highly recommend the seats behind the stage. pic.twitter.com/JuOr5qfZWP

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 6, 2023

Jesus, even that added MetLife stadium show has mostly sold out - all that's left is resale, platinum and scattered singles.

Milwaukee tix are dipping down to the "tempting" level, but still a bit pricey for the time and effort (and seats). Let's see how low they go in the next few hours.

Screw it, I'm saving my cash for one of the Wrigley shows in several months (maybe) and seeing Unwound tonight instead.

(Rumor has it he is touring stadiums summer '24, which should surprise no one.)

Well...that's promising to hear.

Just reading that November 18, 2022 Rolling Stone interview with Bruce where he talks about the soul music album, box set plans, ticket prices and more.

He says he used to set ticket prices lower than the market rate . But he and his band aren’t getting younger so he went with market rate this time , plus he allowed variable pricing he say’s because this way the band sees some of that money and otherwise non-Ticketmaster scalpers would just make the money because he says they would get hold of the tickets and mark them up

I sorta get that but it’s disappointing Bruce couldn’t push against Ticketmaster more. It’s a shame Ticketmaster though doesn’t block bots and resale and just tries to profit; and that Ticketmaster can charge insane fees, but I wish there was more the artist could do to push against this. Bruce and Taylor and Beyonce need to get the government to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster monopoly on tickets and arenas and limit fees !

Josh posted that interview upthread

It’s a shame Ticketmaster though doesn’t block bots and resale and just tries to profit

The thing is, the bots and resale *benefit* Ticketmaster. If people on the secondary are selling for $500, then TM has no incentive not to sell for similarly inflated prices (especially once you factor in fees, which are basically pure profit). A huge hunk of the secondary market is being sold directly by TM itself, too, though it's impossible to say just what percent of this stuff is double dealing. I've seen a few shows lately billed as "sold out" that still had tickets available. You'd think "sold out" and "tickets available" would be mutually exclusive, but there is so much tomfoolery going on that we'll never get to the truth of it. It's all a shell game where the house always win.

I honestly don't see why the artists can't just sell their tickets directly. It's pretty much all digital anyway.

Show in Columbus tonight is postponed due to "illness." Given that half the band has had covid, and the show went on without them, I can only surmise this means it finally caught up with Bruce, probably the only member of the E Street Band that has never missed a gig.

Another show cancelled/postponed due to illness.

And given that we’re supposed to get a foot of snow (and more in the surrounding areas) Tuesday, I think it’s safe to say the Albany show will likely be cancelled, too.

Albany just now announced as postponed.

No need to be anxious or afraid. Nothing serious. Just a temporary situation. We will all be back in full force very soon. https://t.co/tsxNJRIl2c

— 🕉🇺🇦Stevie Van Zandt☮️💙 (@StevieVanZandt) March 11, 2023

"The pants-droppin', Viagra-takin', Covid-beatin' E-Street Band!"

I suppose there are a lot of things it could be. Covid, RSV, flu, Norovirus, family emergency ... Pretty clear it's the Boss that's been afflicted, though.

There are nasty bugs going around… I’ve been really sick twice this winter (still recovering from a cough right now), and repeatedly tested negative for all the big names.

Could be something too embarrassing to identify like the runs.

Tom, insert pun-free zone here, please!

born to...

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/OblongBitesizedIzuthrush-size_restricted.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHIs7IafD0

Candy's Restroom

Mister state pooper

Thunder Road

Meet me tonight in Atlantic...

Nah, too easy

Greetings from...

41...

tomorrow night's show, the third impacted, postponed now too

The latest in weird Bruce news is that apparently Bruce only eats one meal a day, and this has prompted Chris Martin to also only eat one meal a day.

https://consequence.net/2023/03/coldplay-chris-martin-bruce-springsteen-one-meal-per-day/

“he looks better than me”
= 100% why i hate this dude