"Bernie said he'd pull out, Bernie stayed in..."
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 6 June 2016 23:35 (eight years ago) link
In HIllary's room, there are pictures of her donors on the wall
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 01:56 (eight years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen's Famed 1990 Solo 'Christic Shows' Get Official Release
yes!
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 06:49 (eight years ago) link
Saw Coventry and Wembley from the pit. Both great shows, Wembley shading it, because the setlist was a bit more unexpected. Yes, he has had a shocking cold for a week, apparently.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 12:16 (eight years ago) link
As always the Euro shows shook up the setlist. So I'm buying a ticket for his return to Chicago at the end of the month, because he makes me happy and can't do this forever. Or can he?!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 August 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
Buying a ticket...Trying to get one at this point for his DC stadium show would mean lotsa bucks from a scalper....
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 August 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
No chat about Bruce's forthcoming autobiography yet? He's a good writer so this should be well worth reading. Here's the foreword:
http://brucespringsteen.net/news/2016/born-to-run-foreword
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 08:56 (eight years ago) link
I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.
Great first(ish) line!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 12:18 (eight years ago) link
Yes.
Think he wanted to give Elvis Costello a run for his money.
― Wavy Gravy Planet Waves (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 12:44 (eight years ago) link
"I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be Bruce."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 14:06 (eight years ago) link
i cant wait to read it
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link
Hope he talks more about his failed marriage than Costello discussed Cait O'Riordan in his book (who got less than a paragraph, I think)
― beamish13, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 22:47 (eight years ago) link
I just got back from his show at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey. It could have been the greatest concert I have ever seen. 4 hours, a dream setlist, and he is at the peak of his power as a live performer. I saw him 30 years ago and he hasn't diminished even a shred. It's almost spooky.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 26 August 2016 05:18 (eight years ago) link
I saw him long ago too, and while he is still great live, I think he does less running around the whole stage and leaping about with guitar in hand then he did back then.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
well, he's 82
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
He is still ridiculousy handsome for an old bloke
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 August 2016 05:59 (eight years ago) link
He did a lot of running the other night. And lots more crowd interaction too.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 27 August 2016 13:01 (eight years ago) link
Jesus Christ, this guy. 3 1/2 hours tonight, but one of the best performances I have seen him give out of 20+ shows. One of the best crowds, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 August 2016 05:08 (eight years ago) link
Yes! These stadium shows this summer are spectacular.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 29 August 2016 12:42 (eight years ago) link
We got an arena show (thank goodness, not a fan of stadiums).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 August 2016 14:08 (eight years ago) link
Wow: http://www.blogitallnight.com/news-updates/newbrucespringsteeninterviewrevealsin-storebooksigningsandmuchmore
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 September 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
^Long, very revealing Vanity Fair interview.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 September 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
The scramble for tickets for those in-store book signings is going to be unedifying.
― heaven parker (anagram), Monday, 5 September 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
I'll just download the bootleg.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 September 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
Looking forward to reading this, and I am not even the biggest Springsteen fan- I just don't have the Sitzfleisch to make through a four hour rock concert.
― Under the Zing of Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 September 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
Thumbs up AVclub:
Although Springsteen will appear in person at each stop on the nine-date book tour, the books will come pre-signed, meaning you probably won’t get the chance to stand in front of The Boss and ask him if he got sick of sitting around here trying to write this book with a big stupid grin as he scribbles your name and pretends he’s never heard that one before. Maybe that’s for the best, come to think of it.Dates for the Bruce Springsteen Born To Run book tour are embedded below. How he’ll manage to extend a book tour date to nearly four hours remains to be seen, but if anyone can do it, Springsteen can.
Dates for the Bruce Springsteen Born To Run book tour are embedded below. How he’ll manage to extend a book tour date to nearly four hours remains to be seen, but if anyone can do it, Springsteen can.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 September 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
lol nice
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 01:35 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpOSRY2olDk
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 September 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
Picked up my friend Steve to see the Mekons in the city. It was 7:15, and the Springsteen channel was maybe 2/3rds of the way through "New York Serenade," the first song he played at the epic August Meadowlands set they were broadcasting. We drove into the city and got to the gig a bit early, then the band went on a bit late. The Mekons were ragged but managed maybe two hours of music. We got back to the car around 10:20, and Bruce's Meadowland's set was nowhere near done. It was mid-'Dancing in the Dark," which means there were still five songs to go, all around 6-10 minutes long, and it was still far from wrapping up when I finally got home. I mean ... wow.
Meanwhile: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/books/bruce-springsteen-memoir-born-to-run.html
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
He raised his three children without rock-star mementos in the house. “My kids didn’t know ‘Badlands’ from matzo ball soup,” he writes. “When I was approached on the street for autographs, I’d explain to them that in my job I was Barney (the then-famous purple dinosaur) for adults.” His eldest son says, in shock, “Dad, that guy has you tattooed on his arm.”
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
Who is going to be awesome and convert this list to a public playlist on Spotify?
http://www.vulture.com/2016/06/every-bruce-springsteen-song-ranked.html
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
hmm all titles in that article have youtube links afaict so if you want a playlist with every bruce song haphazadly ranked it wld prob be a lot easier to youtube it
― niels, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
Does anyone know where I can find a streaming service that provides access to some Bruce Springsteen tracks?
― Gravity Well, You Needn't (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
Ah good point Niels...so the thing to do would be make a YouTube playlist of those tracks and then import to Spotify via:
https://soundiiz.com/login
That site has been very handy in the past btw.
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
Starting to wonder which Jimmy Cliff songs he covered. I had forgotten about "Trapped," which was popular for one hot minute because it was on a benefit album, (We Are The World?) and see some other tunes on YouTube from The Harder They Come, including "The Harder They Come" with Jimmy himself. But I also seem to recall him playing "Vietnam," although I am finding little evidence of it.
― Gravity Well, You Needn't (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 September 2016 04:43 (eight years ago) link
(We Are The World?)
Yep, that's the one (and I wish the question mark was actually part of the title), and "Trapped" got a ton of airplay at the time.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 September 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
I don't know why I am thinking he covered "Vietnam." Did he? Or did it appear in some other context - the "Treasure Island" section in Stranded?- and I am just confounding.
― Gravity Well, You Needn't (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 September 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
There's bootlegs of a song he did called Vietnam that later mutated into Born In The USA. I don't know if his song has anything to do with the Jimmy Cliff song.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 22 September 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
New Order (!) covered Vietnam, but don't think Bruce did.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
i love bruce in jersey shred devil mode. could watch bruce solo vids a lot actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euwbwRAITa4
― scott seward, Friday, 23 September 2016 01:08 (eight years ago) link
oh but i was reading richard ford on chronicles vol.2...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/books/review/bruce-springsteen-born-to-run-richard-ford.html?hpw&rref=books&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
― scott seward, Friday, 23 September 2016 01:10 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj8jGgUDHqw
Mr. Ford will be hearing from the Dutch embassy...
"Springsteen’s part Scots-Irish, part Italian family was a caldron of these bubbling forces."
― scott seward, Friday, 23 September 2016 01:18 (eight years ago) link
I like Springsteen guitar but he's best when he knows when to get out of the way, especially when paired with James fucking Burton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la2H9OCOlrQ
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 September 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
This is a great one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACSeVC6umzg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 September 2016 03:22 (eight years ago) link
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/bruce-springsteen-call-trump-moron-228586?cmpid=sf
“The republic is under siege by a moron, basically. The whole thing is tragic. Without overstating it, it's a tragedy for our democracy,” the rocker said, when asked what he makes of the “Trump phenomenon”.
Countdown to Trump slamming the Boss on twitter, aka the end of his candidacy.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 September 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
Boring Bruce slams me in low-selling Rolling Stone! Sad! Not A Fan!
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 September 2016 01:07 (seven years ago) link
#JohnCaffertyIsBetter
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 September 2016 01:09 (seven years ago) link
You're on firefired!
― Autotune the Sky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 September 2016 01:18 (seven years ago) link
If/when this happens, Chris Christie's brain will explode.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 24 September 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link