Ugh. It is a bargain, relatively speaking, and it's a mathematical certainty that Bruce isn't gonna phone it in, but jeez.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 10 March 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
Well, that "relatively speaking" part is kind of key, isn't it? Because thank god we are not mandated to go, as there is no better price than zero.
I will say, as someone who goes to shows all the time, big and small, and never pays, that I think most folks ie the average concert goer, hit maybe one or two big shows a year. And with that in mind, $130 is pretty cheap. That's dinner and a movie for two, with a glass of wine. A luxury for some, I suppose, but I don't that's considered a conspicuous expenditure.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 March 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
he isn't playing chicago on this tour? WTF.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 11 March 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
also can we maybe talk about the drum fills on "born in the usa" (the song)?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
well they ARE the song
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
reminds me of thunderstorms
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
thunder only happens when it's raining IIRC
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
My favorite musical element: Bruce's wordless howling in the last minute.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
Stevie Nicks does not understand weather patterns
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
the line "son, take a good look around" in "my hometown" just sent chills up my spine. :(
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh I love that song
Stevie Nicks should have covered "Cover Me."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
this album is good
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
well duh :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 March 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
xpost amateurist, the (very strong) rumor is that he's playing Wrigley Field in September. This is only the first leg of the tour - a bit of the US, then Europe, then most likely back to the US. I'm seeing him in Detroit if I can help it because frankly I'm a little concerned about the band's, er, mortality rate. Seven months is a long time away...
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
can't make it to detroit, but wrigley field sounds fun.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 11 March 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
I saw him at Pacbell Park in Sf in 2002 or 03. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. something about the vibe in a baseball stadium, it just feels so Bruce
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
Great Springsteen keynote speech streaming on NPR from SXSW:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/147357853/sxsw-2012?ps=cprs
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Last night in Austin:
1. I Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie)2. We Take Care of Our Own3. Wrecking Ball4. Badlands5. Death to my Hometown (with Tom Morello)6. My City of Ruins7. Seeds8. E Street Shuffle9. Jack of All Trades (with Morello)10. Shackled and Drawn11. Waiting on a Sunny Day12. Promised Land13. The Ghost of Tom Joad (with Morello)14. The Rising15. We Are Alive16. Thunder Road17. Rocky Ground (with Michelle Moore)18. Land of Hope and Dreams19. The Harder They Come (with Jimmy Cliff)20. Time Will Tell (with Cliff)21. Many Rivers to Cross (with Cliff)22. We Gotta Get Out of This Place (with Eric Burdon)23. 10th Avenue Freeze Out24. This Land is Your Land (with Joe Ely, Arcade Fire, Alejandro Escovedo, etc.)
Tom Morello, eh, but Jimmy Cliff!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 March 2012 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
and Eric Burdon! and Garland Jeffrys
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
Alejandro Escovedo! underappreciated dude
― caulk the wagon and float it, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
why doesn't he sing love songs anymore?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 17 March 2012 05:32 (twelve years ago) link
because now he is a serious man of politics
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 March 2012 06:57 (twelve years ago) link
politics and rock and roll
He sang that long creepy song about getting a blowjob. Does that count as a love song?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 March 2012 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
if that's a representative setlist from this tour i might just skip it.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 17 March 2012 07:23 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it seems like he's going heavy on the new album, but with bits and pieces of the past, a la the Rising tour. But inevitably as he goes forward, he mixes it up a bit. I mean, note the conspicuous absence of much from Born to Run, Darkness and BitUSA, let alone "Born to Run" the song. Obviously the set is heavy on stuff that favors guests (Jimmy Cliff, Animals) or the SXSW fest (Woody Guthrie birthday stuff). The show at the Apollo was heavy on soul covers, albeit soul covers that Springsteen has done before. I'd be curious what a proper set from this tour looks like, but I bet it's not too different.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 March 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
jesus, the boss isn't suicidal is he? that setlist looks like a cry for help.
― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtTE8aWCe9g
― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
at least the set doesn't end with wreck on the highway, then i'd probably want to stage an intervention
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 17 March 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
also scott seward/sullivan's travels OTM
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 17 March 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
man it took him 13 years to release a studio version of "Land of Hope and Dreams" and he fucked it up
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
It sounds fine to me, what's fucked up about it?
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
i just hate the changed up drumbeat, mostly
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
well I like it
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
so as a kid i never liked this dude
but now there is essentially nothing i'd rather listen to whilst drunk
and i'm having a lot of practice
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
which album/s?
The Darkness album is my drunk jam :D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 06:24 (twelve years ago) link
weighing in on the treyvon martin case seems like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nghqjBwZTiE
― all things must pass (shaane), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/nils-lofgren-defends-bruce-springsteens-use-of-teleprompter/2012/04/03/gIQAOWS6sS_blog.html
Nils sets his local paper straight
Your teleprompter article left out some important points. Last E Street tour, (”Working On A Dream”) we played 192 different songs on that tour alone. Dozens of those songs were from audience-request signs Bruce would collect and dump in front of the drum riser. He would then rifle through them, sailing them around him until he found a song to attempt
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Nils got you, Brooce
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
that's pretty cool! i've worked as a teleprompter tech a bit and while i'm sure bruce has his own dedicated crew he travels with i love just the idea of being the guy he throws a request sign to to pull up the lyrics
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
Have those Republicans who are annoyed about Obama's use of a teleprompter weighed in on Springsteen & his band's use of one?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://backstreets.com/news.html
See the April 29th news entry on the New Orleans jazzfest gig I just saw.
I saw the sun setting over the fairgrounds in New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday at the end of the first weekend of Jazzfest. Bruce Springsteen closed the event out with a 2 and half hour set that included a song with Dr. John, a version of the "Saints Come Marchin' In" and various spoken references to the region and songs possibly chosen with the area in mind(a cover of "How Can a Poor man Stand Such Times and Live" , "Mary Don't You Weep).
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
New Orleans jazzfest gig Setlist:Badlands We Take Care of Our OwnWrecking BallOut in the Street Death to My HometownMy City of RuinsHow Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? Jack of All TradesSomething You Got (with Dr. John) O Mary Don't You Weep Prove It All NightJohnny 99Waitin' on a Sunny DayThe Promised LandThe RisingLonesome Day We Are AliveLand of Hope and DreamsPay Me My Money Down Born to RunDancing in the DarkRocky Ground/When the Saints Go Marching In (with Michelle Moore)Tenth Avenue Freeze-out
Lots of Bruce talking early in the set--an "occupy" mention, references to New Orleans and ghosts before and during "My City in Ruins." I could have done without "We Are Alive," "Land of Hope and Dreams," and "Pay Me My Money Down," which all dragged (and sent some folks heading out to beat the traffic early) but I liked the set better than the last time I saw Springsteen (ironically enough, that 2006 Seeger sessions show in New Orleans that New orleans writer Keith Spera liked so much). If I nitpick further I'd say "Prove It All Night" and some of the others lacked the vocal passion and tempos I remember from 78 to early 80s, but it was still pretty great.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't go to the show, but when he played here in Cleveland a couple of weeks ago, he included "Light of Day," which he hasn't done a lot in recent years IIRC. Kinda nice since that movie was based in and partially shot here.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
He's never going to stop playing Waitin' On A Sunny Day :(
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
It's worse than that! He brings kids on stage to sing it with him!!!!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
They were home in Jersey for the New Orleans show as was his wife Patty. Bruce joked, "Patty is home keeping the kids out of our drug stash."
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
we played 192 different songs on that tour alone.
god. damn. these guys work hard.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
When he did his last solo tour, behind "Devils & Dust," Bruce did something like 168 different songs, or different iterations of songs (ie, I'm On Fire with banjo, or harmonium, or guitar, etc.). There was a great bootleg released that featured at least one version of each.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link