I think this one features him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axzlT92TgwE
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 November 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
Sounds like him, thanks!
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 November 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
And OMG at Richard Neer and the disgraced Dave Herman. The latter sounds a lot more like Lou Reed when talking than I remembered.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 November 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
This image is bad enough.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 November 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
(Don’t worry it’s SFW, just didn’t want to have to look at it in the thread)
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 November 2022 01:41 (one year ago) link
I think this one features him:📹
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 21 November 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
Ha, whoops, yeah, he also played at the Bottom Line a year earlier, August 1974. There must be recordings out there.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 November 2022 03:52 (one year ago) link
Supposedly the earliest available performance of BtR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEmPVFAvM8
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 November 2022 03:59 (one year ago) link
I found a few early "Born to Run" cuts from '74. Here's a '74 "Jungleland"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICJr6lSGS3c
And then there's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeosMlRCoUI
I think they all feature Carter, but I could be wrong
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 November 2022 04:05 (one year ago) link
I’m not gonna take the bait again!
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 November 2022 04:17 (one year ago) link
Scott Miller had some interesting things to say about "Thunder Road":
I have a serious love/hate relationship with this song. For the most part, I think the album is overrated; there's just not enough there there in the composition. "Thunder Road" is the one that stretches out the most, and it's the one I like the most, but from the first sung lyric it stays a little aimless. The final always gives me chills, and makes the road straighten behind it as it were- but I'm not sure I'm proud of that reaction. Really the singer is feeding this poor girl such a banquet of self-mythologizing nonsense as to make one weep. The message is: "Trade in these wings on some wheels...It's a town full of losers/I'm pulling out of here to win." Quiet good deeds and unheralded personal sanctity are for suckers; it's all about cobbling together an elitist worldview from whole cloth and putting it over for material advantage. So, this is good wild-oatsy stuff, but I'll say it again: if you want world-class lyrics with a reasonable ethical grounding, go try that joke of a flitty chimera David Bowie.
For me, I'd be satisfied with this album if it were a single of "Night" b/w "Meeting Across the River". Gets straight to the point.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 21 November 2022 04:56 (one year ago) link
Half of rock is singers feeding self-mythologizing nonsense to poor girls. Kind of a dumb take.
Maybe Bruce didn't flirt with fascist iconography enough for Scott Miller.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Monday, 21 November 2022 12:25 (one year ago) link
"go try" this other guy who sucks? what lol
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 21 November 2022 12:32 (one year ago) link
Did we ever poll the songs on Born to Run?
I don't think so!
Really the singer is feeding this poor girl such a banquet of self-mythologizing nonsense as to make one weep. The message is: "Trade in these wings on some wheels...It's a town full of losers/I'm pulling out of here to win." Quiet good deeds and unheralded personal sanctity are for suckers
I suppose this is a helpful warning for anyone who had "Thunder Road" confused with Middlemarch.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 21 November 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
That sounds like it might be Carter, based on the bit at 2:45 -- Weinberg sometimes attempted it, but soon gave up. Doesn't sound like Max.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 21 November 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
And that's DEFINITELY Carter on the '74 "Jungleland."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 21 November 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
Quiet good deeds and unheralded personal sanctity
we should do a pox songs about quiet good deeds and unheralded personal sanctity
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 21 November 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
Miller's got an unconventional take on Springsteen; the other two songs he writes about in his book are "Candy's Room" and "Girls in Their Summer Clothes", probably not general top three fan favourites.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 21 November 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
*raises hand*
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 November 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
Meaning I’m a huge fan of “Candy’s Room.”
I’m not minding Scott Miller’s contrarian take tbh.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 November 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
"Candy's Room" is one of those songs even people I know that don't like Springsteen like. He doesn't have many songs like it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 November 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
The funny thing is that blurb is from a playlist of the best songs of 1975 (fitted between "Better Off Dead" by Elton John and "Poker" by Electric Light Orchestra)! Although occasionally he'll include a song less out of musical excellence than to make a point about the historical context.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 21 November 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
"Better Off Dead" from Captain Fantastic? Haven't thought about that one in ages.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 November 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
Thunder Road come on
― treeship., Tuesday, 22 November 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
You ain’t a beauty but hey you’re alright