Ed should release My City of Ruins; all proceeds go to Haiti

Gary Carter

Cool

pdalowsky

Metsfan - I can only think you are deaf

and from the vid it looked like Bruce rather enjoyed it too

There's always one

dottles

metsfan wrote:

I didn't know hati was a city and its a horrible cover at best. I can't believe bruce let this go on. This song was meant for the people of nyc after 9-11, not some 3rd world country that had an earthquake.

Meh


Btw- very cool the op's idea came through. All for a good cause.

I can understand how strong the association is with NYC but I think originally it was written for Asbury Park (I thought anyhow). In Europe last year he dedicated it to the victims of an earthquake in Italy, so he recognised that it is a song which can be used to represent/for many situations.
It's a beautiful song, which ever association you have to it.

Gary Carter

pdalowsky wrote:

Metsfan - I can only think you are deaf

and from the vid it looked like Bruce rather enjoyed it too

There's always one

Sorry I didn't know I was supposed to like everything ed does. Where do I hand in my 10c card. Different strokes for different folks. thanks for saying I'm deaf, very childish of you. I wouldn't expect anything less from pj fans. I don't care what bruce does. Maybe bruce was crying cause its an emotional song bout a city he grew up in the shadows of.Did you ever think of that. He chokes up a bit everytime he plays my city of ruins at his concerts. Bet you didn't know that.

pdalowsky

metsfan wrote:

I didn't know hati was a city and its a horrible cover at best. I can't believe bruce let this go on. This song was meant for the people of nyc after 9-11, not some 3rd world country that had an earthquake.

Meh


Btw- very cool the op's idea came through. All for a good cause.

ok, the issue of whether Ed did a good job or not your post here is just idiotic beyond belief

you can't believe Bruce let one of his friends recordings of one of his songs be used for a good cause? Really? You struggle with that?

Haiti a city? How the hell does that matter? The song wasn't even sung for Haiti, but someone here thought it was fitting to use for this cause? Town city country? Whatever - it's in ruins, and desperately needs help

you differentiate that Bruce wrote the song for new York - again like it matters, and then simply add ' not for a third world' country after an earthquake. Does the third world bit mean these people don't deserve the song or these people don't deserve help? The cause of the tradegy is hardly important. Let's not forget the 9/11
disaster was a dreadful act that killed around 10,000 - a huge number whatever it was , this thing killed perhaps 200,000 and not only that left millions on millions homeless. Because the country is perhaps third world in it's wealth only means the task to repair is even more so than the new York attack.

I'm sorry I just found your post a little ignorant - like the poor people were not worthy of a great Bruce song, only the 9/11 people. Like you were dismissive of such a ' third world' cause

as for Bruce, i wouldn't judge so quickly of what I know, ive seen bruce a great many times, with the e street crew, solo and with the Seeger band.,,,, I love bruce and really I think he'd be proud to his song used, certainly he wouldn't be offended that his original intent in it was being wasted on the poor third worlders

Gary Carter

pdalowsky wrote:

metsfan wrote:

I didn't know hati was a city and its a horrible cover at best. I can't believe bruce let this go on. This song was meant for the people of nyc after 9-11, not some 3rd world country that had an earthquake.

Meh


Btw- very cool the op's idea came through. All for a good cause.

ok, the issue of whether Ed did a good job or not your post here is just idiotic beyond belief

you can't believe Bruce let one of his friends recordings of one of his songs be used for a good cause? Really? You struggle with that?

Haiti a city? How the hell does that matter? The song wasn't even sung for Haiti, but someone here thought it was fitting to use for this cause? Town city country? Whatever - it's in ruins, and desperately needs help

you differentiate that Bruce wrote the song for new York - again like it matters, and then simply add ' not for a third world' country after an earthquake. Does the third world bit mean these people don't deserve the song or these people don't deserve help? The cause of the tradegy is hardly important. Let's not forget the 9/11
disaster was a dreadful act that killed around 10,000 - a huge number whatever it was , this thing killed perhaps 200,000 and not only that left millions on millions homeless. Because the country is perhaps third world in it's wealth only means the task to repair is even more so than the new York attack.

I'm sorry I just found your post a little ignorant - like the poor people were not worthy of a great Bruce song, only the 9/11 people. Like you were dismissive of such a ' third world' cause

as for Bruce, i wouldn't judge so quickly of what I know, ive seen bruce a great many times, with the e street crew, solo and with the Seeger band.,,,, I love bruce and really I think he'd be proud to his song used, certainly he wouldn't be offended that his original intent in it was being wasted on the poor third worlders

Its not bout the country its the song choosing. I just don't like it being used for hati. Sorry for being different. I am who I am. Like it or not. I don't give a fuck.

Yea and me donating 300 bucks is hardly being dismissive. But yea go ahead and judge. How much money of your paycheck have you donated or how much food have you sent.

pdalowsky

Whatever,

I give to charity because I want to, not to post on the Internet as a pissing contest.

Yours was a dumb post, deal with it

Gary Carter

pdalowsky wrote:

Whatever,

I give to charity because I want to, not to post on the Internet as a pissing contest.

Yours was a dumb post, deal with it

I donate to charity every damn week. Not cause I wanna brag but cause I care bout people

Your the one that made this into a pissing match so you got what you wanted

Thanks for calling my post dumb. I'm sure the mods would be happy to handle the situation.

pdalowsky

It is what it is

but I'll leave it at that.

Evensteven

Let your local radio station know...spread the word.

cippociappo

Great idea, and kudos to 10C/Eddie/Bruce, whoever made it happen.
This forum, this club, it IS a special (virtual) place

I'll spread the word

clockistotime

cippociappo wrote:

Great idea, and kudos to 10C/Eddie/Bruce, whoever made it happen.
This forum, this club, it IS a special (virtual) place

I'll spread the word

thank you!

Given to...

Just bought and listened.

Pure.

Jeanwah

This is awesome, Congratulations to the OP for coming up with the idea!!

I am just a wee bit sad though, that EV didn't take the initiative and do this without having being led to it. He used to be so big-picture oriented, but seems like he needs that push nowadays...

JM55546

This song was meant for the people of nyc after 9-11, not some 3rd world country that had an earthquake.

It was actually written in 2000 so it would be pretty hard for it to be "meant for the people of nyc after 9-11". It took on a lot of significance but it wasn't meant for them.

PJFAN_seattle

pdalowsky wrote:

Whatever,

I give to charity because I want to, not to post on the Internet as a pissing contest.

Yours was a dumb post, deal with it

LOL
I feel like im back in Junior High!

I like the song btw and good cause.

demetrios

Jeanwah wrote:

This is awesome, Congratulations to the OP for coming up with the idea!!

StillHere

AWESOME!!

So happy this happened!

Good Job clubbers and 10C! Proud to be here among such wonderful folks. :thumbup:

Too bad some ppl have to be debbie downers cough ...gag..cough..mets..cough...fan...ugghhhhhh....

but it's a through and through great thing!

And a fantastic cover...no matter what anyone says.

I adore it! Well, any of you that know me, know that if Ed sang it, I adore it...but I thought I'd just ad my opinion anyway.

Love to you all :wave:

PJ-Cubs

I don't think you can say for certain that EV didn't take the initiative on this one. Maybe they have been working on this for a week and half - working with lawyers, getting permission from Bruce to release the song, editing the recording, etc. Maybe they got the idea for the boards and acted on it. We will never know for sure.

The most important thing is that the song is available for people to buy so that money can be raised to help the people of Haiti.

Dillsnufus

can we say it's safe to say that this is gonna be one of the tracks on the holiday single?