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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    very interesting cover version of a flash from the past band:

    41 Shots ( American Skin )
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  • Bathgate66
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    ASCAP LAWSUIT

    In regards to the ASCAP lawsuit against Connolly's Pub and Restaurant, ASCAP was solely responsible for naming Bruce Springsteen as a plaintiff in the lawsuit. Bruce Springsteen had no knowledge of this lawsuit, was not asked if he would participate as a named plaintiff, and would not have agreed to do so if he had been asked. Upon learning of this lawsuit this morning, Bruce Springsteen's representatives demanded the immediate removal of his name from the lawsuit.
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  • WeBelongTogether
    WeBelongTogether Posts: 340
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    Bring On your Wrecking Ball,..........

    That video is awesome! Especially like the shots of a young Bruce. Bruce is a GOD
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  • Bathgate66
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    NY Post: Chad Rachman
    WE LICKED 'EM! Bruce Springsteen's fans scored a triumph yesterday as the Federal Trade Commission slapped Ticketmaster for bait-and-switch sales involving 14 of his concerts last year.

    FTC Backs BOSS Fans

    Thousands of Bruce Springsteen fans will receive refunds for deceptive ticket-sales practices by a unit of Ticketmaster, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday.

    The FTC said Ticketmaster, which is now part of Live Nation Entertainment Inc., will repay fans "upward of a million dollars" after it used "deceptive bait-and-switch tactics" to sell tickets at 14 Springsteen concerts last year.

    Fans complained last February that tickets to two Springsteen concerts at Jersey's Izod Center appeared to sell out instantly, and then they were directed to Ticketmaster's TicketsNow.com subsidiary to buy pricier tickets. The incident, which Ticketmaster blamed on a "glitch," sparked outrage from fans, lawmakers and the Boss himself.


    FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz told reporters yesterday that the investigation into the practices of the ticket reselling due to the Springsteen complaints had uncovered "pretty shocking" practices.

    One such practice was that TicketsNow sold "phantom tickets" without telling the consumers they did not actually have the tickets, but were hoping to get them.

    The FTC said TicketsNow was also not fully refunding fans for the premium-priced tickets it could not deliver.

    In connection with the settlement, the FTC sent letters to all major ticket resellers demanding better transparency in dealing with fans.

    "Clearly, consumers deserve better," Leibowitz said. "They deserve to know what they're buying, including the risk their tickets won't materialize."

    The Springsteen uproar threatened to undermine Ticketmaster's merger with the concert-promoting giant Live Nation, which was eventually approved in January.



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  • Bathgate66
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    Bruce walks to The Wonder Bar after LOD Concert at Convention Hall


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkyQFIyxJEY
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City [Live Acoustic]
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26eO7xZk8I4
  • DavieB
    DavieB Posts: 222
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City [Live Acoustic]
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26eO7xZk8I4

    1) Thanks for posting that, I hadn't seen it before. One of my favourite songs, saw him play it with the E-Street band last summer and it still gives me chills thinking about it!!
    2) What the hell's with all those people criticising it in the comments below the video?! That makes no sense!

    Thanks again! :)
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    DavieB wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City [Live Acoustic]
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26eO7xZk8I4

    1) Thanks for posting that, I hadn't seen it before. One of my favourite songs, saw him play it with the E-Street band last summer and it still gives me chills thinking about it!!
    2) What the hell's with all those people criticising it in the comments below the video?! That makes no sense!

    Thanks again! :)

    I took a glance at those comments before. There are some real assholes out there.
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
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    NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY!
    Continuum Books, publishers of the excellent 33-1/3 series, have just released Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen. From the back cover:

    "On nearly ever major issue — poverty, racism, urban decay, war, and peace — Springsteen's music has offered a unique vision for moving forward with the agenda of creating 'the country we carry in our hearts' -- as he called it in an op-ed for the New York Times. Filled with provocative analysis of Springsteen's best-known hits and his most obscure songs, comparisons to other important works of American culture — ranging from The Sopranos to Edward Hopper — and a wealth of information about the last fifty years of American politics, culture, and society, Working on a Dream is a powerful and engaging study of this songwriter and performer's art."

    Thanks to Continuum and author David Masciotra, we've got five copies of this new book to give away, each one signed for us by the author.

    To enter to win a signed book, you just have to answer one question:

    What song did Springsteen use to open the E Street Band set at every show on the Vote for Change tour?

    Put your answer in the subject line of an email, with your name and address (where you'd like the book sent, if you win) in the body of the email, and send it to <!-- e --><a href="mailto:minesomeday@backstreets.com">minesomeday@backstreets.com</a><!-- e --> by Tuesday, March 30. From the ones with the correct answer in the subject line, we'll draw five entries at random and notify winners by email on Wednesday, March 31.
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    edited April 2010
    wow- what a way to wake up on Easter Sunday
    funny- that girl just looks like a 20 year ago Patti Sciafa ,..

    Swing-steen

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    Ann Kelly, 45, was a housewife living with her mortgage-broker husband and two children in a $600,000 home in a leafy New Jersey suburb.

    But when the married Springsteen entered her life in 2005 -- showering her with concert tickets, serenading her during rehearsals and confessing she was on his mind while he toured -- the Jersey girl got lost in a "Tunnel of Love," court records alleged.

    The relationship between Kelly and the "Born to Run" singer began with chitchats on the treadmills at a high-priced Red Bank, NJ, gym, but the pace quickened with lunch dates and eventually a full-on affair, her soon-to-be ex-husband claimed.


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    Ann Kelly had the "nicest ass" at her gym, Bruce Springsteen said, according to a suit. The two allegedly had lunch dates with her two kids present.
    Accusations of an illicit tryst came to light after Ann's husband of 17 years, Arthur Kelly, 46, filed for divorce on March 27, 2009.

    During the yearlong divorce proceeding, Arthur filed court papers alleging that Ann enjoyed a rendezvous with Springsteen while the husband was laid up in a hospital with heart trouble. Arthur also discussed marriage-counseling sessions at which The Boss was the main topic.

    The bitter divorce is expected to be settled this week.

    Rumors that Springsteen was stepping out with a redheaded knockout who was a dead ringer for Patti Scialfa, his wife of 18 years, began to swirl among gym rats at The Atlantic Club in 2005.

    Arthur says Ann told him that Springsteen, 60, would stand at the end of her treadmill as she ran. It must have been a tempting vantage point for the "Thunder Road" singer because he once told Ann she had the "nicest ass" in the gym, Arthur says.

    Workouts spilled into lunches at a nearby cafe, with Ann's two daughters sometimes tagging along. The children got to know Springsteen so well that they called him "Bruce," according to court records.

    The wide-ranging chats Ann had with Springsteen got into politics. When the blue-collar hero and liberal icon learned that Ann was conservative, he gave her two books to read.

    Being with Bruce brightened Ann's day. She allegedly told Arthur's mother several times that "it made her feel good that Bruce Springsteen was very interested in her," the papers say.

    The housewife allegedly conscripted her friends to be on Springsteen watch.

    In 2006, one friend supposedly left a voice mail on Ann's phone saying, "I got your message, and there were no Bruce sightings at the gym today."

    Another friend purportedly provided intelligence on when Springsteen's wife would be away.

    "[She] said that Patti will be out of town for the next two weeks," the friend said, according to a court filing.


    As talk of an affair spread in 2006, Ann's father, Stephen Carton, allegedly grew concerned that she was wrecking her marriage. He urged her to quit the gym and cut off contact with Springsteen.

    But the Kellys' marriage was already deteriorating.

    The unhappy couple was attending counseling sessions where the "relationship with Bruce Springsteen was the main subject we discussed with the therapist as a major problem in our marriage," Arthur stated in a court filing.

    The two had seemed to be living an idyllic and lavish life in a ranch-style home in West Long Branch, NJ. A registered nurse, Ann was a stay-at-home mom while Arthur earned upward of $500,000 a year running a loan business in Asbury Park, blocks away from the Stone Pony, the legendary venue where Springsteen first made his name.


    Ann splurged on her physical appearance, her husband says in court records -- laying out cash for Botox, anti-aging laser treatments, breast implants and a personal trainer.

    Bruce apparently noticed the primping. Despite warnings from Ann's father and marriage counseling, the romance heated up.

    Springsteen seemed smitten -- Arthur alleges in court papers that The Boss told Ann that he thought about her while he was on tour.

    There were other signs, Arthur says. In 2007 and 2008, unsigned Valentine's Day cards without stamps or postmarks showed up in the Kellys' mailbox in West Long Branch.

    Springsteen personally gave Ann front-row tickets to concert rehearsals on Sept. 24 and 25, 2007, for his "Magic Tour" shows at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park. Ann was so floored by The Boss' crooning, she allegedly told Arthur's mother, "It felt like Bruce Springsteen was singing to me."

    In 2008, Ann allegedly opted to be with Springsteen rather than her ailing husband. While Arthur had open-heart surgery in Cleveland, the singer joined her at a table at the Turning Point restaurant in Pier Village in Long Branch.

    As part of the divorce settlement, Arthur took the adultery claim out of his petition and both parties agreed not to talk to the media. At her West Long Branch home last week, Ann declined to comment to The Post. In past divorce filings, she has denied a sexual relationship with Springsteen. However, during a deposition over the summer, she declined to answer any questions about the singer, court papers show.

    The breaking point in the marriage allegedly came when Arthur told Ann a witness had spotted her kissing Springsteen in the parking lot of their gym. Arthur also claimed that the day before he filed for divorce, Ann admitted to him that her "relationship with Bruce Springsteen was inappropriate."

    Arthur did not return calls for comment.

    A spokeswoman for Springsteen declined to comment. However, a friend of The Boss said, "Bruce and Patti continue to have a terrific marriage and are very devoted to each other and their children."

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  • FenwayFaithful
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    I gotta say, you guys really have the funniest paper out there in the NyPost. Big fan. Better, funnier headlines and wittier writing than we have with the Herald.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • Bathgate66
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    Happy Birthday to the keeper of the big beat, the Mighty Mighty Maximzer
    Max Weinberg.
    Enjoy your new job with Consey, too .
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  • Bathgate66
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    London Calling DVD due June 22

    Today's press release:

    COLUMBIA RECORDS TO RELEASE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND'S 'LONDON CALLING: LIVE IN HYDE PARK' CONCERT FILM ON JUNE 22

    RELEASE MARKS FIRST SPRINGSTEEN OUTDOOR CONCERT FILM AND FIRST FROM A FESTIVAL SETTING

    On June 22, Columbia Records will release Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's London Calling: Live In Hyde Park concert film on one Blu-Ray disc and as a two DVD set. Captured in London at the Hard Rock Calling Festival on June 28, 2009 in HD, the 163-minute film documents 26 tracks of live Springsteen that begin in daylight and progress through a gorgeous sunset
    into night.

    London Calling: Live In Hyde Parkconveys both the experience of being on-stage and the vast crowd experience of the festival environment. Viewers are able to see Springsteen spontaneously directing the E Street Band and shaping the show as it evolves.

    The set list spans from Born to Run era to Working on a Dream and includes rare covers such as The Clash's "London Calling," Jimmy Cliff's "Trapped," The Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'," and Eddie Floyd's "Raise Your Hand." Springsteen also performs fan favorite "Hard Times (Come Again No More)," written by Stephen Foster in 1854. Brian Fallon from The Gaslight Anthem joins the band as a guest vocalist on Springsteen's own "No Surrender."

    The concert earned rave reviews. The London Times called it "epic" and "a revved-up three-hour power drive through Springsteen's America." The Independent concurred, "He awed the 50,000-strong crowd... Drenched in sweat by the second number, tossing his guitars to the roadies with the vigour of
    a frontman a third of his age and jogging down a walkway to meet his fans and take their requests, Springsteen's intensity was staggering from first powerful vocal to final thrashed-out chord."

    GRAMMY and Emmy Award-winning producer and editor Thom Zimny and director Chris Hilson, both members of Springsteen's video team dating back over a decade, oversaw the film. Audio was mixed by Bob Clearmountain.

    Bonus material includes stunning footage of "The River" from Glastonbury, June 27; and the full music video for "Wrecking Ball," filmed at New Jersey's Giants Stadium.

    BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND
    LONDON CALLING: LIVE IN HYDE PARK

    1. London Calling
    2. Badlands
    3. Night
    4. She's the One
    5. Outlaw Pete
    6. Out in the Street
    7. Working on a Dream
    8. Seeds
    9. Johnny 99
    10. Youngstown
    11. Good Lovin'
    12. Bobby Jean
    13. Trapped
    14. No Surrender
    15. Waiting on a Sunny Day
    16. Promised Land
    17. Racing in the Street
    18. Radio Nowhere
    19. Lonesome Day
    20. The Rising
    21. Born to Run
    22. Hard Times (Come Again No More)
    23. Jungleland
    24. American Land
    25. Glory Days
    26. Dancing in the Dark
    27. Music under end credit sequence: Raise Your Hand

    BONUS MATERIAL:
    The River: Glastonbury Festival, 2009
    Wrecking Ball: Giants Stadium, 2009
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  • MysteryTrain
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    Bout time!!! Though I was at that London show, I was really hoping for a Giants Stadium DVD. Now it looks like it'll never get released this year. Oh well, at least we got the Darkness box set.
  • DavieB
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    I was at that show, was my first Springsteen concert, and I thought it was incredible.

    Bit miffed they seem to have omitted Rosalita, though... :?
  • MysteryTrain
    MysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    DavieB wrote:
    I was at that show, was my first Springsteen concert, and I thought it was incredible.

    Bit miffed they seem to have omitted Rosalita, though... :?

    Lotta people said Bruce's voice was shot, but I thought it was great. It was not like he couldn't sing at all. Night followed by She's The One was amazing.
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    I've got some things in my cart on Amazon.com but was waiting/looking for something else to order so I could get the free shipping.....here it is!
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    DavieB wrote:
    I was at that show, was my first Springsteen concert, and I thought it was incredible.

    Bit miffed they seem to have omitted Rosalita, though... :?


    i think thats only for the North East Stateside only.
    :lol:

    KevDylan wrote:
    Bout time!!! Though I was at that London show, I was really hoping for a Giants Stadium DVD. Now it looks like it'll never get released this year. Oh well, at least we got the Darkness box set.


    At least theyre including that snippet from Giants,
    Maybe there will be a hidden easter egg on the DVD with more stuff....
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  • MysteryTrain
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    Pre-ordered mine from amazon! It's pretty cheap now.
  • DavieB
    DavieB Posts: 222
    KevDylan wrote:
    DavieB wrote:
    I was at that show, was my first Springsteen concert, and I thought it was incredible.

    Bit miffed they seem to have omitted Rosalita, though... :?

    Lotta people said Bruce's voice was shot, but I thought it was great. It was not like he couldn't sing at all. Night followed by She's The One was amazing.

    I can't say I noticed either!

    I went to see Neil Young the night before, went back to my hotel room, watched Bruce at Glastonbury (got myself totally psyched up!!!!) and thought his performance the next day was even better than that.

    I went over to the Backstreets (Springsteen fansite) forum yesterday, and was totally disgusted by the amount of negativity about this release over there. It's absolutely shocking, I don't think I'll bother going back.

    Makes you appreciate the "TOUR DATES?!?!?!?!??!!" posts over here a bit more, when that's all we really seem to complain about... :lol:

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