3 ) Is " Down In The Hole " a cover song ? Thats sounds familiar to me for some reason ?
Isn't that an Alice in Chains song title?
I think it's "Down in a Hole," but either way, same title.
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So apparently Amazon has an exclusive High Hopes version that features an extra DVD of the BITUSA performed live from the London stop of the Wrecking Ball tour. I have already pre-ordered this version.
What chaps my ass is that I have every Springsteen album on vinyl and wish to own this too. Normally I would have just bought the vinyl but it is listed at $30. Kind of expensive if you ask me. If they didn't have the DVD included with the CD I would have just bought the vinyl. Want both but $45 for both versions just to have the DVD. :shock: I need to get my head examined.
They just played "Born to Run" going into commercial during the Giants game.
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
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The question and answer was: Who thought that he was invited to perform with Bruce AND what happened since he got that impression? Tom Hanks. Hanks explained how he got a text from Bruce Springsteen, inviting Hanks to perform with him on "Late Night," which Hanks was very excited about. "Bruce. I am so honored," Hanks said he texted back. But then he got Springsteen's response. "Tommy! That text was meant for Tommy Morello.
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The question and answer was: Who thought that he was invited to perform with Bruce AND what happened since he got that impression? Tom Hanks. Hanks explained how he got a text from Bruce Springsteen, inviting Hanks to perform with him on "Late Night," which Hanks was very excited about. "Bruce. I am so honored," Hanks said he texted back. But then he got Springsteen's response. "Tommy! That text was meant for Tommy Morello.
Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
So apparently Amazon has an exclusive High Hopes version that features an extra DVD of the BITUSA performed live from the London stop of the Wrecking Ball tour. I have already pre-ordered this version.
Not only is the Amazon exclusive High Hopes w/ DVD limited, its marked "This version will be available for a LIMITED TIME ONLY. "
That makes me wonder if its a limited print run or would be printed in a quantity a bit more than demand/amount of pre-orders that come in. Check it out here: http://shortify.us/0uzIb
I just saw Bruce at a restaurant in Richmond Virginia. Didn't get a pic or talk to him but I was just feet away. It was pretty cool. I'm with a friend who has seen Bruce 35 times so he was very happy.
I just saw Bruce at a restaurant in Richmond Virginia. Didn't get a pic or talk to him but I was just feet away. It was pretty cool. I'm with a friend who has seen Bruce 35 times so he was very happy.
The fact you saw him makes me just a little jealous.
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
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I just saw Bruce at a restaurant in Richmond Virginia. Didn't get a pic or talk to him but I was just feet away. It was pretty cool. I'm with a friend who has seen Bruce 35 times so he was very happy.
The fact you saw him makes me just a little jealous.
We were at another place like 10 minutes away and got info he was here so we rushed over. I kind of wished I tried to talk to him but I don't want to be obnoxious.
I just saw Bruce at a restaurant in Richmond Virginia. Didn't get a pic or talk to him but I was just feet away. It was pretty cool. I'm with a friend who has seen Bruce 35 times so he was very happy.
Damn, thats awesome. Good call on playing it cool, I would have freaked out!
Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
I just saw Bruce at a restaurant in Richmond Virginia. Didn't get a pic or talk to him but I was just feet away. It was pretty cool. I'm with a friend who has seen Bruce 35 times so he was very happy.
The fact you saw him makes me just a little jealous.
We were at another place like 10 minutes away and got info he was here so we rushed over. I kind of wished I tried to talk to him but I don't want to be obnoxious.
More recently, Bruce has become very approachable, fan friendly, and non-camera shy !
That is unless he was/is with his kids/family, then he will outright tell you off limits.
Congrats on the sighting tho - its always cool .
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Besides the album and early dates, Bruce doesn't guarantee or deny US dates for 2014 (hoping!). It also looks like they are giving The River the treatment (YES!!) and also doing "major work" on the first two albums. It is exciting to be a Bruce fan right now! More of this conversation will be appearing. I asked Andy Greene on Twitter that I wished he asked about a Tracks 2 and he replied: "Who says I didn't ask about Tracks 2? Stay tuned."
Bruce Springsteen on 'Anomaly' of a New Album 'High Hopes': Exclusive Plus: The possibility of 2014 U.S. tour dates, his unusual recording process and more
Tom Morello was driving around Los Angeles in late 2012 when "High Hopes" – one of the most obscure songs in Bruce Springsteen’s vast catalog, originally released on a forgotten 1996 EP – came on E Street Radio, the SiriusXM channel devoted to Springsteen. "I was reminded what a jam it was," says the Rage Against the Machine guitarist, who was preparing to serve as a temporary replacement for Steve Van Zandt on the E Street Band’s 2013 tour of Australia. "In the middle of the night, I texted Bruce and said, 'What do you think about 'High Hopes' for the tour?’ He agreed we should put it in the set." Little did Morello realize that a new version of "High Hopes" would become the title track of Springsteen’s 18th studio album, due out January 14th.
High Hopes is a first for Springsteen: a studio album composed entirely of covers, outtakes and radically reimagined versions of fan-favorite songs from past albums and tours. High points include a cover of Seventies punk pioneers Suicide ("Dream Baby Dream"); songs originally wrote for 2002's The Rising ("Harry's Place," "Down in the Hole"); and searing new takes of concert staples "The Ghost of Tom Joad" and "American Skin (41 Shots)." "The best way to describe this record is that's its a bit of an anomaly," says Springsteen. "But not much. I don't really work linearly like a lot of people do."
Springsteen has always written and recorded significantly more songs than can fit on to whatever album he's creating at the moment. "I have a lot of this music on a computer," he says. "I bring it out on the road to amuse myself. Very often, if I have nothing to do late at night I'll bring it up and look at different bodies of music."
The songs that began catching Springsteen's attention were largely recorded after he reunited with the E Street Band in 1999. "The songs were relatively current and had a similar sound picture," he says. "I was interested in putting this material together in some form because it sounded like it all fit together. . .You have to imagine that when I'm home or done with a tour I go into a studio and I'm surrounded by paintings that I've sorta half-finished. There might be something wrong with this one and I didn't have time to finish this one. When I go into my studio, I'm surrounded by all my music that I haven't released. I wait to see what's going to speak to me."
In December of 2012, he called producer Ron Aniello, whom he first worked with on 2012’s Wrecking Ball, and him to sort through about 15 songs. "He said, 'I’m on the road right now – just fool around with them and see what you think you can do,'" says Aniello. "Although they didn't fit the particular story he was telling for each album – you know how crazy he is about having each album tell a linear story. But these were fantastic songs."
Springsteen — who has grown close with Tom Morello ever since they first performed together in 2008 — wound up having the guitarist play on six songs, including new renditions of "American Skin (41 Shots)" and "The Ghost of Tom Joad." "He became a filter that I ran my music through," says Springsteen. "He would send the songs back to me with a very current slant on them. . .He jolted those songs into the now. He's one of the few guitarists that creates a world by himself. It's like The Edge or Pete Townshend or Johnny Marr. The E Street Band is a big house, but when Tom is on stage he builds another room."
In March 2013, Springsteen and the E Street toured Australia with Morello. Everyone was impressed by the crowd’s enthusiastic reactions to its new, Morello-assisted arrangement of "High Hopes" (written in the late Eighties by folk singer Tim Scott McConnell) and amped-up cover of "Just Like Fire Would" by Aussie punk legends the Saints. Springsteen called up engineer Nick DiDia – an old friend who recently relocated to Sydney – and booked some impromptu sessions. "We had no plans to record," says Springsteen. "But I found a hook to bring these songs to life and I was anxious to get to work on them."
Between revamped versions of the studio outtakes he had sent Aniello, plus new recordings of the covers and live favorites that Morello was infusing with fresh energy onstage, Springsteen realized he had enough material for an album. There was just one problem: The E Street Band had worldwide dates booked for the rest of the year. So he decided to record the entire LP between shows – something he’d never tried before – with members of the band overdubbing new parts at Aniello's Los Angeles studio or Springsteen’s home studio in New Jersey during breaks. "Previously, everything was like when I was a kid," says Springsteen. "I needed the peas to be on one plate and the corn had to be on another plate and I didn't like them to touch. That's where I was coming from. I thought everything had to be very segregated."
For Morello, getting to work with Springsteen more closely over the past year has been the thrill of a lifetime. "I am not a casual Bruce Springsteen fan –I am a big Bruce Springsteen fan," he says. "And 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' is one of his best songs. It cuts to the core of his social-justice writing. This version starts as a plaintive ballad, which feels like a lament, and becomes a full-bore rocker that feels like a threat."
A few weeks after High Hopes arrives, Springsteen and the E Street Band – with Morello in tow – will kick off a five-week tour of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. One thing that's not on the books right now: any dates in the U.S., where they haven’t played since late 2012.
"We're looking around now to see what we might do," says Springsteen. "I don't want to say 'yes' because I don't want to disappoint people, but I certainly don't want to rule it out either. We're looking closely out at since there's places we missed on the last tour. We didn't get to Texas, where I love to play. We didn't get to Florida either. It might be fun to get back to some of those places."
This year also marks the 30th anniversary of Springsteen’s smash Born in the U.S.A. but his manager Jon Landau says there are no plans to celebrate that with a deluxe reissue – at least not yet. "There's ongoing work on a River box set," says Landau. "Maybe we’ll do that first. And we're doing some major work on his first two albums [1973's Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle] as we speak. Those will be forthcoming."
Springsteen didn't release a new studio album during the seven years between The Ghost of Tom Joad and The Rising, but he doesn't imagine anything like that will ever happen again. "It's like that old story," he says. "The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind."
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
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i dont know what kind of weight the RnRHOF holds nowadays,
but its about time the E Street Band was recognized.
:thumbup:
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i dont know what kind of weight the RnRHOF holds nowadays,
but its about time the E Street Band was recognized.
:thumbup:
Yes! Don't know why it took 40 years for them to get the recognition.
Speaking of the E Street Band, it seems like Tom Morello is a member now, but don't know to what extent he is as he'll be at the South African, Australian, and New Zeland dates.
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
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is that the gig when they cut the power off ?
if not, i hope theres no early curfew there for the peeps attending.
gotta love a show in a brand new arena,
especially the way PJ is sounding this tour !
wish i couldve made the trip over for this !
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is that the gig when they cut the power off ?
if not, i hope theres no early curfew there for the peeps attending.
gotta love a show in a brand new arena,
especially the way PJ is sounding this tour !
wish i couldve made the trip over for this !
Just been searching around and saw this quote from a Leeds Arena staff member:
We don't have a curfew. We are a sound proofed 100% venue so can go on all night as loud as we want
:-D
Hyde Park 25/06/10 - Manchester 20/06/12 - Leeds 08/07/14
is that the gig when they cut the power off ?
if not, i hope theres no early curfew there for the peeps attending.
gotta love a show in a brand new arena,
especially the way PJ is sounding this tour !
wish i couldve made the trip over for this !
That was the Hard Rock Calling 2012 Festival when McCartney was on stage at the end.
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
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We don't have a curfew. We are a sound proofed 100% venue so can go on all night as loud as we want
:-D
awesome ! We need one of these in NYC
( not that we have a curfew problem but to play all night ios awesome )
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is that the gig when they cut the power off ?
if not, i hope theres no early curfew there for the peeps attending.
gotta love a show in a brand new arena,
especially the way PJ is sounding this tour !
wish i couldve made the trip over for this !
That was the Hard Rock Calling 2012 Festival when McCartney was on stage at the end.
Ah yes I remember Sir Paul being onstage,
wasn't sure of what venue/date.
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Its Xmas eve and I have been listening to E st. Radio on XM for about 4 hrs now and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. They are killing it with all the great songs they are playing. Listened to a live show from SF in 1978. Playing a fair amount of xmas themed songs too. Played Clarence Clemons Still There's Christmas. Great song. Can't seem to get enough Bruce today.
Its Xmas eve and I have been listening to E st. Radio on XM for about 4 hrs now and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. They are killing it with all the great songs they are playing. Listened to a live show from SF in 1978. Playing a fair amount of xmas themed songs too. Played Clarence Clemons Still There's Christmas. Great song. Can't seem to get enough Bruce today.
Was that the Winterland show, 12/15/1978?
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Its Xmas eve and I have been listening to E st. Radio on XM for about 4 hrs now and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. They are killing it with all the great songs they are playing. Listened to a live show from SF in 1978. Playing a fair amount of xmas themed songs too. Played Clarence Clemons Still There's Christmas. Great song. Can't seem to get enough Bruce today.
Its Xmas eve and I have been listening to E st. Radio on XM for about 4 hrs now and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. They are killing it with all the great songs they are playing. Listened to a live show from SF in 1978. Playing a fair amount of xmas themed songs too. Played Clarence Clemons Still There's Christmas. Great song. Can't seem to get enough Bruce today.
Was that the Winterland show, 12/15/1978?
As a matter of fact it was. Terrific.
Great, great show. One of the best Bruce shows of all time. I got the boot if you want it.
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Great, great show. One of the best Bruce shows of all time. I got the boot if you want it.
Really? I'd love a copy of it. I couldn't believe the setlist as it was being played. I can see why it's one of his best. Thanks man. Let me know what I can send you in return.
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZZyYFa7slQ
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Note taking started 10 years earlier out in the swamps of Jersey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-rhHSw4x6E
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What chaps my ass is that I have every Springsteen album on vinyl and wish to own this too. Normally I would have just bought the vinyl but it is listed at $30. Kind of expensive if you ask me. If they didn't have the DVD included with the CD I would have just bought the vinyl. Want both but $45 for both versions just to have the DVD. :shock: I need to get my head examined.
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
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Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
Not only is the Amazon exclusive High Hopes w/ DVD limited, its marked "This version will be available for a LIMITED TIME ONLY. "
That makes me wonder if its a limited print run or would be printed in a quantity a bit more than demand/amount of pre-orders that come in. Check it out here: http://shortify.us/0uzIb
2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
2017: RRHoF 4/7 2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4 2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18
2022: MSG 9/11 2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
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We were at another place like 10 minutes away and got info he was here so we rushed over. I kind of wished I tried to talk to him but I don't want to be obnoxious.
2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
2017: RRHoF 4/7 2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4 2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18
2022: MSG 9/11 2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
Damn, thats awesome. Good call on playing it cool, I would have freaked out!
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
More recently, Bruce has become very approachable, fan friendly, and non-camera shy !
That is unless he was/is with his kids/family, then he will outright tell you off limits.
Congrats on the sighting tho - its always cool .
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Bruce Springsteen on 'Anomaly' of a New Album 'High Hopes': Exclusive
Plus: The possibility of 2014 U.S. tour dates, his unusual recording process and more
Tom Morello was driving around Los Angeles in late 2012 when "High Hopes" – one of the most obscure songs in Bruce Springsteen’s vast catalog, originally released on a forgotten 1996 EP – came on E Street Radio, the SiriusXM channel devoted to Springsteen. "I was reminded what a jam it was," says the Rage Against the Machine guitarist, who was preparing to serve as a temporary replacement for Steve Van Zandt on the E Street Band’s 2013 tour of Australia. "In the middle of the night, I texted Bruce and said, 'What do you think about 'High Hopes' for the tour?’ He agreed we should put it in the set." Little did Morello realize that a new version of "High Hopes" would become the title track of Springsteen’s 18th studio album, due out January 14th.
High Hopes is a first for Springsteen: a studio album composed entirely of covers, outtakes and radically reimagined versions of fan-favorite songs from past albums and tours. High points include a cover of Seventies punk pioneers Suicide ("Dream Baby Dream"); songs originally wrote for 2002's The Rising ("Harry's Place," "Down in the Hole"); and searing new takes of concert staples "The Ghost of Tom Joad" and "American Skin (41 Shots)." "The best way to describe this record is that's its a bit of an anomaly," says Springsteen. "But not much. I don't really work linearly like a lot of people do."
Springsteen has always written and recorded significantly more songs than can fit on to whatever album he's creating at the moment. "I have a lot of this music on a computer," he says. "I bring it out on the road to amuse myself. Very often, if I have nothing to do late at night I'll bring it up and look at different bodies of music."
The songs that began catching Springsteen's attention were largely recorded after he reunited with the E Street Band in 1999. "The songs were relatively current and had a similar sound picture," he says. "I was interested in putting this material together in some form because it sounded like it all fit together. . .You have to imagine that when I'm home or done with a tour I go into a studio and I'm surrounded by paintings that I've sorta half-finished. There might be something wrong with this one and I didn't have time to finish this one. When I go into my studio, I'm surrounded by all my music that I haven't released. I wait to see what's going to speak to me."
In December of 2012, he called producer Ron Aniello, whom he first worked with on 2012’s Wrecking Ball, and him to sort through about 15 songs. "He said, 'I’m on the road right now – just fool around with them and see what you think you can do,'" says Aniello. "Although they didn't fit the particular story he was telling for each album – you know how crazy he is about having each album tell a linear story. But these were fantastic songs."
Springsteen — who has grown close with Tom Morello ever since they first performed together in 2008 — wound up having the guitarist play on six songs, including new renditions of "American Skin (41 Shots)" and "The Ghost of Tom Joad." "He became a filter that I ran my music through," says Springsteen. "He would send the songs back to me with a very current slant on them. . .He jolted those songs into the now. He's one of the few guitarists that creates a world by himself. It's like The Edge or Pete Townshend or Johnny Marr. The E Street Band is a big house, but when Tom is on stage he builds another room."
In March 2013, Springsteen and the E Street toured Australia with Morello. Everyone was impressed by the crowd’s enthusiastic reactions to its new, Morello-assisted arrangement of "High Hopes" (written in the late Eighties by folk singer Tim Scott McConnell) and amped-up cover of "Just Like Fire Would" by Aussie punk legends the Saints. Springsteen called up engineer Nick DiDia – an old friend who recently relocated to Sydney – and booked some impromptu sessions. "We had no plans to record," says Springsteen. "But I found a hook to bring these songs to life and I was anxious to get to work on them."
Between revamped versions of the studio outtakes he had sent Aniello, plus new recordings of the covers and live favorites that Morello was infusing with fresh energy onstage, Springsteen realized he had enough material for an album. There was just one problem: The E Street Band had worldwide dates booked for the rest of the year. So he decided to record the entire LP between shows – something he’d never tried before – with members of the band overdubbing new parts at Aniello's Los Angeles studio or Springsteen’s home studio in New Jersey during breaks. "Previously, everything was like when I was a kid," says Springsteen. "I needed the peas to be on one plate and the corn had to be on another plate and I didn't like them to touch. That's where I was coming from. I thought everything had to be very segregated."
For Morello, getting to work with Springsteen more closely over the past year has been the thrill of a lifetime. "I am not a casual Bruce Springsteen fan –I am a big Bruce Springsteen fan," he says. "And 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' is one of his best songs. It cuts to the core of his social-justice writing. This version starts as a plaintive ballad, which feels like a lament, and becomes a full-bore rocker that feels like a threat."
A few weeks after High Hopes arrives, Springsteen and the E Street Band – with Morello in tow – will kick off a five-week tour of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. One thing that's not on the books right now: any dates in the U.S., where they haven’t played since late 2012.
"We're looking around now to see what we might do," says Springsteen. "I don't want to say 'yes' because I don't want to disappoint people, but I certainly don't want to rule it out either. We're looking closely out at since there's places we missed on the last tour. We didn't get to Texas, where I love to play. We didn't get to Florida either. It might be fun to get back to some of those places."
This year also marks the 30th anniversary of Springsteen’s smash Born in the U.S.A. but his manager Jon Landau says there are no plans to celebrate that with a deluxe reissue – at least not yet. "There's ongoing work on a River box set," says Landau. "Maybe we’ll do that first. And we're doing some major work on his first two albums [1973's Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle] as we speak. Those will be forthcoming."
Springsteen didn't release a new studio album during the seven years between The Ghost of Tom Joad and The Rising, but he doesn't imagine anything like that will ever happen again. "It's like that old story," he says. "The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind."
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
but its about time the E Street Band was recognized.
:thumbup:
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Speaking of the E Street Band, it seems like Tom Morello is a member now, but don't know to what extent he is as he'll be at the South African, Australian, and New Zeland dates.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
:shock:
is that the gig when they cut the power off ?
if not, i hope theres no early curfew there for the peeps attending.
gotta love a show in a brand new arena,
especially the way PJ is sounding this tour !
wish i couldve made the trip over for this !
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Just been searching around and saw this quote from a Leeds Arena staff member:
:-D
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
awesome ! We need one of these in NYC
( not that we have a curfew problem but to play all night ios awesome )
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Ah yes I remember Sir Paul being onstage,
wasn't sure of what venue/date.
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9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
As a matter of fact it was. Terrific.
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Really? I'd love a copy of it. I couldn't believe the setlist as it was being played. I can see why it's one of his best. Thanks man. Let me know what I can send you in return.
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,