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Lanternjaw

Newch91 wrote:

Soon...

Yes... but not soon enough.

I may have to PM catfishdancing at the BTX and ask him to pretty-please start a Rochester thread like he did for the Buffalo show on the last tour (probably the most epic "rah-rah" thread I've ever seen).

Reference: http://www.backstreets.com/btx/viewtopi ... 3&t=167340

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Newch91

Lanternjaw wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Soon...

Yes... but not soon enough.

I may have to PM catfishdancing at the BTX and ask him to pretty-please start a Rochester thread like he did for the Buffalo show on the last tour (probably the most epic "rah-rah" thread I've ever seen).

Reference: http://www.backstreets.com/btx/viewtopi ... 3&t=167340

(must be logged in at BTX to view)

I should be on there more often.

Lanternjaw

Newch91 wrote:

Lanternjaw wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Soon...

Yes... but not soon enough.

I may have to PM catfishdancing at the BTX and ask him to pretty-please start a Rochester thread like he did for the Buffalo show on the last tour (probably the most epic "rah-rah" thread I've ever seen).

Reference: http://www.backstreets.com/btx/viewtopi ... 3&t=167340

(must be logged in at BTX to view)

I should be on there more often.

HA!

well... it'll probably get deleted but I just posted a request! We'll see what happens!

edit: thread has legs! http://www.backstreets.com/btx/viewtopi ... 3&t=326250

youngster

Pretty good deal on the Live from 75-85 CD Boxset on Popmarket. I picked it up friday as an impulse buy. I have it on vinyl but would love to have this on my ipod and bring in the truck from time to time. For $22 shipped you can't go wrong.

http://www.popmarket.com/bruce-springst ... ls/5822938

Newch91

youngster wrote:

Pretty good deal on the Live from 75-85 CD Boxset on Popmarket. I picked it up friday as an impulse buy. I have it on vinyl but would love to have this on my ipod and bring in the truck from time to time. For $22 shipped you can't go wrong.

http://www.popmarket.com/bruce-springst ... ls/5822938

Got that before on Popmarket and it was a great deal. Still haven't heard it on vinyl but love having it on my iPod and CD in the car.

youngster

Newch91 wrote:

youngster wrote:

Pretty good deal on the Live from 75-85 CD Boxset on Popmarket. I picked it up friday as an impulse buy. I have it on vinyl but would love to have this on my ipod and bring in the truck from time to time. For $22 shipped you can't go wrong.

http://www.popmarket.com/bruce-springst ... ls/5822938

Got that before on Popmarket and it was a great deal. Still haven't heard it on vinyl but love having it on my iPod and CD in the car.

It's actually cheaper for the 5 LP box set. I got it for $15 back in 05 or 06 at a used record store but I have seen them on Ebay for around $10 Buy it Now.

Newch91

youngster wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

youngster wrote:

Pretty good deal on the Live from 75-85 CD Boxset on Popmarket. I picked it up friday as an impulse buy. I have it on vinyl but would love to have this on my ipod and bring in the truck from time to time. For $22 shipped you can't go wrong.

http://www.popmarket.com/bruce-springst ... ls/5822938

Got that before on Popmarket and it was a great deal. Still haven't heard it on vinyl but love having it on my iPod and CD in the car.

It's actually cheaper for the 5 LP box set. I got it for $15 back in 05 or 06 at a used record store but I have seen them on Ebay for around $10 Buy it Now.

Don't need to. My dad has it. I've listened to all the others he has (BTR, Darkness, The River, BITUSA) but haven't spun the live album yet.

youngster

Newch91 wrote:

Don't need to. My dad has it. I've listened to all the others he has (BTR, Darkness, The River, BITUSA) but haven't spun the live album yet.

Oh I see. When you get around to it, it sounds great. Doesn't everything sound better on wax?

Newch91

youngster wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Don't need to. My dad has it. I've listened to all the others he has (BTR, Darkness, The River, BITUSA) but haven't spun the live album yet.

Oh I see. When you get around to it, it sounds great. Doesn't everything sound better on wax?

Indeed it does. Nebraska sounds great on vinyl.

Bathgate66

Happy 25th birthday to Tunnel of Love – released on October 9, 1987.

In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Tunnel of Love the 91st greatest album of all time.

In 1989, the album was ranked #25 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 greatest albums of the 1980s". In 2003, the same magazine ranked it at number 475 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Newch91

An unbelievable follow-up to BITUSA. There was no way of topping that album and he pulls a 180 with "Tunnel of Love." "Brilliant Disguise" is one of his best songs. Listening to "One Step Up" and this song is absolutely brilliant. Anyone heard Eddie cover this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISEmp_o5Jl4

Bathgate66

Newch91 wrote:

An unbelievable follow-up to BITUSA. There was no way of topping that album and he pulls a 180 with "Tunnel of Love." "Brilliant Disguise" is one of his best songs. Listening to "One Step Up" and this song is absolutely brilliant. Anyone heard Eddie cover this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISEmp_o5Jl4

:thumbup:

love this cover .

Newch91

Bathgate66 wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

An unbelievable follow-up to BITUSA. There was no way of topping that album and he pulls a 180 with "Tunnel of Love." "Brilliant Disguise" is one of his best songs. Listening to "One Step Up" and this song is absolutely brilliant. Anyone heard Eddie cover this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISEmp_o5Jl4

:thumbup:

love this cover .

Me too. Has he done it at his solo shows? Would love to see him do it.

Chances of Bruce doing any of Tunnel songs at any of the shows soon?

Newch91

This is awesome, especially the end. Can't wait for the book!

http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/springstee ... z28r42GPRc

SNEAK PREVIEW: Countdown to new Springsteen bio, ‘Bruce,’ by Peter Ames Carlin

There has been no shortage of Springsteen-related books of late, including the full-fledged bio Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock ‘n’ Roll, which came out last June, and the exhaustive Boss timeline Bruce Springsteen FAQ that dropped just last week. So why should you save yet another spot on your bookshelf for Bruce, the bio coming Oct. 30 from music writer Peter Ames Carlin?

You’ll have to wait for my review for the details, but I’m more than halfway through the book now, and unless something really unexpected happens — say, the last 200 pages wind up being about Springsteen-related recipes or an in-depth side-by-side analysis of Stevie Van Zandt’s bandannas — I can say pretty unequivocally that not only should you be saving space, you can pretty much sweep all those other Bruce books to the side. This one is the real deal.

Some of that is certainly luck — Carlin had the good fortune to have the cooperation of the Springsteen camp, including the artist itself, which means a level of personal detail and insight typically missing from books like this. And — get this — they came to him. In the clip below you can hear the story in the author’s own words, along with some good background on what you’ll find in between the covers of Bruce.

But while the interviews are certainly a huge factor, Carlin’s skill in weaving the information into a fascinating history of an important artist is really what makes this one a keeper. I shouldn’t share much in the way of specific passages at this point, but I came across one I feel I must include here, if only to impart the type of personal stories that permeate the book — and to make certain Bruce Tramps I know swoon (not naming names). It’s about Springsteen and one of his girlfriend in the mid-70s, a recent college grad named Joy Hannan:

Bruce belted along to the radio whenever he liked the song it played. And when a local station happened to spin a Frank Sinatra ballad while they were driving through a blizzard in Hannan’s Asbury Park neighborhood, Bruce pulled his truck to the curb, took his girlfriend by the hand, and pulled her gently onto the street, where he waltzed her around the street singing into her ear as the snow fell through the halos of the streetlights.

Darn it. Even I almost swooned.

Gary Carter

Bathgate66 wrote:

Happy 25th birthday to Tunnel of Love – released on October 9, 1987.

In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Tunnel of Love the 91st greatest album of all time.

In 1989, the album was ranked #25 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 greatest albums of the 1980s". In 2003, the same magazine ranked it at number 475 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

i call tunnel of love-lucky town the dark era of bruce. just awful albums and the hypocrisy of RS is laughable.

Lanternjaw

i call tunnel of love-lucky town the dark era of bruce. just awful albums and the hypocrisy of RS is laughable.

You must mean the Human Touch/Lucky Town era with "the other band." Dark days, indeed. Fortunately he came back around in a big way. Tunnel of Love was an e-street album, though... and a pretty good one, although I haven't listened to it in ages. I'm a bigger fan of the grittier rock songs in his catalog and didn't really dig the twanginess that came with TOL.

Newch91

Lanternjaw wrote:

i call tunnel of love-lucky town the dark era of bruce. just awful albums and the hypocrisy of RS is laughable.

You must mean the Human Touch/Lucky Town era with "the other band." Dark days, indeed. Fortunately he came back around in a big way. Tunnel of Love was an e-street album, though... and a pretty good one, although I haven't listened to it in ages. I'm a bigger fan of the grittier rock songs in his catalog and didn't really dig the twanginess that came with TOL.

Tunnel of Love being an E Street album is debatable.

Bathgate66

Lanternjaw wrote:

i call tunnel of love-lucky town the dark era of bruce. just awful albums and the hypocrisy of RS is laughable.

You must mean the Human Touch/Lucky Town era with "the other band." Dark days, indeed. Fortunately he came back around in a big way. Tunnel of Love was an e-street album, though... and a pretty good one, although I haven't listened to it in ages. I'm a bigger fan of the grittier rock songs in his catalog and didn't really dig the twanginess that came with TOL.

lol @ " the other band ". Wasn't Randy Jackson
from American Idol on that/those albums?



Agree that people expected more rock and roll for a follow up to BITUSA,
but I still enjoy the introspective TOL album nonetheless.
Thats why he's The Boss and can change his whole " thing " in 1 swift album,...

Bathgate66

atfter tearing apart my apartment for a week,
I finally found my Tracks boxset.

Listened this morning to disc 2
( cuz I wanted a refresh on the original BITUSA )

Alot of these songs:

a ) couldve easily been on BITUSA

and

2 ) I love some of these - Roulette ( reminds of the shore )
Where the bands are , Loose ends .

:thumbup:

samjam

Wish there was a way for me to see him in Pittsburgh on my birthday in 2 weeks...was pretty upset I had to miss the DC show last month but I had WAY bigger things to take care of. Can't wait til I get to see the Boss again- seeing his April DC show was probably the best decision I've made all year!