I just picked up The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle tonight. I know all the songs but never owned it on CD for some reason.
am I crazy for thinking this might be his best record?
"What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
Disc 1
1 Intro
2 Long Way To Go
3 Everything's Going to Work Out Right
4 My Girl> Lucky Man
5 Pumping Iron
6 Springsteen intro
7 Never Be Enough Time
8 A Good Life
9 Darkness On The Edge of Town
10 Talking to the King
Disc 2
01 Johnny 99
02 Code of Silence
03 Atlantic City
04 Happy bday Bob
05 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
06 Raise Your Hand -Bruce Marah
07 Reservation Girl - Bruce Marah
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I've heard everything from Greetings up through Born in The USA. people tell me after that his stuff is hit or miss. any truth to that?
is the seeger sessions album worth checking out?
also, Nebraska is one of the greatest late night records ever. haunting.
"What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
I've heard everything from Greetings up through Born in The USA. people tell me after that his stuff is hit or miss. any truth to that?
is the seeger sessions album worth checking out?
also, Nebraska is one of the greatest late night records ever. haunting.
it boils down to your personal preference really.
When Nebraska & Tom Joad came out, alot of long time fans didnt like it too much . Many longtime fans do not like The Rising calling it " too pop " .
I would recommend the " Live 75-85 " package , as well as The Seeger Sessions Band . Go back earlier in this thread : http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=181067&highlight=Seeger+Sessions+Band
and youll find many MP3s and / or Videos to look at, so right off the bat youll see if it is your cup of tea or not . It is definitely not everyones cup of tea- its very different from past works, and translates so much better in a live setting then the record does ( IMO ) .
enjoy .
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I've heard everything from Greetings up through Born in The USA. people tell me after that his stuff is hit or miss. any truth to that?
is the seeger sessions album worth checking out?
also, Nebraska is one of the greatest late night records ever. haunting.
You pretty much can't go wrong with any album. It's all about what your taste is.
As Bathgate said, the Live 75-85 set is unbelievable.
My personal favorites post BITUSA are Tunnel Of Love, The Rising and D+D. The Human Touch/ Lucky Town and Tom Joad are great too. It's mainly about taste though, but you really can't go wrong.
Btw, Bathgate, think we'll ever get an 88-2006 Live Box Set. Or is that only a pipe dream?
Btw, Bathgate, think we'll ever get an 88-2006 Live Box Set. Or is that only a pipe dream?
theres alot of different bruce " stages " in that timeframe.
many of those years were quiet years, a brief seperation from the ESB,..
very few Nebraska era shows were even performed , ( not much touring ) but hell another package of those ( or any type of package/ era really )88-2006 would be awesome also ( because i have been to many more of these shows )
we've been lucky with the BTR 30th and the Wings For Wheels package , as well as 2 different DVDs accompanying the 2 different editions of We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions Band ( *American Land ) , so its hard to complain .
An engineered bootleg package would be sweet also- who are we kidding here - i would be amongst the first to buy it .
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Tonight, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes bring their driving rock-and-soul sound to B.B. King's, but the road there hasn't always been easy. In the mid-1970s, after pal Bruce Springsteen broke through to stardom, the Jukes were the second band from the Jersey Shore to land a major-label deal. But unlike the Boss' career, the path for 58-year-old "Southside Johnny" Lyon has been paved with potholes.
Growing up in Ocean Grove, he sang and played harmonica in groups that fed into the E Street Band. He co-founded the Jukes with guitarist Steve Van Zandt, who later migrated to the E Streeters. Van Zandt also produced the Jukes' 1976 debut album, "I Don't Want to Go Home." He and Springsteen wrote a lot of its songs. But despite the all-star input, the album sold only moderately, and Epic Records dropped the Jukes after two more tries.
In the 1980s the band changed personnel and floated from label to label. In 1991, Van Zandt, Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi teamed up on the album "Better Days," Lyon's attempted relaunch. But the small label that released it went bankrupt during the Jukes' subsequent tour. The sole bright spot was Lyon's singing the theme for the sitcom "Dave's World."
Feeling burned out, the artist quit Jersey for Nashville. "I was there for five years," Lyon recalls. "I went there to get away from the music biz. [But] friends introduced me to musicians, not just country. There's so many great players down there for blues. I started jamming with them, playing harmonica, singing, any place from small clubs to coffee shops. That's how I started enjoying music again. So when [producer and Springsteen bassist] Garry [Tallent] started bugging me about doing a blues record, the time was perfect."
Not quite. More delays ensued when the E Streeters went off to tour the world in the late '90s. But in 2000, Lyon finally released "Messin' With the Blues" on his own Leroy label. Three albums and a couple of DVDs followed that.
Today, Lyon still prowls the stage like a rock-and-soul animal: His annual shows at Springsteen's Asbury Park holiday events stir up crowds as much as the Boss'.
Of tonight's show, Lyon says, "There'll be more jamming than some fans might remember. I love to let the musicians play. And we don't use set lists, so sometimes we take requests. I want my guys to move it around so they keep me into it."
Lyon jokes, "They say I'm still gonna be moving - even after I'm dead."
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The Night Springsteen Jumped the Fence at Graceland
By: Elvis Australia - Sep 1, 2003
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Last year, EPE published an all-new edition of Elvis Presley's Graceland - Official Guidebook. It's jam-packed with photographs and information, a major improvement over the very good previous guidebook. The new guidebook is available in Graceland stores and here on Elvis.com.au in Shop Elvis.
Following is the section of the book that gives some of the history of the front gates of Graceland, including the story of the night Bruce Springsteen jumped the fence:
The Front Gate
Throughout the years that Elvis lived at Graceland the front gate area was a place fans enjoyed being. There was the chance that he might drive through in one of his cars or on a motorcycle, or ride down on a golf cart or on horseback and have an impromptu autograph session. They could also watch him and his friends ride their horses and golf carts around the grounds. Even when Elvis out of town, it was fun to be at the gates, getting to know the guards (some of whom were Elvis’ relatives) and meeting other fans from around the nation and the world. When Elvis was away, sometimes the guards would let fans onto the grounds for photos, sometimes even driving them up to the front of the house. There was a sense of warmth, welcome and camaraderie. Actually, some lifelong friendships between Elvis fans began at the Graceland gates.
While, in general, things tended to be calm enough around here, it wasn’t all that uncommon for fans and curiosity-seekers to climb over the stone wall or wood fence on a dare or, more often, with the heartfelt hope of seeing Elvis. The security staff had more than one occasion to politely escort uninvited guests off the grounds, sometimes having to summon them down from the trees. On one occasion Elvis happened upon a couple of mischievous young guys who had jumped the fence and were taking a swim. Elvis is said to have nonchalantly suggested that they be careful, then went on about his business. Once, an enterprising fellow actually made his way into the house and was found sitting in the den waiting for Elvis, hoping to interest him in some songs he had written, but he didn’t get to have that meeting.
The most famous incident of wall jumping occurred one night in 1976. Bruce Springsteen, who was enjoying the first rush of great fame and had just played Memphis on his Born to Run tour, decided to catch a cab to Graceland. Noticing a light on up at the house, he climbed the wall and ran to the front door. As he was about to knock, Security interceded. He recalls asking, "Is Elvis home?." Answer: "No, Elvis isn’t home, he’s in Lake Tahoe." (It was true.) Springsteen attempted to impress the guards by telling all about his being a recording star and his having recently made the covers of Time and Newsweek, as he was politely escorted to the street. (Perhaps they didn’t believe him or hadn’t heard of him yet.) Years later in a concert, he told the story and commented:
"Later on, I used to wonder what I would have said if I had knocked on the door and if Elvis had come to the door. Because it really wasn’t Elvis I was goin’ to see, but it was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear and somehow we all dreamed it. And maybe that’s why we’re here tonight, I don’t know. I remember later when a friend of mine called to tell me that he’d died. It was so hard to understand how somebody whose music came in and took away so many people’s loneliness and gave so many people a reason and a sense of all the possibilities of living could have in the end died so tragically. And I guess when you’re alone, you ain’t nothin’ but alone. So anyway, I’d like to do this song for yous tonight, wishing you all the longest life with best of absolutely everything."
Within hours of the announcement of Elvis’ death on August 16, 1977, thousands of fans crowded the gate and wall area in front of Graceland, an expression of grief, shock and disbelief. How could he possibly be gone? Thousands upon thousands of people all over the world felt as though they had suddenly lost a close friend or member of the family. Such was the relationship Elvis had with his audience.
Stopping by the gates to take a look and to visit with the guards and with fellow fans, continued to be a special pastime. On the first anniversary of Elvis’ death a number of fans gathered outside the gates, lit candles and spent an evening talking and reminiscing. The next year there were more. The Austin-based Elvis Country Fan Club soon organized a ceremony. Each year, more and more fans were coming to Memphis that week for the candlelight tribute and various other activities started getting organized. When Graceland opened to the public in the summer of 1982, fans suggested to Graceland/EPE management that the gates could open during their candlelight tribute, allowing them to walk single-file up the driveway to Elvis’ gravesite and back down. The management agreed. Then, responding further to the growing influx of fans in August, Graceland/EPE took the lead in organizing Elvis Week, which has grown in its diversity of events. Elvis Week as a whole and the vigil in particular have become a cultural and sociological phenomenon known all over the world.
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Okay, so it obviously kicked copious amounts of ass when Ed came out and sang with the e street band.
BUT
How much more ass would it kick if BRUCE came out at a PEARL JAM SHOW!
Seriously, I think I could die a happy man if this happened. Imagine some of this shit:
Bruce Songs they could play:
Murder Inc with a Springsteen/Mccready guitar duel
Streets of Fire with Ed knocking out the vocals
Downbound Train
Adam Raised a Cain
Roulette (unlikely, but seriously, how much would it rule)
Pearl Jam songs they could play:
Unemployable (I can totally hear bruce on this one)
Evenflow (again, a bruce/mike duel)
Seriously, will this happen? Probably not. But how cool would it be?
Okay, so it obviously kicked copious amounts of ass when Ed came out and sang with the e street band.
BUT
How much more ass would it kick if BRUCE came out at a PEARL JAM SHOW!
Seriously, I think I could die a happy man if this happened. Imagine some of this shit:
Bruce Songs they could play:
Murder Inc with a Springsteen/Mccready guitar duel
Streets of Fire with Ed knocking out the vocals
Downbound Train
Adam Raised a Cain
Roulette (unlikely, but seriously, how much would it rule)
Pearl Jam songs they could play:
Unemployable (I can totally hear bruce on this one)
Evenflow (again, a bruce/mike duel)
Seriously, will this happen? Probably not. But how cool would it be?
Ive been saying much of the same for some time now
Id love to hear a FULL BAND Pearl Jam covering a Bruce classic. ( Thunderroad, Further On Up The Road , agree on Murder Incorp , Lost In The Flood , Because the Night, and oh so many more.
I would also love to hear Bruce put his spin on a great Pearl Jam song- Footsteps . ( bluesharp and all )
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this is the complete piece alltho it ends abruptly
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This is from a daytrip I took back in April.
The morning entailed attending the live broadcast of GMA and the night I attended one of the rehearsal shows at Convention Hall.
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And what will 2007 bring? Well, rumors abound that Springsteen will soon be entering the studio along with members of a certain band (which we won't name, but it starts with E and ends with Street). Several good sources tell us it's true, and an album and tour would be the goal. But really, it's still too soon to say -- 12 months ago, you may remember, 2006 was poised to be a major E Street year, before Bruce decided to yank the wheel hard to the left for some Seeger Sessions offroading. (That's why we're not in the business of taking Boss gossip too seriously: even when it's true, it has a way of changing on you.)
In any case, no signs point to Springsteen slowing down this year, and here are a couple things we can already look forward to in 2007:
A CD with Bruce's involvement from Appleseed Recordings (home of the original release of his "We Shall Overcome"), tentatively titled Feels Like Home. Part of a homelessness public awareness initiative, the album is due later this year, with further details on the Appleseed website.
The forthcoming new record from Jesse Malin, Glitter in the Gutter, features Springsteen on a track called "Broken Radio." The album is due March 6 on Adeline Records.
More here as we know it... hope your 2007 is off to a great start... and happy birthday, Big Man!
*and we won't even think about making any retirement jokes
-updated January 11, 2007
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Tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker, after a battle with MDS and leukemia, died on Saturday at the age of 57. Brecker, along with his brother Randy, appeared on Springsteen's Born to Run, playing together on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out." His family has asked that donations be to The Marrow Foundation's "Time is of the Essence" Fund in lieu of flowers. Read Dan DeLuca's obit for the Philly-born musician in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
-January 15, 2007
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"What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
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am I crazy for thinking this might be his best record?
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Disc 1
1 Intro
2 Long Way To Go
3 Everything's Going to Work Out Right
4 My Girl> Lucky Man
5 Pumping Iron
6 Springsteen intro
7 Never Be Enough Time
8 A Good Life
9 Darkness On The Edge of Town
10 Talking to the King
Disc 2
01 Johnny 99
02 Code of Silence
03 Atlantic City
04 Happy bday Bob
05 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
06 Raise Your Hand -Bruce Marah
07 Reservation Girl - Bruce Marah
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I've heard everything from Greetings up through Born in The USA. people tell me after that his stuff is hit or miss. any truth to that?
is the seeger sessions album worth checking out?
also, Nebraska is one of the greatest late night records ever. haunting.
it boils down to your personal preference really.
When Nebraska & Tom Joad came out, alot of long time fans didnt like it too much . Many longtime fans do not like The Rising calling it " too pop " .
I would recommend the " Live 75-85 " package , as well as The Seeger Sessions Band . Go back earlier in this thread : http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=181067&highlight=Seeger+Sessions+Band
and youll find many MP3s and / or Videos to look at, so right off the bat youll see if it is your cup of tea or not . It is definitely not everyones cup of tea- its very different from past works, and translates so much better in a live setting then the record does ( IMO ) .
enjoy .
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You pretty much can't go wrong with any album. It's all about what your taste is.
As Bathgate said, the Live 75-85 set is unbelievable.
My personal favorites post BITUSA are Tunnel Of Love, The Rising and D+D. The Human Touch/ Lucky Town and Tom Joad are great too. It's mainly about taste though, but you really can't go wrong.
Btw, Bathgate, think we'll ever get an 88-2006 Live Box Set. Or is that only a pipe dream?
theres alot of different bruce " stages " in that timeframe.
many of those years were quiet years, a brief seperation from the ESB,..
very few Nebraska era shows were even performed , ( not much touring ) but hell another package of those ( or any type of package/ era really )88-2006 would be awesome also ( because i have been to many more of these shows
we've been lucky with the BTR 30th and the Wings For Wheels package , as well as 2 different DVDs accompanying the 2 different editions of We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions Band ( *American Land ) , so its hard to complain .
An engineered bootleg package would be sweet also- who are we kidding here - i would be amongst the first to buy it .
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Puttin' up his Jukes
Tonight, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes bring their driving rock-and-soul sound to B.B. King's, but the road there hasn't always been easy. In the mid-1970s, after pal Bruce Springsteen broke through to stardom, the Jukes were the second band from the Jersey Shore to land a major-label deal. But unlike the Boss' career, the path for 58-year-old "Southside Johnny" Lyon has been paved with potholes.
Growing up in Ocean Grove, he sang and played harmonica in groups that fed into the E Street Band. He co-founded the Jukes with guitarist Steve Van Zandt, who later migrated to the E Streeters. Van Zandt also produced the Jukes' 1976 debut album, "I Don't Want to Go Home." He and Springsteen wrote a lot of its songs. But despite the all-star input, the album sold only moderately, and Epic Records dropped the Jukes after two more tries.
In the 1980s the band changed personnel and floated from label to label. In 1991, Van Zandt, Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi teamed up on the album "Better Days," Lyon's attempted relaunch. But the small label that released it went bankrupt during the Jukes' subsequent tour. The sole bright spot was Lyon's singing the theme for the sitcom "Dave's World."
Feeling burned out, the artist quit Jersey for Nashville. "I was there for five years," Lyon recalls. "I went there to get away from the music biz. [But] friends introduced me to musicians, not just country. There's so many great players down there for blues. I started jamming with them, playing harmonica, singing, any place from small clubs to coffee shops. That's how I started enjoying music again. So when [producer and Springsteen bassist] Garry [Tallent] started bugging me about doing a blues record, the time was perfect."
Not quite. More delays ensued when the E Streeters went off to tour the world in the late '90s. But in 2000, Lyon finally released "Messin' With the Blues" on his own Leroy label. Three albums and a couple of DVDs followed that.
Today, Lyon still prowls the stage like a rock-and-soul animal: His annual shows at Springsteen's Asbury Park holiday events stir up crowds as much as the Boss'.
Of tonight's show, Lyon says, "There'll be more jamming than some fans might remember. I love to let the musicians play. And we don't use set lists, so sometimes we take requests. I want my guys to move it around so they keep me into it."
Lyon jokes, "They say I'm still gonna be moving - even after I'm dead."
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The Night Springsteen Jumped the Fence at Graceland
By: Elvis Australia - Sep 1, 2003
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Following is the section of the book that gives some of the history of the front gates of Graceland, including the story of the night Bruce Springsteen jumped the fence:
The Front Gate
Throughout the years that Elvis lived at Graceland the front gate area was a place fans enjoyed being. There was the chance that he might drive through in one of his cars or on a motorcycle, or ride down on a golf cart or on horseback and have an impromptu autograph session. They could also watch him and his friends ride their horses and golf carts around the grounds. Even when Elvis out of town, it was fun to be at the gates, getting to know the guards (some of whom were Elvis’ relatives) and meeting other fans from around the nation and the world. When Elvis was away, sometimes the guards would let fans onto the grounds for photos, sometimes even driving them up to the front of the house. There was a sense of warmth, welcome and camaraderie. Actually, some lifelong friendships between Elvis fans began at the Graceland gates.
While, in general, things tended to be calm enough around here, it wasn’t all that uncommon for fans and curiosity-seekers to climb over the stone wall or wood fence on a dare or, more often, with the heartfelt hope of seeing Elvis. The security staff had more than one occasion to politely escort uninvited guests off the grounds, sometimes having to summon them down from the trees. On one occasion Elvis happened upon a couple of mischievous young guys who had jumped the fence and were taking a swim. Elvis is said to have nonchalantly suggested that they be careful, then went on about his business. Once, an enterprising fellow actually made his way into the house and was found sitting in the den waiting for Elvis, hoping to interest him in some songs he had written, but he didn’t get to have that meeting.
The most famous incident of wall jumping occurred one night in 1976. Bruce Springsteen, who was enjoying the first rush of great fame and had just played Memphis on his Born to Run tour, decided to catch a cab to Graceland. Noticing a light on up at the house, he climbed the wall and ran to the front door. As he was about to knock, Security interceded. He recalls asking, "Is Elvis home?." Answer: "No, Elvis isn’t home, he’s in Lake Tahoe." (It was true.) Springsteen attempted to impress the guards by telling all about his being a recording star and his having recently made the covers of Time and Newsweek, as he was politely escorted to the street. (Perhaps they didn’t believe him or hadn’t heard of him yet.) Years later in a concert, he told the story and commented:
"Later on, I used to wonder what I would have said if I had knocked on the door and if Elvis had come to the door. Because it really wasn’t Elvis I was goin’ to see, but it was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear and somehow we all dreamed it. And maybe that’s why we’re here tonight, I don’t know. I remember later when a friend of mine called to tell me that he’d died. It was so hard to understand how somebody whose music came in and took away so many people’s loneliness and gave so many people a reason and a sense of all the possibilities of living could have in the end died so tragically. And I guess when you’re alone, you ain’t nothin’ but alone. So anyway, I’d like to do this song for yous tonight, wishing you all the longest life with best of absolutely everything."
Within hours of the announcement of Elvis’ death on August 16, 1977, thousands of fans crowded the gate and wall area in front of Graceland, an expression of grief, shock and disbelief. How could he possibly be gone? Thousands upon thousands of people all over the world felt as though they had suddenly lost a close friend or member of the family. Such was the relationship Elvis had with his audience.
Stopping by the gates to take a look and to visit with the guards and with fellow fans, continued to be a special pastime. On the first anniversary of Elvis’ death a number of fans gathered outside the gates, lit candles and spent an evening talking and reminiscing. The next year there were more. The Austin-based Elvis Country Fan Club soon organized a ceremony. Each year, more and more fans were coming to Memphis that week for the candlelight tribute and various other activities started getting organized. When Graceland opened to the public in the summer of 1982, fans suggested to Graceland/EPE management that the gates could open during their candlelight tribute, allowing them to walk single-file up the driveway to Elvis’ gravesite and back down. The management agreed. Then, responding further to the growing influx of fans in August, Graceland/EPE took the lead in organizing Elvis Week, which has grown in its diversity of events. Elvis Week as a whole and the vigil in particular have become a cultural and sociological phenomenon known all over the world.
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Okay, so it obviously kicked copious amounts of ass when Ed came out and sang with the e street band.
BUT
How much more ass would it kick if BRUCE came out at a PEARL JAM SHOW!
Seriously, I think I could die a happy man if this happened. Imagine some of this shit:
Bruce Songs they could play:
Murder Inc with a Springsteen/Mccready guitar duel
Streets of Fire with Ed knocking out the vocals
Downbound Train
Adam Raised a Cain
Roulette (unlikely, but seriously, how much would it rule)
Pearl Jam songs they could play:
Unemployable (I can totally hear bruce on this one)
Evenflow (again, a bruce/mike duel)
Seriously, will this happen? Probably not. But how cool would it be?
Bruce Springsteen and Jesse Malin
Ive been saying much of the same for some time now
Id love to hear a FULL BAND Pearl Jam covering a Bruce classic. ( Thunderroad, Further On Up The Road , agree on Murder Incorp , Lost In The Flood , Because the Night, and oh so many more.
I would also love to hear Bruce put his spin on a great Pearl Jam song- Footsteps . ( bluesharp and all )
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bruce Interviews dave
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and Bruce shows up
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this is the complete piece alltho it ends abruptly
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The morning entailed attending the live broadcast of GMA and the night I attended one of the rehearsal shows at Convention Hall.
Bruce Whistles During Weather Report
Oh When The Saints
a certain Pearl Jam fan can be seen on the rail in these clips, wearing a Black Yield PJ hat
Jacobs Ladder
O ' Mary Dont You Weep
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part1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT04aUX4TNo
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUsVtgbU4Eo
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The Rising
Lonesome Day
Glory Days
Into The Fire
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And what will 2007 bring? Well, rumors abound that Springsteen will soon be entering the studio along with members of a certain band (which we won't name, but it starts with E and ends with Street). Several good sources tell us it's true, and an album and tour would be the goal. But really, it's still too soon to say -- 12 months ago, you may remember, 2006 was poised to be a major E Street year, before Bruce decided to yank the wheel hard to the left for some Seeger Sessions offroading. (That's why we're not in the business of taking Boss gossip too seriously: even when it's true, it has a way of changing on you.)
In any case, no signs point to Springsteen slowing down this year, and here are a couple things we can already look forward to in 2007:
A CD with Bruce's involvement from Appleseed Recordings (home of the original release of his "We Shall Overcome"), tentatively titled Feels Like Home. Part of a homelessness public awareness initiative, the album is due later this year, with further details on the Appleseed website.
The forthcoming new record from Jesse Malin, Glitter in the Gutter, features Springsteen on a track called "Broken Radio." The album is due March 6 on Adeline Records.
More here as we know it... hope your 2007 is off to a great start... and happy birthday, Big Man!
*and we won't even think about making any retirement jokes
-updated January 11, 2007
Happy Birthday Big Man .
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Tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker, after a battle with MDS and leukemia, died on Saturday at the age of 57. Brecker, along with his brother Randy, appeared on Springsteen's Born to Run, playing together on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out." His family has asked that donations be to The Marrow Foundation's "Time is of the Essence" Fund in lieu of flowers. Read Dan DeLuca's obit for the Philly-born musician in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
-January 15, 2007
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I loooooooooove that song.
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