I guess it's safe to say the Academy doesn't like rockers. Eddie and Bruce win the golden globe for best original song back to back years and then don't even get nominated for an academy award. Not that either of them care i'm sure. But still........
Springsteen announcement on 93.3 WMMR in Philly at 5PM.... guessing its a tour announcement with guesses at possible Philly dates, but hopeful for something alittle more concrete.
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Albany May 14th being announced today
My whole life
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of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Springsteen announcement on 93.3 WMMR in Philly at 5PM.... guessing its a tour announcement with guesses at possible Philly dates, but hopeful for something alittle more concrete.
Albany May 14th being announced today
Thanks... didn't realize these dates were already announced:
April 1 HP Pavilion San Jose, CA 2/2
10 a.m.
April 21 TD Banknorth Garden Boston, MA 2/2
10 a.m.
April 22 TD Banknorth Garden Boston, MA 2/2
10 a.m.
May 5 John Paul Jones Arena Charlottesville, VA 2/2
10 a.m.
Tickets will be available at John Paul Jones Arena Box Office, all Plan 9 outlets, www.johnpauljonesarena.com, www.livenation.com or charge-by-phone at 1-888-575-8497.
May 18 Verizon Center Washington, DC 2/2
May 19 Mellon Arena Pittsburgh, PA 2/2
10 a.m.
Definitely space between May 5th and May 18th to squeeze in some shows.
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He's timing it right... new album this week, superbowl halftime, then onsale the next morning.
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
PRESENT TENSE: YOU MUST HAVE heard Bono's words at this week's pre-
inauguration concert. "What a thrill for four Irish boys from the
northside of Dublin to honour you sir, Barack Obama, to be the next
president of the United States." writes SHANE HEGARTY.
And what a thrill it must have been. Even if only one of U2 actually
lives on the northside now. Or that Bono must have lived as much of
his life on the southside. Or that two of the band were born in
England, before moving to the north Co Dublin town of Malahide. Roddy
Doyle, you'll have noticed, never sets his novels in Malahide.
Why be so picky? Because even in a moment when he was trying to
express the personal pride he and the band were feeling, Bono sounded
a false note. In throwing in the reference to the northside, he was
grabbing some of the "impossible journey" narrative for himself and
the band.
In many ways, U2's journey from school band to global megastardom has
been improbable, but it's not because they came from Dublin's
northside. It's not as if most of Bono's friends are either dead or in
jail. Last time I looked, they were making soundtracks and bowls. When
not being a citizen of Dublin, Bono is a citizen of the world.
During the band's performance of In The Name of Love, he described
Martin Luther King's dream as "Not just an American dream – also an
Irish dream, a European dream, an African dream, an Israeli
dream . . ." And then, following a long pause reminiscent of a man
who'd just realised he'd left the gas on, he added, ". . . and also a
Palestinian dream." This was his big shout out to the Palestinians.
You know, it's easy – and not original – to have a pop at Bono's
bombast, but sometimes it's necessary to point it out and impossible
to resist.
He serves it up on a platter, writing newspaper columns and giving TV
interviews. And for all his undoubted sincerity and effort on the
issue of world poverty, you can't help but marvel at this latest
expression of Bono's Sesame Street view of the world. Hey Middle East,
we just have to have a dream to get along.
Just ignore the sound of those loud explosions and concentrate on
Bono's voice.
U2 debuted a new single this week. Get On Your Bootsis actually pretty
good, a reminder that the band still writes decent tunes, which is no
mean feat given how many legendary acts continue to rely on ancient
material. (The Rolling Stones have written almost nothing memorable
during the entire time that U2 have been around). But not for the
first time in U2's career, Get On Your Bootssounds like the work of a
band trying to find their voice in other people's sounds. And, also
not for the first time, it's lyrically vacuous. That shouldn't be a
big deal – it's only rock'n'roll after all – but it reminds us that
it's been some time since Bono and U2 have been musically relevant.
Also on the stage at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday was Bruce
Springsteen. Like U2, he released new music this week. In early
listens, the album Working On A Dreamis very strong in parts, if
unlikely to be remembered as one of his more substantial albums. It
lacks the grief and resilience that fuelled his post-9/11 album The
Rising; the honesty of Devils and Dust; and the anger that infused his
Bush-era America album Magic. Working On A Dreamis a romantic album, a
contented album, an album that sounds as if it marks the end of a
cycle in his songwriting.
It is, though, part of the continuing evolution of his music. He has
been singing about the same characters and themes through his entire
career, making his an epic, decades-long exercise in storytelling that
shows no sign of coming to an end. Springsteen has also been arguably
the most effective and popular protest songwriter of recent years. It
means that he remains essential in a way that few artists do. In a way
that U2, and Bono, are not.
Compared to Bono, Springsteen has always been on another plane as a
lyricist, but 40 years into his career he's writing songs that are not
just catchy, but actually say something intelligent about the world,
his country, his people. Like Bono, he's made enough money to remove
himself from the multitudes who pack his stadium shows, and yet he
still seems genuinely one of them.
Most importantly, he's politically brave in a way that Bono will not
be. He takes sides. He's not afraid to make enemies. Unlike Bono, pal
of all presidents, he will not sup with the devil, partly because he
knows what it's like when his political enemies misread and
misappropriate his music. And unlike Bono, who has a fascination with
America that displays itself as a cloying neediness, Springsteen
understands that country intimately. It means that Springsteen is
authentic and authoritative in a way that Bono can never hope to be,
no matter how much he mentions that he's from the northside.
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Bruce Springsteen's camp 'Working' on US tour
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The first handful of US dates have surfaced for Bruce Springsteen [ tickets ] and the E Street Band's upcoming world tour behind their new album, "Working On a Dream," which reaches stores tomorrow (1/27).
US stops so far confirmed by promoters include San Jose, CA; Charlottesville, VA; Washington, DC; and Pittsburgh, PA; and tickets for each of those shows are scheduled to go on sale Feb. 2. Many more dates are in the works. Last week, Springsteen's camp nailed down plans for a half-dozen European shows scattered from early June through early July.
"Working on a Dream," the follow up to 2007's platinum-certified "Magic," is Springsteen's 24th album. The set--his fourth to feature producer Brendan O'Brien behind the knobs--features 12 new Springsteen compositions and two bonus tracks.
Springsteen's new album and tour will get a huge promotional boost on Feb. 1, when he performs during the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, FL.
The Boss made another high-profile appearance during the inaugural festivities for President Barack Obama when he teamed with U2, Stevie Wonder, Garth Brooks and other big-name acts for a free, inaugural-kickoff concert in Washington, DC.
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101.9 RXP "The New York Rock Experience" has begun airing "The Ties That Bind," a new morning show feature leading up to the new album release on January 27. Airing every day at 7 a.m. during "Matt Pinfield in the Morning," the segment is produced and hosted by Rich Russo of Anything Anything, who's got his facts learned real good and will be featuring a rarely played Springsteen song each day.
EXCLUSIVE SPRINGSTEEN SPECIAL
This weekend 1019RXP airs "Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: An Inside Look at 'Working On A Dream" . A one hour exclusive special where Bruce takes his fans on an inside look behind the making of the new release! "Working On A Dream" is Springsteen's 24th album and was recorded and mixed at Southern Tracks in Atlanta, GA with additional recording in New York, Los Angeles and New Jersey! The album was born out of the sessions for 2007's 'Magic'. Bruce explains, "Towards the end of recording 'Magic', excited by the return to pop production sounds, I continued writing. When my friend producer Brendan O'Brien heard the new songs, he said, 'Let's keep going'. Over the course of the next year, that's just what we did, recoridng with the E Street Band during the breaks on last year's tour. I hope 'Working On A Dream' has caught the energy of the band fresh off the road from some of the most exciting shows we've ever done. All the songs were written quickly, we usually used one of our first few takes, and we all had a blast making this one from beginning to end." Hear this exclusive one hour special commerical free this Saturday and Sunday night at 8pm on 1019RXP!!!
About Bruce Springsteen
When Bruce Springsteen finally broke through to national recognition in the fall of 1975 after a decade of trying, critics hailed him as the savior of rock & roll, the single artist who brought together all the exuberance of '50s rock and the thoughtfulness of '60s rock, molded into a '70s style. He rocked as hard as Jerry Lee Lewis, his lyrics were as complicated as Bob Dylan's, and his concerts were near-religious celebrations of all that was best in music. One critic became so enamored that he quit reviewing to become Springsteen's manager.
But the hosannas, when piped through the publicity machine of a major record company, were perceived as hype by a significant part of the public as well as the mainstream media -- Springsteen landed on the covers of Time and Newsweek, but both magazines were covering the phenomenon, not the music. Springsteen's album, Born to Run, became a hit, and he jumped to arena status as a live act, but as many people were turned off by the press campaign as turned on by the records and shows.
Two decades later, however, Springsteen remained an established star who could look back on a career that had produced one of the best-selling albums of all time, sold-out stadium shows, Grammy awards and an Oscar, and a group of imitators who constituted their own subgenre of popular music. If he no longer seemed divine, he remained popular enough for his Greatest Hits album to enter the charts at number one, and he had won over many of those skeptics from 1975.
Growing up in southern New Jersey, Springsteen turned to rock & roll as a teenager and played in a series of bands from the mid-'60s on, varying in style from garage rock to power trio blues-rock. By the early '70s, he was trying his hand at being a folky singer/songwriter in Greenwich Village. But when he was signed to Columbia Records in 1972, he brought into the studio many of the New Jersey-based musicians with whom he'd played over the years.
The result was Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (January 1973), which went unnoticed upon initial release, though Manfred Mann's Earth Band would turn its leadoff track, "Blinded by the Light," into a number one hit four years later. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (September 1973) also failed to sell despite some rave reviews. (Both albums have since gone platinum.)
The following year, Springsteen revised his backup group -- dubbed the E Street Band -- settling on a lineup that included saxophone player Clarence Clemons, second guitarist "Miami" Steve Van Zandt, organist Danny Federici, pianist Roy Bittan, bassist Garry Tallent, and drummer Max Weinberg. With this unit he barnstormed the country while working on his third and last chance with Columbia. By the time Born to Run (August 1975) was released, the critics and a significant cult audience were with him, and the title song became a Top 40 hit while the album reached the Top Ten.
What Springsteen needed to do in the wake of the hype, of course, was to play and record more to consolidate his position. He was prevented at least from the latter by a former manager, who kept him in court during the next couple of years. Meanwhile, the musical world changed. Part of the reason critics had welcomed Springsteen so enthusiastically in 1975 was that he seemed a return to basic rock & roll values in a world of soft rock, heavy metal, and art rock.
By the time Springsteen returned with his fourth album, Darkness on the Edge of Town (June 1978), however, the punk/new wave movement had outflanked him, pushing him from the vanguard to the mainstream. Similar sounding heartland rockers such as Bob Seger had appeared, so that Springsteen sounded less like an innovator than a member of an established genre.
Nevertheless, he set about winning fans with an album that found the lost children of his early albums stuck in factory jobs, still longing for some escape. The album was a hit, though it did not match the success of Born to Run. Springsteen returned with the double album The River (October 1980), which topped the charts and featured his first Top Ten hit, "Hungry Heart."
Nobody was calling him a hype anymore, but Springsteen retreated from his expanding success, next recording the low-key album Nebraska (September 1982), a virtual demo tape on vinyl. (Springsteen did not tour to promote the album, and in the interim E Street Band guitarist Van Zandt amicably left the group for a solo career, to be replaced by Nils Lofgren.)
But then came Born in the U.S.A. (June 1984) and a two-year international tour. The album threw off seven hit singles and sold over ten million copies, putting Springsteen in the pop heavens with Michael Jackson and Prince. After touring for more than a year, he released a five-LP/three-CD concert album, Live/1975-85 (November 1986), which topped the charts.
Characteristically, Springsteen returned with a more introverted effort, Tunnel of Love (October 1987), which presaged his divorce from his first wife. (He married a second time to singer Patti Scialfa, who had joined the E Street Band.)
After another marathon tour, Springsteen gave the E Street Band notice in November 1989, breaking up a celebrated unit who had stayed together 15 years. In March 1992, he simultaneously released Human Touch and Lucky Town, and though the albums premiered near the top of the charts, they were less successful with fans than previous efforts. In the fall, Springsteen taped an MTV Unplugged segment (though he plugged in after one song), and the performance was released as an album in Europe in 1993.
Springsteen continued to tour until July 1993. In the fall, he wrote and recorded "Streets of Philadelphia" for the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia, which concerned a lawyer dying of AIDS. The song became a Top Ten hit in 1994, winning the Academy Award for Best Song and cleaning up at the Grammys the following year. At the same time, Springsteen had readied his Greatest Hits album (February 1995), reassembling the E Street Band to record a few new tracks. The album was an immediate best-seller. Springsteen followed it with The Ghost of Tom Joad (November 1995), another low-key, downcast, near-acoustic effort and embarked upon a brief solo tour. In 1999, shortly after his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Springsteen reunited with the E Street Band (including both Lofgren and Van Zandt on guitars) and embarked on a world tour that lasted until mid-2000, its final dates resulting in the album Live in New York City.
He then made his first new full-length studio album to feature the group as a whole since Born in the U.S.A., The Rising, his first album of new studio recordings since The Ghost of Tom Joad. Released in July 2002, it was followed by another successful tour and recording sessions for a new album, released as Devils & Dust in 2005. One year later he released the first covers album of his career, a tribute to the songs of Pete Seeger titled We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. Live in Dublin, featuring concert tracks done on the tour supporting the Seeger project, was released on both CD and DVD in 2007. Then it was back to working with the E Street Band for the release of Magic in the fall of 2007. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
101.9 RXP is hosting Bruce Springsteen Listening Parties in your neighborhood! Everyone is invited to come out and listen to "Working On A Dream" and win copies of the new CD and Vinyl!
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It looks like all the tickets are going on sale at 10:00am on 2/2. Ticketmaster is going to be a clusterfuck come Monday morning. I just hope he plays somewhere around SLC
It looks like all the tickets are going on sale at 10:00am on 2/2. Ticketmaster is going to be a clusterfuck come Monday morning. I just hope he plays somewhere around SLC
Luckily the Philly tickets are on sale thru Comcasttix.....
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Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band To Launch 2009 US And European Tour
5-Star (Rolling Stone) New Album 'Working On A Dream' (Columbia Records) Out Today
Response To First Ticket Sales In Scandinavia Causes System Crash With Unprecedented Sales In Stockholm, Sweden And Bergen, Norway
January 27, 2009
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have announced a forthcoming world tour.
DATE CITY VENUE ON-SALE DATE
Feb 1 Tampa, FL Super Bowl XLIII
Apr 1 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion at San Jose Feb 2
Apr 3 Glendale, CA Jobing.com Center Feb 2
Apr 5 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center Feb 7
Apr 7 Tulsa, OK BOK Center Feb 7
Apr 8 Houston, TX Toyota Center Feb 7
Apr 10 Denver, CO Pepsi Arena Feb 2
Apr 15 Los Angeles, CA LA Memorial Sports Arena Feb 2
Apr 21 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden Feb 2
Apr 22 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden Feb 2
Apr 24 Hartford, CT XL Center Feb 2
Apr 26 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena Feb 2
Apr 28 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum Feb 2
Apr 29 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum Feb 2
May 2 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum Feb 6
May 4 Hempstead, NY Nassau Veterans Mem. Col. Feb 2
May 5 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena Feb 2
May 7 Toronto, ONT Air Canada Centre Feb 6
May 8 University Park, PA Bryce Jordan Center Feb 2
May 11 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center Feb 2
May 12 Chicago, IL United Center Feb 2
May 14 Albany, NY Times Union Center Feb 2
May 15 Hershey, PA Hersheypark Stadium Feb 2
May 18 Washington, DC Verizon Center Feb 2
May 19 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena Feb 2
May 21 E. Rutherford, NJ Izod Center Feb 2
May 23 E. Rutherford, NJ Izod Center Feb 2
May 30 Landgraaf, Holland Pink Pop Festival March 7
June 2 Tampere, Finland Ratinan Stadion ON SALE
June 4 Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm Stadium SOLD OUT
June 5 Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm Stadium SOLD OUT
June 7 Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm Stadium SOLD OUT
June 9 Bergen, Norway Koengen SOLD OUT
June 10 Bergen, Norway Koengen SOLD OUT
July 2 Munich, Germany Olympiastadion ON SALE NOW
July 3 Frankfurt, Germany Commerzbank Arena ON SALE NOW
July 5 Vienna, Austria Ernst Happel Stadion ON SALE NOW
July 8 Herning, Denmark Herning MCH ON SALE NOW
July 11 Dublin, Ireland RDS Jan 30
July 16 Carhaix, France Festival des Vielles Charrues Jan 30
July 19 Rome, Italy Stadio Olimpico ON SALE SOON
July 21 Turino, Italy Olimpico di Torino ON SALE SOON
July 23 Udine, Italy Stadio Friuli ON SALE SOON
July 26 Bilbao, Spain San Mames Stadium ON SALE SOON
July 28 Benidorm, Spain Estadio Municipal de Foietes ON SALE SOON
July 30 Sevilla, Spain La Cartuja Olympic Stadium ON SALE SOON
Aug 1 Valladolid, Spain Estadio Jose Zorrilla ON SALE SOON
Aug 2 Santiago, Spain Monte Del Gozo ON SALE SOON
Springsteen recently performed at the Presidential Inauguration and is set to perform at Super Bowl XLIII. His new album 'Working on a Dream' is earning exemplary reviews. In Brian Hiatt's 5-star Rolling Stone review of 'Working on a Dream,' he raves about its "romantic sweep and swaggering musical ambition." For the full review, please go to: http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/alb ... /working_o
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People Magazine wrote, "With many of these songs itching to be taken on the road, 'Dream' continues the classic-Springsteen revival of 'Magic.'"
one way or another ill be attending these spectrum shows, no matter what .
This is gonna be a hotel trip also - so i can be down at philly for all the early festivites.
first time ever inside the Spectrum - canot wait .
Yey Bruce in Phillytown !
why is The Boss making us NYers travel out to hem,stead tpke to see him?
no MSG ?
that blows
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i predict all tickets will be 1 price ( lowers , pit, and uppers)
as Bruce has traditionally done, and i would also go out on a limb that they will try to keep ALL tickets at all venues below 100 bucks.
who knows?
we'll see very shortly,...
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Bruce Springsteen's stirring new album freeze-frames its narrator right at the moment when hope rides in to save the day.
While pain and loss ruled before, and time will certainly bring more of them, the new CD captures a respite of joy in between. It's a scrappy declaration of uplift in the face of every known hardship.
How well-timed is that?
"Working on a Dream" could double as Bruce's answer to last week's inaugural address, his own buck-up soundtrack honed for the new hard times.
In fact, the album's genesis dates from well before the current economic dive-bomb. Bruce penned these tunes nearly two years ago, during the fruitful writing sessions that produced 2007's "Magic" CD.
Luckily, the songs on "Working on a Dream" hardly sound like sloppy seconds. They extend the return to firm melodies and rousing hooks that made "Magic" a virtual comeback for the Boss.
After fans patiently waited through hootenanny Bruce ("The Seeger Sessions") preachy Bruce ("The Rising") and two hard shots of hair-shirt Bruce ("The Ghost of Tom Joad" and "Devils and Dust"), "Magic" brought back the hooks and the joy. It was his most embraceable album since 1984's "Born in the U.S.A."
"Dream" isn't quite as fast-paced as "Magic," but it's even more beautiful and it introduces a few sounds Springsteen has never explored.
The opening cut, "Outlaw Pete," pivots on sawing strings, creating a dustily theatrical setting that sounds like a musical answer to a John Ford Western. The lyrics also shake things up, presenting a satire on a classic folk "murder ballad," a tale of evil told with winking sense of exaggeration.
Otherwise, "Dream" veers blissfully in the direction of pop.
There's a Byrds-like jangle of psychedelic guitars complicating "What Love Can Do," a full Beach Boys-style airy chorale enlivening "This Life," and a bubblegum snap to "Surprise, Surprise" that almost could have been recorded by the Archies (a compliment).
Even the slower, acoustic songs, like "The Last Carnival" or "The Wrestler," avoid the dirge of "Devils and Dust," leavening their lyrical torment with melodies that sweeten with each listen.
Bruce can still lapse into Springsteenian cliche: "Queen of the Supermarket," about a crush at the checkout counter, reads like a satire of the Boss' working-class fetish.
But the song could barely be catchier, and even here the singer stays true to his long-established, resolutely American character.
The "Dream" he imagines in these songs remains intimately bound up in "work." To Bruce, hope is a field to tend and till. It doesn't come easy and there's no guarantee it will last. But in the life of his songs it thrives, providing a gung-ho spirit that couldn't be more ripe for the times.
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Not written in stone, but word over on btx,. is that the soundcheck was made up of:
B2R
10th Ave
and another unidentified song, probably from Working On A Dream
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i was hoping jungleland would be played. whats the odds the boss and band go over the timelimit. im very pissed the boss isnt playing msg, guess thats a dream that will never happen. looks like its the old barn for me and maybe philly
Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
Sammi: Wanna just break up?
i was hoping jungleland would be played. whats the odds the boss and band go over the timelimit. im very pissed the boss isnt playing msg, guess thats a dream that will never happen. looks like its the old barn for me and maybe philly
metsy
youre complaining about him playing the Masoleum ?
I'm shocked !
they may always add some dates later on in the fall.
Dont rule out MSG just yet, your dream may come true in some time.
I'm stoked about the Spectrum shows- those will no doubt be very special .
Surely some rarities will surface the span of those 2 nights in April .
Waitying on al my vinyls and Deluxe Box Sets to arrive any day now !
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i was hoping jungleland would be played. whats the odds the boss and band go over the timelimit. im very pissed the boss isnt playing msg, guess thats a dream that will never happen. looks like its the old barn for me and maybe philly
metsy
youre complaining about him playing the Masoleum ?
I'm shocked !
they may always add some dates later on in the fall.
Dont rule out MSG just yet, your dream may come true in some time.
I'm stoked about the Spectrum shows- those will no doubt be very special .
Surely some rarities will surface the span of those 2 nights in April .
Waitying on al my vinyls and Deluxe Box Sets to arrive any day now !
why wouldnt i, its a dump. yea its maybe a 30 minutes away from but if i had a choice of the worlds most famous or the old hempstead turnpike dump, i'd take msg bathy
Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
Sammi: Wanna just break up?
i was hoping jungleland would be played. whats the odds the boss and band go over the timelimit. im very pissed the boss isnt playing msg, guess thats a dream that will never happen. looks like its the old barn for me and maybe philly
metsy
youre complaining about him playing the Masoleum ?
I'm shocked !
they may always add some dates later on in the fall.
Dont rule out MSG just yet, your dream may come true in some time.
I'm stoked about the Spectrum shows- those will no doubt be very special .
Surely some rarities will surface the span of those 2 nights in April .
Waitying on al my vinyls and Deluxe Box Sets to arrive any day now !
why wouldnt i, its a dump. yea its maybe a 30 minutes away from but if i had a choice of the worlds most famous or the old hempstead turnpike dump, i'd take msg bathy
I saw Bruce alone - either Seeger Sessions Band or Devils & Dust Tour- cannot remember for the life of me.
I also saw Bruce with ESB at Nassau on the prior Magic Tour.
( * Have also seen Pearl Jam there, as well as U2 )
Surprisingly the sound was very decent there, ( OK its no MSG )
not bad,....
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How difficult are tickets gonna be? Would GAs be a problem, if I was getting 2? (I'm looking at Toronto, and, if it helps, I've NEVER been shut out of tickets before)
The two Philly dates will be special, especially since it was the first big venue Bruce ever played and the 2nd night is WMMR's 41st anniversary.... should be an amazing two night experience. I'll be looking to hit at least one if not both shows. I see late nights and deep cuts....
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How difficult are tickets gonna be? Would GAs be a problem, if I was getting 2? (I'm looking at Toronto, and, if it helps, I've NEVER been shut out of tickets before)
Pit tickets are understabdably the toughest to get your paws on.
I dont think it really matters if youre going for 2 or 4 ( i dont know the ticket allowances yet ) , its just as difficult.
I'm nervous about ComcastTix.com, i have never used that site ( oddly enough im pretty sure for shows at Wachovia I have used TM previously but whatever ) I also understand thattickets are going to be available thru LiveNation, so thats another option.
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How difficult are tickets gonna be? Would GAs be a problem, if I was getting 2? (I'm looking at Toronto, and, if it helps, I've NEVER been shut out of tickets before)
Pit tickets are understabdably the toughest to get your paws on.
I dont think it really matters if youre going for 2 or 4 ( i dont know the ticket allowances yet ) , its just as difficult.
I'm nervous about ComcastTix.com, i have never used that site ( oddly enough im pretty sure for shows at Wachovia I have used TM previously but whatever ) I also understand thattickets are going to be available thru LiveNation, so thats another option.
Best Of Luck Everyone !
Comcasttix isn't that bad of a site (they handle alot of the local Philly venues now including the Borgata) and they've been the sole ticket seller for at least the last year or two. And I think the livenation page will just link to the comcasttix page.
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How difficult are tickets gonna be? Would GAs be a problem, if I was getting 2? (I'm looking at Toronto, and, if it helps, I've NEVER been shut out of tickets before)
Pit tickets are understabdably the toughest to get your paws on.
I dont think it really matters if youre going for 2 or 4 ( i dont know the ticket allowances yet ) , its just as difficult.
I'm nervous about ComcastTix.com, i have never used that site ( oddly enough im pretty sure for shows at Wachovia I have used TM previously but whatever ) I also understand thattickets are going to be available thru LiveNation, so thats another option.
Best Of Luck Everyone !
I'm gonna have one computer going for Pit, and one going for seats...
I got EV solo tickets from 10C, I don't imagine pit tickets being any harder...
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Albany May 14th being announced today
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Thanks... didn't realize these dates were already announced:
April 1 HP Pavilion San Jose, CA 2/2
10 a.m.
April 21 TD Banknorth Garden Boston, MA 2/2
10 a.m.
April 22 TD Banknorth Garden Boston, MA 2/2
10 a.m.
May 5 John Paul Jones Arena Charlottesville, VA 2/2
10 a.m.
Tickets will be available at John Paul Jones Arena Box Office, all Plan 9 outlets, www.johnpauljonesarena.com, www.livenation.com or charge-by-phone at 1-888-575-8497.
May 18 Verizon Center Washington, DC 2/2
May 19 Mellon Arena Pittsburgh, PA 2/2
10 a.m.
Definitely space between May 5th and May 18th to squeeze in some shows.
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damn I will definitely be trying my damndest to get tickets to one of these shows.....
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Sat, Jan 24, 2009
PRESENT TENSE: YOU MUST HAVE heard Bono's words at this week's pre-
inauguration concert. "What a thrill for four Irish boys from the
northside of Dublin to honour you sir, Barack Obama, to be the next
president of the United States." writes SHANE HEGARTY.
And what a thrill it must have been. Even if only one of U2 actually
lives on the northside now. Or that Bono must have lived as much of
his life on the southside. Or that two of the band were born in
England, before moving to the north Co Dublin town of Malahide. Roddy
Doyle, you'll have noticed, never sets his novels in Malahide.
Why be so picky? Because even in a moment when he was trying to
express the personal pride he and the band were feeling, Bono sounded
a false note. In throwing in the reference to the northside, he was
grabbing some of the "impossible journey" narrative for himself and
the band.
In many ways, U2's journey from school band to global megastardom has
been improbable, but it's not because they came from Dublin's
northside. It's not as if most of Bono's friends are either dead or in
jail. Last time I looked, they were making soundtracks and bowls. When
not being a citizen of Dublin, Bono is a citizen of the world.
During the band's performance of In The Name of Love, he described
Martin Luther King's dream as "Not just an American dream – also an
Irish dream, a European dream, an African dream, an Israeli
dream . . ." And then, following a long pause reminiscent of a man
who'd just realised he'd left the gas on, he added, ". . . and also a
Palestinian dream." This was his big shout out to the Palestinians.
You know, it's easy – and not original – to have a pop at Bono's
bombast, but sometimes it's necessary to point it out and impossible
to resist.
He serves it up on a platter, writing newspaper columns and giving TV
interviews. And for all his undoubted sincerity and effort on the
issue of world poverty, you can't help but marvel at this latest
expression of Bono's Sesame Street view of the world. Hey Middle East,
we just have to have a dream to get along.
Just ignore the sound of those loud explosions and concentrate on
Bono's voice.
U2 debuted a new single this week. Get On Your Bootsis actually pretty
good, a reminder that the band still writes decent tunes, which is no
mean feat given how many legendary acts continue to rely on ancient
material. (The Rolling Stones have written almost nothing memorable
during the entire time that U2 have been around). But not for the
first time in U2's career, Get On Your Bootssounds like the work of a
band trying to find their voice in other people's sounds. And, also
not for the first time, it's lyrically vacuous. That shouldn't be a
big deal – it's only rock'n'roll after all – but it reminds us that
it's been some time since Bono and U2 have been musically relevant.
Also on the stage at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday was Bruce
Springsteen. Like U2, he released new music this week. In early
listens, the album Working On A Dreamis very strong in parts, if
unlikely to be remembered as one of his more substantial albums. It
lacks the grief and resilience that fuelled his post-9/11 album The
Rising; the honesty of Devils and Dust; and the anger that infused his
Bush-era America album Magic. Working On A Dreamis a romantic album, a
contented album, an album that sounds as if it marks the end of a
cycle in his songwriting.
It is, though, part of the continuing evolution of his music. He has
been singing about the same characters and themes through his entire
career, making his an epic, decades-long exercise in storytelling that
shows no sign of coming to an end. Springsteen has also been arguably
the most effective and popular protest songwriter of recent years. It
means that he remains essential in a way that few artists do. In a way
that U2, and Bono, are not.
Compared to Bono, Springsteen has always been on another plane as a
lyricist, but 40 years into his career he's writing songs that are not
just catchy, but actually say something intelligent about the world,
his country, his people. Like Bono, he's made enough money to remove
himself from the multitudes who pack his stadium shows, and yet he
still seems genuinely one of them.
Most importantly, he's politically brave in a way that Bono will not
be. He takes sides. He's not afraid to make enemies. Unlike Bono, pal
of all presidents, he will not sup with the devil, partly because he
knows what it's like when his political enemies misread and
misappropriate his music. And unlike Bono, who has a fascination with
America that displays itself as a cloying neediness, Springsteen
understands that country intimately. It means that Springsteen is
authentic and authoritative in a way that Bono can never hope to be,
no matter how much he mentions that he's from the northside.
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The first handful of US dates have surfaced for Bruce Springsteen [ tickets ] and the E Street Band's upcoming world tour behind their new album, "Working On a Dream," which reaches stores tomorrow (1/27).
US stops so far confirmed by promoters include San Jose, CA; Charlottesville, VA; Washington, DC; and Pittsburgh, PA; and tickets for each of those shows are scheduled to go on sale Feb. 2. Many more dates are in the works. Last week, Springsteen's camp nailed down plans for a half-dozen European shows scattered from early June through early July.
"Working on a Dream," the follow up to 2007's platinum-certified "Magic," is Springsteen's 24th album. The set--his fourth to feature producer Brendan O'Brien behind the knobs--features 12 new Springsteen compositions and two bonus tracks.
Springsteen's new album and tour will get a huge promotional boost on Feb. 1, when he performs during the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, FL.
The Boss made another high-profile appearance during the inaugural festivities for President Barack Obama when he teamed with U2, Stevie Wonder, Garth Brooks and other big-name acts for a free, inaugural-kickoff concert in Washington, DC.
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The Ties That Bind
101.9 RXP "The New York Rock Experience" has begun airing "The Ties That Bind," a new morning show feature leading up to the new album release on January 27. Airing every day at 7 a.m. during "Matt Pinfield in the Morning," the segment is produced and hosted by Rich Russo of Anything Anything, who's got his facts learned real good and will be featuring a rarely played Springsteen song each day.
EXCLUSIVE SPRINGSTEEN SPECIAL
This weekend 1019RXP airs "Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: An Inside Look at 'Working On A Dream" . A one hour exclusive special where Bruce takes his fans on an inside look behind the making of the new release! "Working On A Dream" is Springsteen's 24th album and was recorded and mixed at Southern Tracks in Atlanta, GA with additional recording in New York, Los Angeles and New Jersey! The album was born out of the sessions for 2007's 'Magic'. Bruce explains, "Towards the end of recording 'Magic', excited by the return to pop production sounds, I continued writing. When my friend producer Brendan O'Brien heard the new songs, he said, 'Let's keep going'. Over the course of the next year, that's just what we did, recoridng with the E Street Band during the breaks on last year's tour. I hope 'Working On A Dream' has caught the energy of the band fresh off the road from some of the most exciting shows we've ever done. All the songs were written quickly, we usually used one of our first few takes, and we all had a blast making this one from beginning to end." Hear this exclusive one hour special commerical free this Saturday and Sunday night at 8pm on 1019RXP!!!
About Bruce Springsteen
When Bruce Springsteen finally broke through to national recognition in the fall of 1975 after a decade of trying, critics hailed him as the savior of rock & roll, the single artist who brought together all the exuberance of '50s rock and the thoughtfulness of '60s rock, molded into a '70s style. He rocked as hard as Jerry Lee Lewis, his lyrics were as complicated as Bob Dylan's, and his concerts were near-religious celebrations of all that was best in music. One critic became so enamored that he quit reviewing to become Springsteen's manager.
But the hosannas, when piped through the publicity machine of a major record company, were perceived as hype by a significant part of the public as well as the mainstream media -- Springsteen landed on the covers of Time and Newsweek, but both magazines were covering the phenomenon, not the music. Springsteen's album, Born to Run, became a hit, and he jumped to arena status as a live act, but as many people were turned off by the press campaign as turned on by the records and shows.
Two decades later, however, Springsteen remained an established star who could look back on a career that had produced one of the best-selling albums of all time, sold-out stadium shows, Grammy awards and an Oscar, and a group of imitators who constituted their own subgenre of popular music. If he no longer seemed divine, he remained popular enough for his Greatest Hits album to enter the charts at number one, and he had won over many of those skeptics from 1975.
Growing up in southern New Jersey, Springsteen turned to rock & roll as a teenager and played in a series of bands from the mid-'60s on, varying in style from garage rock to power trio blues-rock. By the early '70s, he was trying his hand at being a folky singer/songwriter in Greenwich Village. But when he was signed to Columbia Records in 1972, he brought into the studio many of the New Jersey-based musicians with whom he'd played over the years.
The result was Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (January 1973), which went unnoticed upon initial release, though Manfred Mann's Earth Band would turn its leadoff track, "Blinded by the Light," into a number one hit four years later. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (September 1973) also failed to sell despite some rave reviews. (Both albums have since gone platinum.)
The following year, Springsteen revised his backup group -- dubbed the E Street Band -- settling on a lineup that included saxophone player Clarence Clemons, second guitarist "Miami" Steve Van Zandt, organist Danny Federici, pianist Roy Bittan, bassist Garry Tallent, and drummer Max Weinberg. With this unit he barnstormed the country while working on his third and last chance with Columbia. By the time Born to Run (August 1975) was released, the critics and a significant cult audience were with him, and the title song became a Top 40 hit while the album reached the Top Ten.
What Springsteen needed to do in the wake of the hype, of course, was to play and record more to consolidate his position. He was prevented at least from the latter by a former manager, who kept him in court during the next couple of years. Meanwhile, the musical world changed. Part of the reason critics had welcomed Springsteen so enthusiastically in 1975 was that he seemed a return to basic rock & roll values in a world of soft rock, heavy metal, and art rock.
By the time Springsteen returned with his fourth album, Darkness on the Edge of Town (June 1978), however, the punk/new wave movement had outflanked him, pushing him from the vanguard to the mainstream. Similar sounding heartland rockers such as Bob Seger had appeared, so that Springsteen sounded less like an innovator than a member of an established genre.
Nevertheless, he set about winning fans with an album that found the lost children of his early albums stuck in factory jobs, still longing for some escape. The album was a hit, though it did not match the success of Born to Run. Springsteen returned with the double album The River (October 1980), which topped the charts and featured his first Top Ten hit, "Hungry Heart."
Nobody was calling him a hype anymore, but Springsteen retreated from his expanding success, next recording the low-key album Nebraska (September 1982), a virtual demo tape on vinyl. (Springsteen did not tour to promote the album, and in the interim E Street Band guitarist Van Zandt amicably left the group for a solo career, to be replaced by Nils Lofgren.)
But then came Born in the U.S.A. (June 1984) and a two-year international tour. The album threw off seven hit singles and sold over ten million copies, putting Springsteen in the pop heavens with Michael Jackson and Prince. After touring for more than a year, he released a five-LP/three-CD concert album, Live/1975-85 (November 1986), which topped the charts.
Characteristically, Springsteen returned with a more introverted effort, Tunnel of Love (October 1987), which presaged his divorce from his first wife. (He married a second time to singer Patti Scialfa, who had joined the E Street Band.)
After another marathon tour, Springsteen gave the E Street Band notice in November 1989, breaking up a celebrated unit who had stayed together 15 years. In March 1992, he simultaneously released Human Touch and Lucky Town, and though the albums premiered near the top of the charts, they were less successful with fans than previous efforts. In the fall, Springsteen taped an MTV Unplugged segment (though he plugged in after one song), and the performance was released as an album in Europe in 1993.
Springsteen continued to tour until July 1993. In the fall, he wrote and recorded "Streets of Philadelphia" for the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia, which concerned a lawyer dying of AIDS. The song became a Top Ten hit in 1994, winning the Academy Award for Best Song and cleaning up at the Grammys the following year. At the same time, Springsteen had readied his Greatest Hits album (February 1995), reassembling the E Street Band to record a few new tracks. The album was an immediate best-seller. Springsteen followed it with The Ghost of Tom Joad (November 1995), another low-key, downcast, near-acoustic effort and embarked upon a brief solo tour. In 1999, shortly after his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Springsteen reunited with the E Street Band (including both Lofgren and Van Zandt on guitars) and embarked on a world tour that lasted until mid-2000, its final dates resulting in the album Live in New York City.
He then made his first new full-length studio album to feature the group as a whole since Born in the U.S.A., The Rising, his first album of new studio recordings since The Ghost of Tom Joad. Released in July 2002, it was followed by another successful tour and recording sessions for a new album, released as Devils & Dust in 2005. One year later he released the first covers album of his career, a tribute to the songs of Pete Seeger titled We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. Live in Dublin, featuring concert tracks done on the tour supporting the Seeger project, was released on both CD and DVD in 2007. Then it was back to working with the E Street Band for the release of Magic in the fall of 2007. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
101.9 RXP is hosting Bruce Springsteen Listening Parties in your neighborhood! Everyone is invited to come out and listen to "Working On A Dream" and win copies of the new CD and Vinyl!
Monday, January 26th
The Downtown
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tel: 732-741-2828
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No drink or appetizer specials as right now.
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Good luck.. I'm sure it will be a clusterfuck... but they are the only shows I wanna see. It will be my first time seeing Bruce with the band.
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Luckily the Philly tickets are on sale thru Comcasttix.....
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5-Star (Rolling Stone) New Album 'Working On A Dream' (Columbia Records) Out Today
Response To First Ticket Sales In Scandinavia Causes System Crash With Unprecedented Sales In Stockholm, Sweden And Bergen, Norway
January 27, 2009
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have announced a forthcoming world tour.
DATE CITY VENUE ON-SALE DATE
Feb 1 Tampa, FL Super Bowl XLIII
Apr 1 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion at San Jose Feb 2
Apr 3 Glendale, CA Jobing.com Center Feb 2
Apr 5 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center Feb 7
Apr 7 Tulsa, OK BOK Center Feb 7
Apr 8 Houston, TX Toyota Center Feb 7
Apr 10 Denver, CO Pepsi Arena Feb 2
Apr 15 Los Angeles, CA LA Memorial Sports Arena Feb 2
Apr 21 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden Feb 2
Apr 22 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden Feb 2
Apr 24 Hartford, CT XL Center Feb 2
Apr 26 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena Feb 2
Apr 28 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum Feb 2
Apr 29 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum Feb 2
May 2 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum Feb 6
May 4 Hempstead, NY Nassau Veterans Mem. Col. Feb 2
May 5 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena Feb 2
May 7 Toronto, ONT Air Canada Centre Feb 6
May 8 University Park, PA Bryce Jordan Center Feb 2
May 11 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center Feb 2
May 12 Chicago, IL United Center Feb 2
May 14 Albany, NY Times Union Center Feb 2
May 15 Hershey, PA Hersheypark Stadium Feb 2
May 18 Washington, DC Verizon Center Feb 2
May 19 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena Feb 2
May 21 E. Rutherford, NJ Izod Center Feb 2
May 23 E. Rutherford, NJ Izod Center Feb 2
May 30 Landgraaf, Holland Pink Pop Festival March 7
June 2 Tampere, Finland Ratinan Stadion ON SALE
June 4 Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm Stadium SOLD OUT
June 5 Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm Stadium SOLD OUT
June 7 Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm Stadium SOLD OUT
June 9 Bergen, Norway Koengen SOLD OUT
June 10 Bergen, Norway Koengen SOLD OUT
July 2 Munich, Germany Olympiastadion ON SALE NOW
July 3 Frankfurt, Germany Commerzbank Arena ON SALE NOW
July 5 Vienna, Austria Ernst Happel Stadion ON SALE NOW
July 8 Herning, Denmark Herning MCH ON SALE NOW
July 11 Dublin, Ireland RDS Jan 30
July 16 Carhaix, France Festival des Vielles Charrues Jan 30
July 19 Rome, Italy Stadio Olimpico ON SALE SOON
July 21 Turino, Italy Olimpico di Torino ON SALE SOON
July 23 Udine, Italy Stadio Friuli ON SALE SOON
July 26 Bilbao, Spain San Mames Stadium ON SALE SOON
July 28 Benidorm, Spain Estadio Municipal de Foietes ON SALE SOON
July 30 Sevilla, Spain La Cartuja Olympic Stadium ON SALE SOON
Aug 1 Valladolid, Spain Estadio Jose Zorrilla ON SALE SOON
Aug 2 Santiago, Spain Monte Del Gozo ON SALE SOON
Springsteen recently performed at the Presidential Inauguration and is set to perform at Super Bowl XLIII. His new album 'Working on a Dream' is earning exemplary reviews. In Brian Hiatt's 5-star Rolling Stone review of 'Working on a Dream,' he raves about its "romantic sweep and swaggering musical ambition." For the full review, please go to:
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/alb ... /working_o
%20n_a_dream
People Magazine wrote, "With many of these songs itching to be taken on the road, 'Dream' continues the classic-Springsteen revival of 'Magic.'"
Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly's Simon Vozick-Levinson's gave the album an "A" grade: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20253916,00.html
This is gonna be a hotel trip also - so i can be down at philly for all the early festivites.
first time ever inside the Spectrum - canot wait .
Yey Bruce in Phillytown !
why is The Boss making us NYers travel out to hem,stead tpke to see him?
no MSG ?
that blows
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as Bruce has traditionally done, and i would also go out on a limb that they will try to keep ALL tickets at all venues below 100 bucks.
who knows?
we'll see very shortly,...
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Bruce Springsteen's stirring new album freeze-frames its narrator right at the moment when hope rides in to save the day.
While pain and loss ruled before, and time will certainly bring more of them, the new CD captures a respite of joy in between. It's a scrappy declaration of uplift in the face of every known hardship.
How well-timed is that?
"Working on a Dream" could double as Bruce's answer to last week's inaugural address, his own buck-up soundtrack honed for the new hard times.
In fact, the album's genesis dates from well before the current economic dive-bomb. Bruce penned these tunes nearly two years ago, during the fruitful writing sessions that produced 2007's "Magic" CD.
Luckily, the songs on "Working on a Dream" hardly sound like sloppy seconds. They extend the return to firm melodies and rousing hooks that made "Magic" a virtual comeback for the Boss.
After fans patiently waited through hootenanny Bruce ("The Seeger Sessions") preachy Bruce ("The Rising") and two hard shots of hair-shirt Bruce ("The Ghost of Tom Joad" and "Devils and Dust"), "Magic" brought back the hooks and the joy. It was his most embraceable album since 1984's "Born in the U.S.A."
"Dream" isn't quite as fast-paced as "Magic," but it's even more beautiful and it introduces a few sounds Springsteen has never explored.
The opening cut, "Outlaw Pete," pivots on sawing strings, creating a dustily theatrical setting that sounds like a musical answer to a John Ford Western. The lyrics also shake things up, presenting a satire on a classic folk "murder ballad," a tale of evil told with winking sense of exaggeration.
Otherwise, "Dream" veers blissfully in the direction of pop.
There's a Byrds-like jangle of psychedelic guitars complicating "What Love Can Do," a full Beach Boys-style airy chorale enlivening "This Life," and a bubblegum snap to "Surprise, Surprise" that almost could have been recorded by the Archies (a compliment).
Even the slower, acoustic songs, like "The Last Carnival" or "The Wrestler," avoid the dirge of "Devils and Dust," leavening their lyrical torment with melodies that sweeten with each listen.
Bruce can still lapse into Springsteenian cliche: "Queen of the Supermarket," about a crush at the checkout counter, reads like a satire of the Boss' working-class fetish.
But the song could barely be catchier, and even here the singer stays true to his long-established, resolutely American character.
The "Dream" he imagines in these songs remains intimately bound up in "work." To Bruce, hope is a field to tend and till. It doesn't come easy and there's no guarantee it will last. But in the life of his songs it thrives, providing a gung-ho spirit that couldn't be more ripe for the times.
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Not written in stone, but word over on btx,. is that the soundcheck was made up of:
B2R
10th Ave
and another unidentified song, probably from Working On A Dream
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Sammi: Wanna just break up?
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youre complaining about him playing the Masoleum ?
I'm shocked !
they may always add some dates later on in the fall.
Dont rule out MSG just yet, your dream may come true in some time.
I'm stoked about the Spectrum shows- those will no doubt be very special .
Surely some rarities will surface the span of those 2 nights in April .
Waitying on al my vinyls and Deluxe Box Sets to arrive any day now !
B-r-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-c-e-!
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I saw Bruce alone - either Seeger Sessions Band or Devils & Dust Tour- cannot remember for the life of me.
I also saw Bruce with ESB at Nassau on the prior Magic Tour.
( * Have also seen Pearl Jam there, as well as U2 )
Surprisingly the sound was very decent there, ( OK its no MSG )
not bad,....
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Pit tickets are understabdably the toughest to get your paws on.
I dont think it really matters if youre going for 2 or 4 ( i dont know the ticket allowances yet ) , its just as difficult.
I'm nervous about ComcastTix.com, i have never used that site ( oddly enough im pretty sure for shows at Wachovia I have used TM previously but whatever ) I also understand thattickets are going to be available thru LiveNation, so thats another option.
Best Of Luck Everyone !
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Comcasttix isn't that bad of a site (they handle alot of the local Philly venues now including the Borgata) and they've been the sole ticket seller for at least the last year or two. And I think the livenation page will just link to the comcasttix page.
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I'm gonna have one computer going for Pit, and one going for seats...
I got EV solo tickets from 10C, I don't imagine pit tickets being any harder...