Bruce, Bruce, BRUCE. If you are in disbelief, just watch the Hammersmith DVD. Amazing.
Excellent !
Bruce : 20
Bowie : 11
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maybe if Vern Troyer ( mini- me ) was fighting Bowie- pretty safe to say Bruce could snap Bowie in half .
but seriously- this would be a good celebrity death match .
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Bruce is winning because a majority of the people posting here are meat and potatoes rock and roll fans, and Bruce fits that bill perfectly
excellent!
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ha ha we are relying on this board for true opinion? thats hilarious.
As much as I LOVE Bruce and choose him (I like Bowie too), as I said earlier, if you post this on another board, it might well go with Bowie. Bruce and PJ have some similarity, and there's at least a reasonable chance that if you like PJ you probably like Bruce. But Bowie has a very different sound than PJ.
Thanks Baritenortone for reminding me about the Hammerstein DVD - I forgot I wanted to pick that up.
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I'm another AMERICAN who likes DAVID BOWIE, a whole hell of alot more then BRUUUUCE.
I've seen both of them live, and SPRINGSTEEN bore the shit out of me. I like some(not much) of EARLY Bruce, but his later shit is weak bubble-gum music.(I'm sure that'll ruffle some of you Bruce lovers out ther.>HAHA).
It should also be noted that this european tour is the 2nd one hes done this calendar year! And those first shows in europe were big sell-outs as well. Also he was there on another sold out tour just in 2005. Also his last album reached number one in several european countries.
I've seen both of them live, and SPRINGSTEEN bore the shit out of me. .
:eek:
someone start an IV pronto , check his pulse , and get the defibulators ,.. STAT ! Clear ! ......
:rolleyes:
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All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
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Our European neighbors are going to get lots of special treats very soon,... 1 more week for the tour to re start across the pond,..
pulled these off of Backstreets.com
they are from earlier today.
Bruce and the Seeger Sessions Band rehearsed again today at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park.
An interesting day, as they worked on a song that used to be performed by the Grateful Dead, another song that's a great gospel sound and Patti even performed one of her songs from the Rumble Doll album.
Bruce arrived with Patti around 10 a.m. and the music started soon after.
Thank you to Kevin and Anne for filling me in on the songs I missed.
1. American Land
2. Atlantic City
3. If I Should Fall Behind
Same version as we heard on the tour this past spring.
4. Cadillac Ranch with Mystery Train.
5. Long Time Coming
They worked on this a few times.
6. Further On Up The Road.
The nice version they played last June.
7. Samson and Delilah
From doing a google search, this song was performed by Bob Weir with the Grateful Dead from the mid-1970s onwards .
Roots: Bob Weir learnt this song from Rev Gary Davis, and the version the Dead do is based closely on Davis's. But the song's origins go back much further than that. It is first known of as a song sheet ("ballet") sold on the street in the early decades of the century - with the title "Samson Tore The Building Down". It was recorded in (possibly) 1923 by the Paramount Jubilee Singers with the same title. The best-known early recording is by Blind Willie Johnson under the title "If I Had My Way, I Would Tear This Building Down," from 1927. But there are at least three other recordings available from about the same time: "If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down" by Rev T.E.Weems; "Samson And The Woman" by Rev J.M.Gates; and "If I Had My Way" by Rev T.T.Rose.
These are the lyrics:
Chorus
If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down
Delilah was a woman, she was fine and fair
She had good looks - God knows - and coal black hair
Delilah she gained old Samson's mind
When first he saw this woman, she looked so fine
Delilah she climbed up on Samson's knee
Said tell me where your strength lies, if you please
Then she spoke so kind, she talked so fair
That Samson said, Delilah you cut off my hair
You can shave my head, cleanse my hand
My strength comes as natural as any other man
[chorus]
You read about Samson, all from his birth
He was the strongest man ever had lived on earth
One day while Samson was walking along
Looked down on the ground he saw an old jaw bone
Then he stretched out his arm and his chains broke like threads
And when he got to move, ten thousand were dead
[chorus]
Now Samson and the lion, they got in attack
And Samson he walked up on the lion's back
You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paw
Samson got hands up round the lion's jaw
He ripped that beast, killed it dead
And the bees made honey in the lion's head
Sounded nice as Bruce and the backup singers took turns on the "If I Had My Way" part.
Had a gospel sound to it.
After a short break they came back to work on some sort of instrumental. There was some organ, violin and pedal steele.
8. Valerie
It was Patti Scialfa's turn to sing a song. This is a song from her Rumble Doll album and it sounded great with this band, especially when the horns kicked in.
They worked on the arrangements as they played the song three times.
Really nice, has a southwestern-type beat to it, especially with the horns.
Next up was another debut for Bruce and the Seeger Sessions Band.
9. This Little Light of Mine.
Another google search tells me this is traditonal song.
Bruce and the band performed it in a rousing-gospel type fashion that will have the crowd up and dancing as if they're at a Sunday church service.
Lyrics:
This little light of mine,
I'm going to let it shine.
This little light of mine,
I'm going to let it shine.
This little light of mine,
I'm going to let it shine,
Every day, every day,
Every day, every day,
Gonna let my little light shine
Nice piano in it. At one point the band claps along. And the backup singers are very prominent singing off Bruce. Also a banjo solo.
It's very uplifting and Bruce even does a little "preaching" in the middle of it.
Sort of in the same uplifting-way that Pay Me My Money Down
ended the show.
This will be fun. Bruce played the song three times and at the end of the third time, with a very uplifting finish, someone said into one of the microphones: "Bruce Springsteen has left the building."
Pretty funny.
They were then finished for the day around 2 p.m.
There were about a dozen people waiting for Bruce when he left. He gave quick wave and said hello, but didn't stop to sign pictures or autographs today.
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I spent the full day at Asbury Park at rehearsals and I can tell you that Bruce has some big treats in store for Europe. The sound of the new show is totally different from the Seeger Sessions tour that we last saw in AP. The sound of the band is very celtic and Irish.
Arrival: Bruce and Patti pulled up together about a half hour late, Bruce got a guitar out of the back of the Range Rover and they both went straight into the Paramount door just yelling hello to us.
Bruce howled "Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOO" and rehearsals were under way.
1. American Land- song is a lot tighter than version at Madison Square Garden. There were some changes to intro making it even more Irish sounding with a more extended penny-whistle/fiddle intro. Great song that they really have down and only went through it once.
2. Bruce yelled "OK, a little Atlantic City" and they launched into a version with a very jazzy piano intro. I liked it but it almost made it sound like another song.
3. If I Should Fall Behind- Irish fiddle was beautiful and sounded almost like the song Tennessee Waltz. Beautiful harmonizing by Patti and other girls.
4. Cadillac Ranch/ Mystery Train - Missed a lot of this one because had a business call but it sounded great. Bruce intor's it by saying "funky, funky, funky" and something about "getting some".
5. Long Time Coming - They played this over and over, putting a lot of changes that Bruce wanted.
6. Further Up The Road - The new Grusehcky/Springsteen song sounds great. Very Irish sounding with great flute and fiddle parts. This is when I realized that this ain't no Seeger Session. It is a banjo free zome with some great celtic music. Worked on this song for about 90 minutes. Trying out different trade off vocals with the background singers. It is incredible honor to hear Bruce at work, creating the song arrangement as you listen.
Caught Soozie and The Kingfish Eddie Manton out on the boardwalk for this break.
Spoke to Kevin for a couple of minutes at lunch. When I said I would put the photo on Backstreets, he told me to call it Guitar Tech with bagel.
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:eek:
someone start an IV pronto , check his pulse , and get the defibulators ,.. STAT ! Clear ! ......
:rolleyes:
LOL..........I like that one. I actually left the show early to beat the crowd, thats how bad it was. I went with some BIG Bruce Sprinsteen fans, and they didn't like the showeither. They thought that was the worse show they've seen him do. Maybe it was the venue? The show was at the "Linc" in PHILLY. The sound was HORRIBLE, so that didn't help either. But, i didn't care for the set-list at all though.
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LOL..........I like that one. I actually left the show early to beat the crowd, thats how bad it was. I went with some BIG Bruce Sprinsteen fans, and they didn't like the showeither. They thought that was the worse show they've seen him do. Maybe it was the venue? The show was at the "Linc" in PHILLY. The sound was HORRIBLE, so that didn't help either. But, i didn't care for the set-list at all though.
THE THIN WHITE DUKE!!!!!!!
to each their own
happy 57th birthday, Boss !
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not surprised you're confused. it was originally a birthday wish. but the date came up as the 22nd even though where i was it's the 23rd. i didn't want to confuse anybody into thinking i was handing out birthday wishes on the wrong day. so i editted it to TBA.
so...........HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRUCE
hear my name
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lie beside me
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Excellent !
Bruce : 20
Bowie : 11
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maybe if Vern Troyer ( mini- me ) was fighting Bowie- pretty safe to say Bruce could snap Bowie in half .
but seriously- this would be a good celebrity death match .
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Bruce is winning because a majority of the people posting here are meat and potatoes rock and roll fans, and Bruce fits that bill perfectly
~it is shining it is shining~
excellent!
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ha ha we are relying on this board for true opinion? thats hilarious.
~it is shining it is shining~
As much as I LOVE Bruce and choose him (I like Bowie too), as I said earlier, if you post this on another board, it might well go with Bowie. Bruce and PJ have some similarity, and there's at least a reasonable chance that if you like PJ you probably like Bruce. But Bowie has a very different sound than PJ.
Thanks Baritenortone for reminding me about the Hammerstein DVD - I forgot I wanted to pick that up.
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I've seen both of them live, and SPRINGSTEEN bore the shit out of me. I like some(not much) of EARLY Bruce, but his later shit is weak bubble-gum music.(I'm sure that'll ruffle some of you Bruce lovers out ther.>HAHA).
Yeah man, I listen to Nebraska and The Ghost Of Tom Joad when I'm in the mood for some "meat and potatoes rock". Dumbass
~it is shining it is shining~
ok....okaaay...~
"Forgive every being,
the bad feelings
it's just me"
:eek:
someone start an IV pronto , check his pulse , and get the defibulators ,.. STAT !
Clear ! ......
:rolleyes:
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Bowie : 11
we've reached the doubling mark :rolleyes:
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Bruce : 22
Bowie : 12
oh and dont be sad soupy,..:(
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pulled these off of Backstreets.com
they are from earlier today.
Bruce and the Seeger Sessions Band rehearsed again today at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park.
An interesting day, as they worked on a song that used to be performed by the Grateful Dead, another song that's a great gospel sound and Patti even performed one of her songs from the Rumble Doll album.
Bruce arrived with Patti around 10 a.m. and the music started soon after.
Thank you to Kevin and Anne for filling me in on the songs I missed.
1. American Land
2. Atlantic City
3. If I Should Fall Behind
Same version as we heard on the tour this past spring.
4. Cadillac Ranch with Mystery Train.
5. Long Time Coming
They worked on this a few times.
6. Further On Up The Road.
The nice version they played last June.
7. Samson and Delilah
From doing a google search, this song was performed by Bob Weir with the Grateful Dead from the mid-1970s onwards .
Roots: Bob Weir learnt this song from Rev Gary Davis, and the version the Dead do is based closely on Davis's. But the song's origins go back much further than that. It is first known of as a song sheet ("ballet") sold on the street in the early decades of the century - with the title "Samson Tore The Building Down". It was recorded in (possibly) 1923 by the Paramount Jubilee Singers with the same title. The best-known early recording is by Blind Willie Johnson under the title "If I Had My Way, I Would Tear This Building Down," from 1927. But there are at least three other recordings available from about the same time: "If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down" by Rev T.E.Weems; "Samson And The Woman" by Rev J.M.Gates; and "If I Had My Way" by Rev T.T.Rose.
These are the lyrics:
Chorus
If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down
Delilah was a woman, she was fine and fair
She had good looks - God knows - and coal black hair
Delilah she gained old Samson's mind
When first he saw this woman, she looked so fine
Delilah she climbed up on Samson's knee
Said tell me where your strength lies, if you please
Then she spoke so kind, she talked so fair
That Samson said, Delilah you cut off my hair
You can shave my head, cleanse my hand
My strength comes as natural as any other man
[chorus]
You read about Samson, all from his birth
He was the strongest man ever had lived on earth
One day while Samson was walking along
Looked down on the ground he saw an old jaw bone
Then he stretched out his arm and his chains broke like threads
And when he got to move, ten thousand were dead
[chorus]
Now Samson and the lion, they got in attack
And Samson he walked up on the lion's back
You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paw
Samson got hands up round the lion's jaw
He ripped that beast, killed it dead
And the bees made honey in the lion's head
Sounded nice as Bruce and the backup singers took turns on the "If I Had My Way" part.
Had a gospel sound to it.
After a short break they came back to work on some sort of instrumental. There was some organ, violin and pedal steele.
8. Valerie
It was Patti Scialfa's turn to sing a song. This is a song from her Rumble Doll album and it sounded great with this band, especially when the horns kicked in.
They worked on the arrangements as they played the song three times.
Really nice, has a southwestern-type beat to it, especially with the horns.
Next up was another debut for Bruce and the Seeger Sessions Band.
9. This Little Light of Mine.
Another google search tells me this is traditonal song.
Bruce and the band performed it in a rousing-gospel type fashion that will have the crowd up and dancing as if they're at a Sunday church service.
Lyrics:
This little light of mine,
I'm going to let it shine.
This little light of mine,
I'm going to let it shine.
This little light of mine,
I'm going to let it shine,
Every day, every day,
Every day, every day,
Gonna let my little light shine
Nice piano in it. At one point the band claps along. And the backup singers are very prominent singing off Bruce. Also a banjo solo.
It's very uplifting and Bruce even does a little "preaching" in the middle of it.
Sort of in the same uplifting-way that Pay Me My Money Down
ended the show.
This will be fun. Bruce played the song three times and at the end of the third time, with a very uplifting finish, someone said into one of the microphones: "Bruce Springsteen has left the building."
Pretty funny.
They were then finished for the day around 2 p.m.
There were about a dozen people waiting for Bruce when he left. He gave quick wave and said hello, but didn't stop to sign pictures or autographs today.
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I spent the full day at Asbury Park at rehearsals and I can tell you that Bruce has some big treats in store for Europe. The sound of the new show is totally different from the Seeger Sessions tour that we last saw in AP. The sound of the band is very celtic and Irish.
Arrival: Bruce and Patti pulled up together about a half hour late, Bruce got a guitar out of the back of the Range Rover and they both went straight into the Paramount door just yelling hello to us.
Bruce howled "Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOO" and rehearsals were under way.
1. American Land- song is a lot tighter than version at Madison Square Garden. There were some changes to intro making it even more Irish sounding with a more extended penny-whistle/fiddle intro. Great song that they really have down and only went through it once.
2. Bruce yelled "OK, a little Atlantic City" and they launched into a version with a very jazzy piano intro. I liked it but it almost made it sound like another song.
3. If I Should Fall Behind- Irish fiddle was beautiful and sounded almost like the song Tennessee Waltz. Beautiful harmonizing by Patti and other girls.
4. Cadillac Ranch/ Mystery Train - Missed a lot of this one because had a business call but it sounded great. Bruce intor's it by saying "funky, funky, funky" and something about "getting some".
5. Long Time Coming - They played this over and over, putting a lot of changes that Bruce wanted.
6. Further Up The Road - The new Grusehcky/Springsteen song sounds great. Very Irish sounding with great flute and fiddle parts. This is when I realized that this ain't no Seeger Session. It is a banjo free zome with some great celtic music. Worked on this song for about 90 minutes. Trying out different trade off vocals with the background singers. It is incredible honor to hear Bruce at work, creating the song arrangement as you listen.
Caught Soozie and The Kingfish Eddie Manton out on the boardwalk for this break.
Spoke to Kevin for a couple of minutes at lunch. When I said I would put the photo on Backstreets, he told me to call it Guitar Tech with bagel.
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take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
LOL..........I like that one. I actually left the show early to beat the crowd, thats how bad it was. I went with some BIG Bruce Sprinsteen fans, and they didn't like the showeither. They thought that was the worse show they've seen him do. Maybe it was the venue? The show was at the "Linc" in PHILLY. The sound was HORRIBLE, so that didn't help either. But, i didn't care for the set-list at all though.
THE THIN WHITE DUKE!!!!!!!
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to each their own
happy 57th birthday, Boss !
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not surprised you're confused. it was originally a birthday wish. but the date came up as the 22nd even though where i was it's the 23rd. i didn't want to confuse anybody into thinking i was handing out birthday wishes on the wrong day. so i editted it to TBA.
so...........HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRUCE
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say