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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    BlackCorduroy wrote:
    Bruce made the endless driving, unbearable heat, and filthiness of Bonnaroo 100% worth it. I spent most of Saturday waiting by the main stage, so I ended up really close. He blew me away immediately with Badlands, but I think he captured most of the crowd with Out in the Street. Since it was my first Springsteen show, I was mainly looking forward to hearing older stuff, but I enjoyed Outlaw Pete and Working on a Dream as much as anything. He ran into the crowd several times throughout the show and brought back a bunch song request signs..Growin' Up, Thunder Road, and Santa Claus is Coming to Town were all requests. Santa was especially great..he unrolled a giant poster of Santa Claus and the audience went nuts. He said "It's too fuckin' hot for Santa!" but played it anyway and the crowd was very into it. There was something really great about screaming Santa Claus is Coming to Town on an 80 degree June evening with thousands of dirty campers. Other highlights for me were The River, Tenth Avenue Freeze-out, and Rosalita.

    Since the Bonnaroo crowd is mainly 18-25, almost all of the festival was there for Phish. I met a lot of people throughout the weekend and only a few seemed even remotely excited about seeing Bruce. Most people didn't seem to "get" it. He certainly proved himself though. By the end of the show, the place exploded every time he ran down the center aisle and climbed into the crowd. At the end of the show Bruce said it was nice to see younger faces in the audience and Thunder Road was played for the graduating class of 2009. On Sunday, he came out for a few songs with Phish and the audience went nuts. I think he definitely gained some new fans this weekend.

    Anyway, I'd like to write more about the show but I desperately need to catch up on sleep. All-night concerts, sweltering heat, and thousands of camping hippies is certainly not a recipe for a good night's rest.


    lots of young faces in the crowd,
    and it sounds like bruce enjoyed it
    just as much as you guys did !

    http://backstreets.com/news.html


    this was my favorite blip :
    Jay was not the only member of the second-generation to take the stage—Evan Springsteen joined in on accoustic guitar for "American Land," standing next to Patti but focusing on his father for most of the song.

    Some other Bonnaroo highlights:

    ---Instead of following Bruce's lead, the chick in the "I Love NJ" t-shirt he pulled on stage during "Dancing in the Dark" just did the hippie dance that's been ubiqutious here: elongated arm motions, giant strides, in a world—possily a universe—all her own. So Bruce followed her lead instead.
    ---During his short but amazing set, Al Green complained about the distance between the stage and audience. -Bruce proved that barrier was just a state of mind, making frequent forays down an aisle off center stage into the crowd—the only performer I've seen venture into the crowd all weekend. Having see Al Green's show, however, it's also clear from whom Bruce borrowed a bunch of his shtick.
    ----While gathering signs, Bruce also ended up with someone's shoe. And despite yelling, "It's too fucking hot for Santa," while holding up a life-sized poster of St. Nick, he played the song anyway.
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Bruce & Phish

    BRUCE GOES PHISHING TO HELP WRAP BONNAROO SUNDAY NIGHT
    The Saturday night show not "jammy" enough for ya? Well, Springsteen stuck around Bonnaroo for another day, and really got into the spirit of things with Phish for the festival finale. Springsteen joined the band for three songs at the end of their first set late Sunday night, after guitarist Trey Anastasio gave a lengthy introduction about Bruce and the E Street Band being the first concert he'd ever seen. The Boss traded solos with Trey on a ten-minute "Mustang Sally," and led Phish through his own "Bobby Jean" and "Glory Days." Read more from Jon Pareles in the New York Times.

    One thing we like about Phish: they offer high quality, unedited soundboard recordings for many shows online. Preview and download individual tracks—21 minutes of Bruce and Phish, all told—at livephish.com.

    More on Bonnaroo from CNN.com's The Marquee Blog, the Associated Press, and SPIN.com.
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Bruce & Phish


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNLp-zoGR_Y -- Mustang Sally (full)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQUEYc7Izs -- Bobby Jean (full)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5qL3aiXbVY -- end of Bobby Jean-->Glory Days (full)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWLMSpJlp1A -- Glory Days

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFOIpIW99sU -- End of Glory Days
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  • Bathgate66
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    turns out Joe Strummer helped Bruce get booked at Glastonbury:

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  • piptart
    piptart Posts: 25
    hello everyone, thanks for this topic...I hadn't found it yet. :D

    and thanks for posting that awesome Joe Strummer letter, I hadn't seen that before. He was so right ;)

    Wednesday night in Atlanta it was a HUGE highlight for me when Eddie mentioned 'Uncle Bruce' and then blew me away with performing 'Bobby Jean'.

    I guess lots of you are members on Backstreets too...I go there a lot too but don't get to post much. :oops:

    I wish I was going to see Bruce & band in Europe, that's my dream but hopefully some of you will get to go and report back here. :D
  • PearlJain
    PearlJain Posts: 565
    I really dislike Springsteen's music. I shouldn't have posted - I know -but I just couldn't help it.
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    I love people who make themselves look like fools on a message board buy trying to be funny and failing at it. Its funny and sad at the same time
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  • Fender_Man
    Fender_Man Posts: 408
    32 minutes of set highlights from Glastonbury on the BBC website. Not sure if you can view this in the US? Hope you can.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2009/a ... .shtml#emp
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Fender_Man wrote:
    32 minutes of set highlights from Glastonbury on the BBC website. Not sure if you can view this in the US? Hope you can.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2009/a ... .shtml#emp


    NOT AVAIL IN YOUR AREA

    can someone rehash these so us americans can get a look?


    thanks for sharing otherwise- i think we can see the photos,....

    did you attend the festivities?

    peace
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    PearlJain wrote:
    I really dislike Springsteen's music. I shouldn't have posted - I know -but I just couldn't help it.


    nice contribution.
    you must have clicked the wrong thread,
    the Michael Jackson threads a few threads down.,
    keep searching, you're probabl;y gonna find it .

    :roll: :roll: :roll:
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  • piptart
    piptart Posts: 25
    PearlJain wrote:
    I really dislike Springsteen's music. I shouldn't have posted - I know -but I just couldn't help it.

    :roll: Unfortunately, I can't help but ask you politely then to piss off and spend your obviously abundant free time to post on a topic you don't dislike and save us all the headache. I wouldn't go to a topic you liked discussing and make such a totally useless statement so why should you? :(


    Back on the topic of Bruce, does anyone listen to Dave Marsh's 'Live from E Street Nation' show on E Street Radio? I got to listen to an encore of it last night driving home...I really love that show and it's great how us fans can call in and share our stories of shows, etc. Maybe I'll have the nerve to call in one day. :oops: :D
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    piptart wrote:
    PearlJain wrote:
    I really dislike Springsteen's music. I shouldn't have posted - I know -but I just couldn't help it.

    :roll: Unfortunately, I can't help but ask you politely then to piss off and spend your obviously abundant free time to post on a topic you don't dislike and save us all the headache. I wouldn't go to a topic you liked discussing and make such a totally useless statement so why should you? :(


    Back on the topic of Bruce, does anyone listen to Dave Marsh's 'Live from E Street Nation' show on E Street Radio? I got to listen to an encore of it last night driving home...I really love that show and it's great how us fans can call in and share our stories of shows, etc. Maybe I'll have the nerve to call in one day. :oops: :D


    are you from UK ?

    can you re-do the glastonbury thing so thast us amercians can get a looky ?

    thanks
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  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    PearlJain wrote:
    I really dislike Springsteen's music. I shouldn't have posted - I know -but I just couldn't help it.

    I really hate bunnies. I guess we're even now
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  • piptart
    piptart Posts: 25
    Bathgate66 wrote:

    are you from UK ?

    can you re-do the glastonbury thing so thast us amercians can get a looky ?

    thanks

    ;) Nope, not from UK (I wish!) and I'm not sure what about Glastonbury you're looking for :? but here is an article from brucespringsteen.net:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8122365.stm
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    Fender_Man wrote:
    32 minutes of set highlights from Glastonbury on the BBC website. Not sure if you can view this in the US? Hope you can.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2009/a ... .shtml#emp


    NOT AVAIL IN YOUR AREA

    can someone rehash these so us americans can get a look?


    thanks for sharing otherwise- i think we can see the photos,....

    did you attend the festivities?

    peace
    piptart wrote:
    Bathgate66 wrote:

    are you from UK ?

    can you re-do the glastonbury thing so thast us amercians can get a looky ?

    thanks

    ;) Nope, not from UK (I wish!) and I'm not sure what about Glastonbury you're looking for :? but here is an article from brucespringsteen.net:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8122365.stm
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  • Bathgate66
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    interesting tidbit i just read over @ BTX boards from an attendee @ Glastonbury who saw some of the action up close :

    BUT THAT DAMN STAGE BEING SO FAR AWAY FROM THE CROWD WAS SOMETHING THAT REALLY PISSED BRUCE OFF. HE DID HIS BEST TO MAKE EYE CONTACT BUT HAD ABOUT 50 GOONS ( GLASTO SECURITY) IN THE WAY. I COUNTED THAT HE TOOK THE LONG JOURNEY (20 YARDS) DOWN TO THE FRONT ROW ON 12 SONGS !!!! . WE ALL KNOW HOW CRUCIAL HAVING EYE CONTACT IS FOR HIM -AND HE REALLY SHOWED WHAT A REAL PRO HE WAS LAST NIGHT.

    BUT THAT F' N STAGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Steaming Bruce @ Glastonbury

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  • Bathgate66
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    London Calling :


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhMM-NMO ... r_embedded
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    received my package from WOOT !
    all for 49.99, ( + 5 for shipping )

    The complete updated "Tracks " Box Set
    ( 4 CDs )

    Live 1975- 1985 ( 3 CDs )

    and 2 DVDs The Complete Video Anthology


    all fresh and in plastic.
    I immediately cracked open the CDs 75-85 and started listening at wok .
    It was wonderful to be brought back in time to the first time i got this album ( as a little boy - it came on 3 cassettes ) and to give it all a listen .


    " This gives life to Live albums again ! " ( Time Magazine )


    surely i'll be checking out the video anthology tonight and the next few days- all perfect music for another July 4th Holiday 3 day Weekend.


    drop the needle and play , turn it up !

    ;)
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  • piptart
    piptart Posts: 25
    Wow what a package! :D Some of my all-time favorites there...

    I remember being a kid and we had the Live 75-85 vinyl box set...it was phenomenal. Wish I still had it. :oops:

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