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theboxerorthebag · August 2009

I am so jealous! I only get two Pearl Jam shows and no Bruce)-:

Bathgate66 wrote:

wow

4 shows of bruce and e street at spectrum ,

and then 2 weeks later the grand finale with 4 more from PJ !

Life is good .

YourDirtisMyfood · August 2009

Uncle Bruce singing Better Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqSLnlGU ... re=related

Bathgate66 · August 2009

YourDirtisMyfood wrote:

Uncle Bruce singing Better Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqSLnlGU ... re=related

10-13-2004 - Out in the swamps at Meadowlands NJ- The TRUE VFC Finale' show .

I was there.

The place erupted in chants of ed-ddie , ed-die , .... edd-ie
first time i can recall another name besides the traditional Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucing you hear at a Bruce and E Streeters Show.
Even tho Bruce butchers Better Man it was still an amazing moment.

I actually loved Eddie singing on " Darkness On The Edge Of Town" - sounded like it was written for Eddies voice.

The Rock · August 2009

Bathgate66 wrote:

YourDirtisMyfood wrote:

Uncle Bruce singing Better Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqSLnlGU ... re=related

10-13-2004 - Out in the swamps at Meadowlands NJ- The TRUE VFC Finale' show .

I was there.

The place erupted in chants of ed-ddie , ed-die , .... edd-ie
first time i can recall another name besides the traditional Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucing you hear at a Bruce and E Streeters Show.
Even tho Bruce butchers Better Man it was still an amazing moment.

I actually loved Eddie singing on " Darkness On The Edge Of Town" - sounded like it was written for Eddies voice.

I remember thinking the exact same thing after hearing Eddie sing that song. He was born to sing that one.

Bathgate66 · August 2009

The Rock wrote:

Bathgate66 wrote:

YourDirtisMyfood wrote:

Uncle Bruce singing Better Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqSLnlGU ... re=related

10-13-2004 - Out in the swamps at Meadowlands NJ- The TRUE VFC Finale' show .

I was there.

The place erupted in chants of ed-ddie , ed-die , .... edd-ie
first time i can recall another name besides the traditional Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucing you hear at a Bruce and E Streeters Show.
Even tho Bruce butchers Better Man it was still an amazing moment.

I actually loved Eddie singing on " Darkness On The Edge Of Town" - sounded like it was written for Eddies voice.

I remember thinking the exact same thing after hearing Eddie sing that song. He was born to sing that one.

i think ed owns any song he borrows.

The Rock · August 2009

Bathgate66 wrote:

i think ed owns any song he borrows.

I can't think of many bad covers Ed has done. His version of Dylan's "Times they are a-changin'" from the Nader show in 2000 is spectacular.

peacegirl · August 2009

Found The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle and Darkness on the Edge of Town on vinyl at the flea market today...$1 each

Gary Carter · August 2009

peacegirl wrote:

Found The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle and Darkness on the Edge of Town on vinyl at the flea market today...$1 each

wow cool find

YourDirtisMyfood · August 2009

peacegirl wrote:

Found The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle and Darkness on the Edge of Town on vinyl at the flea market today...$1 each

I love flea markets. I used to go to the Norton Flea Markets in the 80s by the Tweeter Center in Massachusetts and you'd always find mothers selling their kids baseball cards for cheap dough.

Bathgate66 · August 2009

peacegirl wrote:

Found The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle and Darkness on the Edge of Town on vinyl at the flea market today...$1 each

thats a great find.

garage / yard sales RULE !

oh and darkness is esperecially awesome.

Bathgate66 · August 2009

fascinating read on dylan and bruces old digs.

Was Dylan Searching for the Home Where Springsteen Penned 'Born to Run'?
Dylan Detained By N.J. Cops on Springsteen's 'Backstreets'
By CHRIS FRANCESCANI
Aug. 15, 2009
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Was Bob Dylan looking for the home where Bruce Springsteen wrote "Born to Run" in 1974 when he was detained by police near the Jersey shore last month?

Was Bob Dylan, left, looking for the former home of Bruce Springsteen, right, when he was stopped by a policewoman, center, in Long Branch, N.J. last month?

The 68-year-old music legend was picked up one Thursday last month by a 24-year-old cop who failed to recognize him as he walked the streets of Long Branch, N.J. in the pouring rain.

It may have been as simple as it appears: Dylan told police he was talking a walk and looking at a home for sale.

But the area where Dylan was picked up was just a couple blocks from the beachside bungalow where Bruce Springsteen wrote the material for his landmark 1975 album "Born to Run."

In the past nine months, Dylan has visited the childhood homes of Neil Young and John Lennon, in both cases appearing without fanfare and barely identifying himself after he was recognized.

Last November, Winnipeg homeowner John Kiernan told Sun Media's Simon Fuller that Dylan and a friend arrived unannounced in a taxi to his Grosvenor Ave. home, where songwriter Neil Young grew up.
Dylan Kiernan said, was unshaved and had the brim of his hat pulled down over his head. He asked for a look inside and inquired about Young's bedroom and where he would have played his guitar.

Dylan has shown a deep affinity for the Canadian rocker over the years, most recently in his 2001 song "Highlands." And Young said at a Nashville concert in 2005 that he once lent Dylan one of his most precious musical treasures -- Hank Williams' guitar, for which Young wrote the ballad "This Old Guitar." Both men revere Williams, a country music legend.

In May, Dylan joined a public tour of John Lennon's childhood home, according to the BBC. A spokeswoman for the National Trust, which runs the home as London landmark, said Dylan "took one of our general minibus tours.

"People on the minibus did not recognize him apparently," the spokeswoman told the British news agency. "He could have booked a private tour, but he was happy to go on the bus with everyone else."

Springsteen spent two of the most creative years of his young career in the house on West Court in Long Branch in 1974 and 1975, penning "Born to Run," "Thunder Road" and "Backstreets" while living there.

Dylan's spokesman did not immediately return a call or e-mail for comment.

Bathgate66 · August 2009

finally announceed onsale dats for MSG in November( sept 18th )
http://www.backstreets.com/tour.html

anyone who hasnt witnessed bruce and e street rock the living hell outta the garden:
do not miss this / these show(s)

its hard to imagine them there too many more times after this tour, just saying

Gary Carter · August 2009

Bathgate66 wrote:

finally announceed onsale dats for MSG in November( sept 18th )
http://www.backstreets.com/tour.html

anyone who hasnt witnessed bruce and e street rock the living hell outta the garden:
do not miss this / these show(s)

its hard to imagine them there too many more times after this tour, just saying

are you saying these next few years could be the end of the boss and e band or cause msg is a getting a long overdue makover.

Bathgate66 · August 2009

metsfan wrote:

Bathgate66 wrote:

finally announceed onsale dats for MSG in November( sept 18th )
http://www.backstreets.com/tour.html

anyone who hasnt witnessed bruce and e street rock the living hell outta the garden:
do not miss this / these show(s)

its hard to imagine them there too many more times after this tour, just saying

are you saying these next few years could be the end of the boss and e band or cause msg is a getting a long overdue makover.

i dont think The Big Man cant take it much more.
As it is, they need to lift him onstage with a lift
and he uses a lazy boy rocking chair on the side of the stage.
he has had bilateral hip replacements.

Gary Carter · August 2009

Bathgate66 wrote:

i dont think The Big Man cant take it much more.
As it is, they need to lift him onstage with a lift
and he uses a lazy boy rocking chair on the side of the stage.
he has had bilateral hip replacements.

yea i knew bout the hip.didn't know it was that bad.

:(

Bathgate66 · August 2009

Dear Bathgate66,

Lots to get to today, but first things first, don't forget the three onsales coming up on Saturday morning: Des Moines, IA; Cleveland, OH; and Auburn Hills, MI.

As always, you can find further details and links on our Tour/Ticket Info page. If you're going for Cleveland, today's Ticket Alert on our News page may ease your mind about the Q Arena's impending ticketing changeover (the upshot: don't worry about it).

Now, on to a special offer we just secured for Backstreet Records customers!

Runaway Dream due next month

Get a signed copy from Backstreet Records!
Our friend and fellow Springsteen fan, not to mention a wonderful writer, Louis P. Masur has been hard at work for some time now on a dream project: a book on the making of Bruce's 1975 masterpiece Finally, just in time for Bruce's 60th birthday, Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen's American Vision is set for publication from Bloomsbury on September 1.

Great news for our readers: Lou has kindly agreed to hand-sign copies of the hardcover for everyone who places a pre-order with Backstreet Records. It's a book you'll surely want to get your hands on anyway -- a fascinating historical study, going session-by-session and track-by-track, and putting the whole thing in context -- get it signed by the author when you order yours from us!

Please place your pre-order prior to September 1 to guarantee availability.

They're baaaaack...

Back in the U.S.A., as Chuck Berry sang... Bruce and the E Street Band kicked off the third leg of the Working on a Dream tour two nights ago in Hartford [photo above by Nancy Nutile-McMenemy], and they'll be back onstage this weekend with two shows in Mansfield, MA. Be sure to check our News page page as the tour rolls along for G.A. entry policies and any other pertinent info-Mansfield G.A. details are there now.

For opening night, we asked the aforementioned Lou Masur to write about the show for us -- here's the Runaway Dream author on his hot hometown show Wednesday night:

Spirit and Sweat
Springsteen and summer, spirit and sweat. On a sultry night in Hartford, Bruce and the band started the final leg of the Working on a Dream tour at an outdoor venue. With no seats on the side or behind the stage, a mega projection screen appeared behind the band and it was put to various uses, providing images to accompany songs and at times a full projection of the musicians that had the effect of making the sound seem even more thunderous.

The pulsating images were especially effective during "Outlaw Pete," a song that comes early in the set. The pictures of cacti and mountains added to the cinematic quality of the ballad and then, at the end, Bruce was projected onto the screen with a lens that made him appear as if he had stepped out of a nineteenth-century nickelodeon. It was a stunning effect that gave the song added vitality.

During "Spirit in the Night," Bruce sat singing in the front of the pit. A fan with a sign-"Free Cold Beer"-had Bruce do a few dramatic double takes. He then went over, grabbed a cup of beer, and chugged it down. It was a sweet moment, yet another reminder of the joys of summer.

Bruce had two weeks off since playing the last of his European shows, and I was hoping he would re-jigger the set, but it moved along fairly predictably, admittedly with blazing solo guitar work on "Seeds" and a rearranged "Johnny 99." I was expecting "The Ghost of Tom Joad" next, but Bruce launched into an explosive "Murder Incorporated" instead. And from here on the set soared; sweat poured off band and fans alike. "Something in the Night," which followed, is one of the masterpieces of the Springsteen canon, and somehow, with Bittan's piano, Weinberg's drums, and Springsteen's vocals, on this ninety-degree night it gave me chills.

And then the stump-the-band portion of the show. What made it particularly thrilling on this occasion was the extended banter as Bruce and his fellow musicians tried to figure out bridges and keys. "Mountain of Love" was great to hear, and it brought devotees back to the legendary Main Point show in 1975. The band almost decided they couldn't do Manfred Mann's "Sha La La," but they gave it a shot and the result was pure joy, a reminder of the early rock roots of Springsteen's own sound.

The three-pack of "I'm on Fire," "Be True" (which led to a humorous onstage discussion of why he had left it off The River), and a scintillating "My Love Will Not Let You Down" shifted the show higher yet in intensity and theme.

"American Skin" came as a surprise, and while it altered the dynamic of the set to that point, it also served as a reminder that Springsteen's music is about much more than the search for love -- it is also about what it means to be an American and our responsibilities to build a just community for all. "American Land," in the encore, served as a worthy bookend.

Bruce and the band closed the main set with "Born to Run" (with distinct pulsating bass lines from Garry Tallent), "Rosalita," and "Thunder Road" (an audible). There are no words to describe this. It is why I have been going to shows since 1973, when I first saw Springsteen open for Chicago, and why I keep going back-to feel alive, to feel connected, and, outdoors on a hot summer night, to feel sweat pouring off my body.

We've posted Lou's piece in the Tour Notes section of Bruce's official site, brucespringsteen.net, another venue for writing and photography from Backstreets contributors and readers. If you're hungry for additional tour coverage besides what's on our own Setlists page, don't forget to follow us there, too!

theboxerorthebag · August 2009

anyone watch the Hard Rock Calling concert on VH1 this weekend with Bruce?

Bathgate66 · August 2009

theboxerorthebag wrote:

anyone watch the Hard Rock Calling concert on VH1 this weekend with Bruce?

i DVRd this.
London Calling opening up the show was pretty awesome.
i liked young neils performances also.

theboxerorthebag · August 2009

They need to get this on DVD post haste.

Bathgate66 wrote:

theboxerorthebag wrote:

anyone watch the Hard Rock Calling concert on VH1 this weekend with Bruce?

i DVRd this.
London Calling opening up the show was pretty awesome.
i liked young neils performances also.

Bathgate66 · September 2009

theboxerorthebag wrote:

They need to get this on DVD post haste.

Bathgate66 wrote:

theboxerorthebag wrote:

anyone watch the Hard Rock Calling concert on VH1 this weekend with Bruce?

i DVRd this.
London Calling opening up the show was pretty awesome.
i liked young neils performances also.

amazingly, its pretty much all Bruce.
this is what the telecast as far as i remember :

London Callin
Lonesome Day
Born 2 Run
Jungleland
Rosalita

also of note was bruces appearance with Gaslight Anthem, that was really really cool .

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