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I am attending this show tonight.


http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/story/485846p-409021c.html

Puttin' up his Jukes

Tonight, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes bring their driving rock-and-soul sound to B.B. King's, but the road there hasn't always been easy. In the mid-1970s, after pal Bruce Springsteen broke through to stardom, the Jukes were the second band from the Jersey Shore to land a major-label deal. But unlike the Boss' career, the path for 58-year-old "Southside Johnny" Lyon has been paved with potholes.


Growing up in Ocean Grove, he sang and played harmonica in groups that fed into the E Street Band. He co-founded the Jukes with guitarist Steve Van Zandt, who later migrated to the E Streeters. Van Zandt also produced the Jukes' 1976 debut album, "I Don't Want to Go Home." He and Springsteen wrote a lot of its songs. But despite the all-star input, the album sold only moderately, and Epic Records dropped the Jukes after two more tries.


In the 1980s the band changed personnel and floated from label to label. In 1991, Van Zandt, Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi teamed up on the album "Better Days," Lyon's attempted relaunch. But the small label that released it went bankrupt during the Jukes' subsequent tour. The sole bright spot was Lyon's singing the theme for the sitcom "Dave's World."


Feeling burned out, the artist quit Jersey for Nashville. "I was there for five years," Lyon recalls. "I went there to get away from the music biz. [But] friends introduced me to musicians, not just country. There's so many great players down there for blues. I started jamming with them, playing harmonica, singing, any place from small clubs to coffee shops. That's how I started enjoying music again. So when [producer and Springsteen bassist] Garry [Tallent] started bugging me about doing a blues record, the time was perfect."


Not quite. More delays ensued when the E Streeters went off to tour the world in the late '90s. But in 2000, Lyon finally released "Messin' With the Blues" on his own Leroy label. Three albums and a couple of DVDs followed that.


Today, Lyon still prowls the stage like a rock-and-soul animal: His annual shows at Springsteen's Asbury Park holiday events stir up crowds as much as the Boss'.


Of tonight's show, Lyon says, "There'll be more jamming than some fans might remember. I love to let the musicians play. And we don't use set lists, so sometimes we take requests. I want my guys to move it around so they keep me into it."


Lyon jokes, "They say I'm still gonna be moving - even after I'm dead."

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Bruce opens up The MTV Video Music Awards in 2002. The Rising . Check out James Gandolfini introducing them, and the performance in the rainstorm at Lincoln Ceneter, NYC . from 8-29-02

Bruce jumps Graceland Fence


The Night Springsteen Jumped the Fence at Graceland
By: Elvis Australia - Sep 1, 2003
Source: EPE

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Official Graceland Guide Book
Last year, EPE published an all-new edition of Elvis Presley's Graceland - Official Guidebook. It's jam-packed with photographs and information, a major improvement over the very good previous guidebook. The new guidebook is available in Graceland stores and here on Elvis.com.au in Shop Elvis.

Following is the section of the book that gives some of the history of the front gates of Graceland, including the story of the night Bruce Springsteen jumped the fence:

The Front Gate

Throughout the years that Elvis lived at Graceland the front gate area was a place fans enjoyed being. There was the chance that he might drive through in one of his cars or on a motorcycle, or ride down on a golf cart or on horseback and have an impromptu autograph session. They could also watch him and his friends ride their horses and golf carts around the grounds. Even when Elvis out of town, it was fun to be at the gates, getting to know the guards (some of whom were Elvis’ relatives) and meeting other fans from around the nation and the world. When Elvis was away, sometimes the guards would let fans onto the grounds for photos, sometimes even driving them up to the front of the house. There was a sense of warmth, welcome and camaraderie. Actually, some lifelong friendships between Elvis fans began at the Graceland gates.

While, in general, things tended to be calm enough around here, it wasn’t all that uncommon for fans and curiosity-seekers to climb over the stone wall or wood fence on a dare or, more often, with the heartfelt hope of seeing Elvis. The security staff had more than one occasion to politely escort uninvited guests off the grounds, sometimes having to summon them down from the trees. On one occasion Elvis happened upon a couple of mischievous young guys who had jumped the fence and were taking a swim. Elvis is said to have nonchalantly suggested that they be careful, then went on about his business. Once, an enterprising fellow actually made his way into the house and was found sitting in the den waiting for Elvis, hoping to interest him in some songs he had written, but he didn’t get to have that meeting.

The most famous incident of wall jumping occurred one night in 1976. Bruce Springsteen, who was enjoying the first rush of great fame and had just played Memphis on his Born to Run tour, decided to catch a cab to Graceland. Noticing a light on up at the house, he climbed the wall and ran to the front door. As he was about to knock, Security interceded. He recalls asking, "Is Elvis home?." Answer: "No, Elvis isn’t home, he’s in Lake Tahoe." (It was true.) Springsteen attempted to impress the guards by telling all about his being a recording star and his having recently made the covers of Time and Newsweek, as he was politely escorted to the street. (Perhaps they didn’t believe him or hadn’t heard of him yet.) Years later in a concert, he told the story and commented:

"Later on, I used to wonder what I would have said if I had knocked on the door and if Elvis had come to the door. Because it really wasn’t Elvis I was goin’ to see, but it was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear and somehow we all dreamed it. And maybe that’s why we’re here tonight, I don’t know. I remember later when a friend of mine called to tell me that he’d died. It was so hard to understand how somebody whose music came in and took away so many people’s loneliness and gave so many people a reason and a sense of all the possibilities of living could have in the end died so tragically. And I guess when you’re alone, you ain’t nothin’ but alone. So anyway, I’d like to do this song for yous tonight, wishing you all the longest life with best of absolutely everything."

Within hours of the announcement of Elvis’ death on August 16, 1977, thousands of fans crowded the gate and wall area in front of Graceland, an expression of grief, shock and disbelief. How could he possibly be gone? Thousands upon thousands of people all over the world felt as though they had suddenly lost a close friend or member of the family. Such was the relationship Elvis had with his audience.

Stopping by the gates to take a look and to visit with the guards and with fellow fans, continued to be a special pastime. On the first anniversary of Elvis’ death a number of fans gathered outside the gates, lit candles and spent an evening talking and reminiscing. The next year there were more. The Austin-based Elvis Country Fan Club soon organized a ceremony. Each year, more and more fans were coming to Memphis that week for the candlelight tribute and various other activities started getting organized. When Graceland opened to the public in the summer of 1982, fans suggested to Graceland/EPE management that the gates could open during their candlelight tribute, allowing them to walk single-file up the driveway to Elvis’ gravesite and back down. The management agreed. Then, responding further to the growing influx of fans in August, Graceland/EPE took the lead in organizing Elvis Week, which has grown in its diversity of events. Elvis Week as a whole and the vigil in particular have become a cultural and sociological phenomenon known all over the world.

fragileblake wrote:

I wanted to start a discussion here.....

Okay, so it obviously kicked copious amounts of ass when Ed came out and sang with the e street band.

BUT

How much more ass would it kick if BRUCE came out at a PEARL JAM SHOW!

Seriously, I think I could die a happy man if this happened. Imagine some of this shit:

Bruce Songs they could play:
Murder Inc with a Springsteen/Mccready guitar duel
Streets of Fire with Ed knocking out the vocals
Downbound Train
Adam Raised a Cain
Roulette (unlikely, but seriously, how much would it rule)

Pearl Jam songs they could play:
Unemployable (I can totally hear bruce on this one)
Evenflow (again, a bruce/mike duel)

Seriously, will this happen? Probably not. But how cool would it be?

Ive been saying much of the same for some time now


Id love to hear a FULL BAND Pearl Jam covering a Bruce classic. ( Thunderroad, Further On Up The Road , agree on Murder Incorp , Lost In The Flood , Because the Night, and oh so many more.


I would also love to hear Bruce put his spin on a great Pearl Jam song- Footsteps . ( bluesharp and all )

heres The Rising from Lettermans on 8-1-02


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6136296340869433210

Bruce on 60 minutes- with the late Ed Bradley

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8388737318217507474&hl=en

this is the complete piece alltho it ends abruptly