Radio nowhere, backstreets and Jungleland all replaced. Ouch!
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Bruce Springsteen
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Radio nowhere, backstreets and Jungleland all replaced. Ouch!
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He can do whatever, sometimes he'll get one that looks great, others plain.
GET A TICKET!
RussellEbertHandball
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Yep it will be a massive let down, I felt flat last Saturday night and Sunday but watching the set lists on Sunday night perked me up especially when i put on Seeds from Live 1975-85.
...yep, all you need is a black texta and a piece of A3 card.
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To Sunday? Already done
couldn't resist. I could watch Bruce and Tom do TGOTJ forever. Best thing I've ever seen.
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Backstreets and Racing would top things off.Only thing I would like to see is Backstreets. But absolutely no complaints otherwise. Oh, Tougher Than the Rest, but that'll never happen!
Got a feeling we might get Drive All Night on Sunday.
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Seconded.....although I'd also love to see Ties That Bind open one of the shows.Only thing I would like to see is Backstreets. But absolutely no complaints otherwise. Oh, Tougher Than the Rest, but that'll never happen!
I've completely lost my voice....went fvcking nuts last night. The screaming ending to Jungleland finished me off. Shed a tear or two as well.
I got very emotional this morning going through the Domain tunnel on the drive back to Warrnambool. TripleM had callers ringing in with their thoughts on last night's gig and it suddenly hit me all at once as to what I'd actually witnessed over the past few evenings. It's been an absolute dream to hear so many different songs and to see my hero of the last 30-odd years so close and in such fine form.
So many highlights.
DrVanNostrand
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Oh, and I have this
OMFGGGGGG ONE STEP UP!!!!!!!!! Why wasn't it played?
That must mean they've rehearsed it, I'm defs signing it now for Saturday. One Step Up
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RussellEbertHandball
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I'm here again, pretty sure this is during I'm Goin Down
I'm right behind (above) the bald guy.
I'm right behind (above) the bald guy.
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Holy shit
DrVanNostrand
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Must have been the chick standing next to me filming this, it's from very close to where I was. C'mmmmon get me on the internet.
DrVanNostrand
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Man that's cool. Although I must have taken the most backwards pathway to becoming a fan. I reckon it was something like:
Magic ---> The Rising ---> Darkness ---> Wild, Innocent ---> BITUSA ---> the rest. Although I think the intro sax line in Spirit has been running through my veins involuntarily since I was about 5 through my mother's obsession with The Boss. Didn't become a massive fan until about 18.
RussellEbertHandball
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I remember hearing Born to Run and Hungry Heart when they got radio play after they were they were released. Between 1975 and 1980 heard BTR lots of times and at Christmas from 1978 always got Santa Claus is coming to town.
I saw Rosalita on some music show in late 1980 or early 1981 one night before year 12 started - and thought how cool was that song. Went to a music shop, Allans, the biggest in Adelaide at the time, but they didn't have the song or TWTI&TESS album so I let it go.
But it was a copy of the 1978 Darkness Tour bootleg, the show at the Roxy in LA, that I got in mid 1983, that I became a real fan. I played it non stop and I think I bought The River first about 3 weeks after I got the bootleg, then a couple of weeks later BTR, then Greetings from Asbury Park, then BITUSA, and then Darkness all within 2 or 3 months. Had to wait a couple of more months before I found a copy TWTI&TESS and finally bought Nebraska about another 4 months after that. It was an intense Bruceification between July 1983 and say March 1984.
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I was most impressed with the lad in the orange tee you can see at the start of this vid (he was standing beside the girl with BRUCE written on her chest featured over the past few pages of this thread). He seemed to know every single lyric to every single song played last night..even think he had High Hopes covered. I consider myself a massive Bruce fan, but there a few lines in Murder Inc. that I don't know and I never really cared for "Does this Bus Stop..".
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Haha the Italian couple didn't get centre position. Is the guy in front of you Cruyff14 Victor the Asian guy you mentioned in another post? I reckon I chatted to him in Sydney.
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Very similar. When I was about 12, I had a mate who had a couple of older brothers who were right into Bruce and I remember being at his place the day that the boys brought home their new copy of The River on vinyl, which we listened to over and over again. I had a lend of all of their other Bruce LP's and taped them by sticking my little Sanyo cassette recorder right next to my little record player speakers.
Although very scratchy sounding, I played the shit out of my TDK Bruce tapes over the next couple of years, with Wild Billy's Circus Story being one of my favourites and I also remember being completely gobsmacked the first time that I ever heard Lost in the Flood. It was probably the first Springsteen tune that I learned off by heart, using the time honoured method of playing a bit, writing down what I think I heard, then rewinding, play, rewind, play, rewind ...and so on. Nebraska was the first album that I actually purchased and I also remember pre-ordering BITUSA. When I got the BITUSA cassette home, I couldn't stick in the tape deck quickly enough and I clearly remember the chills I got when I heard the first few bars of the title track for the first time. It was just so different from Nebraska.
It's weird to think that I fell in love with Racing in the Street when I was 12, without ever really knowing what it meant or why I liked it so much. It's remained my favourite song for 32 years and I must have heard it thousands of times and I never, ever get sick of it. I've being doing a few acoustic gigs locally over the past couple of years and I do "Racing", which I find very hard to do without getting emotional.
We've been very,very lucky to follow somebody who has been so enduring and who has continued to make fantastic music (apart form WOAD) and managed stay relevant throughout the past 40 years.
RussellEbertHandball
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I'm not 100% sure why I bought The River first, but probably a combination of loving the story he tells in the introduction to Independence Day on the bootleg- about how he had a crash on his motor bike and the car driver suing him and his father and his lawyer agreeing with the car driver, probably because the songs from BITUSA were getting air play and The River was a double album and good value with 20 songs.
Yep that's how I used to learn the words. I have a good visual memory, it used to be almost photographic, whereas my auditory recall isn't great, so once I wrote down the words I would remember them visually. 95% of the songs I wrote down even back then I can recall. Even if I want to learn a song today and have the words on a song sheet or internet, I have to write them down to remember the whole song.
Although with Bruce's twang and sometimes exaggerated phrasing I didn't always get it right. Think I used the line Big Balls Billy instead of Big Bones Billy in Rosalita for 7 or 8 years until i re-read the Live 1975-85 songbook. I also got some lines from his first two albums horribly wrong.
Do you have to pick the right moment to slot it in to have the full impact on your audience? What type of music do you play?
Not sure if you read this link to an article in the guardian newspaper I linked about 10 pages back, explaining how powerful Racing is 35 years after it was written to this critic who isn't a big Springsteen fan.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/mar/07/old-music-bruce-springsteen-racing-street
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What Springsteen understands more than any other artist I can think of is that the transcendence of great rock'n'roll comes from it being built on lies. Rock'n'roll almost never tells you the truth: from Elvis to Oasis it has insisted you can live the moment; it writes the listener cheques that real life can't cash. We're gonna live forever, we're gonna party til we puke, we'll revel in girls, girls, girls. That is not real life, and Springsteen doesn't want to pretend it is, even if he thrills to the idea of it. .........
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/mar/07/old-music-bruce-springsteen-racing-street
I agree - I think he is someone who has stayed sane, although he admits using a shrink for 30 years, he hasn't abused himself with drugs and booze and gone thru stages of self grandeur. He is a pretty normal sort of bloke. I'm not sure if the link is still up from when bigfooty changed, but I put the you tube video of Bono inducting him into the rock n roll hall of fame and he talks about him being so normal and so sane compared to other rock/pop stars.
I just can't imagine contemporaries like Dylan and Young doing what he does. People who have seen them lately have said they don't seem to give a shit about their audience.
One music critic got it right when he said if you put the good half of Magic with the good half of WOAD you actually have a very good album.
And the Boss proves what they say about music, great lyrics and great music will stand the test of time. The fact that other muso's do things like record a Nebraska tribute album is proof of that and young artists are starting to do versions of his old songs. Lady Gaga Gaga got Clarence in to record on Edge of Glory and a couple of other songs because she wanted that sound Clarence would produce on Bruce's albums as she used to listen to his songs when her old man would play the Boss' music.
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Unimaginably sad that it's over. No Hanging Rock tickets on Ticketmaster. Will keep checking but not hopeful. Was the most amazing two nights. Given all the cameras and the fact that next to the soundboard was a mic recording crowd noise, they'd better be doing a live album/DVD.
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Oh yes. One moment I forgot to share. Tuesday night I was walking across from Wellington Pde to Rod Laver. For those unaware that takes you past and around the MCG. Had my iPhone on shuffle and as I was walking towards the G 'Wrecking Ball' came on and played the whole time I was walking around the G. It was at that point I thought to myself "this is gonna be something special tonight".