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Bruce Springsteen

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DrVanNostrand said:
"My source" lol

Details or GTFO. When is my Brisbane ticket drop coming, oh wise one? Will be spewing if I'm flying back from NZ for a show I don't have tickets for, haha.
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Brisbane tickets available right now.
 
DrVanNostrand said:
Ahh ****, missed by a few hours my the looks of it. Can pull a semi-decent A Reserve, but want GA dammit.
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Take a seat. Upgrade later if the opportunity comes up. You'll be standing up in the seats anyway.

I didn't see any GA tickets available at all.
 
The E Street Band is being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame next month. Clarence was always pissed off they didn't get inducted with Bruce and Bruce in his induction speech talked about them not getting inducted.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...-street-bands-hall-of-fame-induction-20131218

Check out the links in the story

15 insanely great Springsteen songs only superfans know
and


http://www.rockhall.com/

They will be inducted into the hall of fame next month along with Kiss, Nirvana, Cat Stevens, Linda Ronstadt, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Brian Epstein and Andrew Oldham
 
The boss back in 1999 (Jan 2000)

Part I




Part II starts talking about E Street Band 30 seconds in
At the end - But right now my wife, my great friends, my great collaborators, my great band, your presence honours me, and i wouldn't be standing up here tonight without you, and I can't stand up here now without you, please join me.




Performs with the band at the induction

 

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Bruce might get to induct his mates. He has inducted a few individuals/groups now.

It's interesting to listen to who and how those artists influenced the boss and how they shaped his music. It's also interesting to note how confident he became over the years at speaking publicly and how those speeches become better, longer and funnier whilst still acknowledging the greatest of those he is inducting.

1987 Roy Orbison can't find any video - but from Roy's website
http://www.royorbison.com/bruce-spr...ns-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-1987/
“In 1970, I rode for fifteen hours in the back of a U-haul truck to open for Roy Orbison at the Nashville Music Fair. It was a summer night and I was 20 years old, and Orbison came out in dark glasses, a dark suit and he played some dark music. In 1974, just prior to going into the studio to record my album Born To Run, I was looking at Duane Eddy for his guitar sound and I was listening to a collection of Phil Spector’s records and Orbison’s All-Time Greatest Hits. I’d lay in bed at night with just the lights of my stereo on and I’d hear ‘Crying’, ‘Love Hurts’, ‘Running Scared’, ‘Only The Lonely’, and and ‘It’s Over’ filling my room. Orbison’s voice was unearthly. He had the ability, like all great Rock and Rollers, to sound like he dropped in from another planet and yet get the stuff that was right to the heart of what you were livin’ in today, and it was how he opened up your vision. I carry his records with me when I go on tour today, and I’ll always remember what he means to me and what he meant to me when I was young and afraid to love. In 1975, when I went into the studio to record, Born To Run, I wanted to make a record with words like Bob Dylan, that sounded like Phil Spector’s productions, but most of all I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison. Now, everybody knows that nobody sings like Roy Orbison.”
- Bruce Springsteen (Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Speech, January 21, 2987)


1988 Bob Dylan




1993 Creedence Clearwater Revival




2004 Jackson Browne




2005 U2



I have posted this before but here is Bono inducting the Boss

 
When the Boss was inducted he did a few songs for the audience. I linked Tenth avenue above. The full set list is
http://www.greasylake.org/setlists_...f+Astoria+Hotel&city=New+York&statecountry=NY

Bruce plays at his own Rock 'n' Roll inauguration. This is the first public performance by the E Street Band since 1995. Wilson Pickett joins Bruce during "In the Midnight Hour". The last four songs sees Bruce taking part in an all-star jam.

The Promised Land
Backstreets
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
In the Midnight Hour
What'd I Say?
People Get Ready
Long Tall Sally
Let it Be

For Cruyff14

 
Last night on Greasy Lake in their News and Articles section, I found and read for the first time ever the famous Newsweek and Time articles that saw Bruce on the cover of both magazines the same week in October 1975. I have copied the last 3 paragraphs from both articles

Newsweek
http://www.greasylake.org/articles_record.php?Id=5&release_title=&concert_date=

Onstage Springsteen projects the same kind of high school macho and innocence that many young male fans, for whom glitter is dull, strongly identify with. Women think he's sexy and it's likely he'll end up with a movie contract. "He's able to say what we can't about growing up," said John Bordonaro, 23, a telephone dispatcher from the Bronx who traveled to Red Bank to see Bruce in concert. "He's talking about hanging around in cars in front of the Exxon sign. He's talking about getting your hands on your very first convertible. He's telling us it's our last chance to pull something off, and he's doing it for us." "The peace and love movement is gone," chimed in his friend, Chris Williams. "We have to make a shot now or settle into the masses."

The question is will Bruce Springsteen be able to reach the masses? "Let's face it," says Joe Smith of Warner Brothers Records. "He's a kid with a beard in his 20s from New Jersey who happens to sing songs. He's not going to jump around any more than Elton. His voice won't be any sweeter than James Taylor's and his lyrics won't be any heavier than Dylan's."

Springsteen's promoters would disagree, but they don't think it matters. "The industry is at the bottom of the barrel," declares Springsteen's manager Mike Appel, 32, as he paces around the Manhattan office once occupied by Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman. "We've got people scratching around for new talent. There's an amazing paucity of talent because there hasn't been anyone isolated enough to create a distinctive point of view." He whispers dramatically, "What I'm waiting for, what Bruce Springsteen is waiting for, and we're all waiting for is something that makes you want to dance!" He shouts, "Something we haven't had for seven or eight years! Today anything remotely bizarre is gobbled up as the next thing. What you've got to do is get the universal factors, to get people to move in the same three or four chords. It's the real thing! Look up America! Look up America!" Appel sat down. Hypes are as American as Coca-Cola so perhaps -- in one way or another -- Bruce Springsteen *is* the Real Thing.


Time
http://www.greasylake.org/articles_record.php?Id=6&release_title=&concert_date=

When he is not working, Springsteen takes life easy and does not worry about it. "I'm not a planning-type guy," he says. "You can't count on nothing in this life. I never have expectations when I get involved in things. That way, I never have disappointments." His songs, which he characterizes as being mostly about "survival, how to make it through the next day," are written in bursts. "I ain't one of those guys who feels guilty if he didn't write something today," he boasts. "That's all jive. If I didn't do nothing all day, I feel great." Under all circumstances, he spins fiction in his lyrics and is careful to avoid writing directly about daily experience. "You do that," he cautions, "and this is what happens. First you write about struggling along. Then you write about making it professionally. Then somebody's nice to you. You write about that. It's a beautiful day, you write about that. That's about 20 songs in all. Then you're out. You got nothing to write."

Some things, however, must change. Southside Johnny recalls that after "Born to Run" was released, "we had a party at one of the band members' houses. It was like old times. We drank and listened to old Sam and Dave albums. Then someone said my car had a flat tire. I went outside to check, and sitting in the street were all these people waiting to get a glimpse of Brucie, just sitting under the streetlights, not saying anything. I got nervous and went back inside."

These lamppost vigilantes, silent and deferential, were not teeny-boppers eager to squeal or fans looking for a fast autograph. As much as anything, they were all unofficial delegates of a generation acting on the truth of Springsteen's line from Thunder Road: "Show a little faith, there's magic in the night." Just at that doorstep, they found it. Growin' up
 
I love David "Bumble" LLoyd as a commentator - have since I first heard him about 12 years ago. Bumped into in Adelaide on the last tour in 2010-11 on Rundle Street in Adelaide's east end and had a good chat about cricket, the ashes series and his commentary. But I never knew he was a Boss fan. from that tour 3 years ago - this went back to the UK.

 

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RussellEbertHandball said:
Deliberate or someone jumping the gun? I guess there isn't any audio link?
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It's obviously illegal, but it's out, I am up to the second last track, The Wall.

I would just do a google search with the words "kick" "ass" torrentz" followed by high hopes :)
 

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