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Bruce Springsteen

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Thoughts?

I am just up to Sept 11 2001.

Overall not a bad read. There is a lack of direct quotes at times to clarify things from BS point of view and where quotes do appear, they are vague or semi dismissive of events which is rather frustrating at times.

There are still many events and relationships within the career that for whatever reasons are little more than rehashings of what we already know in this book.

The E Street Band went through the wringer didnt they?

Thought his childhood and teen years chapters were a great insight into what formed him.

For all his talents, I hope that one day BS can put pen to paper and write his own autobiography.
 

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Haven't got to that one yet Gasometer. I'm still reading The Promise of Rock n Roll, which I am thoroughly enjoying, extremely detailed and gives a great account of his career, especially before he made the big time with BToR and BIT USA. Get your hands on it.
 
All tickets now firmly under lock and key :thumbsu:

When I told my mates I had to stuff around with the dates for our trip overseas because of Bruce, they dismissed my going to multiple shows as pointless (and expensive) because I'd be seeing the same show four times. Oh, how mistaken they are....
 
DrVanNostrand said:
All tickets now firmly under lock and key :thumbsu:

When I told my mates I had to stuff around with the dates for our trip overseas because of Bruce, they dismissed my going to multiple shows as pointless (and expensive) because I'd be seeing the same show four times. Oh, how mistaken they are....
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lol people I know said the same thing.

"Isn't it going to be the same thing?"
 

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The great website Your Friday Bruce Fix has come to an end - on 28th December 2012. Great shame as it was a great website to go look at great old and new videos and different version of songs every Friday.

http://www.fridaybrucefix.com/bruce_fix/

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After five years, more than 260 Friday Bruce Fixes and more than 600 videos, I just feel like I'm done. It has been a lot of fun and I hope you've enjoyed it, too. I suppose I could go on forever given the extraordinary depth and breadth of Bruce Springsteen's catalogue. He has produced a body of work that is pretty much unmatched, beginning with his 1966 recording of 'That's What You Get' and 'Baby I', and continuing on to this day.

Although Bruce makes it easy to find great material to post, after all this time, I've run out of enthusiasm for the time commitment required to post every Friday (I think I missed only one, while on vacation) to the point where I just don't want to do this anymore. I hope you'll understand and I hope you'll find a way to get your Bruce Fix when you need it.

Thanks to the many Bruce enthusiasts for their time commitment to post all those videos on YouTube and a very big thanks to the people behind SpringsteenLyrics and Brucebase and of course the man himself. This blog would have been impossible without you.

Before I go, I thought I'd leave you with a Top 10 list. I don't mean this to be THE definitive, all-time list of the 10 best Bruce Springsteen songs. I guess it's the 10 performances and/or 10 songs that I just couldn't live without, and the songs I turn to most often when I need my fix.

I should also say that making a list like this is almost impossible. A list of 25 would seem to be easier. There are certain songs and performances that I can hardly believe I've left off this top 10 list. Of course, if I drew the line at 25, I'd still hate some of the cuts I would have made. On second thought, maybe a top 5 would have been easier, as I would have had fewer painful cuts to make.

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OK, so here we go, in reverse or countdown order. Of course, feel free to play them in whatever order you want. While this may be my top 10 Bruce Fixes, it's still Your Friday Bruce Fix!
As always, if you're getting your fix while at the office, don't take any calls, cancel your meetings, close your office (or cubicle) door, watch these fixes on full screen and turn up the volume. Sometimes, you just need your fix. With any luck, it won't get you fired.

#10 Brilliant Disguise
#9 American Skin (41 Shots)
#8 The River
#7 You're Missing
#6 Backstreets
#5 Jungleland
#4 Land of Hope and Dreams
#3 Incident on 57th Street
#2 Born to Run
#1 Thunder Road

http://www.fridaybrucefix.com/bruce_fix/
 
Some videos I first saw on Your Friday Bruce Fix and meant to post here but forgot. Cruyfff's Dancing in the Dark video reminded me.

First dancing with his mum who is was almost 90, in Philly on 29th March 2012





Second dancing with his sister Pamela who was an actress in the 1980's and 1990's - at a concert in LA on 26 April.






Then on 5th of July 2012 with his dughter Jessica in Paris. Jessica was an alternate/reserve for the US equestrian jumping team at the London Olympics, so was in Europe with the team training and popped in to watch dad.


 

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He danced with his mum back on 20 October 2009 in Chicago



And she joined in Twist and Shout on his birth on 23rd September 2012 when the show at Met Life ( ie New Meadowlands) Stadium in Jersey on 22nd which was delayed by rain until 10-30pm and finished around 2am that night,( Thing someone else posted another twist and shout video from that night.)

 
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From the New Yorker

Springsteen's Golden Age: 1978

Includes some embedded clips from that great era.

Also David Remnick's opulent piece We Are Alive: Bruce Springsteen at 62
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Charlie Rose interviewed David Remnick a few days after this great long article was interviewed. Watch the 40 minute interview at;

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/new-yorker-s-remnick-on-bruce-springsteen-zTSxKsNtTuqJbfBSw1czHw.html

Have been meaning to put up Charlie Rose's 1998 interview with Bruce for the last few months but the link has had some problems. He tells a great story behind The Wish in that hour long interview. In the above interview with Remnick, Charlie pulls out a couple of minutes of the 1998 interview when he talks about his folks and his mum in particular. That is at around the 24:15 minute mark of the video.

The original 1998 interview is linked at the following page as are several replays with different intro's and exits including in 2002 replay when The Rising was released.

http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/2209

The Charlie Rose program is filmed in Bloomberg TV studios in NYC, and shown on both PBS and Bloomberg TV every weeknight in the USA and shown everynight in Oz on Bloomberg TV sometime between 11.30PM and 1.30AM CST depending on daylight saving in both countries.


I only discovered the show in late September 2011 just before Steve Jobs died. It's one of the my favourite TV programs. Charlie covers every possible topic it seems, and has some amazing guests. His guest list from the last 20 year is at;

http://www.charlierose.com/guest/grid/all

From his Bio page

http://www.charlierose.com/about/biography/

Emmy award winning journalist Charlie Rose has been praised as “one of America's premier interviewers.” He is the host of Charlie Rose, the nightly PBS program that engages the world's best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmakers. USA Today calls Charlie Rose, “TV's most addictive talk show.” New York Newsday says, “Charlie's show is the place to get engaging, literate conversation... Bluntly, he is the best interviewer around today.”

Charlie Rose is unique. The round oak table, perhaps the most recognized table on television, and the black backdrop, provide an intimate atmosphere for showcasing smart conversation. Journalist Morley Safer, of CBS' “60 Minutes,” calls the program “the last refuge of intelligent conversation on television.”

Guests on the show include major international political figures and a mixture of renowned personalities from literature, theatre, film, dance, fashion, sports, science, medicine, and business. Guests have ranged from international statesmen Tony Blair and Nicholas Sarkozy to Nobel laureates Muhammad Yunus and Harold Pinter to leaders in business like Warren Buffett and Ted Turner. In the artistic arena, Rose's guests range from actors George Clooney and Helen Mirren to musicians Paul Simon and Neil Young. His program serves as a window on cultural areas rarely seen on TV like architecture, painting, photography and classical music.

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Charlie Rose Special Edition presents hour-long profiles on important topics such as the Human Genome Project, and a year long, 13-part Science Series underwritten by Pfizer.
 
The Wish.

There is something that really grabs me about this song. Maybe because its so opposite in tone and context to the ones about his dad and it took him so long before he recorded it and put it on The Tracks CD. Although he played it at the Brisbane solo show ( Ghost of Tom Joad tour) I went to in 1997.

Live version explaining the song and how its not cool for a rock n' roller to write moma songs.



Original recording
 
Ticketek has put more tickets on sale for Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne shows. There were GAs available for all shows for about 3 minutes now gone. Pulled up excellent B reserve in Melbourne if people want to upgrade, check it out.
 
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Ticketek has put more tickets on sale for Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne shows. There were GAs available for all shows for about 3 minutes now gone. Pulled up excellent B reserve in Melbourne if people want to upgrade, check it out.
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I'm so tempted to go to the first show as well. heck sake.
 

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