Bruce Springsteen

[DrVanNostrand]

Wrecking Ball is the ESB.

The title track and Land of Hope and Dreams are, which is good because those two songs were fleshed out by the ESB on stage before they were even close to being recorded. The rest are pretty much Bruce and Ron Aniello with a bunch of guys from the Sessions Band. It's certainly not a bad thing, great tracks like Rocky Ground and Death to My Hometown probably wouldn't have been thought up surrounded by the ESB.

As long as Jake is on the next album, IDGAF who plays on it. No more Ed Manion, please.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Anyone who tries to re-record Spirit and Flood, I will cut.

What is the problem? If you don't want it then don't buy the re-recorded CD.

Plus if you listen to lots of boot legs or official shows or all the stuff up on You Tube, I would say 99% of the songs recorded between Asbury Park and Nebraska are better live than their recordings. Why?? Because Bruce is better live but after 30 to 40 years of signing these songs and ESB playing, them they have improved and the arrangements have improved. But the first two were very raw and not the greatest recordings.

Its like a footballer playing in his first season vs his tenth. The overwhelming majority of them are way better in year ten than year one.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Live version of Flood is better. So is Spirit, especially from this tour.

Flood from Hammersmith '75 is unsurpassable.

I did what I do a lot last night and surfed around for different versions of Spirit from pretty much ever tour (last night focussed on the Devils & Dust tour mostly). This tour is so much different to anything else. The power the five horns brings to the main riff makes it so much more hard-rocking than it ever has been - it allows for such a great build up when you know the power what's about to come - that first horn line just blows the roof off. The last two tours had the keyboard intro with the sax mostly doing harmony lines until the solo. And of couse it's miles different to the magical piano version on The Rising tour. The breakdown in the middle on this tour has been great; it's awesome how he thinks up something different to do at the "socks...and...a...shirt" bit every tour. Jake and Bruce going for a walk around the arena with almost no music being played, just Jake softly wailing on the sax to Bruce's interactions with the crowd have made it very special. At Brisbane 1, during the breakdown Bruce and Jake actually sat down on the step at the front of the stage, the music stopped entirely while Bruce have Jake a lecture about how long they've been doing the song. Not sure it happened anywhere else, at least it didn't at the other shows I saw.

And I remember at the start of the tour when it wasn't played for the first 10 or so shows, I was convinced it had been retired. Very glad I was wrong.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

What is the problem? If you don't want it then don't buy the re-recorded CD.

I'd buy it and probably love it. But, Spirit was the first song Bruce and Clarence did together - it would be blasphemy to produce another studio version. And there would be no beating that version anyway, it just sounds like it's being played in a club with 20 people. The recording (and the whole Asbury Park album, really) has so much character.

 

[Cruyff14]

Flood from Hammersmith '75 is unsurpassable.

I did what I do a lot last night and surfed around for different versions of Spirit from pretty much ever tour (last night focussed on the Devils & Dust tour mostly). This tour is so much different to anything else. The power the five horns brings to the main riff makes it so much more hard-rocking than it ever has been - it allows for such a great build up when you know the power what's about to come - that first horn line just blows the roof off. The last two tours had the keyboard intro with the sax mostly doing harmony lines until the solo. And of couse it's miles different to the magical piano version on The Rising tour. The breakdown in the middle on this tour has been great; it's awesome how he thinks up something different to do at the "socks...and...a...shirt" bit every tour. Jake and Bruce going for a walk around the arena with almost no music being played, just Jake softly wailing on the sax to Bruce's interactions with the crowd have made it very special. At Brisbane 1, during the breakdown Bruce and Jake actually sat down on the step at the front of the stage, the music stopped entirely while Bruce have Jake a lecture about how long they've been doing the song. Not sure it happened anywhere else, at least it didn't at the other shows I saw.

And I remember at the start of the tour when it wasn't played for the first 10 or so shows, I was convinced it had been retired. Very glad I was wrong.

Not keyboards. It's organ.

 

[Xtreme]

I would snap re recorded cd's up.

Heck i'd buy more live in concert cds if they were released (legally)

 

[Cruyff14]

This is magical

https://soundcloud.com/emmaswiftsings/secret-garden-bruce

 

[jpkennedy]

I can't get it to work?

 

[Cruyff14]

I can't get it to work?

Press play LOL

 

[alfy!]

I can't get it to work?

Just press play. Sound Cloud isn't rocket science

 

[jpkennedy]

Thanks for the hot tips you guys!

 

[Cruyff14]

Thanks for the hot tips you guys!

If you were blonde, I would understand

 

[jpkennedy]

I'm a natural blonde

 

[Cruyff14]

I'm a natural blonde

Well, this explains a lot.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

This is magical

https://soundcloud.com/emmaswiftsings/secret-garden-bruce

That leads you to

http://www.laughingoutlaw.com.au/store/product.asp?pID=308

I HEAR YOU'RE FROM AUSTRALIA, MY NAME'S BRUCE TOO
Laughing Outlaw Artists
$30.00 AUD

23 Laughing Outlaw artists
Songs by Bruce Springsteen.


Also included is a reproduction of the (lengthy) article written by Stuart covering 2 Springsteen concerts in Paris 1981

Bruce Springsteen has been central to my life since I first heard Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. in 1973. Over the years I’ve interviewed him a number of times and seen countless shows in Sydney, Paris, New York, Philadelphia, Austin, Washington D.C.,Los Angeles - and New Jersey. When I first proposed the idea of a Bruce covers album to the Laughing Outlaw family of artists, well, I knew there were obsessives like me on the label, but I didn’t realise how deeply a love for his music ran through the whole roster. The result of that magnificent obsession is what you’re holding. This essay was published in Roadrunner Magazine in 1981 and I want to thank Donald Robertson for permission to reprint it. It’s all about seeing and interviewing Bruce for the first time in Paris in 1981 - and what it means to be a rock’n’roll fan. I hope you enjoy it.
Stuart Coupe 2013

Available on itunes soon. Let us know if you want to be notified when up.

So what’s with the title? Quite a few were put forward but this one bubbled up to the top. It’s what Bruce said to Stuart when he first met him. Funny then and now. A reference to a Monty Python sketch ‘Bruces’ Philosophers song/Bruces’ song. The sketch was from 1970 but had been introduced into the USA in 1975 and was popular through most of the 80’s. There’s quite a bit of wiki info out there but if you want to watch the sketch itself go here:
Monty Python - The Bruce sketch
Original sketch about the Australian University of Woolloomooloo. It’s from series 2 (episode 22; recorded 25 September 1970)


DISC 1
1- Long Time Comin’ - The Glorious 4:20
2 - Born to Run - Anne McCue 4:56
3 - Highway Patrolman - Bill Jackson 5:31
4 - Brilliant Disguise - Bryan Estepa 4:58
5 - Secret Garden - Emma Swift 5:04
6 - Hungry Heart - Wilding 2:55
7 - Paradise - Edward Deer / Miss Little 4:15
8 - If I Should Fall Behind - Mark Lucas & The Deadsetters 3:47
9 - I'm On Fire - Jamie Hutchings 2:46
10 - Highway 29 - Sam Shinazzi 4:11
11 - Adam Raised A Cain (English) - Bambino Koresh 4:27

DISC 2
1 - Growing Up – The Nature Strip 3:16
2 - Jesus Was An Only Son - Mark Moldre 3:40
3 - Where The Bands Are - Michael Carpenter & Perry Keyes 3:29
4 – Cover Me - Will and The Indians 2:51
5 - Atlantic City - Charlie Horse 3:43
6 - Secret Garden - Mikelangelo & The Tin Star 5:19
7 - You're Missing - Piers Twomey 4:24
8 - I Wish I Were Blind - Jason Walker 4:22
9 - Dry Lightning - James Thomson 4:34
10 - Dancing In The Dark – Hinterlandt 4:55
11 - Adam Raised A Cain (Spanish) - Bambino Koresh 4:27

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I don't think I know one of those artists

 

[Cruyff14]

Nor do I, except Emma Swift.

The tracks are pretty average too bar a few.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

If you go to the following page and then click on View In iTuneson the right hand side of one of the songs, it launches the iTunes player and lets you listen to about 1 minute of each song. 2 or 3 are good, but the rest are mehh especially after just watching Bruce

https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/i-hear-youre-from-australia/id628122936?ign-mpt=uo=4

 

[paddy18]

If you go to the following page and then click on View In iTuneson the right hand side of one of the songs, it launches the iTunes player and lets you listen to about 1 minute of each song. 2 or 3 are good, but the rest are mehh especially after just watching Bruce

https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/i-hear-youre-from-australia/id628122936?ign-mpt=uo=4

That dude's version of Hungry Heart is way, way worse than "meh". Possibly the worse thing I've heard since I recorded myself doing Coldplay's Viva la Vida a couple of years ago and played it back.

Like "Where the Bands are" though.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

That dude's version of Hungry Heart is way, way worse than "meh". Possibly the worse thing I've heard since I recorded myself doing Coldplay's Viva la Vida a couple of years ago and played it back.

Like "Where the Bands are" though.

Yes that is bloody terrible, the worst one of the 23 versions. Where the Bands are, Adam Raised a Cain and You're Missing were my 2 or 3 are good versions.

 

[jpkennedy]

That dude's version of Hungry Heart is way, way worse than "meh". Possibly the worse thing I've heard since I recorded myself doing Coldplay's Viva la Vida a couple of years ago and played it back.

Deplorable!

 

[Cruyff14]

Show 1 from Melbourne and my very first show. Brings back some great memories that I'll never forget.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

And this is how you get people in the palm of your hand. And I saw it all from the front row.

I down loaded this from You Tube yesterday morning and have been thrashing ever since with excellent speakers plugged into my laptop. If you want to down load this and heaps of other Bruce stuff and any You Tube video in general go to the you tube video linked below of how to do it with no software down load needed. Easy instructions in the video.



And if you want to download stuff from concerts you went to - most videos up loaded - not all - are linked at brucetapes blog site. Just pick a concert and pick a song with a video linked.

http://brucetapes.com/2013-tour-dates/

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Bruce fiddling around with his guitar and trying to find the correct key to play Red Headed Woman in Melbourne is the greatest thing I've ever seen. Love how he threw the rest of the band into the deep end halfway through the song, hoping they'd picked it up along the way.

I looooooove High Hopes. I'd never heard of it before the second Brisbane show. The studio version he did for the Blood Brothers EP is good, but the live versions on this tour are excellent with the horns. I kinda hope that's one thing that will remain exclusive about the Australia tour, but Europe will surely be gagging for it after seeing the videos.

Murder Inc from the Letterman show in '95 promoting Greatest Hits is ******* awesome.

 

[Cruyff14]

Bruce fiddling around with his guitar and trying to find the correct key to play Red Headed Woman in Melbourne is the greatest thing I've ever seen. Love how he threw the rest of the band into the deep end halfway through the song, hoping they'd picked it up along the way.

I looooooove High Hopes. I'd never heard of it before the second Brisbane show. The studio version he did for the Blood Brothers EP is good, but the live versions on this tour are excellent with the horns. I kinda hope that's one thing that will remain exclusive about the Australia tour, but Europe will surely be gagging for it after seeing the videos.

Murder Inc from the Letterman show in '95 promoting Greatest Hits is ******* awesome.

I love Everett on High Hopes, you can see how much fun he has.

Murder Inc on Melbourne3 was insane. The whole of Melb3 is on YT. Listening to Murder Inc again gives me great pleasure.

And yes, sick performance. One in NYC is good.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

I love Everett on High Hopes, you can see how much fun he has.

Murder Inc on Melbourne3 was insane. The whole of Melb3 is on YT. Listening to Murder Inc again gives me great pleasure.

And yes, sick performance. One in NYC is good.

It certainly was. I took great delight when the drum beat started up after the guy next to me told me not to bother with my Murder Inc sign (I think I've said this already but yeah, he was a dick)

Nothing on YouTube of Murder Inc from Brisbane or Melbourne? Where are all those annoying camera people when you need them...

The organ in the Live in NYC version is great. Version from Albany last year is good too, love Steve's backing vocals on the 'muuuuuuuuuurderrrrrr' harmony.