MAI BRACCARE UN BRACHETTO!

Mai braccare un bracchetto! di m ovviamente, Charles M. Schulz

Che ridere!


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LIVE IN GENOA (A NIGHT IN GENOA) 11.06.1999

Primo (e per ora purtoppo l' unico) concerto di Springsteen e la E-street band allo stadio L.Ferraris di Genova l'11 giugno del 1999.

Il Reunion tour è iniziato giusto due mesi (e due giorni) prima a Barcelona.

Bootleg di qualità audio/video discreta.

11 GIUGNO 1999
GENOVA ( Stadio L. Ferraris)


My Love Will Not Let You Down
Promise Land
Two Hearts
Darkness on the edge of town
Mansion on the Hill
The River
Youngstown
Murder Incorporated
Badlands
Out In The Street

NEW YORK CITY SECOND DREAM NIGHT 08.11.2009

Seconda ed ultima serata per Bruce Springsteen e la E-Street band al Madison Square Garden di New York durante il tour di Working in a dream.

Il bootleg della Cristal Cat, oltre che la scaletta dell' intera serata dedicata a The river contiene 8 bonus tracks fra cui London Calling, You May Be Right e Born to Run tratte dal 25esimo anniversario della Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (29 ottobre 2010).

01 Wrecking ball
02 The ties that bind
03 Sherry darling
04 Jackson cage
05 Two hearts
06 Independence day
07 Hungry heart
08 Out in the street
09 Crush on you
10 You can look (but you better not touch)

NON E' UN PAESE PER VECCHI

Non è un paese per vecchi di Cormac McCarthy.

Altro capolavoro, adesso dovrò vedere che il film di cui ho letto bene.

Opinioni?

SPRINGSTEEN ARTICOLO ROLLING STONES 1992 - prima parte

Lunghissima intervista a Springsteen tratta da un numero di Rolling Stones del 1992.


“In the crystal ball , I see romance, I see adventure, I see financial reward. I se those albums,
man, I see them going back up the charts. I see them rising past that old Def Leppard, past that Kris Kross.
I see them all the way up past ‘Weird Al’Yankovic, even.... Wait a minute. We're slipping, We're slipping town them charts. We're going town, town, out of sight, into the darkness....”
It was June 5th, and as Bruce Springsteen was performing "Glory Days" neat the end of a live radio broadcast from a Los Angeles sound stage, he finally offered his commentary on the much-publicized failure of his latest albums Human Touch and Lucky Town to to dominate the charts in the same way that some of their predecessors had. Thankfully, Springsteen demonstrated that while he may have lost a little of his commercial clout, he hasn't lost his sense of humor.
The show, in front of about 250 invited guests and radio-contest winners, was a "dress rehearsal meant to introduce his new band - keyboardist Roy Bittan, guitarist Shane Fontayne, bassist Tommy Sims, drummer Zachary Alford, singer-guitarist Crystal Taliefero and vocalists Bobby king, Gia Ciambotti, Carol Dennis, Cleo Kennedy and Angel Rogers - and to stir up excitement for his summer tour of the States. He succeeded on both counts. The concert proved that even without the E Street Band, Springsteen is still a masterful performer; in fact, his new band rocks harder, and musically it challenges him more than his previous group. And he still has more than a few loyal fans: The day after the radio broadcast, he sold out eleven shows at New Jersey's Brendan Byrne Arena (more than 200,000 tickets) in just two and a half hours.
Even so, it has been an unusually trying season for Springsteen. Though Human Touch and Lucky Town entered the charts at Numbers Two and Three, respectively, they quickly slipped and eventually dropped out of the Top Forty. On top of that, some segments of the media seemed to be reaping pleasure from Springsteen's relative lack of success (and indeed, it is relative: Each of the albums has sold more than 1.5 million copies). One magazine, Entertainment Weekly, even put Springsteen on its cover with the headline WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BRUCE?

ATLANTIC CITY - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 1990

Gran bella versione di Atlantic City questa suonata da Springsteen esattamente 20 anni fa.


Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night now they blew up his house too
Down on the boardwalk they're gettin' ready for a fight gonna see what them racket boys can do

Now there's trouble busin' in from outta state and the D.A. can't get no relief
Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade and the gamblin' commission's hangin' on by the skin of its teeth

CHORUS
Well now everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay
So I drew what I had from the Central Trust
And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus

CHORUS

Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold but with you forever I'll stay
We're goin' out where the sand's turnin' to gold so put on your stockin's baby 'cause the night's getting cold
And everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back

Now I been lookin' for a job but it's hard to find
Down here it's just winners and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line
Well I'm tired of comin' out on the losin' end
So honey last night I met this guy and I'm gonna do a little favor for him
Well I guess everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your hair up nice and set up pretty
and meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Meet me tonight in Atlantic City

ESPIAZIONE

di Ian McEwan.

CAPOLAVORO!

THE PROMISE DELIVERED

Nel senso che finalmente mi è arrivato il cofanetto (il vinile arriverà domani), qui trovate il commento di Larry.

A voi è arrivato?  Qualcuno lo ha già ricevuto? Che ne pensate?

Secondo me, maglietta a parte, è stupendo!  Molto meglio di Born to run che già era un prodotto notevole.

Commentate !

L'ANELLO DELLA REPUBBLICA

L'anello della Repubblica di Stefania Limiti.

La scoperta di un nuovo servizio segreto. Dal fascismo alle brigate rosse.

Da leggere, soprattutto la parte inerente Moro.

SPRINGSTEEN ARTICOLO MUSICIAN FEBBRAIO 1981 - seconda parte

Seconda parte dell' articolo tratto da Musician del febbraio 1981.

Vi è piaciuto?

Opinioni?

"There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. This is my job, and that's my work. And I work my ass off, you know."


MUSICIAN: The way the stage show is organized is that the first half is about work and struggling; the second half is about joy, release, transcending a lot of those things in the first half. Is that conscious?
SPRINGSTEEN: I knew that I wanted a certain feeling for the first set. That's sorta the way it stacks up.
MUSICIAN: What you rarely get a sense of around rock bands is work, especially rock
and roll as a job of work. Yet around this band, you can't miss it.
SPRINGSTEEN: That's at the heart of the whole thing. There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. This is my job, and that's my work. And I work my ass off, you know.
MUSICIAN: In Los Angeles one night, when you introduced "Factory," you made a distinction between two different kinds of work. Do you remember what it was?
SPRINGSTEEN: There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And then there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart. And that was the kind that my dad always did. Cause we were always together as a family, and we grew up in a...good situation, where we had what we needed. And there was a lot of sacrifice on his part and my mother's part for that to happen...
MUSICIAN: The River has a lot of those sorts of workers— the people in "Jackson Cage," the guy in "The River" itself. SPRINGSTEEN: I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.
MUSICIAN: Like the character in "Racing in the Street"?
SPRINGSTEEN: Yeah. But I don't know if that's lasting. But people do, they find ways.
MUSICIAN: Or else... ?
SPRINGSTEEN: (Long pause) Or else they join the Ku Klux Klan or something. That's where it can take you, you know. It can take you a lot of strange places.
MUSICIAN: Introducing "Factory" on a different night, you spoke about your father having been real angry, and then, after awhile, not being angry anymore. "He was just silent." Are you still angry?
SPRINGSTEEN: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if I know myself that well. I think I know myself a lot but I'm not sure. (Laughs) It's impossible not to be [angry] when you see the state of things and look around. You have to be, somewhat.
MUSICIAN: Tonight, you were saying on stage that you found the election terrifying. That seems to go hand in hand with playing the M.U.S.E. benefits, and striking back at ticket scalpers in L.A. You wouldn't have done those things two years ago, I don't think. Are you finding social outlets for that anger now?
SPRINGSTEEN: That's true. It's just a whole values thing. Take the ticket thing. It's a hustle. And a hustle has become . . . respected. In a lot of quarters—on a street level, dope pushers—it's a respectable thing, to hustle somebody. I mean, how many times in the Watergate thing did people say about Nixon, "Well, he just wasn't smart enough to get away with it." Like his only mistake was that he didn't get away with it. And there's a certain point where people have become cynical, where the hustle, that's the American way. I think it's just turned upside down in a real bad way. I think it should
lose its respect.

THE BEST OF ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING 19.09.1985

Non è decisamente il mio Springsteen preferito quello del tour di Born in the USA ma questo bootleg merita.

La scaletta:


Disc One:
01. Born In The U.S.A.
02. Badlands
03. Darlington County
04. Johnny 99
05. Seeds
06. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
07. Intro / "Betraying Yourself & Your Neighbours" *
08. Highway Patrolman - first try -
09. Highway Patrolman
10. Intro / "Hanging Loose Tonight"
11. Used Cars
12. Trapped
13. Working On The Highway
14. Intro / "The Mystery Of Love"
15. I'm Goin' Down
16. Glory Days
17. The Promised Land

Disc Two:
01. Intro / "Longest Walk In The World" *
02. My Hometown **
03. Thunder Road
04. Cover Me
05. Dancing In The Dark
06. Hungry Heart
07. Cadillac Ranch
08. Downbound Train
09. I'm On Fire
10. Growin' Up
11. Bobby Jean

Disc Three:
01. Intro / "You Ain’t Nothing But Alone"
02. Can't Help Falling In Love
03. Born To Run
04. Ramrod
05. Twist & Shout (w/ Do You Love Me)
06. Stand On It
07. Travellin' Band

Bonus tracks dal concerto Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, May 2, 1988

08. Roulette
09. Intro / "Take Your Past & Put It Away"
10. Spare Parts
11. War
12. Tougher Than The Rest
13. One Step Up
14. Walk Like A Man

LANDAU SPIEGA THE PROMISE

E' NATA UNA STAR?

di Nick Hornby.

Bello peccato sia cortissimo, solo 70 pagine :(

Si legge in una mezza ora.

SPRINGSTEEN ARTICOLO MUSICIAN FEBBRAIO 1981 - prima parte

Articolo ovviamente su Bruce Springsteen tratto dal numero di Musician del febbraio 1981 che spero sia gradito.

Commentate!  Commentate!

Lo ho diviso in due parti causa lunghezza.

Buona lettura


Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen returns from his two year marathon in the studio and introduces some new characters and insights along with some older influences, roaring to life the cylinders of his instinctive sense of emotional event. Dave Marsh examines the view from inside then of the last Roadside Romantic. by Dave Marsh
A year ago, taking a respite from recording to play two nights of the MUSE anti- nuclear benefit concerts, Bruce Springsteen pared his normal three hour show down to a more everyday 90 minutes. The result was pandemonium just this side of Beatlemania. Following the biggest stars in American soft rock to the Madison Square Garden stage, Springsteen and the E Street Band upstaged everyone, including the issue itself. The air in the hall that night was one of fanaticism and conversion, as though Springsteen were a rock and roll evangelist and the Garden his tabernacle.
It’s easy to imagine that Springsteen was just a pro rising to an occasion which included a camera crew and a recording truck, not to mention a backstage full of peers. What’s harder to explain, unless you’ve seen him onstage before a crowd that might not include so much as a weekly newspaper reviewer, is that the MUSE shows were just a fragment of what he usually does. “After those shows went over so great, I just figured that that’s what we’d do on this tour,” remembers E Street guitarist Steve Van Zandt, “Just 90 minutes, a couple of ballads, and make the people as crazy as you can, like the old days. We can do that. But not Bruce. What we ended up doing was just adding that 90 minutes to the show we always do.”
By late October, when the E Streeters hit LA for four shows at the 15,000 seat Sports Arena, they were playing four and one half hour shows, five nights a week. Going on at 8:30, they’d break at 10, and return a half hour later and play until 12:45- or 1:00 or 1:15. And they weren”t playing the ebb-and-flow show offered by most bands who play so long. We’re talking about four hours of ensemble rock and roll here, in which even the ballads are attacked more strenuously than most modal jams. Yet Jon Landau, his manager, said one night, "I think Bruce might actually play longer, except that the band just gets worn out." True enough, drummer Max Weinberg often spends intermission taping bleeding fingers, and the others are spared such medicaments only because their instruments are less physically demanding.
Generally, Springsteen did 32 or 33 songs, including 17 or 18 from The River, a half dozen from Darkness on the Edge of Town, five from Born to Run, the perennial set closer "Rosalita" from The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, plus "Fire" and "Because the Night" from his seemingly bottomless supply of unrecorded hits.

MI INNAMORO DI CHIUNQUE MI PARLI

Mi innamoro di chiunque mi parli di Charles M. Schulz

Che ridere!

FLOOD AID 02.12.2004 SPRINGSTEEN DVD

Bootleg DVD di Springsteen a dir poco imperdibile.

Informazioni prese da Jungleland:

Title: Flood Aid 2004
Discs: 2
Format: NTSC
Generation: Masters
Video: multi-cam
Audio: dubbed
Menu: authored
Chapters: songs
Video Rating: 9/10
Audio Rating: 8/10
Production Rating: 9/10
Overall Rating: 9/10

Description: After Hurricane Ivan had swept through Western Pennsylvania in September 2004, local rocker Joe Grushecky decided to stage a benefit show for the victims of the devastation. "Flood Aid 2004" took place 3 months later in the opulent surroundings of Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. There were a total of eight acts on the bill, headlined by Bruce and Grushecky with his House Rockers.

Bruce's first performance of the night came during the set of fellow Jersey musicians Exit 105. He reprised his cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" from the VFC tour. No Neil Young this time, but it was still a terrific performance. Bruce strolled onto the stage later in the evening to perform a 3 song solo set consisting of "If I Should Fall Behind", "Land of Hope and Dreams" (in the same acoustic arrangement as its debut at the Clearwater Festival in 2001) and "For You" (dedicated to "all the old fans"). Bruce then welcomed Grushecky and his band on stage to join him for a set that drew on both their back catalogues, together with two songs that they had penned together. Highlights from a Bruce perspective were the Chuck Berry-esque "From Small Things", a rockabilly "Johnny 99" and a stripped down "Factory". The only nod to the Yuletide season came at the end of the show when all the evening's performers took the stage for "Santa Clause is Coming to Town".