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Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by NewJerseyRich Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:08 pm

a bunch of dates for Bruce went on sale in the states here last Friday. More to be announced.....

Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by firehazard Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:43 am

seanpat wrote:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-bruce-springsteen-songs-of-all-time-20140116/american-land-19691231

I was surprised to see that Rolling Stone picked up on the fact that "American Land" has an extremely similar melody as "Sally MacLennane". Wonder if the Boss ever listened to the Pogues.


Yes, the similarity was immediately apparent to many of us when the Seeger Sessions material was released. And at the end of a Brooce gig back in 2007 (I think), we left the venue behind a group of lads who were expressing their amazement that they had just played "that Pogues song".

Mr Chevron told a story involving Mr Springsteen, Mr Dylan, The Pogues and a toilet that took place at a gig once, but I can't currently locate it...

Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by seanpat Wed Feb 12, 2014 2:44 am

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists ... d-19691231

I was surprised to see that Rolling Stone picked up on the fact that "American Land" has an extremely similar melody as "Sally MacLennane". Wonder if the Boss ever listened to the Pogues.

Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by philipchevron Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:01 am

Classy!

Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by Fr. McGreer Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:23 pm

And had a big comedy type power-on switch that himself and Steve theatrically turned on before they proceeded

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Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by Niall Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:41 pm

he started his gig in dublin by playing what was left of the song he was playing when the plug was pulled

Re: England's Heidi Moment?

Post by firehazard Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:26 am

Mike from Boston wrote:It appears they pulled the plug on the amps at the end of a Hyde Park Springsteen concert while the Boss and Sir Paul Mac were playing...


Had I been there, I would probably have been a tad miffed at the plug-pulling. Though thinking about it I'd've been a lot more miffed if they'd pulled the plug on Broooce doing his own thing without that smug old former moptop.

As the reason that we weren't there was because of the organisers' totally inadequate allocation of wheelchair spaces, and given that when I questioned them about this their first response was to start quoting their lawyers at me, then somehow I am not surprised that they do bad stuff.

England's Heidi Moment?

Post by Mike from Boston Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:45 pm

It appears they pulled the plug on the amps at the end of a Hyde Park Springsteen concert while the Boss and Sir Paul Mac were playing. I guess the people in charge never heard about the infamous Heidi game where the plug was pulled on the broadcast of a Oakland Raiders New York Jets game at promptly 7PM in order to show the kids movie Heidi. Of course once the game was shut off the Raiders pulled off a miraclous last minute comeback scoring two touchdowns in a little over a minute to beat the Jets 43-32.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20 ... NTPAGE%7Cs

Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by NJR Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:21 pm

Poges in Oz? Next best thing.... Bruce tonight@ MSG

Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by NewJerseyRich Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:35 pm

firehazard wrote:
NewJerseyRich wrote:The Boss announced today some US dates this spring followed by a summer full of European tour dates...


Most of the European dates have been announced for a while now and, whatever it says on brucespringsteen.net, many of them are sold out already.

I failed to get the tickets I needed for Hyde Park, despite hitting the phone lines the second that they went on general sale. Wheelchair tickets were sold out immediately. I enquired about this with the promoter, and they admitted that by the time the general sale opened they had only 10 tickets on sale for wheelchair users. That's 10 out of (literally) many tens of thousands. When the disabled tickets sold out, there were still several thousands of general admission tickets left (they didn't sell out till some weeks later). I can't begin to say how pissed off I am about this, and the obviously inadequate level of provision of tickets for disabled viewers by this particular venue and promoter. Baxtards.

So no Bruce for us this year.


That's terrible. I believe in the US Bruce has some say in the mode of tix sales and distribution.

Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by firehazard Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:02 am

NewJerseyRich wrote:The Boss announced today some US dates this spring followed by a summer full of European tour dates...


Most of the European dates have been announced for a while now and, whatever it says on brucespringsteen.net, many of them are sold out already.

I failed to get the tickets I needed for Hyde Park, despite hitting the phone lines the second that they went on general sale. Wheelchair tickets were sold out immediately. I enquired about this with the promoter, and they admitted that by the time the general sale opened they had only 10 tickets on sale for wheelchair users. That's 10 out of (literally) many tens of thousands. When the disabled tickets sold out, there were still several thousands of general admission tickets left (they didn't sell out till some weeks later). I can't begin to say how pissed off I am about this, and the obviously inadequate level of provision of tickets for disabled viewers by this particular venue and promoter. Baxtards.

So no Bruce for us this year.

Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by NewJerseyRich Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:52 pm

The Boss announced today some US dates this spring followed by a summer full of European tour dates. If anyones interested see http://www.brucespringsteen.net for all the info.

Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by NewJerseyRich Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:31 pm

Firehazard, you know you can't tell them damn kids anything :lol:, McGreer if you're interested and get a chance get a copy of Darkness on the Edge of Town and/or The River. You can get used CDs from Amazon at deep discounts and I've never had an issue when I try out someone I'm not quite sure about. Especially if I can;t find them locally of the used shop wants too much for the CDs. Don't get me wrong I love supporting the used shops, but if you're just trying something youre not sure your gong to like it's worth giving Amazon a look....through the Medusa link of course!

Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by Fr. McGreer Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:46 pm

firehazard wrote:
NewJerseyRich wrote:Firehazard...you know the very first time I heard "American Land" was live. As I don't buy these compilation/retread discs he throws out to keep the millions flowing. I thought he was covering a Pogues song originally as I hadn't heard the song yet. After a few lines I knew it wasn't any Pogues song I recognized, But I definately agree it sounded alot like Sally MacLennane.


We came out of the London gig just before Christmas the year before last, when Bruce and the band had played American Land just near the end of the set. And there was a group of lads next to us on the way out talking very excitedly about how Bruce had just played "that Pogues song". I told them that it wasn't actually a Pogues song, but I don't think they believed me...


I lied when i said i only owned his Greatest Hits. I also have Magic and Seeger Live in Dublin.

The first time i heard American Land was on the TV. RTE were broadcasting a highlights version of the Seeger Sessions live in Dublin. I went next day and bought the CD/DVD package. Only after 2 or 3 listens did i realise it was more or less Sally.

Re: Bruce Springsteen

Post by firehazard Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:55 pm

NewJerseyRich wrote:Firehazard...you know the very first time I heard "American Land" was live. As I don't buy these compilation/retread discs he throws out to keep the millions flowing. I thought he was covering a Pogues song originally as I hadn't heard the song yet. After a few lines I knew it wasn't any Pogues song I recognized, But I definately agree it sounded alot like Sally MacLennane.


We came out of the London gig just before Christmas the year before last, when Bruce and the band had played American Land just near the end of the set. And there was a group of lads next to us on the way out talking very excitedly about how Bruce had just played "that Pogues song". I told them that it wasn't actually a Pogues song, but I don't think they believed me...

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