This is Springsteens masterpiece
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…..sigh. moms in the hot tub, the suns down, me n cubs sharing the couch and a double knob. A beautiful gift you didn’t know you gave. Cheers
He jumped the shark when he got political.
If you were lucky, you saw the shows with Suki Lahav on violin. For her short run of shows, the band opened with Incident on 57th street featuring one spotlight on Suki and one spot on Springsteen. Her brief vocals enhanced Incident. Lots of rumors on her potential involvement with Bruce with her exit accelerated to the fact that she was married to one of the road crew engineers. Often debated and contested, strong belief that She’s the One was written by Bruce about Suki.
The shows post release of The Wild included most of the material that would find its way onto Born to Run. Those tunes were sharpened throughout 74-75 so that by the time Born to Run was released in summer 75, the songs were well known since they had been introduced and developed live for about a year.
I agree that The Wild is epic with Kitty’s Back being a tremendous live presentation along with Incident on 57th Street.
The shows post release of The Wild included most of the material that would find its way onto Born to Run. Those tunes were sharpened throughout 74-75 so that by the time Born to Run was released in summer 75, the songs were well known since they had been introduced and developed live for about a year.
I agree that The Wild is epic with Kitty’s Back being a tremendous live presentation along with Incident on 57th Street.
That's why he is popular with the ladies.
Mentioned this here before. Summer of 73, the Wollman rink area held a summer series of concerts. We were in town and bought $ 1.50 tickets to see Brewer and Shipley, Bruce and The E street Band and a female singer from Canada. The place was a mob seen. Thousands of kids from Jersey and New York singing their lungs out to songs we had never even heard at that point in our lives. It was crazy cool to see. We knew by the time we left there was something brewing.
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When I was a kid, we moved to Jersey after Bethlehem Steel went out of business. My dad worked at the mines in Ebensburg. My mom, had to take a job with a florist in Colts Neck nj. One of the clients was Bruce. She said he was nothing but nice and on at least one occasion, knocked over a vase, and was afraid of what the cost was, so she collected all of the shards and brought them home so they would never know. 
i remember being in his house as a kid, because I had a half day of school and she had to bring me to work and thinking "is this a golf course"? Thats how big the lawn was.
Growing up in this area though, I have yet to hear an "******* bruce" story. I have heard bad stories about Bon Jovi and everyone else, never bruce. Man of the people.
Later, when I was a teen, I started putting on local punk shoes, and apparently stepped on the feet of a local promoter. Who happened to have been an ex member of the asbury park jukes. So my summer job would be to drive his mercedes around the shore dropping off flyers to the "head shops" and surf shops and also making flyers for the shoes. In 2000 or so, when the E Street band finally got back together, they did a week long stint at the Convention Hall, basically just warming up for the stadium shoes to come. I was lucky enough to get to go to a few. There was about 200 people and they did a full set.
(had bourbon so felt like telling some stories)
i remember being in his house as a kid, because I had a half day of school and she had to bring me to work and thinking "is this a golf course"? Thats how big the lawn was.Growing up in this area though, I have yet to hear an "******* bruce" story. I have heard bad stories about Bon Jovi and everyone else, never bruce. Man of the people.
Later, when I was a teen, I started putting on local punk shoes, and apparently stepped on the feet of a local promoter. Who happened to have been an ex member of the asbury park jukes. So my summer job would be to drive his mercedes around the shore dropping off flyers to the "head shops" and surf shops and also making flyers for the shoes. In 2000 or so, when the E Street band finally got back together, they did a week long stint at the Convention Hall, basically just warming up for the stadium shoes to come. I was lucky enough to get to go to a few. There was about 200 people and they did a full set.
(had bourbon so felt like telling some stories)
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Just play your music. Stay off of the late night talk shows and campaign trail.
Yet what of bob dylan? The Clash? Music has always been a place to express revolution.
I do like that most artists/musicians I admire share the same beliefs that I have. Morrissey being a massive f*cking outlier…
Harry, as blue as can be, in down town NOVA, has seen Morrissey twice the past 5 or so years. Even he said his wacky slideshow pre concert was a drag on the evening
Yes it is, though he has many. I'm fond of this one. Saw him in '73 at the Agora in Cleveland and shortly later met my future wife, though I was not in her league. Left her behind as I moved to Texas for a very good job and decided to ask for her hand. Her mother wasn't too keen on me. So every time I hear this stanza, I reminisce.
"Now I know your mama she don't like me...
I'm comin' to liberate you confiscate you I want to be your man
Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny
But now you're sad your mama's mad
And your papa says he knows that I don't have any money
Tell him this is his last chance to get his daughter in a fine romance
Because a record company Rosie just gave me a big advance." (although my job was with an industrial firm and her name was elaine)
"Now I know your mama she don't like me...
I'm comin' to liberate you confiscate you I want to be your man
Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny
But now you're sad your mama's mad
And your papa says he knows that I don't have any money
Tell him this is his last chance to get his daughter in a fine romance
Because a record company Rosie just gave me a big advance." (although my job was with an industrial firm and her name was elaine)
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me. So every time I hear this stanza, I reminisce.
"Now I know your mama she don't like me...
I'm comin' to liberate you confiscate you I want to be your man
Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny
But now you're sad your mama's mad
And your papa says he knows that I don't have any money
Tell him this is his last chance to get his daughter in a fine romance
Because a record company Rosie just gave me a big advance." (although my job was with an industrial firm and her name was elaine)
and this is Bruce’s magic, just like I related sitting with Cubbie, he may as well be sitting right next to me with his guitar, writing songs, bouncing his ideas off me. Love him.
for the record, my fil, rip, took me aside at 23yo and told me I don’t want to marry his daughter. said I have no clue what pain I’d get lol. We still lol, dads was looking out for me
"Now I know your mama she don't like me...
I'm comin' to liberate you confiscate you I want to be your man
Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny
But now you're sad your mama's mad
And your papa says he knows that I don't have any money
Tell him this is his last chance to get his daughter in a fine romance
Because a record company Rosie just gave me a big advance." (although my job was with an industrial firm and her name was elaine)
and this is Bruce’s magic, just like I related sitting with Cubbie, he may as well be sitting right next to me with his guitar, writing songs, bouncing his ideas off me. Love him.
for the record, my fil, rip, took me aside at 23yo and told me I don’t want to marry his daughter. said I have no clue what pain I’d get lol. We still lol, dads was looking out for me
I worked at Legget’s Sandbar one summer in Manasquan, NJ. It was right next door to the Osprey. The story I was told more than once there was that “Kitty” was the owner of the Osprey in the 70s. But, there were always weird Springsteen rumors/stories so who knows what is true and what is just rumor.
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Many summers drinking at Leggets during the day and the Osprey at night.
Two quick stories , back in the day, summer of 75 or 76, Eagles Hotel California Tour at MSG I remember booing the opening act, some guy named Buffett.
Few years later, summer of 81 shared a house in Spring Lake Heights, my girl friend at the time dragged me up to Asbury to the Stone Pony to see Stevie Forbert. Bruce at the bar 10 feet away and the only thing I remember is his unmistakeable underbite. Crazy 40 plus years later.
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