OT: Springsteen tour begins in Tampa tonight
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Houston got good reviews. Opened with Night, which is an awesome opening song, IMO.
No Nils, and IMO, no Nils is addition by subtraction. While many will say Nils is by far the most technically gifted guitarist on the stage when he is there (except for Patti!!), three guitars is too much. Plus, when it is just Bruce and Stevie, the band has a more bluesy/gritty/roadhouse feel to it, which many prefer.
Stevie's solo on If I Was a Priest cued up from last night:
Night:
No Nils, and IMO, no Nils is addition by subtraction. While many will say Nils is by far the most technically gifted guitarist on the stage when he is there (except for Patti!!), three guitars is too much. Plus, when it is just Bruce and Stevie, the band has a more bluesy/gritty/roadhouse feel to it, which many prefer.
Stevie's solo on If I Was a Priest cued up from last night:
Night:
Catching up on things on a Sunday morning. Shortened show in Kansas City. Stevie and Nils back, but Jake Clemons out with the dreaded virus. Ed Manion did the sax parts:
Start: 7:45 PM local time
1. No Surrender
2. Ghosts
3. Prove It All Night
4. Letter to You
5. The Promised Land
6. Out in the Street
7. Candy's Room
8. Kitty's Back
9. Nightshift
10. The E Street Shuffle
11. Johnny 99
12. Last Man Standing
13. Backstreets
14. Because the Night
15. She's the One
16. Wrecking Ball
17. The Rising
18. Badlands
Encore
19. Thunder Road
20. Born to Run
21. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
22. Glory Days
23. Dancing in the Dark
24. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
25. I'll See You in My Dreams
End 10:25 p.m.
Start: 7:45 PM local time
1. No Surrender
2. Ghosts
3. Prove It All Night
4. Letter to You
5. The Promised Land
6. Out in the Street
7. Candy's Room
8. Kitty's Back
9. Nightshift
10. The E Street Shuffle
11. Johnny 99
12. Last Man Standing
13. Backstreets
14. Because the Night
15. She's the One
16. Wrecking Ball
17. The Rising
18. Badlands
Encore
19. Thunder Road
20. Born to Run
21. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
22. Glory Days
23. Dancing in the Dark
24. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
25. I'll See You in My Dreams
End 10:25 p.m.
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Great moment from the Kansas City show.
And no Outlaw Pete. Gotta have a beer run/ piss break song in there somewhere.
Great show in Portland. No Patti. I’m on Fire made tour debut. Band was very tight, additional horns were a plus, Jake is having fun, Bruce talked less but came into crowd more frequently, crowd was stoked. Almost 3 hours of pure joy, guy still has IT.
Great place to see the show. Went to both shows there in 2016 and they were EPIC!
How were you able to get into the presale today?
Did not realize there was an additional on sale. Frankly, got so turned off by the whole process, I did not pay attention. I got an e-mail to register as a verified fan, tried that, and got put on a wait list. Just checked Sept. 3, and any decent seat is $400 and higher. Not paying $800 to go with my wife to see anyone.
I didn’t register as a verified fan for MetLife and therefore paid no attention when tix went on sale. Then at around 1 PM I received a text out of the blue saying that they added a third show. Gave me the access code too. Went right in and got tix, Sunday night of Labor Day weekend..
Not sure how it happened but it worked out..
A cover of a Patti Smith song Because the Night? He wrote the song she did the cover.
Patti Smith co-wrote it and recorded it first.
“He drove me out towards Coney Island, somewhere, and he asked if he could send the E Street Band’s recording of the unfinished ‘Because the Night’ to Patti Smith, who he was producing at the time,” said Springsteen on Wednesday's show. “Now Jimmy had, has always had, and still has some very sly ears. Now me, I had a nice hook and a melody on a song that I could not finish the lyrics for. So Patti took it and turned it into the hit it became, writing a beautiful love song for her husband, Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith. Now it wouldn’t have been a hit if I had finished it and released it. It needed a woman’s voice, it needed Patti’s voice and her vision. She turned it into something that I alone could never have created. And for that, I forever thank my lovely, lovely friend.”
“He drove me out towards Coney Island, somewhere, and he asked if he could send the E Street Band’s recording of the unfinished ‘Because the Night’ to Patti Smith, who he was producing at the time,” said Springsteen on Wednesday's show. “Now Jimmy had, has always had, and still has some very sly ears. Now me, I had a nice hook and a melody on a song that I could not finish the lyrics for. So Patti took it and turned it into the hit it became, writing a beautiful love song for her husband, Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith. Now it wouldn’t have been a hit if I had finished it and released it. It needed a woman’s voice, it needed Patti’s voice and her vision. She turned it into something that I alone could never have created. And for that, I forever thank my lovely, lovely friend.”
Just ran across this tonight. "Mighty" Max Weinberg, a looooong time ago, sharing drums with The Ventures playing the "Theme To Hawaii Five-0" - perhaps the greatest theme to a TV show ever!
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Actually he’s being nice to Patti in that characterization saying he “didn’t finish” the song. The truth is he didn’t finish the song to his liking, certainly not enough to record it. He’s always been a perfectionist but he was absolutely obsessive about it back then. He played his version of the song often on the ‘78 tour, most famously on the Winterland bootleg and also the Capitol Theatre bootleg. He said she “co-wrote” it because she has her own version with slightly different lyrics. He plays her version now when he does it live.
'Miserlou' may be the most famous song that nobody knows (think "Pulp Fiction").
Dick Dale was great.
That was great, but that "fan" had so many misses. This is hilarious.
33) Bruce’s staccato rant about the E Street band is on par with the best of Randy Macho Man Savage and Ric Flair in their prime. Heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, love-making, earth-quaking, Viagra-taking, justifying. . .
And damn is Bruce is great shape for 73 years old:
The jeans are a much better rock look than the slacks he wore at the beginning of the tour.
And now Sunday’s show at Mohegan Sun has been cancelled.
edit: postponed
edit: postponed
That’s a good interview with Hendrix. If he had lived a longer life, I’m almost sure he would have moved away from heavier rock. He liked experimenting with sound but once the “in thing” became more volume and distortion, he would have went in a different direction, like Eric Clapton did. I could imagine he would have gotten more into jazz, which he liked.
Its interesting to speculate about.
Alas there are so many dead rockers from that era that its hard for me not to think of Hendrix as one of them.
Dude was so heavy into the drugs, drink and psychedelic vibe that I think he would have to have cleaned-up his life in major way. Hendrix seems so eccentric to me now that I never really listen to him.
With regard to the "electric church" Hendrix spoke of, this interview was just a few years after Dylan fans were booing him and calling him "judas" for starting to play electric guitar at his gigs. I know there was electric guitar before Hendrix but he saw himself as kind of a shaman trying to get beyond listener eardrums to electrically "awaken" people with enhanced acoustic stimulation. That's not all good but it shows the vibe around at that time.
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One of the liner notes on a re-issue of a Jimi Hendrix CD tells of when he tried out for a gig at a Lodi, NJ bar. Les Paul and his son dropped in on their way from Mahwah to Columbia Records in NYC. They had no idea who he was but they loved his playing. They were in a hurry so they stopped back in on their way out of NY but nobody had taken his name down. Paul discovered who he was years later.
Apparently, as early as 1964, Jimi Hendrix would try out at clubs in NYC and was told he could get some gigs in Hackensack, NJ. Sure enough the following site has proof he played at George's Club 20 near the court house and photos of a very young Jimi Hendrix: