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Post by petrolino on Dec 27, 2022 0:11:55 GMT
🎸 Bruce Springsteen + The E Street Band = 'Road Warriors' 🚚 🚛
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Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973)
Born to Run (1975)
Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
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🕛 Closing Time 🍺
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band perform 'I Wanna Marry You' while on tour promoting their new album 'The River' (1980) ...
# Bruce Springsteen was inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. The E Street Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 27, 2022 13:51:20 GMT
I was never a huge fan of Springsteen's. I liked his music, had the albums, but there were many more bands that i preferred. But he really knocked my socks off the first time I seen him live. I've seen hundreds of live shows and I don't think anyone put more effort into it than Bruce. And one of the rare musicians (Eddie Van Halen was another) who looked like he was having the time of his life and would have played for free.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2022 15:48:20 GMT
I was never a huge fan of Springsteen's. I liked his music, had the albums, but there were many more bands that i preferred. But he really knocked my socks off the first time I seen him live. I've seen hundreds of live shows and I don't think anyone put more effort into it than Bruce. And one of the rare musicians (Eddie Van Halen was another) who looked like he was having the time of his life and would have played for free. My parents took me to a show in 1980 (The River tour). I was 12 and blown away. The energy was through the roof. I saw him several more times during my teens and 20s and he always gave more than 100%. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2022 15:50:11 GMT
petrolino - thanks for the comprehensive post. My parents had all the albums, played them constantly, and my favorite was Darkness on the Edge of Town. I need to listen to that again. It's been awhile.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 27, 2022 16:04:29 GMT
I was never a huge fan of Springsteen's. I liked his music, had the albums, but there were many more bands that i preferred. But he really knocked my socks off the first time I seen him live. I've seen hundreds of live shows and I don't think anyone put more effort into it than Bruce. And one of the rare musicians (Eddie Van Halen was another) who looked like he was having the time of his life and would have played for free. My parents took me to a show in 1980 (The River tour). I was 12 and blown away. The energy was through the roof. I saw him several more times during my teens and 20s and he always gave more than 100%. I only seen him twice. In 1984, the Born to Run Tour and 1999, the E Street Band Tour. He played Buffalo on The River Tour but my leg was giving me a ton of grief and I couldn't go. He played for over three hours in the Born to Run show. He kept asking Clarence Clemons "Have they had enough?" and The Big Man looked intently at the crowd, hesitated, and said "NAH!" and they belt out a couple more songs. I wish I had seen him in an open air venue. He was pretty good on hitting Buffalo on his tours. Some bands were, Bruce, the Kinks, The Grateful Dead. Some not so much
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2022 17:11:49 GMT
My parents took me to a show in 1980 (The River tour). I was 12 and blown away. The energy was through the roof. I saw him several more times during my teens and 20s and he always gave more than 100%. I only seen him twice. In 1984, the Born to Run Tour and 1999, the E Street Band Tour. He played Buffalo on The River Tour but my leg was giving me a ton of grief and I couldn't go. He played for over three hours in the Born to Run show. He kept asking Clarence Clemons "Have they had enough?" and The Big Man looked intently at the crowd, hesitated, and said "NAH!" and they belt out a couple more songs. I wish I had seen him in an open air venue. He was pretty good on hitting Buffalo on his tours. Some bands were, Bruce, the Kinks, The Grateful Dead. Some not so much
Thinking back, I guess I saw him in Buffalo in 1980. That would have been the closest venue to where we were living. It had to have been near Christmas because the crowd was shouting for "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," and he played it near the end. It was funny to hear that song in the same show as "The River". I saw a couple shows at The Meadowlands and saw him in Boston and Chicago. I love to hear Clarence on the old records, the sax and the use of bells, fabulous. |
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Post by petrolino on Dec 27, 2022 21:20:07 GMT
petrolino - thanks for the comprehensive post. My parents had all the albums, played them constantly, and my favorite was Darkness on the Edge of Town. I need to listen to that again. It's been awhile.
Wow, thanks. I highlighted the 1970s albums only due to time contraints. Also, I wanted to shine a light on Steel Mill and how the E Street Band were built from musicians active in the 1960s, like so many great rock 'n' roll groups who made their names in the early 1970s.
May I recommend the documentary 'The Promise : The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story' (2010) if you like 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town'. Springsteen was a prolific songwriter and some of the sessions that didn't make the 'Darkness' cut materialised as part of 'The Promise' project. I have it on dvd but it's been a while now since I saw it.
'Say Goodbye To Hollywood' - Ronnie Spector & The E Street Band
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Post by petrolino on Dec 27, 2022 21:25:00 GMT
I was never a huge fan of Springsteen's. I liked his music, had the albums, but there were many more bands that i preferred. But he really knocked my socks off the first time I seen him live. I've seen hundreds of live shows and I don't think anyone put more effort into it than Bruce. And one of the rare musicians (Eddie Van Halen was another) who looked like he was having the time of his life and would have played for free. My parents took me to a show in 1980 (The River tour). I was 12 and blown away. The energy was through the roof. I saw him several more times during my teens and 20s and he always gave more than 100%.
The last youtube video I posted of 'I Wanna Marry You' was apparently a performance shot during the band's 1980 tour. I like how the group continued to evolve their sound on 'The River' (1980) and 'Nebraska' (1982).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2022 21:40:12 GMT
petrolino - thanks for the comprehensive post. My parents had all the albums, played them constantly, and my favorite was Darkness on the Edge of Town. I need to listen to that again. It's been awhile.
Wow, thanks. I highlighted the 1970s albums only due to time contraints. Also, I wanted to shine a light on Steel Mill and how the E Street Band were built from musicians active in the 1960s, like so many great rock 'n' roll groups who made their names in the early 1970s.
May I recommend the documentary 'The Promise : The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story' (2010) if you like 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town'. Springsteen was a prolific songwriter and some of the sessions that didn't make the 'Darkness' cut materialised as part of 'The Promise' project. I have it on dvd but it's been a while now since I saw it.
'Say Goodbye To Hollywood' - Ronnie Spector & The E Street Band
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