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 Post subject: Re: Bruce Springsteen
PostPosted: Fri June 11, 2021 3:53 am 
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I should not spend $500-$1,400/ticket for springsteen on broadway right? Or should i? I should spend that money on multiple e street shows instead? right? guys?


Save it for the tour. Watch the Broadway show on Netflix.


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Monkey_Driven wrote:
Strat wrote:
I should not spend $500-$1,400/ticket for springsteen on broadway right? Or should i? I should spend that money on multiple e street shows instead? right? guys?


Save it for the tour. Watch the Broadway show on Netflix.

Deal.

Bruce just let it slip that E Street is hitting the road next year.


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 Post subject: Re: Bruce Springsteen
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Listening to Letter to You for the first time in over a year. Like many Springsteen albums, it sounds a lot better with age. At Last Man Standing and everything is pretty fabulous in context.


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Some days “secret garden” is my favorite Bruce song.


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Some days “secret garden” is my favorite Bruce song.

It really is a tremendous song, good read

The Blood Brothers doc has a great scene where David Kahne (IIRC) introduces Bruce to the strings version and it seems like he stops breathing until Bruce responds.

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Some days “secret garden” is my favorite Bruce song.

It really is a tremendous song, good read

The Blood Brothers doc has a great scene where David Kahne (IIRC) introduces Bruce to the strings version and it seems like he stops breathing until Bruce responds.



I recently just had to correct my girlfriend on this song for these reasons. The last verse is absolutely heartbreaking. It’s a perfect song.


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 Post subject: Re: Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce’s no nukes concerts are going to be released in November.


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Bruce’s no nukes concerts are going to be released in November.

I would assume the composite would be from the two sets that were released previously but are no longer available to purchase.

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 Post subject: Re: Bruce Springsteen
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liebzz wrote:
Bruce’s no nukes concerts are going to be released in November.

I would assume the composite would be from the two sets that were released previously but are no longer available to purchase.

“The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts” Setlist

1. Prove It All Night
2. Badlands
3. The Promised Land
4. The River
5. Sherry Darling
6. Thunder Road
7. Jungleland
8. Rosalita Come Out Tonight
9. Born To Run
10. Stay
11. Detroit Medley
12. Quarter To Three
13. Rave On

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surfndestroy wrote:
oasisfan35 wrote:
liebzz wrote:
Bruce’s no nukes concerts are going to be released in November.

I would assume the composite would be from the two sets that were released previously but are no longer available to purchase.

“The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts” Setlist

1. Prove It All Night
2. Badlands
3. The Promised Land
4. The River
5. Sherry Darling
6. Thunder Road
7. Jungleland
8. Rosalita Come Out Tonight
9. Born To Run
10. Stay
11. Detroit Medley
12. Quarter To Three
13. Rave On

If that Stay is from the 9/22 show it would feature Jackson Browne, Tom Petty and Rosemary Butler.

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 Post subject: Re: Bruce Springsteen
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oasisfan35 wrote:
surfndestroy wrote:
oasisfan35 wrote:
liebzz wrote:
Bruce’s no nukes concerts are going to be released in November.

I would assume the composite would be from the two sets that were released previously but are no longer available to purchase.

“The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts” Setlist

1. Prove It All Night
2. Badlands
3. The Promised Land
4. The River
5. Sherry Darling
6. Thunder Road
7. Jungleland
8. Rosalita Come Out Tonight
9. Born To Run
10. Stay
11. Detroit Medley
12. Quarter To Three
13. Rave On

If that Stay is from the 9/22 show it would feature Jackson Browne, Tom Petty and Rosemary Butler.
Bruce's site says it is.

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 Post subject: Re: Bruce Springsteen
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Seems exciting though I wish he just put it all out there if there is all the footage available.


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 Post subject: Re: Bruce Springsteen
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liebzz wrote:
Seems exciting though I wish he just put it all out there if there is all the footage available.

The sets were basically the same so I can see going with a composite with this release.

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 Post subject: Re: Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce is a guest on Colbert tonight. Crossing my fingers it’s to announce an e street tour! No other reason to be a guest on a tv show right now ?


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 Post subject: Re: Bruce Springsteen
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He's releasing a book with Obama so I expect he'll be talking about that. But rumours are saying a 2022 tour announcement is imminent!

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 Post subject: Re: Bruce Springsteen
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Giving I think the second listen to the No Nukes concert. I mean, Springsteen and the E Street Band in their prime…I’m not sure there’s such a thing as better live than that.

That Jungleland is just unbelievable.


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The No Nukes release is great. Not sure what I was expecting, but the mix and setlist were excellent. Always good to hear Jackson Browne too.


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 Post subject: Re: Bruce Springsteen
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Giving I think the second listen to the No Nukes concert. I mean, Springsteen and the E Street Band in their prime…I’m not sure there’s such a thing as better live than that.

That Jungleland is just unbelievable.

The liner notes for the original audio release seem to capture what these shows really embodied fairly well:
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There’s a case to be made that Bruce Springsteen’s appearance at two MUSE benefit concerts in 1979 mark the moment he truly arrived, when his status as not merely a rock star but THE rock superstar of his era became undeniable. And not unlike similar moments that affected Bruce himself, specifically Elvis Presley and The Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show, the power of a filmed performance was a major contributing factor. After all, the No Nukes film (released in 1980) and, to a lesser but still important extent, the No Nukes triple album, were the first commercial releases to ever offer live Springsteen performances.

After spending the better part of 1978 playing to ever-growing crowds on the Darkness tour (including arena dates in top markets), Springsteen had become a major touring act. Better still, the legend of his three-hour concerts was spreading, and word-of-mouth reviews sounded like tales of religious conversion. The collective sentiment expressed by those who had been to a Bruce concert to those who hadn’t was simple: You HAVE to see this guy play.

But with the Darkness tour wrapped and the focus shifted to studio recording, it seemed there would be no chance to see Springsteen live in 1979. The pent-up demand to see Bruce in concert, particularly in his NY/NJ homebase where he hadn’t played since September 1978 (save for an on-campus gymnasium show at Princeton in November), was off the charts.

Meanwhile, in March 1979, an accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, PA, highlighted the risks of nuclear power to the entire nation and further galvanized the already active anti-nuclear movement. MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) was formed soon after Three Mile Island by a group of like-minded artists and music-industry leaders, including Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, and Bonnie Raitt.

To raise awareness and money, the newly founded organization wasted little time in announcing The MUSE Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future, five shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Two of those would be headlined by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in their only concerts of the year (not counting the final Darkness show, Cleveland 1/1/79). Needless to say, ticket demand for September 21-22, the two nights Springsteen was scheduled to perform, was enormous.

Bruce and the E Streeters had spent much of the spring and summer in the studio at the Power Station on West 53rd, recording songs for what one year later would become The River. In fact, soon after the MUSE concerts, for which they paused to rehearse and perform, they considered stopping recording entirely and turning in a ten-song single album (eventually released in 2015 on The Ties That Bind box set).

While recording for The River would not only resume but carry on well into 1980, Springsteen was at least considering that his new album might be pretty much done when he took the stage on September 21. He was also two days away from his 30th birthday. Combine that with an eight-month layoff from the road, and it is no wonder he and the band played with such passion and ferocity at the two MUSE concerts, both presented/captured here in full.

Jon Altschiller’s new multi-track mix crisply captures the electric anticipation in the air as the band tunes up and blasts into “Prove It All Night” on 9/21, with Max Weinberg in particular adrenalized by being back on stage.

With a limited, 90-minute slot on the multi-artist bill it’s a bang-bang set both nights: “Prove It All Night” into “Badlands,” into “The Promised Land.” What Bruce performs is in effect a mini Darkness concert that adds an important look to the future with the first-ever performances of his newly written masterpiece, “The River.” Introducing the deeply personal song the first night, Bruce says simply, “It’s for my brother-in-law”; the second night he says it’s for “my mother and my sister.”

While some finer details of the final arrangement of “The River” were yet to come, the emotional core of the song is fully realized. It is thrilling to hear these initial performances and to imagine what it would have been like to experience the song for the first time amongst the No Nukes crowd. My jaw would have been on the floor.

The look-forward to The River continues with “Sherry Darling,” shifting the mood materially with an “end-of-the summer song” and restoring the party atmosphere from the top of the show. From there, it is a race to the finish through “Thunder Road” (the performance from the second night is featured in the No Nukes film), “Jungleland” (a couple of particularly passionate versions), “Rosalita,” and “Born to Run.” All killer, no filler.

The two MUSE performances are relatively consistent, with the second night perhaps slightly less frenetic, as one might expect. The “encore” songs are where the changes come.

Night one we are treated to the delightful rendition of Maurice Williams’ “Stay” featured on the No Nukes album, a song which had been a regular part of Jackson Browne’s sets. Browne and his backup singer Rosemary Butler guest on the E Street version, as smooth a groove as any they’ve laid down. “Detroit Medley” also appeared on the No Nukes album in edited form, expunging some of Bruce’s hilarious “hazardous to your health” warnings and insurance pitching, which are restored here. The show closes with a 100 MPH cover of Buddy Holly’s “Rave On.”

The encore from night two repeats “Stay,” this time with the late Tom Petty sharing lead vocals with Springsteen and Browne, and wraps with a “Quarter to Three” for the ages, material parts of which made it into the No Nukes film.

The footage of “Quarter to Three,” which shows Springsteen giving it his all to point of collapsing on the floor and needing to be revived (in jest) by the band, preserved for all to see the unique magic of Springsteen in concert. The film also shows other artists reacting to the pre-show cheers of “Brooooce” (and acknowledging that Springsteen is the artist the crowd is really there to see), not to mention the incredible performances of “The River” and “Thunder Road” noted above.

Remember, at the time the No Nukes film was released in 1980, there was no MTV. Springsteen had never appeared on American television. You literally couldn’t see him perform without going to a concert until the No Nukes film opened that July. And when it did in the US, and later in the UK and Europe, tens of thousands of future fans saw with their own eyes what they had only read and heard about. Though he only appears on screen for perhaps 15 minutes of the film’s 103-minute run time, No Nukes managed to bottle up for the first time the essence of Bruce Springsteen in concert.

Finally, the No Nukes shows also marked Springsteen’s first overt foray into political activism. During the show, Bruce says it was Jackson Browne’s “sense of purpose and conviction that got me down here tonight,” and Browne’s commitment to the cause continues to this day. To honor that, $2 from each sale of No Nukes 1979 will be donated to Musicians United for Safe Energy, to support nearly 40 years of fighting the good fight.

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