Ooo,I'd like to hear a full band Nebraska! I've heard some of those songs live and they are great. In fact, the songs with the E Street band remind me of Darkness

Wonder what Springsteen song is stuck in Max's head ??

Look Busy for the Boss: Bruce Springsteen Visits ‘Little Steven’s Underground Garage’

By Dave Itzkoff
March 29, 2011
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/ ... nd-garage/



In the nine years that “Little Steven’s Underground Garage” has been on the air, Steven Van Zandt, this E Street Band guitarist and host of that radio program, has been visited by his share of rock ‘n’ roll luminaries, including Ringo Starr, Brian Wilson and Keith Richards. But one particularly impressive — and seemingly obvious — guest has eluded Mr. Van Zandt, until now.

Bruce Springsteen, Mr. Van Zandt’s longtime friend and colleague, will appear on “Little Steven’s Underground Garage” in a series of programs that will be broadcast on the weekends of April 1, 8 and 15 to celebrate the show’s ninth anniversary.

The conversations, in which Mr. Springsteen and Mr. Van Zandt talk about their musical influences and whatever else comes to mind, were recorded earlier this month at Mr. Van Zandt’s office studio in Greenwich Village but were in the works for considerably longer than that.

“I’ve been inviting him on since Day 1,” Mr. Van Zandt said in a telephone interview. “At least every anniversary. ‘Oh, yeah, yeah, I gotta do that.’ We just never have quite gotten around to it. He just finally showed up. It wasn’t like he wasn’t invited –- of course he was invited -– but you get busy, you get doing things. And I know how that is.”

Mr. Van Zandt said he tried to do as little preparation for Mr. Springsteen’s appearance as possible. “By the time we have that lengthy conversation about the show, that’s another show,” he said. “Let’s start with absolute, total spontaneity and just talk. We’ll just have a conversation, and then we’ll fill in the music later.” He added: “I knew it would be a good show, just from us talking. Because we’ve never really talked to each other, on record, official. Not only on my station, but anywhere.”

Though the men have known and performed with each other going back to the early 1970s, Mr. Van Zandt said he learned a few things from Mr. Springsteen during their conversation. For one thing, Mr. Van Zandt said, “I don’t think I quite realized how big a fan he was of the Four Seasons.”

Mr. Van Zandt said he was also surprised by a segment in which Mr. Springsteen picked up a guitar and demonstrated how his song “Prove It All Night” was more or less lifted from the Animals’ “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood.”

“It’s going to be cool for people to hear that,” Mr. Van Zandt said. “I think we have a generation right now who thinks music falls off trees. Really, it’s very important that people know a lot of thought, a lot of work goes into this stuff. And maybe a lot of theft goes into stealing riffs, but that doesn’t mean you should steal the music.”

With a tinge of melancholy, Mr. Van Zandt noted that he and Mr. Springsteen were not often able to see each other these days, in part because of the complexity of his own schedule: in addition to hosting “Little Steven’s Underground Garage,” Mr. Van Zandt is also a music supervisor and executive producer for a new film by David Chase (his director on “The Sopranos”) about a young rock band in the 1960s.

Additionally, Mr. Van Zandt travels to Norway every other week to film his role in “Lillehammer,” a Norwegian television series on which he plays a former mobster who enters the witness protection program.

“I negotiated the weirdest deal in history by telling them I can’t come for four months straight, but I can come every other week,” Mr. Van Zandt explained. “They said yes.”

Now that he’s gotten Mr. Springsteen through the door of his radio studio, Mr. Van Zandt is hoping the Boss won’t take another nine years to make his return visit.

“I would love it,” Mr. Van Zandt said. “He’s welcome to do it. But coming once every nine years won’t be enough to promote him as a co-host.”

Marsh's Springsteen bio said they did a number of the songs including "Atlantic City," "Mansion on the Hill" and "Nebraska," but Springsteen felt that didn't capture the intimacy of the demos. They do full band arrangements of some of those songs live, too.

How Much Does Rolling Stone Love Bruce Springsteen?

By Jim Pagels | Posted Friday, March 16, 2012
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/201 ... much_.html

Since 2000, only 15 new records have been given five-star reviews by Rolling Stone. A few of these records were by musicians that most listeners would agree were in their primes: Beck, Kanye West, The White Stripes. However, while the publication has recently railed against Wall Street firms for improperly rating sub-prime mortgages, it hasn’t taken the same precautions against its own gross inflation in the rating of sub-prime albums, at least when it comes to certain classic rockers.

Exhibit A: Bruce Springsteen. The Boss’s latest album, Wrecking Ball, hit the top of the album charts this week—but has received only mixed to positive reviews overall. (Slate’s Jody Rosen, a big Springsteen fan, called it “the work of a man who has forgotten what he’s good at.”) But it garnered a perfect five stars from Rolling Stone, the magazine's first five-star review since Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in late 2010.

In fact, every rock album Springsteen has released this decade has received a perfect five stars. (His one original folk album during this stretch, 2005’s Devils & Dust, got four-and-a-half stars; his album of Pete Seeger songs, 2006’s We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, was given four.) Which means that Bruce Springsteen has accounted for more than a quarter of all five-star reviews given out by Rolling Stone to new albums during this young century. (A handful of reissued classic albums have also received five stars.)



It began with 2002’s The Rising, an album that received fairly wide acclaim. But as the 21st century has progressed and other critics have wavered in their Springsteen love, Rolling Stone has maintained a decade-long standing ovation.

When Magic appeared in 2007, New York said that “most of the material has a certain karaoke-like vibe.” Rolling Stone made a similar point somewhat differently, calling it “the most openly nostalgic record Springsteen has ever made.” Two years later, SPIN said of Working on a Dream that “one of rock’s most eloquent lyricists is in the awkward position of having little of interest to say.” Rolling Stone, meanwhile, declared that “moment for moment, song for song, there are more musical surprises than on any Bruce album you could name.”

And now we have Wrecking Ball, which, according to Pitchfork, “isn’t a disaster.” Or, as Rolling Stone put it, is “the most despairing, confrontational and musically turbulent album Bruce Springsteen has ever made.”

Why does Rolling Stone love the Boss so much? Well, the magazine was founded in 1967, and it has always displayed a preference for big, classic rock ‘n’ roll that wants to save the world. The bard of Asbury Park perhaps fits that bill better than anyone. Also, Springsteen did play editor Jann Wenner’s 60th birthday party.

Whatever the reason, the magazine loves the guy way more than any other outlet for pop music criticism. Here are the scores for Springsteen’s four rock albums on Metacritic (which uses a 100-point scale) with the Rolling Stone reviews removed: Wrecking Ball, 70.96; Working On a Dream, 66.93; Magic, 71.73; The Rising, 76.95. Here are Rolling Stone’s scores for the same albums: 100; 100; 100; 100.



Just so we’re clear: We here at Brow Beat love you, too, Bruce. But maybe not quite that much.

Rolling Stone gave "Working On A Dream" five stars?

I have no words.

Does Rolling Stone have stock in Bruce Incorporated?

It's no secret that Rolling Stone already has a 5 star review in the can of Bruce's unreleased album of him reading his high school term papers.

more worthy of 5 stars than "magic' which literally sounds like shit. so bad infact, it is hard to even listen to with any volume whatsoever.

Look! Bruce before he was a corporation!

From FMQB.com:

Bruce Springsteen has announced a new leg of his North American Wrecking Ball tour, with a series of stadium dates primarily on the East Coast and in Canada. The Boss will play ten shows in late Summer and early Fall, including gigs at the New England Patriots' Gillette Stadium, the Philadelphia Phillies' Citizens Bank Park and the iconic Wrigley Field in Chicago. Springsteen will also head home for three nights at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Of course, Springsteen wrote the title track to his new album in honor of the Meadowlands, the former home of the Giants and Jets in East Rutherford that was torn down to make way for the new MetLife Stadium.

Bruce Springsteen tour dates:

August 18 – Boston – Gillette Stadium (on sale 4.28)
August 24 – Toronto – Rogers Centre (on sale 4.20)
August 26 – Moncton, NB, Canada – Magnetic Hill (on sale 4.21)
August 29 – Vernon, NY – Vernon Downs Raceway (on sale 4.28)
September 2 – Philadelphia – Citizens Bank Park (on sale 4.21)
September 7 – Chicago – Wrigley Field (on sale 4.21)
September 14 – Washington, D.C. – Nationals Park (on sale 4.27)
September 19 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium (on sale 4.20)
September 21 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium (on sale 4.20)
September 22 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium (on sale 4.20)

I'm lucky enough to get early purchase on the Wrigley show because I have Cubs tix. I think I am going to try to go to the 22nd show in NJ.

Bruce Springsteen Announces New Dates for Fall North American Tour
Kicks off October 19th in Ottawa and runs through December 6th in Arizona
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bruce-springsteen-announces-new-dates-for-fall-north-american-tour-20120727



Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band haven't even begun their U.S. summer stadium tour, but they've already announced another run through North American kicking off October 19th in Ottawa and wrapping up December 6th in Glendale, Arizona.

The band have been touring behind Wrecking Ball since March. They are currently wrapping up a European tour that has featured the longest shows of Springsteen's entire career, almost reaching the four-hour mark. "We're not looking at the clock," Steve Van Zandt recently told Rolling Stone. "We've been transported by that point to another time zone entirely, which I think is part of the idea. I think what's effective for the audience is being transported for that time, whatever it may be."

The European tour wraps up on July 31st in Helsinki, Finland. After a two-week break, they start up again at Boston's Fenway Park on August 14th.

Here are the new dates:

10/19 Ottawa, ON – Scotiabank Place
10/21 Hamilton, ON – Copps Coliseum
10/23 Charlottesville, VA – John Paul Jones Arena
10/25 Hartford, CT – XL Center
10/27 ­ Pittsburgh, PA ­ – CONSOL Energy Center
11/1 State College, PA – Bryce Jordan Center
11/3 Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center
11/11 St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
11/15 Omaha, NE – CenturyLink Arena
11/17 Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center
11/19 Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
11/26 Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
11/28 Portland, OR – The Rose Garden
11/30 Oakland, CA – Oracle Arena
12/4 Anaheim, CA – Honda Center
12/6 Glendale, AZ – Jobing.com Arena