Weinberg did reveal that the rumored full-band recording of Springsteen's 1982 acoustic disc Nebraska does exist. "The E Street Band actually did record all of Nebraska and it was killing," Weinberg says. "It was all very hard-edged. As great as it was, it wasn't what Bruce wanted to release. There is a full band Nebraska album, all of those songs are in the can somewhere." He also confirmed that a Darkness on the Edge of Town reissue is in the works. "I don't really exactly know what the stage of thinking is relating to that project seeing the light of day," he says. "But it would certainly be a wonderful thing to come out. A lot it was captured on film. There was always a guy in the studio with a little hand-held camera. If that does make the light of day, it would be something I would heartily endorse."
There's also been a long-standing rumor that Springsteen is preparing another box set of unheard studio recordings — another project Weinberg says he could get behind. "For Born in the U.S.A. there were 65 or 70 songs recorded," he says. "There was a song, I'm not even sure what the title ended up to be, but in rehearsal it was called 'White Lies.' I hope that makes the light of day."
Finally, he says the E Street Band will almost certainly mount another tour with Springsteen at some point in the future. "Bruce will get an itching to go out and play and send signals through the air," he says. "The mist will certainly congeal at some point and I'm pretty sure we'll be back out there."
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
Weinberg did reveal that the rumored full-band recording of Springsteen's 1982 acoustic disc Nebraska does exist. "The E Street Band actually did record all of Nebraska and it was killing," Weinberg says. "It was all very hard-edged. As great as it was, it wasn't what Bruce wanted to release. There is a full band Nebraska album, all of those songs are in the can somewhere." He also confirmed that a Darkness on the Edge of Town reissue is in the works. "I don't really exactly know what the stage of thinking is relating to that project seeing the light of day," he says. "But it would certainly be a wonderful thing to come out. A lot it was captured on film. There was always a guy in the studio with a little hand-held camera. If that does make thelight of day, it would be something I would heartily endorse."
There's also been a long-standing rumor that Springsteen is preparing another box set of unheard studio recordings — another project Weinberg says he could get behind. "For Born in the U.S.A. there were 65 or 70 songs recorded," he says. "There was a song, I'm not even sure what the title ended up to be, but in rehearsal it was called 'White Lies.' I hope that makes thelight of day."
Finally, he says the E Street Band will almost certainly mount another tour with Springsteen at some point in the future. "Bruce will get an itching to go out and play and send signals through the air," he says. "The mist will certainly congeal at some point and I'm pretty sure we'll be back out there."
Wonder what Springsteen song is stuck in Max's head ??
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.”
Weinberg did reveal that the rumored full-band recording of Springsteen's 1982 acoustic disc Nebraska does exist. "The E Street Band actually did record all of Nebraska and it was killing," Weinberg says. "It was all very hard-edged. As great as it was, it wasn't what Bruce wanted to release. There is a full band Nebraska album, all of those songs are in the can somewhere."
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.
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.
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.
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)
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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
Jean Mikle, jmikle@app.com, Asbury Park Press 9:45 p.m. EDT September 6, 2014
ASBURY PARK, N.J. – Fresh from a performance at Woodstock — one she considered below her usual standards — Janis Joplin headed to Asbury Park for two shows at Convention Hall.
She was fronting her new group, the Kozmic Blues Band, and only weeks from releasing her first album with the band, "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Mama!" Joplin took the stage in Asbury Park in all her late 1960s glory, wild hair flying and beaded necklaces hanging almost to her waist. Electric in concert, with a powerful, original voice, Joplin was deeply troubled, shooting heroin and drinking heavily at the time.
Between shows at Convention Hall, she wandered outside to check out the boardwalk, but apparently got distracted by some of the amusement rides. Monmouth Beach resident Glen Partusch, who was working the show at the time, said he had to corral Joplin's manager and bring him out to the boardwalk to get the singer to return for the second show.
"They had to drag her off the Tilt-a-Whirl to get her back on stage," Partusch said.
Once back inside, she was to have a memorable encounter with a young, aspiring musician from the Jersey Shore.
Bruce Springsteen was only 19 on Aug. 23, 1969, but he already was relatively famous at the Shore.
His band, Child, was playing regularly at venues like Asbury Park's Student Prince, Le Teendevous in New Shrewsbury (now Tinton Falls) and the Pandomonium Club on Route 35 in Ocean Township, right down the street from the Challenger East surfboard factory, owned by the band's manager, Carl "Tinker" West.
The group, which also included Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez on drums, Vinnie Roslin on bass, and Danny Federici on keyboards, played mostly Springsteen originals, plus a few covers. They'd received rave reviews at a big outdoor festival at the then-Monmouth College and garnered similar praise during a gig down in Richmond, Virginia.
West carefully was guiding their career, believing they were headed for big things. He supervised their all-day rehearsals at the surfboard factory, located off Sunset Avenue.
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Lopez remembers that the band was rehearsing at the surfboard factory, along with blues harmonica player James Cotton, who was opening Joplin's show at Convention Hall. Cotton invited the band members to attend the show and watch from backstage.
But the band had to rehearse first. They had a gig coming up at a Sea Bright club.
"We were rehearsing so we didn't get down there until she was doing her encore," Lopez said. "We didn't see the whole show." The members of Child and their manager went backstage.
When they did get to Convention Hall, Joplin quickly spied a long-haired Springsteen watching her perform. When she got offstage at the end of her set, Joplin made a beeline for Springsteen, Lopez said.
"She grabbed Bruce and wrapped her leg around him," Lopez said. "She was giving him that look, like, 'Where have you been all my life?' " But her manager urged Joplin to go back out for an encore.
When she did, a wild-eyed, startled Springsteen quickly made his escape, racing out through a fire door and disappearing onto the nighttime boardwalk.
This did not please Joplin, who came offstage searching for the young singer. Instead she found only Lopez, Roslin and West.
"She said, 'Which way did he go?' " Lopez said. "We just pointed and said, 'He went thataway.' " It was like a cartoon."
In a recounting of the tale that appears in "Bruce," his 2012 biography of Springsteen, author Peter Ames Carlin asked The Boss about Janis Joplin. Springsteen tried to downplay the encounter.
"Some whispering attention was paid, I guess," Bruce recalls in the Carlin book. "I was 19, had hair to my shoulders, was a big local star and carried myself like that."
Springsteen, of course, would go on to become the superstar West always thought he'd be.
Joplin, a profound influence on many modern singers, was a trailblazer who opened opportunities in music, particularly rock 'n' roll, for generations of female performers who followed. But she would die young, at 27, of a heroin overdose, in October 1970, just 16 days after the death of another legend, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix.
Bruce Springsteen to make acting debut on bandmate Steven Van Zandt’s ‘Lilyhammer’ The rocker will make a guest appearance on the Netflix series, and Van Zandt’s ‘Sopranos’ co-star Tony Sirico will also have a role on the show. BY KIRTHANA RAMISETTI NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, September 4, 2014, 2:50 PM
The Boss is going to rock the small screen.
Bruce Springsteen will make his acting debut on his pal Steven Van Zandt’s Netflix series “Lilyhammer,” according to Deadline.
The rocker will guest star on the show’s third season as a mortuary owner, the site reports. While Springsteen has previously appeared in 2000’s “High Fidelity” as himself, the show will mark the first time he will portray a character.
The TV role is just the latest nonmusical venture for the 64-year-old musician. He also is releasing a children's book this fall. Van Zandt, a longtime member of Springsteen’s E Street Band, is no stranger to acting, having appeared on several TV shows and movies including “The Sopranos.”
In fact, “Lilyhammer” will also feature a mini ”Sopranos” reunion, with Tony Sirico coming on board for a recurring role as a priest. On Thursday, the men were spotted on set wearing tuxedos in New York's West Village.
The third season of “Lilyhammer” is scheduled to air on Netflix later this year, but a premiere date hasn't been announced.
I'd prefer it if he was working on deluxe reissues of "Greetings", The Wild, The Innocent..." and "The River", but maybe the fact that he's dabbling in acting suggests that those reissues are already done. (FINGERS CROSED!) I did love his cameo in "High Fidelity", one of my all-time favorite movies. I mean deep down, don't we all have a little Rob, Dick and Barry in us?
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