Bruce Springsteen

You know I will, sugar.

Harbortown wrote:

plugga wrote:

Ahahaha we're like that! i am always extremely surprised at how "calm" concerts in england are : D

Oh, he's playing Born to Run. How precious.


Quite.

Harbortown wrote:

Sweden for best Springsteen country though.

Doesn't compare to Spain or Italy in my opinion.

But I'll concede that we Brits are generally rubbish in comparison!

not rubbish, just different! Italians tend to be extremely warm which is both good and bad I suppose!

sooo:
7 giugno San Siro Milano
10 giugno Stadio Franchi Firenze
11 giugno Stadio Nereo Rocco Trieste

(giugno=june, clearly)

Orlando, Florida at Amway Center on March 17, 2011

(not confirmed but many rumors)

Harbortown wrote:

Sweden for best Springsteen country though.

Nah, you Swedes got everything and nobody comes to Finland . Okay, almost nobody. You think I'm going fly there or take a boat? No way man. I got my own problems. Just kidding , maybe

Seriously though, its not that impossible Bruce to come here anymore. Hes been here about 4 since 2003 (first time ever), but I always got something to do/no money/just not that big fan then. But now I gotta see him. No Big Man, but what you gonna do. I could fly somewhere else in Europe too...but not in Sweden

Full piece at: http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf/2011/11/whats_ahead_for_bruce_springst.html

What's ahead for Bruce Springsteen in 2012?

By Stan Goldstein

First, what will the makeup of the E Street Band be? Who or what entity will play the saxophone parts following the death of Clarence Clemons last June.

This is going to hit fans hard, to not have the Big Man, one of the original members of the E Street Band, onstage anymore. It was difficult in 2008 when organist Danny Federici passed away. Charlie Giordano has done a superb job picking up Danny's role but Clarence is irreplaceable.

I could see Bruce putting together a horn section. He last used one with the E Street Band on the Tunnel of Love Tour in 1988. The Seeger Sessions Tour in 2006 also featured a four-piece horn section

In 2009, Bruce added Curt Ramm on the trumpet for the final two months of the Working on the Dream Tour. Curt was great and added so much.


http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf/2011/11/whats_ahead_for_bruce_springst.html

not visited here in a while but MANCHESTER, pumped!

Does anyone have any idea what the album's gonna be like? I think Magic is my favorite, I'm just as if not more excited for the album as I am the tour

DeathoftheCool wrote:

Does anyone have any idea what the album's gonna be like? I think Magic is my favorite, I'm just as if not more excited for the album as I am the tour

I'm hoping for no political bullshit and slightly less production than his last few records. Pretty freakin stoked about this...don't let me down Bruce.

got my ticket, going to san siro this time ; )

plugga wrote:

got my ticket, going to san siro this time ; )

Me too! Surprisingly easy ticket.

yeah, a friend of mine bought it for me! looks like it's going to be sold out by tomorrow, at least the standing

sandyangryjohnnyormary? wrote:

DeathoftheCool wrote:

Does anyone have any idea what the album's gonna be like? I think Magic is my favorite, I'm just as if not more excited for the album as I am the tour

I'm hoping for no political bullshit and slightly less production than his last few records. Pretty freakin stoked about this...don't let me down Bruce.

No political bullshit? Isn't politcs injust about everything he's ever written? Isn't is at the core of his identity as an artist, as a person? The reason why he performs with such passion and creates music which means something?

backseat99 wrote:

sandyangryjohnnyormary? wrote:

DeathoftheCool wrote:

Does anyone have any idea what the album's gonna be like? I think Magic is my favorite, I'm just as if not more excited for the album as I am the tour

I'm hoping for no political bullshit and slightly less production than his last few records. Pretty freakin stoked about this...don't let me down Bruce.

No political bullshit? Isn't politcs injust about everything he's ever written? Isn't is at the core of his identity as an artist, as a person? The reason why he performs with such passion and creates music which means something?

No? Bruce's identity as an artist is about the holy reconciling of dreams and realities. Politics only occasionally played a minor role in that.

sandyangryjohnnyormary? wrote:

backseat99 wrote:

sandyangryjohnnyormary? wrote:

DeathoftheCool wrote:

Does anyone have any idea what the album's gonna be like? I think Magic is my favorite, I'm just as if not more excited for the album as I am the tour

I'm hoping for no political bullshit and slightly less production than his last few records. Pretty freakin stoked about this...don't let me down Bruce.

No political bullshit? Isn't politcs injust about everything he's ever written? Isn't is at the core of his identity as an artist, as a person? The reason why he performs with such passion and creates music which means something?

No? Bruce's identity as an artist is about the holy reconciling of dreams and realities. Politics only occasionally played a minor role in that.

I agree. Springsteen only lets politics invade certain songs. He is mostly talking about the human condition of reality vs. dream. Just listen to his songs.

Ok I think a distinction can be drawn here between political politics per se and an underlying progressive political agenda at the individual and societal level. Bruce’s music is an antidote to neo-conservatism and neo-liberal rhetoric more broadly which seeks to destroy democratic principles across the globe in place of an outright marketplace. His music across the last forty years and across a broad range of subjects -class, racism, urban poverty, war, peace, globalization- has sought to illustrate an unjust world and to highlight a move toward a more progressive and sympathetic society. His music does far more than public policy ever could to highlight the issues of oppression and hope for future change. Oh its also very danceable too 

Tickets for his Dublin start from $113. Fuck that.


Man of the people my arse.

Hi plugga and markbarlow.
When you see one giant very white viking standing out from all the italiens in the crowd, that'll be me. Can't wait to finally see Bruce in Italy and at the San Siro. See you guys there.

As for the new unnamed album, rumors suggest it is a more stripped down album in the vein of Tunnel Of Love and Devils And Dust. Could be a good thing, altough the live shows in big outdoor stadiums will need alot more power and energy than most songs of those two albums has to offer.

Also, Ron Aniello appearently has been credited for producing Bruce' next album. Got high hopes for the new album, has to be better than Working On A Dream anyway!

backseat99 wrote:

Ok I think a distinction can be drawn here between political politics per se and an underlying progressive political agenda at the individual and societal level. Bruce’s music is an antidote to neo-conservatism and neo-liberal rhetoric more broadly which seeks to destroy democratic principles across the globe in place of an outright marketplace. His music across the last forty years and across a broad range of subjects -class, racism, urban poverty, war, peace, globalization- has sought to illustrate an unjust world and to highlight a move toward a more progressive and sympathetic society. His music does far more than public policy ever could to highlight the issues of oppression and hope for future change. Oh its also very danceable too 

Ah yes how could I forget the timeless globalization epic Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street? haha I just think you're letting his current persona skew your perception of his earlier messages. Sure Bruce drew inspiration from hard times and stalled lives in albums like Darkness, but the themes used to go beyond specific politics and speak about a broader kind of human condition. There's something timeless and relatable about that as opposed to strictly political songs like Last to Die off Magic. Maybe I'm the exception, but news and politics just don't interest me as art at all.

chickenman wrote:

Hi plugga and markbarlow.
When you see one giant very white viking standing out from all the italiens in the crowd, that'll be me. Can't wait to finally see Bruce in Italy and at the San Siro. See you guys there.

As for the new unnamed album, rumors suggest it is a more stripped down album in the vein of Tunnel Of Love and Devils And Dust. Could be a good thing, altough the live shows in big outdoor stadiums will need alot more power and energy than most songs of those two albums has to offer.

Also, Ron Aniello appearently has been credited for producing Bruce' next album. Got high hopes for the new album, has to be better than Working On A Dream anyway!

Haha, I'm very white myself!

Yep Ron Aniello actually put on his own website that he was working on an untitled Springsteen project a few months back but it mysteriously disappeared shortly afterwards.

I'm glad of the change from Brendan O'Brien personally.

sandyangryjohnnyormary? wrote:

Ah yes how could I forget the timeless globalization epic Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street? haha I just think you're letting his current persona skew your perception of his earlier messages. Sure Bruce drew inspiration from hard times and stalled lives in albums like Darkness, but the themes used to go beyond specific politics and speak about a broader kind of human condition. There's something timeless and relatable about that as opposed to strictly political songs like Last to Die off Magic. Maybe I'm the exception, but news and politics just don't interest me as art at all.

Totally agree again. Politics and pressing world issues do appear a lot in his songs but they are always secondary to what he is trying to say about life in general. Politics are a product of the human condition, not the other way around.

I mean, policy is only as interesting as the politician, right?

chickenman wrote:

Hi plugga and markbarlow.
When you see one giant very white viking standing out from all the italiens in the crowd, that'll be me. Can't wait to finally see Bruce in Italy and at the San Siro. See you guys there.

Look for the tall, blonde, pale italian! That would be me!

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Yep Ron Aniello actually put on his own website
that he was working on an untitled Springsteen project a few months back
but it mysteriously disappeared shortly afterwards.

I'm glad of the change from Brendan O'Brien personally.

I think Clarence passing away was the reason it all went quite for a while. Before the Big Man left for beers with Danny in heaven there were quite a few rumors floating around, but it all stopped once the Big Man passed away, which I can understand perfectly fine obviously.

Anyway, I'm glad it's not Brendan O'Brian producing again. I think the eminant musicians that some of the E Streeters are, tend to drown a little in his wal of sound mix. I mean I liked Magic a whole lot, but WOAD was really just a bunch of left-overs from Magic, and many of the songs should have been left with that, as left-overs. Also, I think the new record can be a lot more interesting if it don't get 'the wall of sound treatment', but instead choosen band-members\instruments are allowed to shine on certain songs.

@ markbarlow and plugga:
even though we all appearently stand out, one way or the other, I think we might wanna look into meeting up some place before the show as the San Siro holds 60000 (or something like that?) for concerts....

Yeah it's pretty huge haha my friend wants to drag me there to queue the day before! I might look like a zombie