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Gazza
13. FRANKIE (request)
How come it's a request when they rehearsed this song a couple of times before the show?
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Mr Jimmy
Jungleland...
Incredible.
...well it's about time!
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tatters
December 2012
4 - Anaheim, CA - Honda Center
6 - Glendale, AZ - Jobing.com Arena
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sweetcharmedlife
Awesome. Back to the USA next.
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superglen
4 hours & 6 minutes, plus 30 minutes of acoustic pre-show
147 different songs in 55 shows
Kind of strange he didn't schedule any Florida dates on this leg. But faith will be rewarded Chris. He'll probably do another US leg in early 2013 and play Miami then.Quote
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sweetcharmedlife
Awesome. Back to the USA next.
I'm a realist and think that S. Florida will be left behind such as Marlins & Dolphins... Even the UM Hurricanes! City is Down and an appearance by Bruce could shake up things! Finland gets Loose Ends & DTBSO52ndStreet & even Higher and Higher. It's exactly good medicine for the Fountain & community!
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latebloomer
Leon Wieseltier unloads on what he calls "the literature of fandom" about Bruce Springsteen in this piece in the New Republic. I think there is some truth to what he says, but there is also a fair amount of snobbish cynicism. Don't know if any of you read the huge profile of Bruce by David Remmick in The New Yorker, but this author tears it apart. Here is his take on Bruce's music:
DO THESE MEN HAVE ears? The musical decline of Bruce Springsteen has been obvious for decades. The sanctimony, the grandiosity, the utterly formulaic monumentality; the witlessness; the tiresome recycling of those anthemic figures, each time more preposterously distended; the disappearance of intimacy and the rejection of softness. And the sexlessness: Remnick adores Springsteen for his “flagrant exertion,” which he finds deeply sensual, comparing him to James Brown, but Brown’s shocking intensity, his gaudy stamina, his sea of sweat, was about, well, fcking, whereas Springsteen “wants his audience to leave the arena, as he commands them, ‘with your hands hurting, your feet hurting, your back hurting, your voice sore, and your sexual organs stimulated!’”, which is how you talk dirty at Whole Foods. Remnick lauds him also for his “exuberance,” which is indeed preternatural. I was twice at The Bottom Line in August 1975 and I have never been in a happier room. But there is nothing daft or insouciant, nothing crazy free, about Springsteen’s exuberance anymore. The joy is programmatic; it is mere uplift, another expression of social responsibility, a further statement of an idealism that borders on illusion. The rising? Not quite yet. We take care of our own? No, we do not. Nothing has damaged Springsteen’s once-magnificent music more than his decision to become a spokesman for America. He is Howard Zinn with a guitar.
Gotta admire his writing style, even if you think he's daft. Here is the full article:
[www.tnr.com]
He's backed off this tour with that stuff. Its all about the music and this incredible band. The guy really just keeps raising my expectations and breaking them every time.Quote
Angus MacBagpipe
I think at the real heart of these criticisms is a contempt and dislike for Bruce's political and social views.
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RollingFreakHe's backed off this tour with that stuff. Its all about the music and this incredible band. The guy really just keeps raising my expectations and breaking them every time.Quote
Angus MacBagpipe
I think at the real heart of these criticisms is a contempt and dislike for Bruce's political and social views.