Quotedkwalika I just realized that backstreets.com is now dead. Where can we find a good bootleg to get us fired up for Wrigley Field? Backstreets per se is no more but the fan forum, BTX, which was the only thing I used on it anyway, is alive and well. (I say "well," but it does have a higher quotient of nasty bungholes on it than iorr does. I attribute it to the Jersey thing.) It ha
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Quotehockenheim95 My first Bruce concert yesterday in Hockenheim. It was awesome.... Welcome to the club
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This is one of the things I like about this forum. It often reminds me of other people I want to see. Never seen Buddy Guy (I saw few concerts by anybody in "my middle decades"), and this thread popping up reminded me, I'd intended to check back on if Buddy was adding shows near me. Answer: Yep, he did. Just got back -- from the box office of a Richmond theater formerly calle
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Quotejackflash27 QuoteTheBluesHadaBaby Quoteliddas Taking my kids to see Lana del Rey. Cat Power thinks she's good, so she must be good. C NME just gave her a rave review for a show in London. Lana's got something, I hope to see her live at some point. I was at The Hyde park show and the show in Amsterdam a week before. Both shows were spectaculair. Very very impressed from w
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Quoteliddas Taking my kids to see Lana del Rey. Cat Power thinks she's good, so she must be good. C NME just gave her a rave review for a show in London. Lana's got something, I hope to see her live at some point.
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In the what's-your-next-concert? thread I just posted my upcoming list... preceded by this report on a recent one. This part more properly belongs here, though, so I'm pasting it in: Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes were awesome. We were their last stop on a tour before they headed home. It was a perfect way to enjoy his raucous show: from a bar seat only 25 feet away. John
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QuoteSilver Dagger A few videos from last night's Hyde Park show. ... Thanks! Since I bought my first Springsteen album in 1975 -- sadly they released it only after he'd played Norfolk that year, so I hadn't caught on yet and missed him -- Thunder Road has always been my favorite Springsteen song. But to those for whom BITUSA was your coming-of-age Springsteen album
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Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes were awesome. We were their last stop on a tour before they headed home. It was a perfect way to enjoy his raucous show: from a bar seat only 25 feet away. Johnny reminded us how he lived in Richmond for awhile in the early 1970s, back when here and back home were the only places that the Jersey shore rockers, i.e. him, Springsteen, and SVZ, could draw crowds
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Quotecrholmstrom Born in the USA is far from my favorite Bruce record. The on that grates on my nerves is Bobby Jean. Its over-earnest sentimentality does spill over into sappiness, but I've always been able to accept it. It's not one of his songs that outright annoys me. I've also found that song more interesting historically in the past few months, when I finally learned abo
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QuoteElmo Lewis IMHO, Working On The Highway is one of his worst songs (and, yes, there are some other bad ones, too). I agree the song's a stinker, but that lyric's a gem. I've wondered before if the song got included on the album only because they couldn't bear to not put out one of his greatest lines. A Worst of Springsteen song list would be long, partly because he�
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QuoteManofwealthandtaste Quoteslewan QuoteTheBluesHadaBaby Good song, Downbound Train. Trains do make great fodder for rock songs. Mystery Train, Silver Train, Burnin' Train, many others. (…). they stole that topic/metaphor right from the blues and gospel songs… When the train come in the station I looked her in the eye...... One day I looked straight at her and she looked str
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Good song, Downbound Train. Trains do make great fodder for rock songs. Mystery Train, Silver Train, Burnin' Train, many others. Springsteen's certainly broken out plenty of good stuff, one song at a time, that he could easily freshen up 2023's U.S. Leg 2 with when he comes back. If he's inclined to. There's no way to read his mind and know what's coming,
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So concert tickets' soaring prices of just the past few years are being felt by more than just us, the bulging bank accounts of some music superstars, Ticketmonarch/LiveNation's wealth and industry dominance... and I'm sure performers down the pecking order have to be benefitting at least some as well, from the wave of money we're pouring into live music. The price run-up i
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Summer of Fun’ Could Lead to Autumn Pain Consumers are splurging on expensive but fun experiences, from nights out to concerts — and that may force central banks to keep raising rates. June 23, 2023 The New York Times 'Fun-flation’ Uncomfortably high inflation appears set to linger, forcing central bankers to inflict further pain on consumers and businesses by raising bo
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I know this violates the premise but I'd just make it an Emotional Rescue - Tattoo You double album. 'Cept, wait. Fancy Man Blues qualifies? If so, gotta squeeze that on it too.
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QuoteTopi Over a hundred people in line in Gothenburg - and the 1st show is on Saturday. Fukkin A! Sep 29 in Nats Park, DC, now thanks to the reschedule will be the one time out of my lifetime 7 Bruce shows that I will finally be in the pit ('course, shows 1-4 there was no pit). But I sure know what I'm not doing. And that's be close to the rail.
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Quotecrholmstrom QuoteVoodooLounge13 And I’m just the opposite I’d rather pay to see him solo and especially if acoustic. I've seen Neil as much as the Stones (20+ times) over the years going back to the late 70s in all sorts of guises. I've seen some great solo shows but solo acoustic shows these days kind of put me to sleep. Everyone has their own Neil definitely. In my retirement
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I've wanted to see the Black Crowes for some time now. But not enough to drive from Richmond to Columbia Maryland... last year, maybe? Patience sometimes pays, it developed I think this week that they're playing Sep 8 just up I-95 in Doswell VA. General public sale began this morning. It's an outdoor amphitheatre. No pit. The first 7 front rows' prices, with fees, are...
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After my ages 14-17 initial fascination with the Stones, which was the HT Women single, Through The Past Darkly, Sticky Fingers, Hot Rocks, and Exile On Main Street, I heard nothing on radio play that interested me in any of GHS, IORR, or Black and Blue. I just played the Stones albums I had. Until 1978, of course. I loved all three of Some Girls, Emotional Rescue, and Tattoo You. For me, the
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Today Springsteen's DC Nationals Park Monday Aug. 28 show got postponed a month, to Friday September 29. No word on why. Unless there are more changes this will make DC the last show of the Eastern half of the U.S. stadium leg. Then there's a break until Nov 3, when Canada gets 8 concerts in enclosed stadiums or arenas. Followed by 5 shows on the U.S west coast and west, which will
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Next, for the "next" part. On the schedule as it stands now: June 4 - Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Richmond Saw him once before, in I think it was 1979, on his Hearts of Stone tour. Springsteen wrote a bunch of songs on that album and it was the best thing that I've heard, at least, from Southside. June 21 - Sarah Shook & the Disarmers - Richmond The
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While this is a "next" thread I'll still recap March to May's. Partly to recommend some of the younger acts. There are worthy young rockers out there... and you can see them for bargain prices. March 12 - Haley Reinhart - Richmond Fabulous voice and vocal stylings. Her parents raised her right, with big helpings of rock n roll, of which there's a good mix of covers
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QuoteNashvilleBlues Interview with Bruce Springsteen on CBS Sunday Morning today. This is good. Especially for fans of Nebraska. (9.5 min.)
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QuoteTopi Check this out. Tremendous! Just, wow. Bruce Springsteen Concert Recreation Project 2023 USA Tour All The Songs Version by The Promised Land Apr 23, 2023 This is a 5-hour concert video recreation with soundboard audio from the 2023 US tour that includes ALL the songs performed on the first leg of the 2023 US tour. Let us know if we missed any The videos on
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BTX lives on for at least another week while Chris talks with prospective new owner-operators of the forum. (I try to imagine Bjornulf being mere hours from nuking IORR forever, all the while not even knowing others were clamoring to take it over and carry it on. And, nope, can't imagine it at all. Be that as it may, my thanks to Chris for reconsidering.) QuoteTopi Oh, BTW, Barcelona
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It's been a wild past 8 hours over at BTX. Chris Phillips, who owns it, finally came on the forum to say goodbye to all in a personal message. And apparently he had legitimately not heard that on the forum we had been calling since February for the forum to be handed off to someone else to operate and keep open, while the "Backstreets" site/magazine proper proceeds to close permane
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Quotemidimannz Hi friends, where do you get Springsteen news from now? Backstreets was my “go to” place, “greasy lake” is a bit too much of a forum. I don't think there is a consensus destination. Beyond Brucebase or Greasy Lake, other places suggested for BTX refugees include A Springsteen sub-Reddit Stone Pony London BlogItAllNight
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Backstreets' BTX Springsteen forum, the largest of that fan community, closes tomorrow. I was BothernMeMyWholeLife, and on it for less than a year. I just made my final post there, on the forum's closing announcement thread. It was: _________ Although I've been a Springsteen fan since 1975 when I was 20, I've never been a hardcore follower of him, my other rock & rol
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Quotebirdie QuoteNashvilleBlues Quotecrholmstrom Quoteslewan QuoteTopi Boston setlist: 19:48 1. No Surrender 2. Ghosts 3. Prove It All Night 4. Letter to You 5. The Promised Land 6. Out in the Street 7. Candy's Room 8. Kitty's Back 9. Nightshift 10. Trapped 11. E Street Shuffle 12. Johnny 99 13. Last Man Standing 14. Backstreets 15. Because the Night 16. She's
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Isn't going to fit here as anybody's favorite, I don't imagine. But as a December 2022 release by this Welsh musician I'll post it as new. Here, be one of the first 7.6 million views of one that probably is destined to be around for a long while, because of how many people's mental health struggles worldwide that it speaks (literally) so directly to. HI REN
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