Sparks fly on E Street

[upinkzeppelin2]

fuzznuts said:

You just have shitty taste.

Seeing what you said on the other board, I guess we're in the same boat, eh?

[Fuzznuts]

Except mine's better, since I love Springsteen.

[Galactus]

That's true.

[upinkzeppelin2]

Ok, I'll admit. Tracks 2 and 3 are pretty dern good. Maybe I just didn't really give it time to grow on me. My bad.

[Galactus]

New album: Magic
Due October 2
It's official. Springsteen's first album with the E Street Band since 2002's The Rising drops in less than seven weeks, and it's called Magic. In case that title makes you, like us, think of Doug Henning... click the Mark Seliger photo at right for a first peek at Bruce's 2007 look. No rainbows or unicorns to be found. (And that guitar... that's magic.)

According to manager Jon Landau, quoted in today's press release from Shore Fire Media, this one's a rocker: "Magic is a high energy rock CD. It's light on its feet, incredibly well played by Bruce and the members of the E Street Band, and, as always, has plenty to say. It's also immensely entertaining. Magic is the third collaboration between Bruce and Brendan O'Brien and is a culmination of their very productive creative relationship."

O'Brien produced and mixed the album at his home base in Atlanta, Southern Tracks Recording Studio.

Ready for 11 new Springsteen song titles?

1. Radio Nowhere
2. You'll Be Comin' Down
3. Livin' in the Future
4. Your Own Worst Enemy
5. Gypsy Biker
6. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
7. I'll Work for Your Love
8. Magic
9. Last to Die
10. Long Walk Home
11. Devil's Arcade

Of these, only "Long Walk Home" has been heard before; Springsteen debuted the song with the Sessions Band and played it live exactly once, in London on November 11, 2006 (reportedly the day after he wrote it).

[Galactus]

Bruce's 2007 look looks a lot like his 1998 look to me...

[JACkory]

I'm excited over the new release, of course, but the news that it's an all-out rocker is kind of disappointing to me. He probably felt it was a necessary step after that dismal Seeger tribute, but I like his introspective, slow-tempo songs best.

Where's Holzman these days?

[Paul]

MIA

Ded, cool pic of Bruce - that Tele is gorgeous.

[dolly]

pcook said:

MIA

Ded, cool pic of Bruce - that Tele is gorgeous.

Tele's not the only thing. Brucie's still got it in spades (well, til about 5 years ago, perhaps...)

I'm excited over the new release, of course, but the news that it's an all-out rocker is kind of disappointing to me.

I'm excited by this. Can't say Devils and Dust captured my imagination for very long and I never did pick up the Seeger sessions after being bored by what I heard from it.

The Rising reminds me of good times past, but I'll be happier if the new album isn't so chirpy sounding.

[Galactus]

I agree, D&D was okay but it ain't the E Street band, The Seeger Sessions was a best a sidebar...Live in Dublin was better but still frustrating in what it wasn't.

[Galactus]

[Galactus]

The first single - Radio Nowhere

www.dailymotion.com/video/x2tnwx_bruce-springsteen-radio-nowhere_music

[maarts]

It's quite good!

[achn2b]

Well, I haven't been around much lately, and have to explore the ten pages of this board, cause I'm a huge Springsteen devotee. But I just wanted to take this moment to talk of something probably not many of you were aware of.

Not sure if many, or any of you for that matter, have ever heard of Bill Chinnock. But anyone who lived in Maine during the late 70's/early 80's hasn't, for he was a musical legend during that time. I got to see him four times, mostly during my college years, and he put on a fantastic show every time. Sadly, Chinnock took his own life last year, after suffering from terrible effects from Lyme disease for some time.

What does this have to do with Springsteen you ask? Well, I'll tell you. Chinnock was one of the founders of the Asbury Park music scene/sound, and has his name on the plaque or museum or whatever it is that honors those early pioneers of that scene. But one day, he broke the news to his band that he was moving to Maine, and wanted to know if they wanted to go with him. The other guys in the band told him no, they'd stay where they were and look for another lead singer/guitarist. And they found Bruce Springsteen, or he found them, or whatever.

Yep, Chinnock's band back in those days were the guys who went on to form the earliest versions of the E Street Band. And many of them, like Vini 'Mad Dog' Lopez, and David Sancious, would play on Chinnock's albums later.

Unfortunately, Springsteen and the E Street Band found fame and fortune early, and Chinnock was invariably relegated to being simply a poor man's Springsteen soundalike, as their music at the time mined much of the same territory, and Chinnock did sound and look quite similar to Bruce. Springsteen even graciously changed the name of his forthcoming album Badlands, when he discovered that Chinnock was going to call his new album by that name also. That album later came out as Darkness on the Edge of Town.

It's a bit of a shame, as it's quite possible that Springsteen was influenced just as much by what Chinnock was doing as vice versa, and Chinnock deserved better than to simply be umped in as a second rate Springsteen. It's a topic I'd love to ask Springsteen about should I ever get the chance.

[Galactus]

So I found this site a couple months ago. I downloaded about 50 bootlegs over a two week period. Some of the file sharing sites they use are a pain in the ass because they split them into small parts and won't let you download part 2 for half an hour unless you pay them. It's bullshit, use megaupload as often as possible. Anyway, it's worth it. They have every Springsteen bootleg I've ever heard of and a couple hundred I didn't know existed. Many of them are great sounding too. They have all the radio shows through '78. With the later shows you'll want to look for soundboard or "ALD" but they have a couple at least from each tour. It was like christmas sorting through it all.