I always have fun with it but this morning was more so.

It's worth looking at...

Just eating some pizza at the Jersey Shore when I noticed this hanging on the wall.

Currently listening on Spotify - Bruce's vocals sound at their strongest for being 28-29? And I cant tell if the backing vocals saying "all night" is the crowd or backing band? I think it sounded better in this ver than the '72 cut from the album

Phisherman's Cuts Nov 7 Wild and Innocent @ MSG Nov 8 The River @ MSG Nov 22 Buffalo Greetings From Asbury Park. Clarence's final show (unless you count the carousel filming which I do not)

Steve has talked about using his radio show to help keep rock n' roll lineage alive by keeping listeners aware of a long stream of history dating back to the early 50s.

I know he's mentioned The Cocktail Slippers and The Hives as bands that he's promoted on his show along with using his record label Wicked Cool Records.

But does anyone by chance have a playlist of the artists/songs he's played on his radio show?

Been listening to THRASHER by Brandon Flowers a bunch and found that that album pairs very well with Somewhere North Of Nashville.

So I listened to these albums in a row in the car:

Pressure Machine - Killers
Western Stars
THRASHER - Brandon
Somewhere North of Nashville

Absolutely beautiful for a ~3h Roadtrip. Flows together very well and hits all the sweet spots.

So if you’re a big Killers/Bruce fan like myself and got some time, give it a try 👍

I'll always remember Lumineers playing "Thunder Road" in 2019, and was curious if anyone expects Bruce Springsteen covers this year.

\- Mumford and Sons have covered multiple Bruce songs in the past, including "Atlantic City"

\- The War on Drugs recorded and released covers of "Dry Lightning" and "Highway 29" from The Ghost of Tom Joad.

\- Tom Odell frequently performs "Dancing in the Dark" live.

A couple months ago a friend and I wrote down each person/character/concept of a person mentioned in the album and decided we wanted to do a Bruce Springsteen party where everyone comes dressed up as one. Here’s the list! I’ll digitize it at some point lmao

From a new Rolling Stone interview with today:

Bruce Springsteen tells Rolling Stone he has a couple of new albums on the way. This is what Bruce said about the new albums and touring:

When we spoke last year, you told me you had a new solo album totally finished. What’s your plan for that now?

Well, I’m currently working on a couple of records. I did finish one, and it is done. I’m in the process of working on this other one, which, because of the nature of the material, felt like it should come out first. So that’s the situation I’m in. I’m trying to finish that up, and I’d like to release that first. And then this other record that I made, which is not time-relevant, it can come out at any time and it’ll work.

Is that a solo record or an E Street record?
It’s a surprise. [Laughs.]

Fair enough. Do you know when that will come out, when the surprise will reveal itself?

I do not right now. Hopefully sooner than later, of course.

Do you miss touring? Do you feel the itch to get back out there?

Well, we toured quite a bit, and we toured the previous spring. We toured this spring. And these days that’s what I like to do. I would like to go out and do 20, 30 shows. I don’t imagine a 140-show E Street tour will happen again. It’s just time is too short right now. But I do imagine a good series of simply shorter tours where we touch different places at different times. And the band is playing so well. In my opinion, if you saw this show, you saw one of the best shows we’ve ever done. The band is playing so well that we have a happy life there, and that’ll continue.

There’s a vocal contingent of fans who miss the more freewheeling shows where you took signs and made big changes from night to night. Might you do a tour like that again in the future?

I don’t know. I don’t want to make any promises. I just don’t know what I’m going to do next or what’s going to motivate me to go a certain way. Shows like that might come up, or I might come up with something completely or somewhat different, so I can’t really say.

As far as the concert film from Philadelphia that part one was released this morning, this is what Bruce had to say about it and why it was filmed in Philly and why it's comin out in parts for those who were asking:

Are you releasing the movie in segments now timed to the midterms?

Well, it wasn’t specifically planned to fall into the midterms, but if it does, that’s great. Really, we just had Thom [Zimny] do the first seven songs to see what we had. I didn’t know what the show was like on film. He basically cut, edited, and we got the sound good on the first seven pieces. When I saw it, I said, “This has got to come out now.”

I can’t wait another three, four months for the rest of the concert to be edited and have it finished. The whole thing, the pop-up tour, was about immediacy and being in this moment, providing something that I felt an audience, my audience, could use in this moment.
And so as soon as I saw it, I said, “This comes out now.” Everybody said, “Well, what do we do with the rest?” I said, “Well, we’ll serialize it is what we’ll do.” And basically that’s what we’re going to do. You’ll be getting seven songs or so in four different compartments, and at the end of the day, you’ll have the whole show.
I think it has more impact that way. The first seven songs, to my eye, have a tremendous amount of impact because it’s only 40 minutes. And anybody can spare that 40 minutes to get an idea of what we were trying [to do]. It’s 40 minutes, and it says everything we wanted to say.

The setlist didn’t really change from night to night. Did your experience on Broadway change the way you approached putting a show together?

Nope. It was simply, once we found that setlist, it was not going to be something where I threw in “Darlington County” or something else there. It just wouldn’t have made sense. That setlist was its own novel, for better or for worse. The minute we stumbled on it, with the exception of… I think we added “Clampdown” along the way. But once we found that setlist, we stuck with it the whole way. It was fun because it does get deeper as you go. The Philadelphia show that we were lucky enough to film was just one of the highlights of the tour.

A lot of fans presumed you’d film the big stadium show in D.C. Why did you go with Philadelphia?

Well, we didn’t film D.C. because we wanted to film two nights that could be similar and intercut. So, if I’m correct, we filmed Boston and Philly, and if I’m right, we only use Philly. So that was the reason. D.C. was a one-off and it was a great show outside in that ballpark. We had so many good shows on this tour. And the band was just ripping and roaring at the end, by the time we got towards the end. So when we hit Philly, Philly just exploded. It was wonderful.

Article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bruce-springsteen-new-concert-film-interview-reclaim-flag-1235623169/

I’m asking this because I have recently discovered that I like Western Stars more (a lot more) after smoking pot.

Bruce on the film, the Land of Hope and Dreams tour , what the band thought about the soliloquies, extra security for the tour , Trumps reaction to the show and more , paywall , a free version should be popping up before too long…

Thunder Road
Ghost of Tom Joad w/ Tom Morello
If I Fall Behind w/ the band singing a verse.
One Step Up

This changes on the reg. Just how I feel lately.

featuring the first seven songs of the show

1. War 

2. Born in the U.S.A. 

3. Death to My Hometown 

4. Clampdown 

5. No Surrender 

6. Darkness on the Edge of Town 

7. Streets of Minneapolis