Tramps Like Us...

[devildeac]

http://www.wral.com/original-born-to-run-lyrics-on-display-at-duke/13625807/


Now if someone could guarantee The Boss would sing the Alma Mater and perform Devil with the Blue Dress On, I might go to graduation:D.

[YmoBeThere]

http://www.wral.com/original-born-to-run-lyrics-on-display-at-duke/13625807/


Now if someone could guarantee The Boss would sing the Alma Mater and perform Devil with the Blue Dress On, I might go to graduation:D.
Quite a good bit of foreshadowing on his part to cover that song long before the birth of his daughter.

[lotusland]

I've grown to appreciate Springsteen from other listening to other artists cover his songs. His lyrics are often dark and his characters always flawed. The message is often lost in the loud "anthem" arrangements with the E St Band though. I like his stripped down solo stuff better. Ghost of Tom Joad is his best work imo but "Straight Time" and "Highway 29" couldn't be written by someone in their happy place.

[OldPhiKap]

I've grown to appreciate Springsteen from other listening to other artists cover his songs. His lyrics are often dark and his characters always flawed. The message is often lost in the loud "anthem" arrangements with the E St Band though. I like his stripped down solo stuff better. Ghost of Tom Joad is his best work imo but "Straight Time" and "Highway 29" couldn't be written by someone in their happy place.

I fought the Springsteen thing for years. Still not a big fan. But Nebraska and Ghost of Tom Joad are great.

If you like Joad but have not checked out Nebraska, do yourself a favor. Same stripped-down idea, but even more raw. Essential album, really.

[lotusland]

I fought the Springsteen thing for years. Still not a big fan. But Nebraska and Ghost of Tom Joad are great.

If you like Joad but have not checked out Nebraska, do yourself a favor. Same stripped-down idea, but even more raw. Essential album, really.

yeah I bought Nebraska on vinyl in HS when it came out but I wasn't mature enough to get it then. "Atlantic city" is the only song remember from that record. I need to circle back to it. I have "Devils and Dust' too but Joad is better imo.

[OldPhiKap]

yeah I bought Nebraska on vinyl in HS when it came out but I wasn't mature enough to get it then. "Atlantic city" is the only song remember from that record. I need to circle back to it. I have "Devils and Dust' too but Joad is better imo.

Listened to Nebraska last night after my post. Good stuff.

Now, need to pull out The Times They Are A-Changin' -- the root of it all.

(Okay, Bob built on Woody and Woody built on others -- but Times is the quintessential solo singer-songwriter album IMHO)

[devildeac]

I fought the Springsteen thing for years. Still not a big fan. But Nebraska and Ghost of Tom Joad are great.

If you like Joad but have not checked out Nebraska, do yourself a favor. Same stripped-down idea, but even more raw. Essential album, really.

Having been born and raised in NJ, I've followed Springsteen since Greetings from Asbury Park in 1973, but not rabidly. From the raw, rockin' early days to some, but not all recent releases. My collection includes all early stuff, some live releases and Tracks, the 4 CD set from 1998, so I've got the gamut of recordings I enjoy and a few things that just aren't very good. I've seen him once at Duke in 1976 and recently passed on seeing him again in Raleigh last month and Greensboro a year or two ago. Just couldn't justify $100+/ticket, even though my dear, sweet bride wanted to "surprise" me with the show for a summer birthday/anniversary. I'm inspired now. Time to put on a couple CDs to listen to as I catch up on some reading:D.

[OldPhiKap]

Having been born and raised in NJ, I've followed Springsteen since Greetings from Asbury Park in 1973, but not rabidly. From the raw, rockin' early days to some, but not all recent releases. My collection includes all early stuff, some live releases and Tracks, the 4 CD set from 1998, so I've got the gamut of recordings I enjoy and a few things that just aren't very good. I've seen him once at Duke in 1976 and recently passed on seeing him again in Raleigh last month and Greensboro a year or two ago. Just couldn't justify $100+/ticket, even though my dear, sweet bride wanted to "surprise" me with the show for a summer birthday/anniversary. I'm inspired now. Time to put on a couple CDs to listen to as I catch up on some reading:D.

The only time I saw him was solo acoustic on the Tom Joad tour, at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta. Very good show.

And, just because it is vaguely on-topic:

http://youtu.be/VKHV0LLvhXM

[77devil]

I'll report back with any Boss sightings this weekend. Too bad he's not the commencent speaker. Maybe he'd pull out the guitar.

[devildeac]

I'll report back with any Boss sightings this weekend. Too bad he's not the commencent speaker. Maybe he'd pull out the guitar.

Poor planning by our alma mater. They should have arranged a commencement speaker and singer.;)

[lotusland]

I mentioned up-thread that I came to better appreciate Springsteen's song writing by hearing my favorite songwriters cover him. Here's a few of my favorites if you have a few minutes to kill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boHnBtOiVp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQzPRXZciM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8NV-pWvd8g

[Olympic Fan]

I mentioned up-thread that I came to better appreciate Springsteen's song writing by hearing my favorite songwriters cover him. Here's a few of my favorites if you have a few minutes to kill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boHnBtOiVp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQzPRXZciM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8NV-pWvd8g

I'd prefer Patti to Patty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSVd8szH7Qk

Smith and Springsteen co-wrote "Because the Night" ... They actually recorded the song while working in side-by-side studios in 1978. Springsteen finished his version first, but didn't like it. He didn't use it at that time. He gave Smith the tape and she recorded it on her Easter album ...

Supposedly, Springsteen joined the Patti Smith group on stage at CBGB for the first public performance in late '77.

[weezie]

I'd prefer Patti to Patty


Recently read her book, Just Kids, and it was a great memoir. Very, very interesting.

[lotusland]

Recently read her book, Just Kids, and it was a great memoir. Very, very interesting.

Heard an NPR interview on Fresh Air as she was making her book tour about the memoir. She led a very interesting life. I had not been aware of her romance with Robert Maplethorpe. I'm not a great fan of her music though nor the song Because the Night. I'm more interested songs that tell interesting stories and/or create interesting characters. For me those characters tend to be unhappy and often suffer violent deaths. If lyrics can be considered poetry, I prefer the Townes Van Zandt variety.

Bruce is not bad, however, at creating poetry from violent death:


The wind came silent through the windshield
I all I saw was snow and sky and pines
Closed my eyes and I was runnin'
Yeah I was runnin' then I was Flying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db8uxbYC5uU

[YmoBeThere]

I mentioned up-thread that I came to better appreciate Springsteen's song writing by hearing my favorite songwriters cover him. Here's a few of my favorites if you have a few minutes to kill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boHnBtOiVp4

She says '59 Chevy in this video, I listened a couple times to confirm. Given that The Boss' lyrics were kinda off because Fuelie heads would not fit on a Chevy 396 Big Block, maybe it is fitting that she uses a different year.

[YmoBeThere]

I do enjoy when Bruce covers other people's music, in particular this one, less for singing and much more for the transition from Clarence on the sax to those playing strings:

http://youtu.be/tXL4b44Ncds

But there are times where no one can touch The Boss:

http://youtu.be/auxoh_SvSBE

[devildeac]

I'd prefer Patti to Patty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSVd8szH7Qk

Smith and Springsteen co-wrote "Because the Night" ... They actually recorded the song while working in side-by-side studios in 1978. Springsteen finished his version first, but didn't like it. He didn't use it at that time. He gave Smith the tape and she recorded it on her Easter album ...

Supposedly, Springsteen joined the Patti Smith group on stage at CBGB for the first public performance in late '77.

I've got the Patti Smith youtube video on speed dial because I've listened to it so many times:o. That is soooo good.

[DukieInKansas]

I don't know enough Springsteen apparently. The thread title always put's Cher's Gypsies, Tramps, & Thieves song in my head. Darn you, ear worm!:mad:

[moonpie23]

i thought it was a '69 chevy.....

the many times i've seen him, that's what it always came across as....

regardless, i'm pretty sure bruce owns MANY of the greatest lines EVER in rock n roll history.....



ps...just listened to my copy of Bruce Live at the Fox theater, Darkness on The Edge of Town tour.....78.........it's definitely "'69" ----just a little trivia, this show was the show that turned my life. After seeing him in Columbia SC (township auditorium), i skipped work (as a packaging engineer) and headed to Atlanta to take in another show.....it was so powerful, it was majestic, surreal, as if elvis himself had come down from on-high to deliver the "future of rock n roll's" crown to him personally......... I walked out plotting my escape from corporate america...

[NiceMarmot]

I'll report back with any Boss sightings this weekend.

Any luck? Can anyone tell from this pic where he was sittting?
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[lotusland]

i thought it was a '69 chevy.....

the many times i've seen him, that's what it always came across as....

regardless, i'm pretty sure bruce owns MANY of the greatest lines EVER in rock n roll history.....



ps...just listened to my copy of Bruce Live at the Fox theater, Darkness on The Edge of Town tour.....78.........it's definitely "'69" ----just a little trivia, this show was the show that turned my life. After seeing him in Columbia SC (township auditorium), i skipped work (as a packaging engineer) and headed to Atlanta to take in another show.....it was so powerful, it was majestic, surreal, as if elvis himself had come down from on-high to deliver the "future of rock n roll's" crown to him personally......... I walked out plotting my escape from corporate america...

I think Ymobethere's point was that Patty Griffin got the lyric wrong in her cover version.

[lotusland]

She says '59 Chevy in this video, I listened a couple times to confirm. Given that The Boss' lyrics were kinda off because Fuelie heads would not fit on a Chevy 396 Big Block, maybe it is fitting that she uses a different year.

I don't know what a Fuelie head is or a Chevy 396 except that it is also in this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivGgqnXytwY

[YmoBeThere]

A fuelie head was a cylinder head designed for a fuel injected Chevy engine, I'm not sure if they are meant from the mid-50's cars that had it or the later('60's) Corvettes that utilized fuel injection. Either way, those engines were small blocks versus the 396 big block that Messrs. Earle and Springsteen are singing about. Here 396 refers to the cubic inch displacement of the engine. Now we often talk in liters of displacement(approximately 61 cubic inches in a liter). A 396 placed in a relatively lightweight Nova body could be a pretty fierce contender on the drag strip particularly if some work were done to the components of said engine. It would still be a stout task for it taking on some of the more notable cars of the day, the Hemi 'cudas, LS-6 Chevelles, the Ram Air II Firebirds (http://youtu.be/t4u9llY1h-4) and of course the true King of the Strip, the L-88 Corvettes.

As can be seen in my posts in the LTE, I am a GM guy(grandfather and I both worked for them) but am also a double ABC(Anything but Chevy and Anybody but Carolina).

PS It should be noted that Bruce sings about a '32 Ford in some versions of this song. No idea when the Fords had fuel injection available.

[Turk]

"Because The Night" was in the last show...

http://brucespringsteen.net/2014?cat=8#setList

He's in Hershey PA tomorrow, only about an hour and a half from the Turk roost... But it's a school night and I don''t bounce back from these adventures the way I used to...

If it was Duke hoops, no brainer. Hmmm....

[lotusland]

A fuelie head was a cylinder head designed for a fuel injected Chevy engine, I'm not sure if they are meant from the mid-50's cars that had it or the later('60's) Corvettes that utilized fuel injection. Either way, those engines were small blocks versus the 396 big block that Messrs. Earle and Springsteen are singing about. Here 396 refers to the cubic inch displacement of the engine. Now we often talk in liters of displacement(approximately 61 cubic inches in a liter). A 396 placed in a relatively lightweight Nova body could be a pretty fierce contender on the drag strip particularly if some work were done to the components of said engine. It would still be a stout task for it taking on some of the more notable cars of the day, the Hemi 'cudas, LS-6 Chevelles, the Ram Air II Firebirds (http://youtu.be/t4u9llY1h-4) and of course the true King of the Strip, the L-88 Corvettes.

As can be seen in my posts in the LTE, I am a GM guy(grandfather and I both worked for them) but am also a double ABC(Anything but Chevy and Anybody but Carolina).

PS It should be noted that Bruce sings about a '32 Ford in some versions of this song. No idea when the Fords had fuel injection available.

Well I'm not a car guy but I do like songs about cars. Steve Earle is definitely a Chevy guy. Almost all of his car references are Chevrolet with the exception of a "big block Dodge" in Copperhead Road and a couple of Coupe DeVille references in his early Rockabilly songs.

[moonpie23]

related to "king richard", so i was Mopar….

[tommy]

But there are times where no one can touch The Boss:

http://youtu.be/auxoh_SvSBE

That song, and in particular the Big Man's solo, always sends chills down my spine. Thanks for that clip. One of the best of the best.