| Author | Message | ||
     jeffl Citizen Username: Jeffl Post Number: 319 Registered: 8-2001 |
I think I hear Chris Dickson starting up a wood chipper. I'm not going to answer my door and I would suggest the same for Sbenois and Straw. | ||
| Carl Thompson Citizen Username: Topcat Post Number: 39 Registered: 4-2003  |
Best live rock and roll band ever? The Rollingstones, of course, especially during the Mick Taylor era. End of story. | ||
| ML1 Citizen Username: Ml1 Post Number: 1530 Registered: 5-2002  |
the only thing I know is I've heard this story too many times to count: Person says they don't like Bruce, don't get it, etc. Person's friend drags them to a show against their will. By an hour into the show, said skeptic is on his/her feet, and a new convert to Bruce. So I'm curious -- how many of the people who say they don't like Bruce or think he's overrated have been to one of his shows? | ||
| jeffl Citizen Username: Jeffl Post Number: 320 Registered: 8-2001 |
Been there. Left at intermission. | ||
| bets Citizen Username: Bets Post Number: 487 Registered: 6-2001  |
On no, I think I'm going to be sick!  | ||
| Grateful Straw Citizen Username: Strawberry Post Number: 1889 Registered: 10-2001  |
Been there. left at intermission as well. Wharfie, You discount Brent Mydland? I know many do, but he was a better performer then Keith and Donna, sorry old timer, but that's a fact. He was also a stronger player then Pig Pen as well. Isn't it ashame that I also know more about Wharfie's favorite band then he does..  Look for awhile at the China Cat Sunflower proud-walking jingle in the midnight sun Copper-dome Bodhi drip a silver kimono like a crazy-quilt stargown through a dream night wind. | ||
| ML1 Citizen Username: Ml1 Post Number: 1531 Registered: 5-2002 |
at least you guys gave Bruce a try.  | ||
| dytunck Citizen Username: Dytunck Post Number: 153 Registered: 3-2001 |
Intermission at a Springsteen concert? That proves they've never been. Dytunck *** ** ** ***** ** ** ** ** ***** ** ** * ** *** * ** ** ** ** * *** * ** * * ** ** ***** * ** * ** * * *** ** ** * *** *** * * *** ** ** ***** ** ** | ||
| Carl Thompson Citizen Username: Topcat Post Number: 41 Registered: 4-2003 |
Good catch, Dytunck. At every Springsteen concert I've ever attended he just played straight through. | ||
| Ukealalio Citizen Username: Ukealalio Post Number: 408 Registered: 6-2003 |
I saw the Stones with Mick Taylor great shows great spectacle. Put them in a club setting and (again my opinion) NRBQ would wipe the floor with them. Keith Richard didn't ask Joey Spampinato to play bass in his Chuck Berry band for nothing. | ||
| Grateful Straw Citizen Username: Strawberry Post Number: 1890 Registered: 10-2001 |
41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots.... and we'll take that ride 'cross this bloody river to the other side 41 shots... cut through the night You're kneeling over his body in the vestibule Praying for his life Is it a gun, is it a knife Is it a wallet, this is your life It ain't no secret It ain't no secret No secret my friend You can get killed just for living In your American skin 41 shots Wow, those are some lyrics. What an amazing song. Just another example of why B.S. is nothing more than commercial sell out B.S. Gum ball music if you ask me. I still get Springsteen & Rick Springfield mixed up.. (plus not for nothing but if Dytunck is a fan, that says all you need to know about Springsteen's music..  )Look for awhile at the China Cat Sunflower proud-walking jingle in the midnight sun Copper-dome Bodhi drip a silver kimono like a crazy-quilt stargown through a dream night wind. | ||
| sbenois Citizen Username: Sbenois Post Number: 10669 Registered: 10-2001  |
I saw him New Years Eve 1980 at Nassau Coliseum when we played Twist and Shout in a tribute to John Lennon who had recently been murdered. He played 4 encores. It was a great show. But he's overrated. ---> Brought to you by Sbenois Engineering LLC <- Hey, it also wouldn’t look good coming out of a motel with your wife’s best friend saying you were just planning a surprise birthday party for her husband...- Arturo November '03 | ||
| jeffl Citizen Username: Jeffl Post Number: 323 Registered: 8-2001 |
You may be right about the intermission. It was Giants Stadium. We may have just walked out while he was playing. Can't remember. It was either 11 or 15 years ago. | ||
| Carl Thompson Citizen Username: Topcat Post Number: 42 Registered: 4-2003 |
Ukealalio makes a good point about distinguishing large-scale shows from club dates. And, of course, recordings are yet another dimension. The times I’ve seen Springsteen -- all in big concert halls -- he blew me away. But when I listen to his records, my reaction isn’t much more favorable than Straw’s. (His first two albums are the ones I can still get excited about.) As for club dates, once, in my youth, I saw Buddy Guy and Junior Wells together. I don’t reckon I’ll ever top that. | ||
| jeffl Citizen Username: Jeffl Post Number: 324 Registered: 8-2001 |
Miles Davis live in NY. Nothing better for my money. John McGlaughlin in Albany with Jean Luc Ponty. 2nd place. | ||
| vor Citizen Username: Vor Post Number: 156 Registered: 9-2003 |
OK for those of you who don't get Bruce....you never will. The Bruce shows of today, while great in their own right, will never top the Springsteen and the E Street Band shows of the late 70's early 80's PRE BITUSA, nothing will. ML1 talked about converts, I was one of them. My roommate loved The Boss, I didn't get it. OK Thunder Road was a great song but "Mary Queen of ARkansas". I went to his first show of the Darkness tour at the Spectrum in Philly. Before the first hour was over all I could say was "Wow" (had nothing to do with what was in my cup). He had control of the audience like no other performer. If he wanted you up, you got up, if he wanted quiet, you were quiet. But never did he command you with the spoken word. His vocals were all he needed. Then of course there were the 10 shows that opened the Meadowlands, especially #10. As for intermissions, in these early days he always had an intermission, that's because he played for 4+ hours and needed one. But those days are memories, and for those of you who never got the chance it's a shame. "I've seen the future of Rock and Roll, and his name is Bruce Springsteen" Dave Marsh circa 1976 | ||
| harpo Citizen Username: Harpo Post Number: 1095 Registered: 6-2001 |
I also think Bruce is waaaaayy overrated. He's a bit more interesting now, seeing himself as a middleaged survivor in the land of the rock'n'roll dead who owes his audience something honest, but let's face it: The guy's got no organic soul to call his own. (But I'm still not voting for sbenois for TC!) As for The Grateful Dead: Their unrepentant hippie act was their politics. (And their name was an enduring political statement in itself.) Intentionally or not they were an inspiration to the left, not the right, evidenced by the man who invented Cherry Garcia Ice Cream being the biggest funder of the anti-Bush organization True Majority. | ||
| Grateful Straw Citizen Username: Strawberry Post Number: 1892 Registered: 10-2001 |
The Dead never voiced their opinion on politics. They certainly led the counter-culture revolution and it was this angle that drew in fans year after year. However, when I was hitting show after show I did so with plenty of college buddies who were and continue to be Republicans. As a matter of fact, one of those friends is currently a top staffer for Pataki. As far as the millionaire Ice Cream hippie is concerned. Other then naming a popular product after Garcia, he has nothing to do with the Dead. Bruce SUCKS!!!!! Look for awhile at the China Cat Sunflower proud-walking jingle in the midnight sun Copper-dome Bodhi drip a silver kimono like a crazy-quilt stargown through a dream night wind. | ||
| wharfrat Citizen Username: Wharfrat Post Number: 943 Registered: 6-2001 |
Straw- It's best to know your history before opening your trap. The Dead played SNCC benefits, were the band de jour at Columbia in 1968, MIT in 1970. They paricipated in No Nukes concerts, raised money for the Rain Forest Coalition, supported Jerry Brown when he ran for governor of Ca., and Barry Commoner when he ran for Prez in 1980. I get a kick out of GOP squares like you, paying big bucks to go to GD concerts in the 1980's, thinking you were part of a truly unique experience, and then having the band take your money and using it to support political and socially responsible organizations you rail against! It doesn't get any better than that! | ||
| Ukealalio Citizen Username: Ukealalio Post Number: 410 Registered: 6-2003 |
I think Straw should keep supporting the Dead. This way part of the money he spends can get funneled, into causes he can't stand. There's a kind of justice to that. As far as Dead Heads being Republican, of that I have no doubt. There's a long history of, "Do as I say, not as I do" in the GOP. Remember, is was Dumbya's daddy who tried to use, "Born in the USA" as a campaign song (guess he never got past reading the lyrics in the chorus). Perhaps Dumbya was even a Dead Head in his drinkin and druggin days but now he's found god and wants to preach morality to us. What a joke. |
