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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #30 on: May 28, 2012, 10:00:22 PM »
I only know two of his albums really well, "The Rising" and "Wrecking Ball". Need to dive into his back catalogue now... I really liked "Youngstown" live, so maybe I should try "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" next?

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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #31 on: May 29, 2012, 07:09:58 AM »
No, you should try all his albums up until 1984 (Born in the USA). His second album "the wild, the innocent and the E street band" is by far my favorite, but all the albums up until 1984 are great as a whole. The rest are good, above average, but have many weak moments.
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #32 on: May 30, 2012, 11:59:49 AM »
is the E STREET SHUFFLE

 ;D ;D ;D

I like ALL his records until THE RISING, thats the last record that its really good, the rest are ok, but thats all.

I find Wrecking Ball really boring, the worst record by far in years.
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #33 on: May 30, 2012, 05:43:24 PM »
is the E STREET SHUFFLE



Thanks for the correction. The wild, the innocent and the E street shuffle. I am getting old. :'(
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #34 on: June 07, 2012, 11:03:58 PM »
Just wondering: Have MK and Bruce ever met??

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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #35 on: June 08, 2012, 08:00:19 AM »
Just wondering: Have MK and Bruce ever met??

I read somewhere that they met in NY years ago, something like "Hello, how are you , thanks, nice to meet you, bye"
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #36 on: June 08, 2012, 02:51:07 PM »
Just wondering: Have MK and Bruce ever met??

I read somewhere that they met in NY years ago, something like "Hello, how are you , thanks, nice to meet you, bye"
anyone got more details, this does interest me a bit..
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #37 on: June 09, 2012, 05:32:56 PM »
Just wondering: Have MK and Bruce ever met??

I read somewhere that they met in NY years ago, something like "Hello, how are you , thanks, nice to meet you, bye"
anyone got more details, this does interest me a bit..

I think I read it in Michael Oldfield's book.
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #38 on: June 10, 2012, 01:53:08 AM »
Just realized I have, and like it very much, this Pete Seeger sessions cd. Good stuff!
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #39 on: June 10, 2012, 10:52:15 PM »
We caught the Seeger Sessions tour in Manchester. We'd been away and came back to find it was on imminently but we had no tickets, the box office had none and the internet prices were a bit steep.  I can't recall exactly why we missed news of the show but I contacted someone I've met who'd organised some Springsteen fan things in the past and he was able to turn up a couple of tickets - not the best seats but not too bad. I was really glad we made the effort because it was a fun show.

In Berlin recently, Springsteen opened with "When I Leave Berlin", a song written by an old folkie called Wizz Jones - in fact, the title song from one of his CDs. I saw Wizz Jones quite a few times in my youth and he was a classic folkie - bearded, spent his life playing mainly small folk clubs around the country, used to go hitch-hiking down to the south of France and to Paris, busked a bit, played all sorts of songs from here, there and everywhere, wrote a few himself, was in folk-cum-bluegrass duo with someone called Pete Stanley for a while (saw them, too) and has been in and around the British folk scene for decades.

I'll stick him the "Unknown Greats" thread with a reference to this post.

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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #40 on: June 11, 2012, 05:32:52 PM »
At first I wanted to write that the thief that is Bruce stole the melody from "his" song "Shenandoah" from our beloved Knopf, until I entered the title into YT and realized it originates from an American trad. Arrangement, so who ripped of who here? That Pete Seeger sessions cd is reaaaaaaly good folks. Pay me my money down --> brilliant!
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #41 on: June 11, 2012, 11:34:01 PM »
At first I wanted to write that the thief that is Bruce stole the melody from "his" song "Shenandoah" from our beloved Knopf, until I entered the title into YT and realized it originates from an American trad. Arrangement, so who ripped of who here? That Pete Seeger sessions cd is reaaaaaaly good folks. Pay me my money down --> brilliant!

Thanks for the hint, listening to it right now ("Pay me my money down"). Nice indeed! I could well imagine Bruce and MK play that one together.
Oh and "Shenandoah" sounds very MK-ish indeed.

EDIT: This one ain't bad either!

 
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #42 on: June 12, 2012, 01:45:45 AM »
"Oh Shenandoah" has a long history. Just look at the list of recordings here:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Shenandoah

It's a sea song, a shantey, a chant-song essentailly, so it's no surprise that you can hear it as a song that sounds MK-ish, given some of the songs on the forthcoming "Privateering" album.

I might also add that it appears in "Folk Songs of North America", a compendium of some 300 songs (with lyrics, music and a brief commentary on each) compiled by Alan Lomax, whom I mentioned in the "Richard Bennett" thread earlier this evening.

A further addition: Described as one of the best known of the windlass songs, it is mentioned, under the title "Shanandore", in an article on "Sailor Songs" by William L. Alden in HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE for July 1882. The same issue reported "The French captured the city of Ha-Noi in Southeastern Asia, May2, after two hours bombardment", with all that meant for the twentieth century, as well as reporting the death on April 20 of Charles Edward Darwin at Down House, Orpington, Kent and the death on April 27 of Ralph Waldo Emerson at Concord, Massachusetts.
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #43 on: June 16, 2012, 09:55:38 PM »
I got the Seeger Sessions and played it in my car for a couple of days, there are some true gems on it but then it got on my nerves. Can't really say why, probably because the instrumentation with banjo and all gets a little difficult to listen to after ten or so songs in the same style... I really like the idea and the production, though. However, now I'm stuck with "The Rising" and "Wrecking Ball" again. Waiting for my colleague to return from vacation, he wants to borrow me some Springsteen bootlegs  ;D

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Re: Bruce Springsteen
« Reply #44 on: July 12, 2012, 10:23:46 PM »
Update: After a brief excursion with "Magic" (not THAT bad, some nice songs on it, I like "Radio Nowhere e.g.) I now got some Springsteen boots from my colleague. Currently listening to a recording of the 2005 acoustic tour. Wow, now that's pretty intense, nice stuff  :)

 

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