Any fans of The Boss here?

Good musician preferred his early stuff. But great live act with the E Street. RIP Clarence.
 
The first four albums are brilliant, some in between are variable due to changes in style and explorations of other ways of playing and song writing. However, the last album saw a real return to top form. have you heard it?

As for live, they are the best live act in the world, no argument.

 
Can't say I have Hitch. I think Darkness on the Edge of town is one of the truly great albums.


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Innispurs - 19/9/2013 23:01

On this site, we take care of our own, wherever this flag is flown.
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There is a pretty straight line back from Bruce to the man in your picture.

You familiar with the Seeger Sessions Album?
 
..and the Live in Dublin - on which, if you listen real close, you can hear me singing from the audience!
 
spurdon - 19/9/2013 23:22

Can't say I have Hitch. I think Darkness on the Edge of town is one of the truly great albums.


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My favourite album changes depending on how I am feeling. Born To Run takes some beating since someone suggested that you listen to it as a suite of stories spread across one city on one hot July night, culminating in the epic, awesome Jungleland.

Outside the streets on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here don't write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be
Then in the quick of the night
They reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded and not even dead
Tonight.........in..........Jungle.........land.
 
Innispurs - 19/9/2013 23:29

..and the Live in Dublin - on which, if you listen real close, you can hear me singing from the audience!
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I missed that tour, at the time I was listening to other stuff (my son went and loved it), then I saw the DVD. Wow, was he enjoying himself with that band! I am not sure I have ever hear music played with such vigour and joie de vivre!

 
spursgirl_4_life - 20/9/2013 09:24

I saw him at Wembley Stadium in July. He was awesome. 3 1/2 hours not-stop.
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I managed to get to Coventry a few days later, where I was fortunate enough to hear Born To Run played start to finish.

Just read a great quote from Steve Earle

"The thing about Bruce is he turns a 22,000 arena into a coffee house"
That is so, so true, how can a stadium gig be intimate. It should be physically impossible.
 
HitchSpur - 19/9/2013 21:02

the only thing (family excepted) that gets as much attention in my life.

Different class.
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Did you see him at Villa Park?

I managed to get free tickets. My brother said he felt the vibrations from miles away!
 
spur67 - 20/9/2013 10:13

HitchSpur - 19/9/2013 21:02

the only thing (family excepted) that gets as much attention in my life.

Different class.
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Did you see him at Villa Park?

I managed to get free tickets. My brother said he felt the vibrations from miles away!
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No mate, circumstances have been such that it was not possible until this year (though I did see him back in the 70"s and 80's)

Not surprised you could feel the vibrations, the E Street Ban packs a considerable wallop!
 
I saw him play an extended guitar into accompanied only by Clemmons on triangle (think it was prove it all night) when I was a teenager. I brought a strat the same week and never looked back.
 
Actually becoming a lead guitar player was my top concern Galvin. And he plays an Esquire Maple with a black gaurd I'm pretty sure

 
Galvin's Shinpads - 20/9/2013 17:21

He's a tele player!

It's grand as it is but it's more Dinosaur ballads.
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Not that much of an anorak but confident it's the one on Born to run and the greatest hits. One of the smartest things my teacher imparted was that the instrument was secondary to the technique and imagination of the musician.
 
spurdon - 20/9/2013 17:33

Galvin's Shinpads - 20/9/2013 17:21

He's a tele player!

It's grand as it is but it's more Dinosaur ballads.
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Not that much of an anorak but confident it's the one on Born to run and the greatest hits. One of the smartest things my teacher imparted was that the instrument was secondary to the technique and imagination of the musician.
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How true! :35:
 
He was quality mate he had MS and was in a wheel chair even then, his eyes had started to go slightly but a fantastic musician. Always felt bad I never stayed in touch but you know what it's like when you're a kid...
 
He was quite right even more, it is not about he musician but what the musician has to say. In my view there is no doubting hat Clapton is a very good technical musician, but for me at least h had very little to say.

To me Sprongsteen is the bes 'storyteller' songwriter there has ever been. He does not just tell you the Tory, he invites you in o see he story through the eyes of the people in the song.
 
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