Why Bruce Springsteen should not be made the skipper of a nuclear sub
Posted on:: September 5th, 2003
According to an article by Steve Morse in today’s Boston Globe:
Surprisingly, the band members receive song lists from Springsteen only 20 minutes before each show. And Springsteen still often calls out audibles to shake things up. “Just recently we talked about doing `Roll of the Dice’ or `Lucky Town,’ and I had no idea which one he was going to call,” says [Nils] Lofgren. “Then he said, `Are you feeling lucky?’ “And of course, instead of thinking lucky as in `Lucky Town,’ I thought lucky as in `Roll of the Dice.’ So I picked up the wrong guitar and counted it off and I just plowed full tilt into the wrong song with the wrong instrument. When that happens, you have to have a sense of humor about it.”
Wonderful headline, David. The E Street Band obviously has to be well-versed and flexible. I’m sure the band finds this a little stressful, but the players deliver. I saw the Foxboro show in August and was impressed with how tight that group plays together. Their enthusiam and musicianship was as good as it was in ’84, although Clarence has lost a step. Wish I was going to Fenway this weekend.
Dan
Why Bruce Springsteen should not be made the skipper of a nuclear sub
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What about the rest of us? I was there to hear We Shall Overcome sung, by Pete Seeger and many others. I very eagerly awaited the release of The Seeger Sessions.
Whose brilliant idea was it to release this as a dual CD, of which the music side CANNOT BE PLAYED BY ANY OTHER THAN BRAND NEW SYSTEMS? I don’t want to upgrade my perfectly fine stereo stuff so I can hear songs which originally came through a scratchy microphone, or on a simple cassette tape.
To release this high-tech version of We Shall Overcome is to entirely miss the point of Seeger’s songs and the entire movement(s) they accompanied. These were PEOPLE’S SONGS.
I’m glad Bruce Springsteen and Sony are making a huge success with the concerts and the CD, but these have next to nothing to do with either Seeger or the Songs.
Does anyone know where I might get an ordinary CD with just the music, which I want to hear? Or have we who were there long before Bruce Springsteen been left in the commercial dust?
DL