From: owner-luckytown-digest@luckytown.org (LuckyTown Digest) To: luckytown-digest@luckytown.org Subject: LuckyTown Digest V9 #19 Reply-To: luckytown@luckytown.org Sender: owner-luckytown-digest@luckytown.org Errors-To: owner-luckytown-digest@luckytown.org Precedence: bulk LuckyTown Digest Saturday, June 15 2002 Volume 09 : Number 019 NOTE: Sale/trade posts should be emailed to luckytown-ads, *NOT* to luckytown. That includes tix wanted/tix grovels, post them to luckytown-ads, please. Contents: Steve says Bruce tour set for August kick-off [jp ] Little Steven's Underground Garage opens in Boston [jp ] Melissa Etheridge to perform "Streets of Philadelphia" ["Rhondda L. Ashby] "Bruce" on Kroger Muzak [MJQuarry@aol.com] song titles ["Eric Douglas" ] RE: LuckyTown Digest V9 #18 ["O'Hearn, Chris" ] Steve Van Zandt to be on NPR ["Elvan C. McMillen" ] Well done, Mr. Springsteen [JohnnyBilo@aol.com] anticipation [mendez@comcast.net] New CD Sound - Lost in the Flood [MJQuarry@aol.com] Rising [RMorrissey@ManagedOps.com] Nick Drake ["Lc." ] Springsteen <-> Schindell ["John Fix 3rd" ] Songs that should be played on the next tour [JohnnyBilo@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:19:00 -0400 From: jp Subject: Steve says Bruce tour set for August kick-off In an article touting a local station picking up his syndicated radio show, Steve Van Zandt spoke of the "year-long" tour. Excerpt below, entire article at http://www2.bostonherald.com/entertainment/television/stev06122002.htm "...Soon his schedule will only get worse. Or is that better? said he'll start a tour with Springsteen and the E Street Band in the second week of August that he expects will last more than a year. Though he didn't know specific dates or cities, he said the tour will start ``very, very close'' to the release of Springsteen's new disc ``The Uprising,'' due in late July. Van Zandt said the new disc ``is just terrific . . . very different, very interesting and absolutely tremendous. There are elements in it from every record we've done, but it's not like any of them.'' ``There is a very, very coherent theme throughout it. It deals with our state of mind as a culture in a post-Sept. 11 world. ``I realized as I listened to it all the way through that art really plays a vitally important role in our culture,'' he said. ``We're the only culture in the world that ignores art and treats it like a luxury, but here is a case where there is a feeling that we all have that can't be verbalized in normal speech, and after I listened to the record, that says it. Art can actually express the unspeakable. ``The new songs absolutely add up to something greater than the sum of the parts,'' he said. ``It's got that `Sgt. Pepper' kind of vibe, and I won't be surprised if that comes up in the reviews. This is the first time you'll hear traces of the Beatles' influence in the music, which has never been obvious before.'' - -- jp AOL IM "Plunkman99" ICQ # 7157610 I'm not 40-something. I'm $39.95, plus shipping and handling. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:19:13 -0400 From: jp Subject: Little Steven's Underground Garage opens in Boston From the Boston Globe 6/13/2002 Van Zandt tunes into garage rock By Clea Simon, Globe Correspondent, 6/13/2002 He conquered music as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as a solo artist. He confounded critics with his brilliant star turn as a cast member of TV's ''The Sopranos.'' Now Steven Van Zandt has turned to radio, and the results are likely to make just as much noise. This Sunday, ''Little Steven's Underground Garage'' makes its debut on WROR-FM (105.7). Like Van Zandt's television role, the two-hour program (10 p.m. to midnight), which was launched nationally in April, draws on a venerable tradition and adds a few twists. The musician-actor-DJ is not playing better-known classic rock, but staying strictly in the garage, with the raucous, guitar-based sound epitomized by such rough early-'60s gems as ''Louie, Louie.'' ''It's fun with substance,'' says Van Zandt, explaining a format that swings from '60s rockers such as the Troggs to contemporary groups including the Mooney Suzuki. ''It's hard to define, but there's something in these records that moves me. They inspire me; they motivate me. They may make me smile; they make me think. There's a celebration of life in these records.'' That celebration has survived 40 years, much of it without major radio airplay. While early innovators such as Van Morrison's Them broke through on rock radio, much of the garage revival started in the '80s has been relegated to college stations. Van Zandt now counts three generations of ''new garage,'' from bands such as the Fuzztones and the Chesterfield Kings up through such newcomers as the Swinging Neckbreakers. On ''Underground Garage,'' which he creates out of his home and the home studio of producer Dan Neer, Van Zandt mixes garage rock with other related sounds - from surf to punk, girl groups to psychedelia. The resulting playlists may have purists grumbling: How do New Wave bands such as Blondie or rockers such as Aerosmith fit with vintage music from the Kinks or the Wailers? ''The unifying element is the direct '60s influence,'' responds Van Zandt, naming the British Invasion and its American offshoots as his constants. Guitars dominate, he explains, and if there is any keyboard at all, it's likely to be a Farfisa or a Vox. Synthesizers are out. As is what he calls the ''homogenized distortion'' of contemporary hard rock. ''You know it when you hear it,'' says Van Zandt, who promises an all-Boston set - ranging from Barry and the Remains through J. Geils and the Lyres - within a few weeks. ''The biggest compliment I get is `I wasn't sure if that was an old song or a new song.' I love hearing that. This stuff is timeless. It was freaky then; it's freaky now.'' The show grows, in part, out of a series of garage-rock concerts Van Zandt helped produce in New York last year. But radio, he explains, has been on his mind for about five years, since New York rock station WNEW approached him about handling its programming. He responded with a proposal that would allow DJs to pick their own music, much as they did in the '60s and '70s. ''It was on that point that they wouldn't bend,'' he says. ''So I walked, and now they're a talk station.'' That failure of vision, he believes, is spread across radio. He blames the medium's corporate culture. ''All of radio now is based on familiarity,'' he says. ''That's the way it is with the corporate mergers; they have to maintain a consistent bottom line. When I grew up, everything was new. My two hours is really turning people on to new things. It complements what's going on with the rest of the station, [which plays classic hits]. ... I am playing maybe 25 percent things you won't know, and I think people are beginning to adapt to that. They're asking themselves not, `Do I know this?' but `Do I like this?' It's a bit of a process.'' http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/164/living/Van_Zandt_tunes_into_garage_rockP.shtml - -- jp AOL IM "Plunkman99" ICQ # 7157610 I'm not 40-something. I'm $39.95, plus shipping and handling. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:30:12 -0700 From: "Rhondda L. Ashby" Subject: Melissa Etheridge to perform "Streets of Philadelphia" From the Melissa Etheridge web site (http://www.melissaetheridge.com/news/): Melissa To Help Honor Tom Hanks! Melissa will perform a version of Bruce Springsteen's "Streets Of Philadelphia" at The American Film Institute's tribute to Tom Hanks. The AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute To Tom Hanks, a two-hour television event, will air Monday, June 24 at 9:00 p.m. ET on the USA Cable Network. (Check local listings for channel information) "Philadelphia," a pivotal film in Tom Hank's career recounting the trials of an upcoming lawyer stricken with the AIDS virus, brought the global crisis of the AIDS epidemic to a mass audience. Melissa was asked to pay tribute to this important movie and Tom Hank's performance by singing "Streets Of Philadelphia," the movie's theme song by Bruce Springsteen. From the USA Network page (http://204.29.171.80/framer/navigation.asp?charset=utf-8&cc=US&frameid65&lc=en-us&providerid2&realname=USA%2BNetwork&uid17862&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usanetwork.com%2F) the Tom Hanks' tribute will air on USA Networks at: Mon, Jun 24 9:00 PM ET Mon, Jun 24 11:00 PM ET Sat, Jun 29 5:00 PM ET please double check your local listings! *rhondda* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:07:02 EDT From: MJQuarry@aol.com Subject: "Bruce" on Kroger Muzak Attention Bruce Shoppers: Don't know if this has already been mentioned, but I was cruising through my nearby Kroger Grocery Store the other day and thought I recognized the beginning chords of a song being played over the speakers. It seemed a bit faster tempo than normal, but, nonetheless, sounded very familiar. And, upon starting the 1st verse, I heard the familiar lyrics of "Sad Eyes." It was not Bruce, however, but a female voice. I did not recognize her voice - - whoever she was (some studio or other musician/singer), she did do the song apt justice. Thought of all of my fellow LuckyTowners that you might find it interesting. Eagerly awaiting the new CD- Mark Quarry Cincinnati, OH [text/html attachment deleted] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:29:42 -0700 From: "Eric Douglas" Subject: song titles So there's a couple of new song titles with words Bruce has used previously. Is Bruce running out of song titles? Probably not. How about these that existed a long time ago? Streets of Philly/Streets of Fire Workin' on the Highway/Wreck on the Highway I'm on Fire/Streets of Fire/Fire Lucky Town/My Hometown Glory Days/Glory Road Man's Job/Real Man/Real World Something in the Night/Night/Prove it All Night etc. I think there are going to be plenty of common words (It's not like the word "shuffle" appears in a lot of song titles) that Bruce uses more than once, because his writing has always had certain kinds of imagery. Eric. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:02:51 +0100 From: "O'Hearn, Chris" Subject: RE: LuckyTown Digest V9 #18 Hi all, Dave said (ltd v9 #18) "It's been along time" since Bruce and the band released a full studio album. The more material he releases in the next 10 years, the better! Let's all just enjoy the "Summer of Bruce!" We don't know how many more of these we'll get! To bloody right. What is it with some people ?? If Bruce doesn't release an album he is not doing enough. Yet when he does release one it's still not enough. No wonder the guy has released only 3 studio albums in 15 years who could blame him if all he gets is this type of bullshit !! For a few years now I've read people bitching about this and moaning about that. They whine that he doesn't release an album in like 5 years and when he does it's a 4 cd boxset with only (sarcastically) 50 plus new songs on it. Or he hasn't toured enough and when he does he only does 5 shows (sarcastically) in Boston. I have seen Bruce on a total of 3 tours. 2 here in Australia - 85 & 87 and the last tour in the US where i dragged my ass all the way to Boston just to see. And on the new album ? I could not be happier, 15 new songs - shit I couldn't care less if it only had 10. This is a new Bruce Springsteen & The E St Band album, the 1st since 1987 (and some would say since 1984) and it is, my simple fact that it's being releaased, is brilliant. People - be grateful for what you have and for what you get. Surely the events of late last year has taught us something. Here endeth the lesson. Chris 'Faith Will Be Rewarded" PS - John & Bruce. Australia - It really is a lovely place......hint, hint. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:22:22 -0400 From: "Elvan C. McMillen" Subject: Steve Van Zandt to be on NPR For those of you who listen to NPR, I noticed that Steven Van Zandt is listed as an upcoming guest on the Fresh Air (with Terry Gross) website. No date specified. Once the show airs it will be available via the website. Here is the link: http://freshair.npr.org/ Elvan :^) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:18:25 -0400 From: JohnnyBilo@aol.com Subject: Well done, Mr. Springsteen Since I'm the guy that always complains (and frequently get my e-mails deleted before they ever make it here), I'd just like to say that even if The Rising the worst Springsteen record ever, it will be the most important. As I'd stated prior, since our culture is so media dependent, I feel strongly that it is our great artists' responsibility to help us interpret the new world American's live in. Bruce spoke out eloquently through his music about the marginalization of the working class, Vietnam, immigrants, AIDS, racism - all very important topics. It would have been inconsistent and dishonest to his canon to ignore this most important topic. I applaud Mr. Springsteen's courage. I hope this is the beginning of our pop culture icons addressing this vital topic. Unfortunately, not everyone reads the Op-Ed page of The New York Times... David in NYC ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:06:11 -0400 From: mendez@comcast.net Subject: anticipation After reading Little Steven's comments about the up coming disc all I can say is WOW! Bruce's best, most important and timeless work has been driven by current events unfolding at the time whether they be Three-Mile Island, Ronald Reagan, Amadou Diallo or now 9/11. To steal from the New York Times, Bruce is our "Steinbeck in Leather." From what I have read so far about the disc, knowing what Bruce is capable of and thinking about the "outside the envelope" approach that a new producer like an O'Brien brings to the table, I have a feeling we may be getting one of the seminal recordings of our time. Stay Hard, Stay Hungry, Stay Alive, Jon Mendez Secaucus, NJ [text/html attachment deleted] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:29:12 EDT From: MJQuarry@aol.com Subject: New CD Sound - Lost in the Flood Hey all- Just another quick take on the new CD. I, like many, was blown away by the sound of the band and their "re-introduction" of Lost in the Flood from Live In New York City. My belief is that is the type of sound (strength, power, levels, etc.) we just might be getting out of the new CD - especially with the new producer, etc. I kept playing Lost in the Flood over and over again, so if this is the case with the new CD, oh boy! Mark Quarry Cincinnati, OH [text/html attachment deleted] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:55:24 -0400 From: RMorrissey@ManagedOps.com Subject: Rising Hi All, You can currently pre-order "Rising" by Bruce Springsteen at both Amazon.com and BN.com. I thought the name of the album was unusual, since the other press releases called it 'The Rising" (by the way BN.com has it for a couple of bucks cheaper than Amazon) Rich [text/html attachment deleted] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 23:07:47 -0700 (PDT) From: "Lc." Subject: Nick Drake Simple, stunning introspection is certainly a hallmark of Bruce Springsteen's work, and the same can be said of Nick Drake. I'm sure most are familiar with his work, but I just wanted to point out that "Pink Moon" is one of the most haunting, stark, beautiful records I have ever heard. Along with "Darkness". Lane ====Dusted Vinyl Artist Management Chicago, IL - ------------------- http://www.dustedvinyl.com email: Lane@dustedvinyl.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:22:07 -0400 From: "John Fix 3rd" Subject: Springsteen <-> Schindell I have to agree with the comment in the last digest about Richard Schindell...excellent songwriter, cool voice (similar to Michael Stipe), and passionate performances. One of his songs, "Summer Wind, Cotton Dress", sounds like it's written from the perspective of boy from "Thunder Road". Chorus: "A summer wind, A cotton dress This is how I remember you best" The singer is now married to someone else, but looks back on that summer with longing. Compare to the vision of Mary dancing across the porch with her waving dress in Thunder Road, spending her summers praying in vain for someone to take her away. I know, it's a stretch.... :-) John www.cornells.com/bruce.htm PS - Check out Elvis Costello's "Rocking Horse Road" from Brutal Youth...also sounds like it's sung by the boy from Thunder Road many years later. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:08:09 -0400 From: JohnnyBilo@aol.com Subject: Songs that should be played on the next tour Anticipating 10 to 12 from The Rising every night, these should also be played: Lost in the Flood (anti-war and a highlight of LINYC) Rosalita (we need that release) Night (truthfully, the only song I'd like to hear from Born to Run, and it's about release, as well) The Promised Land (I believe, too - you have to) The Price You Pay ("a stranger passing through put up a sign that counts the men fallen away...") Independence Day (a better song about what it means to be American) Fade Away ("darlin' I don't want to fade away", plus its the other hit from the River) Nebraska ("They wanted to know why I did what I did/ Well sir I guess there's just a meanness in this world") Darlington County (it's a celebration, and its obvious; also, it fits with Rosalita) No Surrender (no, sir, not ever) Walk Like a Man (OK, I just love that song, and it appears the mood might be right) Souls of the Departed (the other war song) My Beautiful Reward (making peace with mortality) Across the Border (why that wasn't played on the last tour I don't know - I'd cry my eyes out if Nils went into a slide guitar in place of the violin) The Promise ("when the promise is broken...") Back in Your Arms Again (so appropriate, and a song that should be a hit) Blood Brothers (again, obvious) and for the final song of the night... Drift Away ("give me the beat boys and free my soul") I really, really don't want to hear Born to Run or Thunder Road or Badlands or Out in the Street or Land of Hope and Dreams. They're old news. David in NYC ------------------------------ End of LuckyTown Digest V9 #19 ****************************** ********************************************************************* ** LuckyTown WWW URL ** The LuckyTown FAQ, back issues, web-based subscription/unsubscription, and many other things can be found on the LuckyTown WWW Page: http://www.luckytown.org ** LuckyTown mailing list addresses ** You can send email to go into the next LuckyTown Digest to: luckytown@luckytown.org You can send email to go into the next LuckyTown-Ads Digest to: luckytown-ads@luckytown.org Any questions for the list admin should be emailed to: owner-luckytown@luckytown.org To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@luckytown.org with message body: unsubscribe luckytown-digest To get further information on how to subscribe/unsubscribe/change your subscription address, as well as the other available commands, send email to majordomo@luckytown.org with message body: help ********************************************************************* The contents of this digest are not necessarily approved by the list admin.