Daily Email, Re: The Boss (no, the good one)
August 2, 2022 8:07 AM   Subscribe

Are you a fan of Bruce Springsteen? I mean, are you really a fan of Bruce Springsteen? Like, do you want a daily reminder of the important events in the life of Bruce Springsteen? Then welcome to E Street Shuffle.

Subscribers get a couple of emails a day, in particular Kingdom of Days, which tells you what Springsteen was up to on that particular day in history -- from Little League to stadium concerts.

Other entries include:
  • Cover Me, bringing you Springsteen songs from other artists (from a cranked-up State Trooper to a stripped-down The Wrestler) and other artists' songs that Springsteen occasionally essayed (such as occasional sound-check and eventual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame tribute Crying).
  • Roll of the Dice, a deeper look at individual Springsteen songs from his biggest hits to improvised piffles.
  • Meeting Across the River, featuring Springsteen's collaborations, from professionally produced singles to fuzzy bootlegs of sole performances.
  • posted by Etrigan (14 comments total)

    This post was deleted for the following reason: Poster’s request -- travelingthyme



     
    Days: sweating it out on the streets of a runaway American dream

    Nights: riding through mansions of glory on suicide machines

    Doesn't that about cover it?
    posted by Halloween Jack at 8:20 AM on August 2, 2022 [8 favorites]


    I sort of met Bruce once. I was down in Redbank on business. I stopped in a bar/restaurant for a burger and a beer. Being alone, I was going to sit at the bar. Closer to the beer! Anyway, I walked in and it appeared as if all or most of the seats at the bar were taken. Then this person stood up to leave. I walked up to them and asked them if they were leaving. Then I actually looked up and paid attention and it was Bruce. I stammered something about the Boss, his music and something else that made no sense. He just looked at me, turned to the bartender and said, "This guy needs a beer!" and walked out.
    posted by JohnnyGunn at 8:36 AM on August 2, 2022 [10 favorites]


    Unsurprisingly, no entry yet for Culturecide's sarcastic and very of-its-time parody "Bruce" [YT] which should count as a sort-of cover song, no? :)
    posted by bigendian at 8:50 AM on August 2, 2022 [1 favorite]


    Just sent this link to my Bruce-loving BFF SO FAST.
    posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:54 AM on August 2, 2022


    For only $5000/ticket, you too can see the Boss live!
    posted by viborg at 9:09 AM on August 2, 2022 [2 favorites]


    This month's Mojo is all Bruced-up too. His best song, the mag decides, is Racing in the Street.
    posted by Paul Slade at 9:33 AM on August 2, 2022


    Damn! Viborg's dynamic commenting beat me to the punch!
    posted by y2karl at 9:36 AM on August 2, 2022


    Which makes me nostalgic for having to pay $5 per ticket for the 1974 Bob Dylan & the Band concert at the Seattle Coliseum back in the day. Oh wait! I also paid $5 per ticket to see the Boss at the Paramount in 1972 -- where it was about 90° indoors. Sweatiest live show ever for all attending!

    My record ticket price previous to that was $3 for seeing Ouicksilver Messenger Service & the Greatful Dead (with Pigpen!).at Eagles auditorium in 1968.
    Oh, how far the microscopically powerless have fallen!

    posted by y2karl at 9:56 AM on August 2, 2022 [6 favorites]


    Isn't it like $500 for a ticket now, or more? Some champion of the working man...
    posted by tiny frying pan at 10:55 AM on August 2, 2022


    On my exact birthday, “Bruce and some of his bandmates catch The Blues Magoos and The Who opening for Herman’s Hermits at Convention Hall in Asbury Park.”

    Well, that’s kinda cool… wait, hold up. The Who opened for Herman’s Hermits?
    posted by scratch at 11:31 AM on August 2, 2022 [2 favorites]


    I paid £10.50 for a Rolling Stones ticket at London's Wembley Stadium in June 1982. That would've been worth about $18 at the exchange rates of the day.

    Back in 1978 when I was going to a lot of UK punk gigs, £2 was about the most I ever paid for a ticket. I remember we all made scornful remarks about a coming Buzzcocks gig that year when they made a big deal of "keeping ticket prices down" to £2.50.
    posted by Paul Slade at 11:35 AM on August 2, 2022 [2 favorites]


    Isn't it like $500 for a ticket now, or more? Some champion of the working man...

    See also

    posted by y2karl at 11:56 AM on August 2, 2022


    Heaven forbid anyone share anything that brings a modicum of pleasure.
    posted by Etrigan at 3:42 PM on August 2, 2022 [1 favorite]


    Well, perhaps dynamic pricing explains the 20 odd folks in four rows of onstage box seats just behind the side curtains when I saw Lucinda Williams and Bob Dylan at the 1998 State Fair in Puyallup, not to mention the way he occasionalky bobbed and strutted in their direction like an eccentric grandpa dancing for his kids' kids. That box of seats was just off stage at every concert of his I attended thereafter, save perhaps for the last time I saw him when Amos Lee and Merle Haggard were the openers in 2005.
    posted by y2karl at 5:04 PM on August 2, 2022


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