Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band are the greatest Rock & Roll band in US history

If you haven't seen 'em, you should do yourself the favor. I am. For the eighth time. Monday night.

Second that.

The bar is now open. I'm going to have another scotch & water. I am psyched for St. Paul.

Rock and roll isn't about history

It's not some fucking museum piece

It's about living in the moment.

On certain nights Springsteen & the E Street Band might be the best rock & roll band.

On other nights it's some band playing their hearts out in a dive bar for a dozen people

Rock & Roll IS about history. From Holly on (notice how I didn't say Presley) it's our lives. We'll hook up in a couple of years when you get it.

It would be like starting a thread that says orange is the greatest color of all-time.

They get paid a lot of $$$ and wield a lot of power. Right or wrong it is what it is. We're coming up on 40 years of a rock-solid body of work, here. With that, and his concert performances, I don't think I'm out on a limb here. When all is said and done, most folks agree.

The dude from Almost Famous doesn't count since most of his income is from movies.

Besides, the most influential rock critic of all-time was Lester Bangs. As far as I know, he was indifferent about Bruce. His favorite bands were the Clash & ZZ Topp.

I haven't read everything Bangs ever wrote so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Mojo, Jon Parales of the NY Times. Tons of periodicals devoted to R&R out there. Bangs was just one of many. Creem was a great read, though.

Just trying to make you feel like the sports forum....they are very good though..not the best but very good

The best. No better. Ever seen them???

Though one of them, Nils Lofgren? Came into a store I worked at once

You'll thank me.

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I'm pumped. A three day weekend. Springsteen in St. Paul. Nuff' said! Love ya, man!

Good to hear from you. Who is?

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Lou Reed. I personally like Rock & Roll Animal a tad better.

BRUUUUUUCE!!!

I always go to Backstreets.com to see his setlists, but for this show- I haven't. A complete surprise.

Loved it! I've seen lots of bands through many years and Bruce Springsteen is the greatest performer I've ever seen.

At the show I just went to, he played for about three hours--no slowing down as he gets older. During the encore, he invited one of the guys from the Dropkick Murphys and his girlfriend to come up on stage. Dude proposed to his girlfriend, she accepted, then Bruce & co. played a song for them; I forget what the song was but I think it was about young love. Then he invited the rest of the Dropkicks to come up and the two bands did some songs together. It was pretty cool to see something that was only at that one show.

As long as he'll do tours, I'll see him. God knows how many he has left!

It was either my 8th or 9th time, I've lost count...still the best band I've ever seen live!

Before Born to Run was released...

He was pheominal then and the other two times I saw him live.

No discussion needed.

Have fun! A friend saw them a week or two ago in Atlanta-- opened with Badlands, said it was great show.

almost 34 years after my first E Street Band show (Auditorium Theater, Chicago, right after the release of Born to Run). They were actually better this time than shows I saw in '85, '02 and second of the 2 '78 shows ( on the other hand the 1st '78 show, also in Chicago is the single greatest concert I've ever seen).You are in for a treat! and I'm more than a little envious; I wish I'd had the time and money to see 'em at least 3 or 4 times on this tour. I took a friend who is one of the top jazz and blues singers in New Mexico ( and we have a lot more amazing players here than many people would think) who'd never seen the band ( saw Bruce solo once). The rest of the evening after the show she just just kept repeating " I'm blown away, I'm just blown away" over and over....

I went to college in Jersey, so how can I not agree?

not to love BRUUUCE!

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I have that t-shirt.

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Love em! Never had the chance to see them live, though.

"Adam Raised A Cain" (live, 1999): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMDI9tdyfbc

Like you say, the difficult case is proving they're not.

...the live version from Tramps (NYC), which ended up on the "Secret Garden" and "Blood Brothers" CD singles, and was played quite a bit on MTV at the time of his single-disc "Greatest Hits" CD (the song appeared there in its studio version):

The sucker has a well-deserved 5 stars from 505 ratings on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Ri8nKwUmM

He's done other versions of the song, but THIS one has it all...everyone is ON...I also like the somewhat "ominous" lighting and camera angles of the video.

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In my opinion, one of the greatest basslines of all time.

But our taste in music sucketh.

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Your recent thread proved that. :eyes:

I guess that's a start. I want to hear the details, Midlo. I've never seen anyone open for Springsteen.

inclined to grace you with details.

And, unless you were in New Haven in the early 80s? Yeah, you wouldn't have seen us.

But Bruce, et al were incredible. Nice, nice guys.

If you're talking about a couple of weeks ago, I have NO apologies. I tend to howl at the moon at times. The death of Bea Arthur really tore me up. Again, I've seen him since the mid-seventies and no one ever opened for him. You folks must of been something special.

Yes, we played a lot. And for people like Bruce and Beaver Brown and others who never made the national scene, but who were still great musicians.

But no great shakes. For me? as much as I loved it? it was a way to pay the bills so that I could pursue my real love.



My daughters would disagree. They would have taken that opening and run with it.

Obviously, you're real love. Secondly, how did you land the gig? What kind of music? You're very short on details for a historic performance. I'm serious about that.

Got the gig through a promoter called Mark Gentilaila (Sp?) in Middletown CT. Flash Groups was the name of his company. Great guy.

Classic rock.

I sang, played a little keyboards.

Bruce was a nice guy and it was obvious he was going to be huge. Clarence was also very nice to us. The guys in Beaver Brown were dicks and look where they ended up.

Toad's Place in New Haven. Next to Morey's (Sp) and Yorkside Pizza which had the best meatball grinder in America.

About 2 hour set. divided into three.

I'm still friends with the guys who roadied for us.

Anything else?

I don't remember what I wore, but it was probably jeans and a tie dye.

No way with a name like that, they even stood a chance. Nice chatting you up, Midlo. Now, I must be off to St. Paul. I don't know how many tours Springsteen has left in him but if he's within 500 miles, I'm there.

Too bad you never made it down to The Stone Pony.

:D

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Bruce and the boys have kicked major ass for more than 30 years. I still expect Clarence to blow a sax to pieces some day. That man is power defined.

In my opinion, greatest would have to be The Beatles. But Bruce is still up there with greats like The Rolling Stones, The Cars, Cheap Trick, U2, Blondie, The Bangles, The Kinks, R.E.M, Letters To Cleo, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Garbage...

I like how Bruce is incorporating an Orbison-like sound into his newest work.