Springsteen VI ~ A Dream Awaits in Aisle Two

[GirlsAloudFan]

Jake Clemons - Saxophone

Fucking awesome.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x8zBzxCwsM


don't quite get the whole posting of the lyrics in the video thing...

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I love this, beautiful cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgDn4-5sLIU&feature=player_embedded#

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

glen hansard

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

not the same quality, and not a video... but here's hansard and jake clemons doing drive all night as well, with a third vocalist... mr. edward vedder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_pbaMvUE8c

 

[IWasBored]

The Seeger tour was fun with the horns, so combining them with E Street should be cool.

while i missed that tour, i generally am in favor of a solid horn section. and that appears to be such.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I think it's long past due that this album leaked

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Rumor is he's opening the Grammys.

 

[martha]

It's not a rumor at all. This was in this morning's paper:

The spirit of Woody Guthrie and Occupy Wall Street course through "We Take Care of Our Own," which will open the show even though it is neither nominated nor a familiar classic.

Grammy's rehearsal hints at a promise of drama to come - Page 2 - theenvelope.latimes.com

 

[IWasBored]

which will open the show even though it is neither nominated nor a familiar classic.

they left out: but that doesn't matter--it's fucking springsteen. the e street band could play a singing of the phone book, and people will still tune in.

 

[martha]

I normally don't watch them, but I'll watch him at least, then turn it off.

 

[corianderstem]

So are we going to get the "all he's doing is shilling for the new album/he doesn't belong here tonight" complaints we got when U2 opened the Grammys with Boots a few years back?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

So are we going to get the "all he's doing is shilling for the new album/he doesn't belong here tonight" complaints we got when U2 opened the Grammys with Boots a few years back?

I feel like, to the general public, the Boss isn't as easily hateable as U2. So probably not.

 

[corianderstem]

I think I actually only heard those comments from U2 fans on this board, so that was more directed to the site in general.

But you are definitely not wrong.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Ha. People on here were saying "U2 shouldn't be at the Grammys!" in '09? Wow. People be crazy.

 

[corianderstem]

I think so, but I might be misremembering. I think it was a lot of "Yay, U2 .... but why are they there, exactly?"

There may have been a few more snippy comments like "they should pimp their album somewhere else and leave the spot on the show for someone nominated!" or something to that effect, like it was unseemly that U2 was performing their new song when they only there to do just that.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Yeah, I can see that.

I kinda remember watching it and being a bit nervous for them because deep down I didn't feel like "Boots" was a very good song, and I was hoping Bono wouldn't wear eyeliner (I hated the fact that he was wearing eyeliner at the time...hated, hated, hated it...seems silly now), and if I recall correctly it wasn't the greatest performance.

 

[corianderstem]

... and I was hoping Bono wouldn't wear eyeliner

I was right there with you on that one. Ha.

 

[Hewson]

if I recall correctly it wasn't the greatest performance.

Yet still the highlight of the Grammy's that year.

 

[martha]

Is he on?

 

[kellyahern]

^ Yes, he already finished. He opened the show.

 

[martha]

Thanks. It's tape-delayed here, so now I know what time to watch.

 

[Irvine511]

it was fine. standard Bruce, which is never bad.

 

[martha]

Yay! Then we can watch our Tyrone Power movie at 8:08 or so.

 

[martha]

2 and 1/2 months.

 

[corianderstem]

I liked that song better than I did the first time I heard it.

 

[deep]

I tuned in late and missed it, seeing what he has become only diminishes my many memories of how great he once was.

 

[Irvine511]

he still puts on a hell of a show.

 

[deep]

it pales compared to what I saw in the 70s and early 80s

 

[PhilsFan]

His show in 2008 was one of the best concerts I've ever been to