MUS
Active topics
  1. I'm not sure there will be one.
  3. Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes Liner Notes

    I was working on a record of some of our best unreleased material from the past decade when Tom Morello (sitting in for Steve during the Australian leg of our tour) suggested we ought to add "High Hopes" to our live set. I had cut "High Hopes," a song by Tim Scott McConnell of the LA based Havalinas, in the '90s. We worked it up in our Aussie rehearsals and Tom then proceeded to burn the house down with it. We re-cut it mid tour at Studios 301 in Sydney along with "Just Like Fire Would," a song from one of my favorite early Australian punk bands, The Saints (check out "I'm Stranded"). Tom and his guitar became my muse, pushing the rest of this project to another level. Thanks for the inspiration Tom.

    Some of these songs, "American Skin" and "Ghost of Tom Joad," you'll be familiar with from our live versions. I felt they were among the best of my writing and deserved a proper studio recording. "The Wall" is something I'd played on stage a few times and remains very close to my heart. The title and idea were Joe Grushecky's, then the song appeared after Patti and I made a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. It was inspired by my memories of Walter Cichon. Walter was one of the great early Jersey Shore rockers, who along with his brother Ray (one of my early guitar mentors) led the "Motifs". The Motifs were a local rock band who were always a head above everybody else. Raw, sexy and rebellious, they were the heroes you aspired to be. But these were heroes you could touch, speak to, and go to with your musical inquiries. Cool, but always accessible, they were an inspiration to me, and many young working musicians in 1960's central New Jersey. Though my character in "The Wall" is a Marine, Walter was actually in the Army, A Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry. He was the first person I ever stood in the presence of who was filled with the mystique of the true rock star. Walter went missing in action in Vietnam in March 1968. He still performs somewhat regularly in my mind, the way he stood, dressed, held the tambourine, the casual cool, the freeness. The man who by his attitude, his walk said "you can defy all this, all of what's here, all of what you've been taught, taught to fear, to love and you'll still be alright." His was a terrible loss to us, his loved ones and the local music scene. I still miss him.

    This is music I always felt needed to be released. From the gangsters of "Harry's Place," the ill-prepared roomies on "Frankie Fell In Love" (shades of Steve and I bumming together in our Asbury Park apartment) the travelers in the wasteland of "Hunter Of Invisible Game," to the soldier and his visiting friend in "The Wall", I felt they all deserved a home and a hearing. Hope you enjoy it.
    —Bruce Springsteen

  4. I'm leading myself by this comment:
    Originally posted by bartajax:According to a Dutch website, tomorrow the name and date for the new album will be official, just as a new tour will be announced.

    Since the first part of the statement (date and name of the album) was true, I was assuming the second one would be as well. I hope it is, at least!
  5. Steve can't play between Feb and June and Jake has March and April off. I wouldn't hold your breath, that's all I'm saying.


  6. 1974-03-03 - GASTON HALL, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DC

    Late (second) show: WILD BILLY'S CIRCUS STORY (5.30) / NEW YORK CITY SERENADE (15.00) / SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT (5.57) / THE E STREET SHUFFLE - HAVING A PARTY (5.16) / WALKING THE DOG (14.44) / 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) (6.22) / IT'S HARD TO BE A SAINT IN THE CITY (4.01) / KITTY'S BACK (10.59) / FOR YOU (9.28) / ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT) (9.03) / LET THE FOUR WINDS BLOW

    Anyone got audio to this show?

    (David Sancious is 60 today)
  7. The River & WIES show MSG 2009 are about my favorite Springsteen recordings. Setlist, performance and audio.

    As far as I know are these the only complete River and WIES shows.

    Does someone know other Springsteen shows with many The River/WIES songs?
  8. 1980-05-11 Tempe has about 16 River songs from memory
  9. The show I posted above has six WEISS songs
  11. I have some boots from the boss , but i don t have an official cd ( expect a greatest hits) , can some tell me wich one is the best to kick off my new madness ?
  12. Originally posted by patou2:I have some boots from the boss , but i don t have an official cd ( expect a greatest hits) , can some tell me wich one is the best to kick off my new madness ?

    My all time favorites darkness on the edge of town born to run and the river
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.