baby baby baby light my way
Only they could manage to pull this off.
latest:
the excitement gang
I used to dream about seeing the Clash live again. When I say “dream” I mean not that I used to wish out loud for it, but that I would have these vivid dreams about seeing them. In daylight, I never ever thought about it - but in dreams, it would come. I was always standing towards the back of Key Arena in Seattle, the floor was GA, and the lights were red and I was hot and sweaty and jumping around and I’d turn around and run into someone I knew - sometimes it was Mark Arm from Mudhoney, sometimes it was Beth Liebling, sometimes it was just friends of mine, people I knew. It didn’t surprise me that everyone was there because it would be hard for me to know someone who wouldn’t drop everything to go watch the Clash play again.
The dreams stopped happening after December 23, 2002.
Badlands from Glastonbury. And it was only hearing that he opened with “Coma Girl” and hearing this dedicated to Joe that I realized the whole reason behind this Glastonbury outing - it was one of Joe Strummer’s favorite places in the world.
ben, the two of us need look no more
It was 1971. It was a little tiny town in Michigan . It was me, and a little black GE transistor radio. It was me, and a brand new school. It was me, and my friend Linda Fisher, who could dance, trying to teach me how to dance like the Jackson Five did in their Saturday morning cartoon.
behind the scenes
I scored two tickets behind the stage, in Roy’s corner, at 11:20am the morning of the Nassau Coliseum show. It takes a lot to have me in a state of total freak out the entire time at a Springsteen show, but these seats did it. I wanted to talk about what it’s like to sit behind the stage.
expressway to your heart.
I got the best fucking seats in the WORLD in the drop this morning.
this land is your land
Pete Seeger’s 90th Birthday Party
3 May, 2009
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I find it delightful that I knew almost every word to almost every song tonight, and that I learned almost every song at Girl Scout camp (including improbable things like “The Union Maid” - who dragged that out to a bunch of 10 year olds? And why? Was [...]
bs.net
4/29 review is up on brucespringsteen.net. And some of you may have heard me on with Dave Marsh this morning, talking about Joe and May Day and “London Calling” on Live From E Street Nation.
It’s been quite a week.
LONDON CALLING.
Yes, there will be a report. However, I had to file for brucespringsteen.net last night, so the longer, more personal report will wait. Tonight or tomorrow. Thank you for your interest.
i wanna be sedated
(updated with another, better video)
Springsteen. Boston. The boyfriend is watching the setlist and says, “Ever heard of a song called, ‘I Wanna Go Out With You’?”
I shake my head no, and go back to watching the game.
15 minutes later, he pauses before saying, “Well, it says here that they just played “I Wanna Be Sedated”.
“WHAT”
“It says it right here.”
“NO”