Bruce Springsteen News

E Street Band Gitarrist und Sirius Satellite Radiomoderator Steven van Zandt wird am 21. Oktober 2011 seine 500. Radioshow Live aus dem Hard Rock Cafe in New York City, NY präsentieren. Mit von der Partie sind Gäste wie zum Beispiel Debbie Harry, Darlene Love, Garland Jeffreys, Jesse Malin, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tim Robbins, Steve Buscemi und “Big Pussy” Vinny Pastore.

Die Show wird natürlich Live im Internet ausgestrahlt und kann wenige Tage später kostenlos auf Little Stevens Underground Garage Homepage abgerufen werden.

Die offizielle Pressemeldung:

Underground Garage’s 500th Show
Little Steven’s Underground Garage debuted April 7, 2002 on 23 radio stations, it was a celebration of all things cool, especially all 60 years of Rock and Roll.
From Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry, to the Stones, the Who and The Beatles, from the Shangri-Las and The Chiffons to The Runaways and Blondie, from The Beach Boys and the The Byrds to the Ramones, and The Hives, from Eddie Cochran to Jack White, and everything in between.
Throw in a dash of B-Movies, 60′s psychedelia, Rat Fink, Film Noir, Pin-up girls, motorcycle gangs, pop culture, cartoons, muscle cars, twinkies, and Go-Go Girls and you have Little Steven’s Underground Garage.
Fast Forward to October 2011-  and the show is now broadcast on 148 stations in over 200 markets and internationally in Canada, Italy, Norway, Spain, Ireland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, the American Forces Network, and the Voice of America Music Mix Network. 1500 bands, over 3000 songs (and that’s not including the cool musical beds!), hundreds of Freaks of the Week, 3 national tours, a festival, dozens of concerts and band battles, 10 albums, TV Specials, 499 Coolest Songs In The World later and we have to come to Show 500.
Freaks, misfits, and outcasts come join us to celebrate this milestone October 21st -  Live at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square.
Little Steven will be there spinning songs from the 500th episode along with interviewing some special guests including Billie Joe Armstrong, Debbie Harry, Darlene Love, Steve Buscemi, Tim Robbins, Jesse Malin, Garland Jeffreys, and Vinny “Big Pussy” Pastore, plus video tributes, and some surprises!!!
This a FREE event – we are not selling tickets.
If you and a guest would like to attend please email your FULL NAME / city and state / and let us know if you are bringing a guest (we don’t need their name) to ugparty@undergroundgarage.com

Mehr Infos:

• Little Stevens Underground Garage: “For Clarence”
• Update: “Little Steven’s Underground Garage”: Interview mit Bruce Springsteen
• Little Steven / Stonepony.de
• Von den Castiles bis zur E Street Band

Presseberichte zu den Bruce Springsteen Auftritten am Samstag (wir berichteten):

The Star-Ledger schreibt:

At Light of Day 11 in Asbury Park, Springsteen plays benevolent king
Jesse Malin looked like he’d just won the lottery.
His performance at the eleventh Light of Day had already been going well — he’d told the audience to stand up and get boisterous, and the crowd at the sold-out Paramount Theater in Asbury Park was happy to oblige him.
And just before the New York rocker’s set concluded, Asbury Park’s own homegrown superhero emerged from the shadows, strapped on a guitar (slung low for maximum hip-swinging effect) and launched into the high harmonies on Malin’s “Broken Radio.”
Bruce Springsteen was back home. And he was just getting warmed up.
… weiterlesen

Asbury Park Press schreibt:

Springsteen highlights Asbury Park’s marathon “Light Of Day’ show for Parkinson’s disease
It must be like an unquenchable thirst.
Each time he came on stage to join another performer, Springsteen was unobtrusive, but seemed ever more reluctant to leave, until finally he just stayed, which is what everybody wanted anyway. There he was, in a plaid flannel shirt, eyes crinkled by a constant smile, playing fantastic stuff … “Atlantic City,” “Pink Cadillac,” “Your Own Worst Enemy,” “Adam Raised A Cain,” and on and on. There is nothing like an Asbury Park show.
… weiterlesen

Rolling Stone Magazine schreibt:

Bruce Springsteen Plays Epic Surprise Set at Charity Concert In Asbury Park
Every indication pointed to “Twist and Shout” ending the evening. It was nearly 1:30 AM – seven hours into the annual Light of Day benefit concert in Asbury Park – and Joe Grushecky and surprise guest Bruce Springsteen had just wrapped up a blistering ninety-minute set. Afterwards they called all of the evening’s performers back to the stage (including Willie Nile, Garland Jeffreys, Joe D’Urso, Jesse Malin, Alejandro Escovedo and the show’s host, Vincent “Big Pussy” Pastore) for an epic, ten minute “Twist and Shout” that incorporated bits of “La Bamba” and some incoherent ramblings that Big Pussy yelled into the mic.
… weiterlesen

Videos:

Zahlreiche Videos findet man hier.

Mehr Infos:

• Light of Day Foundation – offizielle Homepage
• Asbury Park – Früher und heute
• Bruce Springsteen Setlists 1964 – 2011

Wie schon am 7. Januar 2011 vermutet, war Bruce Springsteen gestern Abend im Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, NJ zu Gast, um mit Jesse Malin, Willie Nile, Alejandro Escovedo und Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers die Abschlussfeier des diesjährigen “Light of Day Festivals” zu zelebrieren.

Setlist vom 15. Januar 2011:

Bruce Springsteen mit Jesse Malin

• Broken Radio

Bruce Springsteen mit Willie Nile

• Heaven Help the Lonely

Bruce Springsteen mit Alejandro Escovedo

• Always a Friend

Bruce Springsteen Solo

• Your Own Worst Enemy
• This Hard Land

Bruce Springsteen mit Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers

• Another Thin Line
• Atlantic City
• Never Be Enough Time
• Adam Raised a Cain
• One Way Street
• I’m Not Sleeping
• Save My Love
• Talking to the King
• Pink Cadillac (mit Danny Clinch)
• Darkness on the Edge of Town
• The Promised Land
• Light of Day
• Twist and Shout
• Thunder Road

Video – “This Hard Land”

New Jersey.com schreibt:

Springsteen rocks Light of Day 11 in Asbury Park
An energized Bruce Springsteen held the stage for more than ninety minutes at the Light of Day benefit at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park last night. The rocker, who is strongly associated with the Jersey shore town, aired songs from across his career, opening with acoustic versions of “Your Own Worst Enemy” from the recent “Magic” and the infrequently played “This Hard Land” before plugging in and tearing through favorites from “Nebraska,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” and “Born to Run.”
Springsteen delighted the crowd with a soulful version of “Pink Cadillac,” and pleased aficionados with a rendition of “One Way Street” from “The Promise,” his 2010 boxed set.
Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers played the role of the E Street Band for the evening, and did it well. Grushecky, a legend in the Iron City (Springsteen joked that Pittsburgh and New Jersey had been separated at birth), developed a sound similar to that of the Boss, and Springsteen joined his friend for renditions of several Houserockers songs, including “I’m Not Sleeping,” which the “Born in the U.S.A.” singer co-wrote.
The Boss was by far the best-known singer to raise his voice for Light of Day last night, but he was by no means the only attraction at the Paramount. Gruschecky, Jesse Malin and the St. Marks Social, Joe D’Urso and Stone Caravan, Alejandro Escovedo, Garland Jeffreys, Willie Nile, and several acoustic acts played sets of their own earlier in the evening. The concert began at 6:30 p.m., and lasted until 1:30 on Sunday morning …  weiterlesen

- Einige Fotos findet man hier und hier -

Mehr Infos:

• Light of Day Foundation – offizielle Homepage
• Asbury Park – Früher und heute
• Bruce Springsteen Setlists 1964 – 2011

Der aus Whitestone im New Yorker Stadtteil Queens stammende Musiker Jesse Malin, hat am 30. April sein fünftes Studioalbum “Love it To Life” veröffentlicht. 2007 wurde er mit dem Longplayer “Glitter in the Gutter” und dem Bruce Springsteen Duett “Broken Radio” weltbekannt.

Interview mit Jesse Malin (spinner.com):

“Read the lyrics to ‘Born in the USA’: It’s not patriotic,” Malin says. “It’s not ‘get a pickup truck and a rifle.’ That whole record — it’s this huge platinum record, and at least four or five of the songs, the characters, at the end of the song, they go to jail or they’re dead.”
“The ‘Nebraska’ lyrics are still there,” Malin adds, referring to the dark, somber acoustic album Springsteen released in 1982, two years before the slick, mega-selling ‘Born in the USA.’ “I always saw that connection before it was fashionable. Now it’s fashionable to like Bruce, which is great. All these young bands are into it, and that’s cool, because he deserves it.”
… ganzen Zeitungsbericht lesen

Tracklist des neuen Albums “Love it To Life”:

Burning In The Bowery
All The Way From Moscow
The Archer
St. Marks Sunset
Lowlife In A High Rise
Disco Ghetto
Burn The Bridge
Revelations
Black Boombox
Lonely At Heart

Das Album “Love it To Life” kann auf Amazon.de oder im StonePony Shop bestellt werden.

Mehr Infos:

• Jesse Malin / offizielle Homepage
• Jesse Malin – “Broken Radio” – das Video mit Bruce Springsteen

Wie schon angekündigt, war Bruce Springsteen gestern der Stargast auf dem “Light of Day” Konzertspektakel in Asbury Park, NJ. Der ‘Boss’ stürmte die Bühne im Paramount Theatre und spielte knapp 50 Minuten mit seinem alten Musikfreund Joe Grushecky. Ferner trat er mit Willie Nile und Jesse Malin auf.

Joe Grushecky Setlist:

Atlantic City
Code of Silence
Johnny 99
Dark & Bloody Ground
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Never Be Enough Time
Pink Cadillac
Muruder Incorporated
Another Thin Line
Light of Day
Twist & Shout

Willie Nile Setlist:

Heaven Help the Lonely

Jesse Malin Setlist:

Broken Radio

NJ.com schreibt:

Bruce Springsteen guested at the first Light of Day benefit concert, in 2000. He has appeared — always unbilled — at most of the annual LOD shows, which raise money for Parkinson’s disease research, since then. And Saturday night at Asbury Park’s Paramount Theatre, he did so again, joining Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers at midnight, and staying on stage for more than 70 minutes.
He made two brief appearances earlier in the evening, as well, joining Willie Nile for “Heaven Help the Lonely” (introduced by Nile as a “prayer for the people of Haiti) and Jesse Malin for “Broken Radio.” But he really stretched out with his old friend Grushecky, playing fan favorites like “Darkness On the Edge of Town” and “Atlantic City” as well songs co-written with the Pittsburgh-based rocker such as “Code of Silence” and Another Thin Line.”
Springsteen playfully altered the phrasing of “Pink Cadillac,” which featured Danny Clinch (better known as a rock photographer than a musician) on harmonica, and added bracing guitar solos to “Atlantic City” and “Johnny 99.” And for “Murder Incorporated,” show co-host Vincent Pastore (who played gangster “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on “The Sopranos”) not only sang backing vocals, but folded his arms across his chest and struck a menacing pose as Springsteen soloed.
The show ended with Springsteen and Grushecky leading the benefit’s large ensemble through the show’s theme song, garage-rocker “Light of Day,” as well as “Twist and Shout” ... weiterlesen und Bilder anschauen

Mehr Infos:

• Light of Day Foundation – offizielle Homepage
• Asbury Park – Früher und heute
• Bruce Springsteen Setslist 1964 – 2010

28. Juli 2008 – East Rutherford, NJ – Giants Stadium

Setlist:
Out in the Street
Radio Nowhere
No Surrender
Two Hearts
The Promised Land
Hungry Heart
Summertime Blues
Tunnel of Love
Held Up Without a Gun
It’s Hard to be a Saint in the City
Sherry Darling
Waitin’ on a Sunny Day
Because the Night
She’s the One
Livin’ in the Future
Mary’s Place
Drive All Night
The Rising
Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Thunder Road
Detroit Medley
Born to Run
Glory Days
American Land
Twist & Shout (mit Jesse Malin)

Mehr Infos, Berichte und Fotos findet ihr im Tourtagebuch.

Das nächste Konzert: 31. Juli 2008 – East Rutherford, NJ – Giants Stadium