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Its great and I'm looking forward to it really
I'm not sure about a DVD of the album performed in 2009, but hell its part of the deal

However Bruce what is the next direction ?
Another E-Street album ? "Working on a Dream" was alittle light in the boots
How about another "Devils and Dust" ? To be honest it like "Tom Joad" before it
It had its moments....but to me feel like a incomplete project.Yes "Nebraska" was great but sometimes
lighting doesn't strike twice.

You can't milk The Seeger Sessions. That album and tour was a breath of fresh air.
So which way do you turn ?? The new live DVD is great...however if I never heard you
pound out another version of "Badlands" I won't be heart broken.

So Bruce which way will it be ?
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Another album with the Seeger Sessions Band would be welcome.
Another stripped down solo album would be welcome.
Another E Street Band record with a tour where they play the new songs and songs from "The Promise" before Clarence is too old would be welcome.
Dusting off canned albums at this point would not be welcome. Better wait until E Street Band is too old to tour.

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Originally Posted By: Number6
Originally Posted By: Bobby_G
Time to dust off the mid-90's hip-hop album?

Whatever he does, I hope its with a smaller, more stripped-down band. The ESB became a bloated beast on the last tour.


Agreed, however who would be in this
E-Street Lite set up ?


If he toured with Max, Roy, Gary, Nils, Clarence, Charlie and Steve that'd be a 33% reduction in personnel from the last tour. However, Max, Gary and Nils would suffice, small rock band, Bruce can always practice his keys/piano playing if they want to deviate from a twin-guitar attack.
How about he give it a rest for a couple of years and take his time to write 50 quality songs and then have the problem of selecting 16-20 for the next release.

Doesn't he have an organic farm to tend to and a few kids to enjoy? He can always pop into clubs around the shore in the meantime to get his fix.

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In the basement at St. Johns well I found her where she fell

Just another busted sister of Heartbreak Hotel

The ESB is a dead horse and if you don't want to see Clarence drops dead on a live show
it's better to let them go.
when you watch live In Hyde Park,you can't miss it,they all are tired,old and bored.
it's time to move on ,do something else,try different directions.

one idea that came up my mind is collaboration with other artists.i.e Tom Petty
or even Knopfler (listen to Sailing To Philadelphia with James Taylor,something like that with Springsteen would have been thrilling )
i also appreciate another GoTJ-like album or more than that another Tunnel album.
sadly it can't happen.he can't write like that anymore.
these kind of albums come from a deep suffering.this is not the case in his life right now.

he can also does an album with Clarence only,some kind of blues-rock,John Lee Hooker type.Clarence can be a great singer.

he urgently needs a change.if only he could listen.
here.a masterpiece.

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


"I am Jeremiah Dixon
I am a Geordie Boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham and Northumberland
Is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth
To make my mark upon the earth...


doesn't it remind you the lyrics of Highway Patrolman / losin' kind in some fashion?

My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain't no good"

or

"My name is frank davis, drive up Dixie 109
I was out on Highway 17, just south of the camden line
It was down there in heart of Wilsonville, where I met my fate
She was standing outside a barroom, said she was waitin' for a date
but I knew that was just a line".


did they take writing lessons at the same class or what?

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I just think its time to retire the 'E Street Band' name. To me, the spirit of the band died when Danny died. Clarence can barely play (or walk) anymore. Yet Bruce and several of the other ESB members can still play at a very high level.

Give it a new name ("The Bruce Springsteen Band"? hell, go back to "Dr. Zoom and The Sonic Boom" for all I care). Get members of the former ESB, SSB, whomever works.

I was listening to the boot of the WIESS show at MSG last November. During 'Higher and Higher', the sax player (can't remember the guys name) did a great, ballsy sax solo. Clarence has (sadly) been incapable of this kind of playing for quite some time.

The release of The Promise is going to show the E Street Band, in all its youthful glory, at what was arguably their high-water mark. Now is a good time to start a new chapter.
...but presumably Dr Zoom and the Sonic Boom in 2010 would be less good than the original so following your own logic they shouldn't use that name any more.

OK, you're mourning the ESB that used to be but suggesting that they change their name when they get older is going a bit far. Fair point that it's not the same without Danny, but it is essentially still the same band, people have joined and people have left, some did both, but it's still the ESB, and in my mind always will be, even when it's just Bruce and Charlie left. OK maybe that's a bit extreme but you know what I mean.
stripped down band would be the best....but keyboards need to be there


bruce
max
roy
garry

these would be the essentials
sax probably needed, but agree that unfortunately the C has seen better days...
for me just seeing clarence is always an important part of the show...he was great at msg on the river show last year, but he was also pretty weak earlier in the tour...listening to him guest dj the other day makes me think he is not up for any more touring though...so it will hhave to be someone else

as far as other guitars, nils just hasn't been used to his full potential, steve gets more attention, and bruce really only plays lead not rhythm. so probably steve

sounding like the old e st band minus big man

organ...important part of the music over the years, so probably charlie

what we don't need next time around if there is one
back up singers
patti and soozie

ok bruce..i'll give u a few options

1. stripped down full band. bruce garry steve roy max charlie and new sax player

2. power quartet. bruce garry max roy

3. solo

3a. solo with nils on guitar and backing vocals

 

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just stand back and let it all be

I would like to see Bruce put together the quartet you mentioned, and do a rockabilly-style theatre tour. Very 1950's, stripped down and simple. Just guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano.

Do stuff like 'From Small Things' 'Stand On It', 'You Can Look'. Re-do some other Springsteen songs in rockabilly style. Throw in a bunch of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee covers.

All the band members would have pompadour hair and mutton chops.
Originally Posted By: PeterNFCa
stripped down band would be the best....but keyboards need to be there


bruce
max
roy
garry

these would be the essentials
sax probably needed, but agree that unfortunately the C has seen better days...
for me just seeing clarence is always an important part of the show...he was great at msg on the river show last year, but he was also pretty weak earlier in the tour...listening to him guest dj the other day makes me think he is not up for any more touring though...so it will hhave to be someone else

as far as other guitars, nils just hasn't been used to his full potential, steve gets more attention, and bruce really only plays lead not rhythm. so probably steve

sounding like the old e st band minus big man

organ...important part of the music over the years, so probably charlie

what we don't need next time around if there is one
back up singers
patti and soozie

ok bruce..i'll give u a few options

1. stripped down full band. bruce garry steve roy max charlie and new sax player

2. power quartet. bruce garry max roy

3. solo

3a. solo with nils on guitar and backing vocals


Drop Garry and get a real bass player
and you need Nils
Originally Posted By: Bobby_G
I would like to see Bruce put together the quartet you mentioned, and do a rockabilly-style theatre tour. Very 1950's, stripped down and simple. Just guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano.

Do stuff like 'From Small Things' 'Stand On It', 'You Can Look'. Re-do some other Springsteen songs in rockabilly style. Throw in a bunch of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee covers.

All the band members would have pompadour hair and mutton chops.


Except for the last sentence i second every single word you wrote wink
Originally Posted By: tattooDad
I'm not what I used to be either so I should probably change my name to tattooGrandpa.

I second that. What about that 61 year old guy? Can he still call himself "Bruce Springsteen" after all those years?

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Hey kid, you think that's oil? Man, that ain't oil that's blood

Is this BTX or what.I did see Bruce & the boys at pinkpop last year and yes i was in the pits.
They are as strong as ever and C maybe not as mobile anymore but his playing was great.
I'm riding down Kingsley,
figuring I'll get a drink
Turn the radio up loud,
so I don't have to think,
I take her to the floor,
looking for a moment when the world seems right,
And I tear into the guts,
of something in the night.
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