The Official Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Thread.

I listened to born to run earlier on and it's given me major GAS for an esquire. I might build one when I get home

Just stumbled on this on youtube ...

The Fever live in philadelphia 2009

I was there for that one. I am so used to hearing Southside do this song that this was a real treat.

Ricky Gervais has said his new film is inspired by Thunder Road. As a fan this makes me like him even more

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/...ais-71526.html

Well it's been unfamiliarly sunny in lil' ol' England these past two weeks. I've been taking the time to go out and meet friends, do things, etc etc.

But yesterday, I felt like being a lone ranger. Going out on my own. I remembered a while ago in a shop I saw an awesome canvas - it was a cadillac driving down route 66 and it was beautiful. I instantly thought of Thunder Road and knew I'd be back to buy it.

So yesterday I got on the bus went into the city on that gorgeous day to get it. As soon as I went in Dancing In The Dark was playing on the store's radio - did The Boss know I was coming? Anyhow, they didn't have the canvas I was after So I bought a small one of a cadillac they had anyway which I shall put up on my wall later.

But anyway - I was in a spend lots of money mood and headed into a CD store and bought a couple CD's. One of which was The Rising, now I don't need to feel guilty about illegally downloading it anymore (the other CD I got was This Is The Life by the ever-so-talented Amy Macdonald who funnily enough cites Bruce as an inspiration and covers either Dancing In The Dark or Born To Run at each gig she does).

So I opened up The Rising CD case and man, I love the art inside that little booklet! I also love the artwork in the Working On A Dream bookley thingy, such beautiful photos.

Anyway...that's all I wanted to say It was a long time comin' but I got to my point in the end. The artwork for Bruce's latter albums really rock.

So. I understand you are a Springsteen fan but didn't have an original copy of 'The Rising' ?
I got the tour edition of that album and in my opinion it's one of his best. I only like 2 or 3 songs on WOAD. Not my album. Magic is the last album I like from Springsteen.

I salute you,
TS

WOAD is a bit too lightweight for me - nonetheless far away from a bad album!

I had heard 6 albums (but only owned 3) before I became even an intermediate fan of Bruce.

Greatest Hits - loved 5 songs. Disliked the rest.

Magic - LOVED.

Tunnel Of Love - hated

We Shall Overcome - hated

Devils & Dust - hated

Working On A Dream - hated

I bought the Greatest Hits and Magic in 2007, but as you can see I just didn't like much Bruce. It wasn't until 2009 when for whatever strange reason - and I truly believe it was a plan of God's - I downloaded the entire discography of Bruce Springsteen. I listened to an album one night, loved it, then another album the next night until eventually I started loving more tracks than I hated. Hell, I even love the majority of Working On A Dream (though there are still a couple of tracks that make me wonder what Bruce was on).

And well the rest, as they say, is history. I think Bruce must have come at the right point in my life. Like the planets alligned or something.

So yeah, now I'm working on buying all those Bruce albums I downloaded which is a hell of a lot. It's fun though, knowing I'm buying an album which has already provided me with so much pleasure, joy and will help me triumphant the future in many years to come.

Every now and then I just buy a new CD of Bruce, but now I am at the point where I almost got all of them.
WOAD-songs just don't work for me. I think Magic is one of his best albums, as well for The Rising, Born in the USA, The River and Tunnel of Love.

I also like Devils and Dust very much. That's one of the few albums that you have to listen as a whole.

The Darkness Box will come this year. I am wondering what live-concert they will be including.

I salute you,
TS

It's been coming for 2 years now - and I've been waiting impatiently. There are some fantastic live shows from that era to choose from - assuming that they have copies of them. My favorite is the Passaic show that we all have black & white pro-shot footage from. A pristine version of that show would make me very happy.