The Official Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Thread.

Sorry Oli, put me on the list of people who just can't get into Nebraska as an album.

And for the record, I can't wait for the Hyde Park DVD, no matter what the whiny portion of Die Hards have to say.

We most certainly did have CDs in 1982. That's the year Nebraska was released and that's the year the first Sony CD player was released in the US. I had one instantly since unlike Terri at the time, I loved music. I had 2 little kids and not much money so I didn't go to many concerts during that time but I did invest money into stereo equipment. Some of which I still have I might add.

Dammit. The past is so confusing - It's just one thing after another.

Bought Live In Dublin CD today.

These past two weeks I've sure as hell bought a load of Bruce albums. Soon enough I'll own every damn CD he's released.

It was weird though, they had two copies of Live In Duble that were exactly the same but one was £10 and the other was £14. If I didn't pick up the £10 one I wonder if anyone would have picked the £14...

I got the Dublin 2CD+1DVD digipack.
Although the show is nice to listen to, they removed quite some good songs for the release which were played the nights the cd was recorded like John Henry and You can look but you better not touch. Therefore I prefer the bootleg from the concert he did in holland that includes a seeger version of john henry, cadillac ranch, ramrod, you can look and johnny 99 and ends with Buffalo Gal instead of American Land. Great show, pity I wasnt there.

I salute you,
TS

Hello fact fans...Relevant to Bruce but not entirely to this conversation...
In the depths of my brain i seem to remember that Born in the USA was the first commercially available CD to be made in the US.

That may have been - the very first CDs that I actually bought were classical CDs and for a while that really was all that was available. Then analog pop albums started getting dumped on CDs which tended to expose all their flaws. Finally a few people started taking advantage of the new technology.

From Wikipedia:

The album was recorded on analog master tapes, and initially issued on both LP and cassette. However, Born in the U.S.A. became the first compact disc manufactured in the United States for commercial release, when CBS Records opened its CD manufacturing plant in Terre Haute, Indiana in September 1984. Discs previously had been imported from Japan.

Go Bruce

Just when you think Bruce can't do anything else to make himself cooler, he goes and does that.

I bet he'll be the first man to discover aliens too. That'd be awesome.

Turns out Rosalita will be showing up on the Live In Hyde Park DVD afterall

And in other sort-of related news. I named one of my guitars Rosalita. Not after the song (although when I do listen to that song I tend to think about my guitar instead of a girl - is that weird? Some of the lyrics seem like they could be about a guitar!) but because I love the name Rose and every other name with Rose in it.