quote:Gazza wrote:
On one of the Bruce boards, it seems that 'Kittys Back' was on the setlist last night in Detroit as one of the encores, but some kid had a sign for 'Ramrod' and so he played that instead. Rumour has it the kid was taken outside and stoned to death for his blasphemy after the show. 'Jackson Cage' got dusted off last night too.
There's also talk now of 2 shows at the Pond in Anaheim, CA on April 8 & 9 with ticket sales on November 17th. Still to be confirmed, though.
Ramrod is Bruce's YGMR. Generic, by-the-numbers, etc.
6th November 2007 09:51 AM
PartyDoll MEG
Tis a shame Detroit missed Kitty's Back..
I hope you don't get Ramrod(ded), Mel!!!
6th November 2007 10:55 AM
Mel Belli
quote:PartyDoll MEG wrote:
Tis a shame Detroit missed Kitty's Back..
I hope you don't get Ramrod(ded), Mel!!!
Hey, I like that even better than "Omaha'd"!
7th November 2007 06:28 PM
PartyDoll MEG
two good ones from St. Paul...
7th November 2007 06:40 PM
Dan
quote:Gazza wrote:
There's also talk now of 2 shows at the Pond in Anaheim, CA on April 8 & 9 with ticket sales on November 17th. Still to be confirmed, though.
Nice. After the 10/29 show I REALLY wanted to go again but had the Neil Young ticket. Would love to see a couple more arena shows and hopefully with the same vibrant street scene as at the Sports Arena.
7th November 2007 06:50 PM
ebmp
Ramrod is not as good as Kittys Back... But it's just so much fun live.. And you can see the band is having fun
7th November 2007 09:29 PM
robpop
quote:ebmp wrote:
Ramrod is not as good as Kittys Back... But it's just so much fun live.. And you can see the band is having fun
I'd agree that ramrod is fun live, but this song has been a beaten warhorse over the years. I better not bitch. Next Wednesday I'll probably get Land of Hope and Dreams in that slot.
[Edited by robpop]
8th November 2007 04:13 PM
PartyDoll MEG
8th November 2007 07:16 PM
Nellcote
Springsteen Helps Woodruff Fete Troops
By JOCELYN NOVECK – 11 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) — It was an unlikely combination of entertainers: Bruce Springsteen singing "Thunder Road," a Marine Corps band playing taps and "Amazing Grace," Robin Williams cracking off-color jokes.
They all shared the stage Wednesday night at a star-studded Manhattan benefit for wounded U.S. service members, organized by ABC's Bob Woodruff. The newsman became a champion of the cause after he was nearly killed by a roadside bomb while working in Iraq last year.
"Stand Up for Heroes," a benefit for the Bob Woodruff Family Fund, was expected to bring in upward of $2.5 million, organizers said, including proceeds from an online auction at charityfolks.com.
"This is not a political cause," Woodruff said, kicking off the show with his wife, Lee. "Left, right, center, however you feel about this war, this is all about how we treat the wounded right here when they return."
The event, produced in partnership with the New York Comedy Festival, was emceed by Conan O'Brien, who quipped that his performance was hobbled both by the current Hollywood writer's strike ("If anyone has a joke, I'm paying cash") and the need to shift the tone to comedy after a mournful rendition of taps by the Marine Corps band. "I'm a comedian following taps!" he moaned.
Along with O'Brien and Williams, comics Lewis Black and Brian Regan did standup routines. But the highlight for the audience was Springsteen, who performed three songs and then returned to auction off his Harley-Davidson (the motorcycle went for $85,000.)
Woodruff showed virtually no signs of the serious brain injury he suffered in January 2006, when the roadside blast tore off part of his skull and sent shrapnel into his head. He spent 36 days in a medically induced coma, but since then has made a recovery viewed by many as remarkable.
The ABC newsman, who was co-anchor of "World News" for less than a month before he was hurt, says he'll never be 100 percent again, and that he still searches for words. His wife made a number of jokes about his occasional difficulty, noting that once, when they'd been waiting at home for a Verizon phone company worker, her husband had asked: "Where is that Viagra man?"
The audience included celebrities like Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central and former "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini, and a large number of military personnel and their families. One father was especially happy: his son, a Marine, was returning home the next day.
"To see New Yorkers turn out like this for the military is really touching," said Stan Pottinger, whose son, Matt, just finished a tour in Iraq's Anbar province.
The benefit was originally conceived by Caroline Hirsch, founding partner of the New York Comedy Festival, who watched an ABC News special early this year about Woodruff's recovery and the plight of other brain-injured Iraq veterans, and decided to help. Hirsch says there's been talk of making the benefit an annual event.
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From Backstreets...
News updated November 7, 2007
A ROCK STAR AND FOUR COMEDIANS WALK INTO A BAR...
In the midst of the E Street Band tour, Springsteen went it alone tonight for the Stand Up for Heroes benefit at New York's Town Hall, playing three songs on acoustic guitar and harmonica. On a bill that also included Robin Williams, Lewis Black, and Brian Regan -- this was a New York Comedy Festival event -- Bruce deferred to the funnymen and went on first. Which was a surprise to many in the crowd -- when's the last time Springsteen was an opening act? Emcee Conan O'Brien introduced him as "the man who stole my drummer," and Bruce corrected him, "No, Conan, I believe you stole my drummer." In keeping with the Comedy Festival setting, Bruce kept it pretty light and offered a corny joke to intro to each song, including the classic "Interrupting Cow" knock-knock joke. But in keeping with the beneficiary of the event (the Bob Woodruff Family Fund, which assists returning vets injured in combat, particularly those suffering from brain trauma) and playing to a good number of soldiers in the front rows, Springsteen dedicated a very apropos "Devil's Arcade" to the veterans and their families. This was the first acoustic version of the song, Bruce adding some "Promised Land"-style percussive effects on the guitar where Max would normally be doing his thing. On either side, he opened with "This Hard Land," and closed with "Thunder Road." No "Fire" duet with Robin Williams, unfortunately. But Bruce wasn't quite done yet -- after his performance, he rolled onstage on his '91 Harley, which was auctioned off and raised north of $80,000 for the cause.
-November 7, 2007
8th November 2007 10:42 PM
robpop
Land of Hope and Dreams sucks even more acoustic. See Flood Aid.
10th November 2007 12:08 AM
sweetcharmedlife
Maybe it's just me. But I would take Ramrod over Kitty's Back any night. Hell if all I have to is hold up a sign. Remind me to show up at the next Bruce show with a sign that says:Human Touch.
10th November 2007 01:00 PM
Gazza
quote:sweetcharmedlife wrote:
Maybe it's just me. But I would take Ramrod over Kitty's Back any night. Hell if all I have to is hold up a sign. Remind me to show up at the next Bruce show with a sign that says:Human Touch.
Remind me to kick you in the bollocks if it means something like 'Incident on 57th Street' being dropped for it!
10th November 2007 06:38 PM
PartyDoll MEG
From Backstreets:
I HAD A FRIEND, WAS A BIG BASEBALL MANAGER...
Last night's fifth annual Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation benefit featured Bob Costas as Master of Ceremonies, a whole host of Yankees in the crowd, Billy Crystal cracking wise, and Bruce Springsteen batting clean-up with a rollicking half-hour acoustic set. Saying that he had been a Yankee fan since he was a kid, Bruce offered a riff on the Beverly Hillbillies theme about Torre heading for Beverly (Hills, that is...) which went right into a hard-strummed take on the Rivieras' "California Sun," with modified lyrics also in honor of Torre: "I'm goin' to where the palm trees are swayin'/Nobody gonna second-guess just who I'm playin'!" [Watch video here.] After "Working on the Highway" it was a new original, written for the occasion in the spirit of "I'm Turning Into Elvis" and "Freehold," call this one "Yankees Win." Bruce joked it would be the first cut on his next album, and the song got a little ribald as he described Patti in a Yankee hat and pinstripes... Everyone got a chuckle. Solo takes on "Thunder Road," "Bobby Jean" (with Bruce struggling to find the melody) and "Dancing in the Dark" followed. Finally, he asked Patti and Bernie Williams to join him. Patti grabbed a tambourine, Bernie a guitar (and he knows his way around it, for sure). Bruce made a joke about Bernie getting too old for baseball -- but he's just a baby if he goes into the music business at this point. They let it go with a great rendition of "Glory Days," the song about not crying over what you had and what you lost. Bernie did a wonderful jazz interlude during the middle of the song. Patti and Bruce sang together, Bernie and Bruce sang together, and everyone just had grins on their faces. Looking around the room, there were Bob Costas and Joe Torre were singing along, Bernie's kids excited that he's up on stage doing a song with Bruce Springsteen, and just a lot of people happy to get this close to Bruce in such an intimate environment and watch him enjoy himself. This was not a job tonight. This was a favor for a good friend, for a good cause, and it was all wrapped up in Yankee pinstripes. I doubt if next year's benefit will have this same flavor, but these last licks were good.
-Photograph and reporting by Pam Farquhar
I'll take being "ramroded" over being "santa Claused" on Wednesday. Hopefully, its still a little early for that one.
12th November 2007 07:51 PM
Left Shoe Shuffle
quote:robpop wrote:
I'll take being "ramroded" over being "santa Claused" on Wednesday. Hopefully, its still a little early for that one.
Too early for the 'burgh? Maybe.
Saw it at Giants Stadium in September '85.
That was, um, odd...
Got a feeling that Santa Claus'll definitely be coming to Boss-ton.
12th November 2007 10:56 PM
robpop
quote:Left Shoe Shuffle wrote:
Too early for the 'burgh? Maybe.
Saw it at Giants Stadium in September '85.
That was, um, odd...
Got a feeling that Santa Claus'll definitely be coming to Boss-ton.
He premired it here during the Rising tour. It was about a week after Thanksgiving. I thought I was going to get something special when they came back out for another "closer". Then the caps went on. To Bruce's credit he did not take away from the setlist just added Santa Claus.
I will not be attending the Joe G. and the Houserockers show tomorrow. Watch Bruce show up this time. Joe has always booked a showed around a Bruce apppearnce. Usually just to get the out of towners to fork over some bucks. I can see the Houserockers for free dozens of time a year.
13th November 2007 02:14 PM
robpop
Thirty hours to go. I have not been so psyched up about a show simce the last Stones show here.
13th November 2007 02:38 PM
robpop
quote:Mel Belli wrote:
I'm still on Cloud Bruce!
Glad you enjoyed the show. I'm really getting worked up. I have heard only good things about this tour.
13th November 2007 02:40 PM
Mel Belli
quote:robpop wrote:
Glad you enjoyed the show. I'm really getting worked up. I have heard only good things about this tour.
