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>>>> the ESTREET BAND is the band for BRUCE forget all the rest of em.
>>>> thats it.
>>>> and the next project by BRUCE will be with em. thats the way the
>>>> little red ball bounces.
>>>
>>> You mean new recordings without Danny? I'd be surprised, but happy.
>>>
>>>> just enjoyed the BRUCE show last night
>>>
>>> You went to the show? Any particular highlights?
>>>
>>> and i do beleive the ESTREET is
>>>> the band for him,
>>>
>>> It is, but he likes to mix it up in some fa****on.
>>>
>>> dont even think of gettin them banjo folk back in
>>>> there!
>>>
>>> I think ol Bruce got his heart set on it; I'd be surprised if we
didn't
>>> see more with them, if not this year, then next. Actually next year's
>>> probably more likely, if he intends to tour some with it. And if there
>>> is another E Street allbum this year, push a Sessions Band album back
to
>>> 2010.
>> I know I'm the lonesome voice in the wilderness, but there are some
>> aspects
>> to the SSB that I like a whole bunch. Not so wild on the "Old Dan
>> Tucker" stuff, but
>> I liked what they did with some of Springsteen's songs ("Further Up the
>> Road" and "American Land" and such).
>> If he wrote a whole album...spared the covers of songs we learned in
>> grade school...I could go for that.
>> Or if he does go with covers, I hope he goes with material such as "How
>> Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live,"
>> since he made it seem current and took a haunting, old recording,
updated
>> it to the point where he made it his own.
>
> I agree; I think what I mostly didn't like about TSS was the choice of
> material. The cornball folk songs. The singalong with Mitch-type stuff.
> I didn't like most of the adaptions of Bruce songs on the tour much
> either, with the exception of the waltz version of "If I Should Fall
> Behind", but at least those were somewhat interesting for the difference
> alone.
> But "How Can A Poor Man" and a few others showed that, given the right
> material, this band could make some decent music.
> I do think he's done enough Irish sounding songs for awhile too, enough
> already with that.
Yeah, unless he wants to fill in the gap that's been left by The Waterboys
no longer
having a Celtic ensemble on the stage. The two songs of Springsteen that
I
really loved
the way they reworked were "The River" and "Further On Up the Road" (both
of
those
did have a Celtic tinge to them). But, yeah, most of the traditional
songs...they can toss
those out the door as far as I'm concerned (which is why I passed when
they
were a mere
twenty minutes from my house). Of the covers, though, I really really
liked
that
version of "When the Saints"...very slow and mournful. I think the songs
that worked
best were the ones where Springsteen shared the lead vocals with Marc
Thompson....dude
had a great voice and (from the looks of the Dublin DVD) a good stage
presence.
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