welcome to the weekend

It's Sunday evening, 28th June 1981, and you're listening to the BBC Radio One Chart Top 40 countdown with Tony Blackburn. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band have wrapped up the 1981 River European tour, and the Single 'The River' has debuted in the UK Top 40 at 35, marking Bruce Springsteen first entry in the UK Top 40 charts.

Released in the UK 6th June, but finally broke the Top 40 charts 3 week later.

credit to Legendary DJ Tony Blackburn and copyright i guess is BBC for Broadcast and SONY / Bruce Springsteen.

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This is a special collectible single by The Boss, to promote Live 1975-1985 Boxset.

The reason we haven’t gotten more than one show from the Rising tour is that those shows were recorded in a proprietary format they have trouble working with. So, did they finally solve those problems or was the Barcelona show different because it was recorded for video?

Also, what do we think are the chances we eventually get the complete shows from the Live in Dublin album/video (like we did the MSG shows from 2000)?

So I can plan my 2027 😂 There's a lot I want to do and travel for but I'll happily put it all on the back burner if Bruce is touring.

I would really love to see Bruce Springsteen THE BOSS can you imagine him dancing to his Song dancing in the dark? If you don't know it the video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129kuDCQtHs

He spoke of the accident in some of his live concerts and the legal suit that followed. Is there any record of whom his lawyer was? Pretty random I know lol! Feel free to DM if you don't want the name out there.

My local library did not have a copy but fortunately one can access materials throughout the state.

Another album.shelved, to be not confused with the other. In a Spanish magazine read that gonna be named " Come out tonight".

From radio WNEW New York, list of 9 songs:

Come out tonight

Whrere are you going

Down at the parkside

Little mama

Stateside sweet

Captain

Perhaps

All night

Unnatural forces

*******

Also could pertain to this album:

Waiting on the edge of the world

Father's day

Landau said that have bad letters and it was shelved to release Greatest hits.

So parts of this album was released on tracks two, but I’m really intrigued about this history and what was to come of the album. There is very little information about this album out there and we don’t really know the full album sequence that was mixed and ready to put out (Nothing man, Father’s Day, one false move where all recorded for this album - which appears in another version - we haven’t had these released yet) or even the proper title - which has been either rumoured to be “waiting on the end of the world” (as Shane Fontayne stated) and “the farewell party”. I also wonder if they got to a point where they even did artwork etc. Any insight at all? It’s fascinating to wonder how this album would have been received at the time

I've been watching quite a lot of reaction videos on YouTube recently, people checking out Bruce for the first time. Fun stuff to watch, then I go and read the comment section and every video I see the same comments over and over and over again.

"You've got to see him live, he plays 4 hours every night" "He plays 3-4 hours every night" "Never plays less than 4 hours" "I saw him in (insert year here, bonus points for giving a year when he wasn't even touring) he played nearly 5 hours" "His shows can last 5 1/2 hours"

On and on and on, the same claims, and it got me thinking. So I headed over to mybosstime.com (great website) and checked my history. I've seen him 38 times now, going back to '88 and the absolute longest show I've ever seen was the last night of The Rising tour at Shea Stadium in 2003, and that was 3 hours 20 minutes. In nearly 40 years and almost 40 shows I've never witnessed a 4 hour show despite it being a nightly occurrence. Pretty much every time I've seen him it was 2 1/2 to 3 hours.

So what's the deal? Am I the unluckiest Bruce fan in the world....or is there a significant portion of the fan base who are bullshitters/clueless/not blessed with the ability to tell the time.

With a handful of notable exceptions, is there a bigger myth in music than "Springsteen plays 4 hours every night"? And can we get a sense of perspective and put an end to it?

I’ve recently contributed to a thread on r/AskReddit where people were asking to name the best ever singer songwriter. You can guess what my answer was. I was genuinely surprised - or should I say I wasn’t - when my post went largely unnoticed. No upvotes, a single comment, then a downvote who brought it to 0 for a while, now it’s back to 1.

My karma isn’t really the point of this discussion though; the thing is, I really cannot understand why Bruce gets ignored so much by Redditors. I’m following quite a few music-themed subreddits, and he rarely gets mentioned, in just about any kind of discussion. I mean, you can like him or not, but we’re talking about one of the most popular musicians in history. So why is he neglected so much in here?

Coming back to the thread I mentioned: whether you appreciate his work or not, Bruce is a consensus all-time great when it comes to singer/songwriters. He’s right up there with the Dylans, the Cohens, the Prines, you name it. His body of work is recognized and celebrated all over the place. And yet people were giving more upvotes to guys like Freddie Mercury, Elton John or Michael Jackson. Don’t get me wrong, I worship those guys, but how can you put them ahead of Bruce in songwriting?

Hence my question: why doesn’t Reddit like Bruce Springsteen? Is it because of his political views? Is it because of the themes he writes about? Is it generational - but then, again, why would the same people appreciate McCartney and Stevie Wonder and not him? I mean, he’s not some kind of obscure niche artist, he’s a major rockstar who’s been around for half a century. So why is he shunned so much on this platform?

So what's the story with this. I've followed Bruce is Loose on YT and there seems a steady flow of unreleased tracks being uploaded. I've also seen people on the Springsteen Collecting FB page sharing images of vinyl or cd releases of the 1995 session. This seems to be the first significant release of bootleg studio material in decades. Does anyone have a full list of songs that are part of this new material? I saw on another thread that Father's Day had been uploaded then removed. I'd love to hear that as I love the SoP Sessions from Tracks II.

Any info appreciated!!

...to see if they'd changed their minds about either bruce and BTR. i only got a response from one critic who wrote back and was completely embarrassed by his initial (bad) review. the guy who wrote this review in new york magazine, never responded.

Actor Mickey Rourke has two famous friends who apparently helped him out in a tough spot — Bruce Springsteen and Dana White.

“If it wasn't for these 2 men, I’d be sleeping in a tent with my dogs under a bridge,” said Rourke in an Oct. 1 post on his Instagram page

I'm looking for what people would consider to be the definitive version of the song "The Promise", played w/ just Bruce & a piano.

Thank you in advance.

Credit to u/Cappy_Hamper for the original question in my previous thread. The recognized song was "Born In The U.S.A." and that's probably the most obvious answer. Any others? Maybe "Prove It All Night" with the intro solo? "Because the night"? "The River" for it's kind of stillness?