What is your favorite way to spend a lazy day?
I would say I love to watch a movie or a documentary. I also enjoy catching something interesting on YouTube. I love to sort through my sports cards and also arrange playlists on iTunes.
Friday, September 27, 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
Bruce Needs a Ride
FREEHOLD AMERICAN LEGION - MONMOUTH POST 54/FACEBOOK
The Boss needs a lift.
A group of men from the Freehold American Legion in New Jersey were riding their motorcycles after a Veterans Day event Friday when Dan Barkalow says he saw a biker pulled over on the side of the road with a broken vehicle. As he neared the motorcyclist, he realized it was none other than music legend Bruce Springsteen.
“I just pulled over and got off the bike and said, ‘Hey, I think I know you,'” Barkalow told the Asbury Park Press.
Barkalow and his two pals tried to get Springsteen’s bike running again. The dead battery on the 67-year-old rocker’s vehicle wouldn’t charge, so Springsteen hitched a ride on the back of Ryan Bailey’s bike to a nearby restaurant. The group grabbed a round of drinks while waiting for his ride, for which Springsteen picked up the tab.
Barkalow said they chatted about growing up in Freehold, bands and motorcycles.
“It was nice to help out,” said Bailey. “One Freehold person helping out another.”
Monday, March 25, 2019
Eric Church
The success of Eric Church's country single 'Springsteen' has not gone unnoticed by its namesake. It was recently revealed that Church got a handwritten note from Bruce Springsteen telling how pleased he was with the song.
The letter was delivered by Springsteen's tour manager, Wayne LeBeaux on Church's bus. "[LeBeaux] came on the bus and was telling me this story," Church told Billboard. "As they were leaving the Fenway show, [Springsteen] said, 'Wayne, what are you doing this weekend?' 'I'm going to see Eric Church.' "No kidding,' and [Springsteen] took out a set list and wrote me a great note, filled up the whole back of the set list talking about how he was a fan of the song, how his family was a fan of the song. He signed it and said 'I hope we cross paths somewhere' and told [LeBeaux], 'Make sure you deliver this to Eric.'"
Church, who took the note and locked it up in an undisclosed location for safe keeping, was thrilled to hear from the Boss. "It's a pretty incredible note," he continued. "It's the first time I've officially heard from him. I had heard he was a fan of the song, but it's the first time I officially heard. It means the world to me -- and the set list is three hours and 37 minutes. That impressed me, too."
'Springsteen' reached No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and also crossed over to No. 19 on the Hot 100. The song is not about Bruce Springsteen, but about the power of music to call up memories of lost loves, in this case one that took crested at a Springsteen concert. Titles of four of Springsteen's biggest are referenced in the lyrics.
The letter was delivered by Springsteen's tour manager, Wayne LeBeaux on Church's bus. "[LeBeaux] came on the bus and was telling me this story," Church told Billboard. "As they were leaving the Fenway show, [Springsteen] said, 'Wayne, what are you doing this weekend?' 'I'm going to see Eric Church.' "No kidding,' and [Springsteen] took out a set list and wrote me a great note, filled up the whole back of the set list talking about how he was a fan of the song, how his family was a fan of the song. He signed it and said 'I hope we cross paths somewhere' and told [LeBeaux], 'Make sure you deliver this to Eric.'"
Church, who took the note and locked it up in an undisclosed location for safe keeping, was thrilled to hear from the Boss. "It's a pretty incredible note," he continued. "It's the first time I've officially heard from him. I had heard he was a fan of the song, but it's the first time I officially heard. It means the world to me -- and the set list is three hours and 37 minutes. That impressed me, too."
'Springsteen' reached No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and also crossed over to No. 19 on the Hot 100. The song is not about Bruce Springsteen, but about the power of music to call up memories of lost loves, in this case one that took crested at a Springsteen concert. Titles of four of Springsteen's biggest are referenced in the lyrics.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Iceland Airport
2005-06-30 - KEFLAVIK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, KEFLAVIK, ICELAND
DANCING IN THE DARK / BOBBY JEAN / THIS HARD LAND / WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY / DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET? / I'M ON FIRE
Bruce's first ever appearance in Iceland and his only performance there to date. Impromptu performance on stopover en route to the U.S.A., Bruce gets off the plane and proceeds to play six tracks, mainly to airport personnel working the late-shift.
DANCING IN THE DARK / BOBBY JEAN / THIS HARD LAND / WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY / DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET? / I'M ON FIRE
Bruce's first ever appearance in Iceland and his only performance there to date. Impromptu performance on stopover en route to the U.S.A., Bruce gets off the plane and proceeds to play six tracks, mainly to airport personnel working the late-shift.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
We Are the World - One of Bruce's Finest Moments
2:14 Bruce Springsteen steps up to the microphone and with his eyes closed, belts out the chorus. Springsteen fans don’t usually think of his voice as one of his principal assets, but landing on the song like a tractor-trailer full of gravel, he demonstrates here that it’s a powerful instrument. In early 1985, the Boss was at his commercial peak, halfway through his record-tying streak of seven Top 10 singles from a single album (Born in the U.S.A.). The night before, he had played a four-hour concert at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York. While most of the stars arrived in limousines, accompanied by security guards, Springsteen drove himself in a pickup truck, parked it nearby in a grocery-store lot, and walked into the studio by himself.
4:54 The single’s most thrilling section, the duet between Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen, wasn’t planned before the session — or really, at all. After Dylan finished his section, Jones summoned Springsteen to the microphone. Jones remembered, “God must have tapped me on the shoulder to save the record by suggesting that I ask Bruce Springsteen — for no logical reason at all — to supply solo answers to the choir melody on the title choruses because of the textures and intensity of his truly unique vocal equipment, especially in this register.”
“You sounded fantastic, Dylan,” Springsteen told him as he got ready to sing. Dylan stayed in the room to listen to Springsteen. Jones instructed him, “It’s like being a cheerleader of the chorus.”
“I’ll give it a shot,” Springsteen said, stuck his sheet music in a back pocket, and nailed it. “Broke in a genuine sweat,” he said after his take, and soon headed out the door, walking past a half-dozen limos on his way to his pickup truck. By 8 a.m., everyone had called it a night.
When he woke up, Jones listened to the tapes and realized he didn’t have enough material: “The energy I needed to conclude had dissipated earlier than I had anticipated. The power of the choir had peaked after two choruses and one change of key.” Then he realized he could use the Springsteen vocals — and give them some extra kick by replacing the choir with Stevie Wonder. So he summoned Wonder back to the studio (he’s wearing a multicolored patchwork shirt in this section, not the blue-and-black sweater he sported on the night of January 28th), had him record the chorus, and patched it all together “with the vocal intensity of these two master artists.” Their call-and-response earned almost a full minute of the single’s running time.
The single sold over 8 million copies in the United States (some sources claim as many 20 million copies worldwide), while the accompanying album (which included the track Prince had promised, “4 the Tears in Your Eyes,” plus the Canadian all-star song from Northern Lights, “Tears Are Not Enough,” but not the heavy-metal famine benefit group called Hear’n Aid) sold over 4 million more. USA for Africa raised more than $75 million for famine relief; “We Are the World” still earns money today.
Although distributing food in Ethiopia was a logistical and political nightmare, and some of the money raised was squandered, the song did a lot of good in the world. Stone may not have been turned into bread, but music was turned into rescued lives. “We Are the World” had a faint messianic aroma and a self-congratulatory aftertaste, but the hearts of its participants were fundamentally in the right place. As Springsteen said that night, “Anytime somebody asks you to take one night of your time to stop people starving to death, it’s pretty hard — you can’t say no.”
4:54 The single’s most thrilling section, the duet between Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen, wasn’t planned before the session — or really, at all. After Dylan finished his section, Jones summoned Springsteen to the microphone. Jones remembered, “God must have tapped me on the shoulder to save the record by suggesting that I ask Bruce Springsteen — for no logical reason at all — to supply solo answers to the choir melody on the title choruses because of the textures and intensity of his truly unique vocal equipment, especially in this register.”
“You sounded fantastic, Dylan,” Springsteen told him as he got ready to sing. Dylan stayed in the room to listen to Springsteen. Jones instructed him, “It’s like being a cheerleader of the chorus.”
“I’ll give it a shot,” Springsteen said, stuck his sheet music in a back pocket, and nailed it. “Broke in a genuine sweat,” he said after his take, and soon headed out the door, walking past a half-dozen limos on his way to his pickup truck. By 8 a.m., everyone had called it a night.
When he woke up, Jones listened to the tapes and realized he didn’t have enough material: “The energy I needed to conclude had dissipated earlier than I had anticipated. The power of the choir had peaked after two choruses and one change of key.” Then he realized he could use the Springsteen vocals — and give them some extra kick by replacing the choir with Stevie Wonder. So he summoned Wonder back to the studio (he’s wearing a multicolored patchwork shirt in this section, not the blue-and-black sweater he sported on the night of January 28th), had him record the chorus, and patched it all together “with the vocal intensity of these two master artists.” Their call-and-response earned almost a full minute of the single’s running time.
The single sold over 8 million copies in the United States (some sources claim as many 20 million copies worldwide), while the accompanying album (which included the track Prince had promised, “4 the Tears in Your Eyes,” plus the Canadian all-star song from Northern Lights, “Tears Are Not Enough,” but not the heavy-metal famine benefit group called Hear’n Aid) sold over 4 million more. USA for Africa raised more than $75 million for famine relief; “We Are the World” still earns money today.
Although distributing food in Ethiopia was a logistical and political nightmare, and some of the money raised was squandered, the song did a lot of good in the world. Stone may not have been turned into bread, but music was turned into rescued lives. “We Are the World” had a faint messianic aroma and a self-congratulatory aftertaste, but the hearts of its participants were fundamentally in the right place. As Springsteen said that night, “Anytime somebody asks you to take one night of your time to stop people starving to death, it’s pretty hard — you can’t say no.”
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