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there was word afloat at the fest that a five year contract was being worked out. seems like a no brainer that it'll continue.

got raleigh and both atlanta, not great seats for any of them, but just glad to have gotten through. They should play Fugazi's "Waiting Room" while we're in that hell.

Not sure whether to go north or south. South sort of looks easier, what with the multiple night stands in Atlanta and Nashville. Looks like there is room for more dates up north though. It's nice to have decisions like these to make.

Bruce just released the full text of the eulogy he read at the funeral and it is as touching and eloquent as you would imagine. Worth the time to read: This is a slightly revised version of the eulogy I delivered for Clarence at his memorial. I'd like to thank all our fans and friends who have comforted us over the past difficult weeks.FOR THE BIG MAN I've been sitting here listening to everyone talk about Clarence and staring at that photo of the two of us right there. It's a picture of Scooter and The Big Man, people who we were sometimes. As you can see in this particular photo, Clare

Is Tweedy wearing a Catcher In The Rye shirt? Very cool!

There were "rumblings" from some in the know in North Adams this weekend that a northeastern September run will be announced very soon.

all 6 were out there along with about a dozen members of levon's band, made for quite the Last Waltz finale feel. The sun came out bright for the first time all weekend and it was quite a beautiful closing to great weekend.

Here in North Adams now and it's a rainy, foggy kind of day. Got nothing much going on today, though there are multiple art openings in town tonight. Anyhow, if anyone else is here and wants to meet up somewhere I'm all ears. Feel free to call or text, but I don't imagine I'll be online much, Greg 502-338-3825

Here's one of my favs with Clarence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHJGSGbhFwk&feature=related

Well fuck! Glad to have spent so many wonderful and life-affirming nights in his presence and hundreds more as the soundtrack to my life. If indeed this is the end of the E Street Band, than it marks the end of one of the greatest American bands of all time. Danny and now Clarence both passing without being in the RNR HOF is a crime. Can't listen to "Jungleland" just yet, maybe in a couple of days.

To me he has always been the one member of the E Street Band that is totally irreplaceable. Sure it's hard to imagine the band without Roy or Garry, but no harder than Danny and they persevered after his death. Max missed multiple shows on the last tour as his son filled in, and Stevie quit the band even before Bruce let everyone else go in the 80's, but really it is hard for me to fathom how they could even call it the E Street Band without Clarence. I hope against all hope that he gets well, but his health in general isn't going to ever be too great. I spent a lot of time thinking about the

It was from Greasy Lake.

There have been some people on some Springsteen boards who have called a lot of this stuff with alarming accuracy in the past. Let's hope that some percentage of it, as well as the unknown is true. I for one, could take or leave more SSB.

Holy shit the whole world is chasing one another now. Dex and Lumen after Chase, Chase after them, Deb and Quinn closing in and Liddy having all the cards. It seems as if Quinn has all of the pieces as well, save for the smoking gun itself, he very well may take out Liddy. Somehow I think the woman whose under Chase's spell may work into this. I don't anticipate this season will end with as big a bang as last year, but the tension is certainly being ramped up amongst a lot more major players versus last year's one on one.

Somebody had to do this at some point, and I can't think of a better place to start:

I think that he probably gets a lot of enjoyment out of the reaction to these sort of releases and really what's the point in waiting anymore? He's been prolific and very busy the past decade dealing with the here and now, so no surprise to me to have a little downtime and work on some long neglected projects. Also I think that he's gonna take his time and make sure that WOAD isn't repeated. As you said earlier in this thread bring it all on already!

The below article is a few years old, but sheds some light. I'd bet he's still following that career trajectory: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/arts/music/17kun.html?_r=1

Yeah , it has been stated and restated in the doc, in interviews, that the bulk of these songs are genre-based and didn't fit into their own canon. You're spot on about the '98 version of "The Promise," I feel it packs more punch in that tempo. Did you like the alt "Racing in the Street?" I have several friends in their 20's-40's whose fav is the the first album, and I too love the songs you mentioned in particular. I guess I'm just a bit of a junkie, because there is very, very little in the catalog that I don't enjoy heavily, though I agree with you on the latter half of Tracks. Nonetheless

These things are to be taken with a grain of salt, but supposedly the below is from someone with inside knowledge in the Bruce camp regarding the next year or so worth of projects: It will be several independently released DVDs, maybe more than 8, maybe less (depending on how good they sell), over the next 4-5 years. Volume 1 is scheduled for release early May 2011 and will be called BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & the E STREET BAND - Live Anthology Volume 1, and will featured never before seen footage from the Born to Run Tour. No complete shows exist on tape, so the 100 min long DVD will contain r

Here ya go A'Man this will get you started, one of my favs from "The Promise":

more cheap trick please:

These links never last long. F'n Aces: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM57gILdf_U

Seconded! They have about a dozen perfect pop songs, but this is high atop their list.

Here are the Billboard numbers. I was wondering if they were gonna count the set and the 2 disc alternative seperately. Appears they did, and both did pretty well. PROMISING CHART ACTION The numbers are in... The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story, in all its six-disc glory, debuted at #27 on the Billboard chart, becoming the fastest-selling box set of 2010, according to today's Shore Fire press release. The Promise, the two-disc release, charted even higher, at #16 here in the U.S. Overseas, it debuted at #1 in Germany, Norway, Spain, and Sweden; #4 in Ireland and the Nether

On the homefront, especially after this last ep, seems like all of the kids and dex and lumen could end up living together next season. I still think a strong ending to the series is deb finding out dex's secret, him being killed off in some as yet unforeseen manner and her taking over the code and running with it. I agree that there are a lot of people that need to be killed in the remaining eps, still not sure that LaGuerta will be one of them though.