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This thread made me rewatch the Born To Run documentary from 30th Anniversary box set last night and it is quite good. They literally worked on the title track for six months and there are probably a 100 completed versions that they tinkered with. I love the interviews with David Sancious and Ernest Boom Carter who both play on BTR, but quit before they got around to any other songs. Boom Carter says that everytime he's in a store and BTR comes on he wants to go jump into traffic. He must've signed off for a one-time payment. I'd hate to venture how much money could've been made off of the royalties from that one song alone over the decades. Max says that Carter plays a very jazzy drum part in the song that he has never been able to figure out after all if these years, so he just dropped it altogether when they play it live.

It's incredible that Max, Roy and Steve all came into the fold during the recording of the album, and that Bruce, Garry and Clarence are the only three original members left today. We cetainly think of the band as a family, but it was really several years in, before this started to take shape.

As for the Darkness box, I can understand the neccesity for vocal tracks to be re-worked. If there are actually 70 songs from those sessions, I imagine many had unfinished vocals, rough lyrics, rough takes, etc. The song, The Promise was done that away, and it's a devastating vocal that works very well with Bruce's voice in latter years. I will probably end up buying both the cd/dvd set, and the 4-LP set as well. Wilco and Bruce are just about the two artists that I'm the most of a completist with. I own every Bruce album on vinyl and cd, same for Wilco.

anyone have any info on where to buy "Down with Wilco" on vinyl? Been meaning to pick it up for years but haven't gotten around to it.

Heard one of the songs on brucespringsteen. net and it sounds like a vintage track with redone vocals. Bruce has done this before with good results, but not so sure about this one.

Check out this snippet from the documentary though, some great footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVv5EvyN-eM

this is gonna be excellent. Backstreets.com has a thorough breakdown as well as a link to a video excerpt from the documentary. There is a great piece on there with Bruce and Stevie running through a very early "Sherry Darling" on piano. This can't come out soon enough for me.

good ol'd draper still has a few tricks up his sleeve. Roger has become a total bore this season.

excellent update!

i'd love to hear it's not funny anymore or you left me standing in the rain.

what's fascinating to me is that about 85% of those songs from those great three albums were all written within a few months of eachother and partitioned off over those records, which all came out in less than a year and a half. gene has the lion's share of those songs, but dropped off dramatically in output and quality from that point forward.

It is unlike any other song in the catalog, very distinctive, and a direction I would've loved to see more of, and that "I'm 93, you're 16" lyric is one of the most ridiculous lines ever, but works quite well. Excellent song.

Been listening to the following KISS songs a lot of late: "Goin Blind," "Sure Know Something," "Flaming Youth," and from Paul's solo: "Wouldn't You like to Know Me" and "It's Alright."

There was already a Dylan concert reference awhile back, and Malcolm X's death was mentioned last night. Ho Chi Minh's gotta be right around the corner.

Peggy is going to turn to the dark side. Making out with strange bohemians in a closet, smoking weed, hanging out with lesbians. I can dig it. I've longed for Mad Men to get deeper into the 60's and see how they deal with the counterculture, Vietnam, etc, looks like it will become somewhat of a backdrop via Peggy for the forfeseeable future.

That song would be a lot better if it started at the 1:45 mark. As for the big show here presale was yesterday and people starting camping out as early as 5 am at the local record store for cash only tickets at 10. There were probably 75 people in line when the doors opened and they burned through the allotment quickly. The store's owner tried to secure a couple hundred more with no luck. The main onsale is tomorrow and I expect that the GA floor and lower level will go within a few days. The arena will seat 22,000 for basketball games, so I would assume around 17-18k for a sold-out concert. The last MMJ concert in Louisville was over 12,000 two years ago, so we'll see if they can sell out the arena. I hope they do as it will make for a more excitng show. They've come a long way since the days of the old Twice Told Coffeehouse.

My favorite song, by my favorite 90's punk band: Jawbreaker - "Chesterfield King"

We stood in your room and laughed out loud.

Suddenly the laughter died

and we were caught in an eye to eye.

We sat on the floor and did we sit close.

I could smell your thoughts and thought.

Do you want to touch a lot like me?

Too scared to say a thing.

I left your house and kicked myself.

I put those feelings on a shelf to die.

I guess I'm not a gambling type

but think of what the two of us had lost.

I needed some time to think it out.

7-Eleven parking lot.

A toothless woman turned and stopped.

I gave her a dime and a Chesterfield.

She leaned down and kissed my cheek.

I was scared but it felt sweet.

Felt so sweet.

She asked me if I had a name.

I told her I was glued up on some chick.

We sat and smoked against the wall.

Drank a beer, felt the chill of fall.

I took my car and drove it down the hill by your house.

I drove so fast.

The wind it couldn't cool me down,

so I turned it around and came back up.

You were waiting on your step,

steam showing off your breath and

water in your eyes.

We pulled each other into one,

parkas clinging on the lawn and kissed right there.

Said all my chicks they smoke these things and handed you a

Chesterfield King.

Held your hand and watched TV

and traced the little lines along your palm.

It's a real rarity, and it's fucking spectacular, but try and find "The Ballad of the self-loading Pistol" by Springsteen. Downright spooky.

hello fellow bday comrade. I got a great present today: MMJ GA tix for the new L'ville arena. You'll be here right?

Been a couple of weeks here's another one:

1. Wilco - Bull Black Nova

2. KISS - Talk To Me

3. T. Rex - Life's a Gas

4. Weezer - Falling For You

5. Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys - Toy Heart

6. The Clash - Red Angel Dragnet

7. Wilco & Billy Bragg - Another Man's Done Gone

8. KISS - Parasite (live)

9. Them Crooked Vultures - Reptiles

10. The White Stripes - The Same Boy You've Always Known

Here's a great one on the new DBT's album by Mike Cooley called "Eyes Like Glue"

I see you watching me

Your eyes are just like glue

Stuck like glue to every

Foolish thing I say and do

But there's a safer distance

Still not out of touch

If Daddy's quiet it probably means

He's thinking way too much

Someday you'll be a man

You'll have a big old brain

You won't need it but

You'll try to use it just the same

But it's like any house lonely people roam around

Wasted empty space a maze

With only one way out

Nobody ever told me half the things

I'm telling you

Even if they had I'd have had

The same look that you do

Sometimes you think it and

You just want to hear it said out loud

If no one else does then it's up to you

To shout it out

You'll want to do it all

And you'll believe you can

But when the best that you can do

Becomes all you can stand

You'll know you're just a man

When you feel all the weight press down

Next time you're watching me

Remember that's all I am now

Little Dreamer came on the radio the other day and it took me right back to being a very young kid and listening to that record on headphones in bed at night after my mom made me go to bed. That is an excellent debut and an excellent rock record.

If Eddie had joined we would've never known the brilliance of Vinnie Vincent.

Anyone ever hear about Eddie Van Halen being a replacement for Ace Frehley when he left KISS? This would have been circa '82, so he and Dave were certainly going at it around that time. Imagine how different the future of both bands would have been.

To me the show has to end whether this season or next with Deb discovering everything and all of the moral quandries over what to do with that information. I could also see Dexter dying in some fashion or another in the final scene of the series. Of course I could be totally wrong on both accounts.

I don't dislike EU, but it certainly had a shorter shelf-life than previous records for me. The title track is a knock out, especially the Led Zep breakdown in the middle, Smokin' from Shootin' is an instant Jacket classic to me, Aluminum Park, while fairly textbook is a big sounding rock song that I like very much. The problem to me is all of the middling slow songs that go nowhere and way too many unlistenable lyrics, Librarian comes to mind. I guess EU just seemed like a major stepdown after the role they were on for the three previous records. Very similar to Sky Blue Sky after what preceeded it.

The silo where they recorded the first three records was on Johnny Quaid's family farm near Shelbyville, Kentucky. Shelbyville is about 30 miles east of downtown Louisville.

Have 7 or 8 of his records and enjoy them all to varying degrees. He has the distinction of having one of my favorite album covers of all time regarding the one for: from South Africa to South Carolina. It's a gatefold cover with a gorilla dressed as a guerilla warrior with arms outstretched holding the state of South Carolina in one hand and the country of South Africa in the other. His story is truly tragic and likely will not end well.