Sweet Papa Crimbo

100% North American 20% United States American 80% Canadian American

These are the same sniveling cowards who spit the bit and cost Terry Francona his job. Selfish players underperforming. I saw all I needed to know about the Red Sox in the last Series against the Rangers. Dustin Pedroya gets called out on a checked swing strikeout. He rails at the umpire for long enough that it was surprising that he didn't get tossed. The next inning, he won't let it go and gets tossed as David Murphy is hit by a pitch. Selfish player.

Bruce uses the teleprompter on EVERYTHING. I don't know if his memory is really that bad, if it's a crutch or if it's simply a matter of expedience. Hell...he remembers the chord changes from his songs. He remembers the basic structure of the solos. Why not the fucking lyrics. Secondly...Max has always been a plodding drummer. Yeah, he's a warrior and he plays hurt (so to speak), but he doesn't SWING.

I like THE TIES THAT BIND, because of the alternate history aspect of it. PLUS, if you get a really pristine copy, it is an actually mixed down version ready to press and release.

Now that proper reverence has been expressed for Bruce, I have a couple of bitches to vent. 1. The reliance on the teleprompter is embarassing. That and the attempt to mask reading the lyrice by assuming the half-closed eye, pained, earnest artist look...sweet fancy moses. 2. If truth be told, Max Weinberg is a plodding drummer who, while technically proficient, DOES NOT SWING. There. Got that off my chest.

There was a release of some demo recordings that, if I remember correctly, came from a partner of Mike Appel. The best bootleg ever is THE TIES THAT BIND...purported to be a copy of the original masters of the album that was supposed to be released November 1979 before Bruce decided it was to light went back in the studio to record more songs and eventually morphed into THE RIVER. ( i know it's a tortured sentence)

I have been a most vocal critic of Springsteen's reliance on the prompter. And the goofy pained artist face he uses to supposedly hide his reading of the lyrics. I am sure that is what has led to some of the off rhythm performances of many of his old warhorse standards.

and just who the fuck is Jessie J and why was she so prominently featured? Guest vocalist with Queen? Really?

If she's reading this message (she has been known to post occassionally)...I'll say happy birthday from me and the boys

...and that's from PBS...damnit. It's a sure sign that we are going to hell in a handbasket

I'll take a flub or two over having him staring at a teleprompter

How can you not like a guy who sang Duke Ellington to his kids?

Nothing like commenting on a four old thread... The worst thing for me outside of the pain and the symptoms is the feeling that I'm either going to die or this may be the time it never stops...

"Many more will be added".

I tend to consume the artists work as they conceived it.

That makes me sweat just looking at the picture.

We are at the end times when we look to the internet for political inspiration. Look to the original sources of political thought to arrive at your opinions. Plato, Voltaire, Locke, Smith, Jefferson, Marx Madison, deTocqueville, the Durants, Hegel, Chanakaya, St. Augustine, Voltaire, Bentham, Dewey, Kant, Paine...(I always had a problem with Chanakaya, but I bet Machiavelli read him extensively). Man's relationship with society and the evolution and role of political association has descended to catch phrases, ad hominum attacks, fund raising and brinksmanship. The internet is an unruly,

The quality of the material used in the t-shirts is really shoddy. Well, maybe not shoddy. But they are certainly insubstantial. I rarely wear the t-shirts I bought at concerts and bundled from Kung-Fu.

http://www.npr.org/event/music/156932363/wilco-live-in-concert-newport-folk-2012

Yeah...Lord knows that cautious and well measured stances have no place in an internet discussion group. Let the ad hominum attacks and wild sword fights continue!

Any list that has the RHCP that high loses all credibility. RHCP are the Grand Funk of that generation.

He has a .171 interleague ERA. He won't have to bat

I threw in Sir Paul and Zimmy because I didn't want to be a total Bruce Partisan. The Stones and their malaise needs no comment from me. I think you will see that, for at least Working on a Dream tour, he shunned that record for the most part (good God what a tortured sentence). Maybe it's because the European audiences are a lot more sophisticated and ALLOW Bruce to play his newer material...American audiences (especially in the Northeast) are not as open.