You can catch a clip of "Mony Mony" here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nUnfortunately, it feels like the music was tweaked in the studio.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe not.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just that the Boss’ cover of "I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide" was TERRIBLE!\u00c2\u00a0 And the take of "London Calling" was almost equally horrific. BUT I LIKE WHERE HE’S COMING FROM!<\/p>\n
Instead of rigidity, we’ve got fluidity.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of over-labored masturbatory exercises released as finished product, there’s SPONTANEITY!\u00c2\u00a0 Almost enough for me to want to go to a show.<\/p>\n
Maybe Bruce could do a COMPLETE covers show.\u00c2\u00a0 With only greatest hits as the encore.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be a celebration of music as opposed to a calcified trip back to the twentieth century.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of revisiting the embalmed Magic Rat we can all revel in reworkings of songs that have no unifying factor other than that we ALL loved them!<\/p>\n
In the seventies, acts were afraid of excess product.\u00c2\u00a0 The "King Biscuit" shows couldn’t be released on wax. Music was scarce.\u00c2\u00a0 Now everything comes out and very few care.\u00c2\u00a0 Bruce, if you want people to care either write another song as good as "Streets Of Philadelphia" or "Tunnel Of Love", never mind "Born To Run", or just lay some classic covers on us with your tight as a steel drum band!<\/p>\n
Don’t bother me with this TicketsNow crap.\u00c2\u00a0 Didn’t these people buy from a scalper TO BEGIN WITH?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not apologizing for Ticketmaster, there’s no excuse.\u00c2\u00a0 But they did let the people in for free.\u00c2\u00a0 And who would fuck up like this intentionally?<\/p>\n
Tickets are important, but not as important as the MUSIC!<\/p>\n
I don’t want to go to the museum, but the ballpark.\u00c2\u00a0 Where I understand the rules, but every game is different. I love that you’re mixing it up Bruce.\u00c2\u00a0 Can’t you go in the studio and record some of this shit?\u00c2\u00a0 Give it away for free on your site, a track a week\/a month, or sell them on iTunes or both?\u00c2\u00a0 Have an online contest, people requesting their absolute favorites, creating a set list that you play at the Beacon which is broadcast via Butch Trucks’ Moogis?<\/p>\n
You’re doing something new.\u00c2\u00a0 We applaud the effort.\u00c2\u00a0 Why not go all the way, why not prove it ALL NIGHT?<\/p>\n
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