BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - "Dancing in the dark"

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VÍDEOCLIP de la canción Dancing In The Dark on Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen con una jovencita Courteney Cox bailando con The Boss:



EN CONCIERTO : "Amnesty International:The Concert For Human Rights Now"
September 15th 1988 [Maple Leaf Gardens - Toronto, Ontario]

Letra de: Dancing in the Dark
Bruce Springsteen
Fuente: www.musica.com
Sitio Oficial: www.brucespringsteeng.net

I get up in the evening
And I ain't got nothing to say
I come home in the morning
I go to bed feeling the same way
I ain't nothing but tired
Man, I'm just tired and bored with myself
Hey there baby, I could use just a little help

You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark

Message keeps getting clearer
Radio's on and I'm moving 'round the place
I check my look in the mirror
I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
Man, I ain't getting nowhere
Just living in a dump like this
There's something happening somewhere
Baby I just know that there is

You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark

You sit around getting older
There's a joke here somewhere and it's on me
I'll shake this world off my shoulders
Come on, baby, the laugh's on me

Stay on the streets of this town
And they'll be carving you up all right
They say you gotta stay hungry
Hey, baby, I'm just about starving tonight
I'm dying for some action
I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book
I need a love reaction
Come on now, baby, gimme just one look

You can't start a fire
Sitting 'round crying over a broken heart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
You can't start a fire
Worrying about your little world falling apart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark

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Influencing the Boss

Bob Dylan is often mentioned as one of The Boss' influences. Certainly, lyrically you can see it in Springsteen compositions such as Blinded by the Light, but I think this video shows how Dylan also paved the way for performing with such raw power and energy from the heart.

According to the DYLANWEB site this 1966 performance from Newcastle had the following personnel:

Robbie Robertson - guitar
Richard Manuel - piano
Garth Hudson - organ
Rick Danko - bass
Mickey Jones - drums

In other words, backed by The Band!

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I Have Seen the Future of Rock and Roll

Gotta love the Internet. Most people know one of the most famous lines ever written in rock journalism, usually paraphrased as something like "I have seen the future of Rock and Roll and his name is Bruce Spingsteen", but have you ever read the actual article by Jon Landau that contained it? Like everything else, it's online. Enjoy!
http://www.greasylake.org/article_record.php?Id=4
Excerpt:

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Still, today, if I hear a record I like it is no longer a signal for me to seek out every other that the artist has made. I take them as they come, love them, and leave them. Some have stuck - - a few that come quickly to mind are Neil Young's After the Goldrush, Stevie Wonder's Innervisions, Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey, James Taylor's records, Valerie Simpson's Exposed, Randy Newman's Sail Away, Exile on Main Street, Ry Cooder's records, and, very specially, the last three albums of Joni Mitchell -- but many more slip through the mind, making much fainter impressions than their counterparts of a decade ago.

But tonight there is someone I can write of the way I used to write, without reservations of any kind. Last Thursday, at the Harvard Square theatre, I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.

When his two-hour set ended I could only think, can anyone really be this good; can anyone say this much to me, can rock'n'roll still speak with this kind of power and glory? And then I felt the sores on my thighs where I had been pounding my hands in time for the entire concert and knew that the answer was yes.

Springsteen does it all. He is a rock'n'roll punk, a Latin street poet, a ballet dancer, an actor, a joker, bar band leader, hot-shit rhythm guitar player, extraordinary singer, and a truly great rock'n'roll composer. He leads a band like he has been doing it forever. I racked my brains but simply can't think of a white artist who does so many things so superbly. There is no one I would rather watch on a stage today. He opened with his fabulous party record "The E Street Shuffle" -- but he slowed it down so graphically that it seemed a new song and it worked as well as the old. He took his overpowering story of a suicide, "For You," and sang it with just piano accompaniment and a voice that rang out to the very last row of the Harvard Square theatre. He did three new songs, all of them street trash rockers, one even with a "Telstar" guitar introduction and an Eddie Cochran rhythm pattern. We missed hearing his "Four Winds Blow," done to a fare-thee-well at his sensational week-long gig at Charley's but "Rosalita" never sounded better and "Kitty's Back," one of the great contemporary shuffles, rocked me out of my chair, as I personally led the crowd to its feet and kept them there.

Bruce Springsteen is a wonder to look at. Skinny, dressed like a reject from Sha Na Na, he parades in front of his all-star rhythm band like a cross between Chuck Berry, early Bob Dylan, and Marlon Brando. Every gesture, every syllable adds something to his ultimate goal - - to liberate our spirit while he liberates his by baring his soul through his music. Many try, few succeed, none more than he today.

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The boss is the BOSS

Impresionante el personaje! ¿habéis escuchado el último dosco de Bruce, We shall Overcome? una vez más me sorprende la potencia, vitalidad y la fuerza del tipo; el disco deprende un buen rollo y un saber hacer impecable como siempre. La cuadrilla de músicos que le rodea es buenísima y el resultado es una música folk con cantidad de matices y mucha, mucha calidad. No perderse la película del "como se grabó" que acompaña al CD! Os lo recomiendo.
Me encanta que haya un espacio dedicado a nuestro amigo Bruce!!! Que su potencia nos acompañe!

Rebeka

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There is nothing more sexy than...

a girl tingling to Bruce's Thunder Road!

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The Boss in 1972 (22 years old!)

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An Hilarious "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out"

This version of Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out in Live In New York City is absolutely hilarious. It is 16 minutes long! And in the middle Bruce introduces his band with this magnificent speech:

That's where I want to go
I want to go to that riverside
I want to go to the river of life
I want to go to that river of love
I want to go to that river of faith
And that river of hope.

Tonight I want to go to that river of transformation
Where you go to be changed.
But you got to work at it -- that's right!

I want to go that river of sanctification
Where all life's graces and blessings fall down upon you like rain
But you got to work at it.

I want to go that river of resurrection
Where everybody gets a second chance
But you got to work at it.

Tonight I want to go to that river of sexual healing -- and companionship
I want to go find that river of joy and happiness.

I'm not bullshittin' back here.

But you don't stumble on those things by accident.
You got to search them out, seek after them.
And that's why we're here night after night after night after night.
'Cause you can't get to those places by yourself
You got to have help!

That's where I want to go tonight
And I want you to go with me
Because I need to go with you--that's why I'm here.

And tonight I want to throw a rock and roll exorcism!
A rock and roll baptism!
A rock and roll bar mitzvah!
That's right! -- We're going to do it all tonight -- everything -- right now
I want the waters to fall on me and set me free, set you free…

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We Shall Overcome, the Seeger Sessions

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions --which was recorded live in Springsteen's New Jersey home with a fourteen-piece band, including horns, banjo, fiddles, washboard, organ and accordion-- is his most jubilant disc since Born In The U.S.A. and more fun than a tribute to Pete Seeger has any right to be. But as on Born in the USA, seemingly triumphant anthems are paired with lyrics of pain and protest that champion the oppressed and the exploited.

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Stone Pony, Asbury Park, New Jersey

The world-famous Stone Pony, Asbury Park, New Jersey. Bruce Springsteen may have played here more than any other venue in the world.

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I am a big fan of The Boss

I am soooooo happy to discover this group in MusicStrands, that really rocks, like him!

By the way, have you listened to his new country album? Do you like it?

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