If you’re wondering why I’m late on the tribute, I’m still working on it. I’m not saying what I’m doing and what I’m working on, I’ll put it up as soon as it’s done. I can clue you in though, they will be youtube videos but not videos that are already made in youtube, videos made by me. Coming soon.
Kev
Bruce Springsteen proves once again that he can never be beat by any artist or band everytime the boss puts a new album out. The Boss puts Taylor Swift’s album to shame by ending her 8 week streak in the Billboard Top 200.
Billboard reports:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/springsteen-has-dream-debut-atop-album-chart-1003937687.story
No surprise to me, the Boss is always the Billboard king. Lets see how long “Working On a Dream” album will last as no. 1. “Working on a Dream” is a great album though, I think it’s better than “Magic” and “The Rising”.
Kev
After many months of Robert Plant constantly denying to re-join Led Zeppelin, saying that he’s committed with his project with Alison Krauss, Robert Plant speaks out on the real reason why Led Zeppelin wouldn’t reunite for a tour and new album. Simply because he feels it would be difficult for him and the rest of Led Zeppelin to bring the past into the now. He also feels that the Led Zep reunion would screw their legacy.
More on it here:
http://www.nme.com/news/led-zeppelin/42530#comments
Hmmm, I’ve been saying something like this in my blog for the past months as well. Good for Robert, he’s smart about this. They played a good final show at the O2 in 2007 Dec. 10th, let that be Led Zeppelin’s final show and that’s the way it should be. Hopefully this will get people to stop talking about Led Zeppelin reuniting. I’m glad it’s not going to happen. I don’t want their legacy ruined either.
Kev
Geez, what is this? First Mickey Rourke drops out of Wrestlemania. Now Ac/Dc announced that they are not performing there either due to their big European tour that they have a full schedule to.
More on it here:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=113640
Good for Ac/Dc. They don’t need to perform there anyway, just let WWE use their songs for the themes and that’s all the good promoting they need.
Kev
Yep, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will finally have their opportunity to share the stage with Phish after all these years, that will happen at Bonnaroo 2009 festival. The Bonnaroo Festival is a 4 day music fest with various stages and the festival is at Manchester, Tennessee. Festival will take place on June 11-14.
Other headlining acts are the Nine Inch Nails, Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Wilco, and more. A lot of other surprise appearances by Ben Harper, Kaki King, Merle Haggard, Rodrigo y Gabriela (an instrumental acoustic duo that plays cover songs), and many more.
See the artist lineup for Bonnaroo here:
http://www.bonnaroo.com/news/2009/02/03/bonnaroo-2009-lineup.aspx
Sounds like a good show. I’m sure a 2 or 3 hour Springsteen set will be better than his ridiculous 12 minute Halftime show at the Superbowl.
Kev
This is so amazing. I would like Jennifer to get the Halftime Superbowl performance for next year, but I doubt it. Next year they’ll probably go with the Jonas Bros. or Miley Cyrus or Taylor Swift or something like that.
Jennifer is one of the best female vocalists in the music industry today.
Kev
Hmmmm, so you wanna know more on why I think the Springsteen performance didn’t work? I’ll explain more…
1. Springsteen’s lame opening intro where he says, “I want you to step back from the guacamole, put down the chicken fingers and turn the television all the way up!!” Lame, lame, lame. Shut up Boss, we want to hear the music, not hear you running your mouth throughout most of your 12 minute set.
2. Lyrics were cut out and Springsteen sang very little of each song. It’s not like he forgot lyrics, I’m sure he’s got every single song he wrote memorized by heart, and I’m sure he shortened the songs to fit the 12 minute time, but cutting out lyrics was not needed in my opinion.
3. The end of the set, a referee came on stage, gave the Boss a signal to delay a game, meaning to stop the live music so they can get on with the game, Little Steven yells through the mic, “It’s Boss time”. Yep, I guess the E Street Band are a bunch of egos.
I understand that the E Street Band played hundreds of stadiums from football stadiums to baseball stadiums all the time, but they were never televised, this was their first televised stadium appearance, that’s why they went for this opportunity.
I was expecting the E Street Band to play an actual music show but it turned out to be a damn circus. I’m dissapointed Bruce, what a let down performance. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from last year was the best. I don’t think a future Halftime performance of the Superbowl will ever top Tom Petty.
With the referee thing at the end of the Bruce gig, I know it was all done for humor and laughs, but still it was done in poor tastes. I wonder what the audience really thought of that?
On top of that, I enjoyed the overall game, a historic game, I saw that 100 yard run touchdown and that was an incredible play. This is how a Superbowl game is supposed to be played.
Kev
I wasn’t too impressed by Springsteen and the E Street Band’s performance at the Halftime show tonight. I love Springsteen but the song selection wasn’t that great. Jennifer Hudson was the musical highlight of the night, she did better than Springsteen. Sorry, just an honest opinion.
Edit: Another thing to add, Jennifer Hudson is the one who should be the Halftime performing act, maybe she’ll get the Halftime gig for next year?
Kev
Oh my! That was the best National Anthem singing I ever heard! Jennifer did an amazing job! She sang live, it was real singing. She looked extremely confident. She looked beautiful. She pulled it off.
Another thing I liked about it was that she didn’t dress into anything special, she dressed casual tonight.
Great job Jennifer!!!
Kev
Tuesday is the big day for this. A lot more on this Tuesday.
Kev
K'Brocking 
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