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Thought: About Springsteen performing Superbowl halftime…I don’t agree with it…

Does anybody feel a little weird about Springsteen doing the Superbowl this year? While I’m a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen’s music, I really don’t agree with Springsteen doing Superbowl half time. He’s too much of a legend and too huge of a star. Springsteen just had to jump at this opportunity before anyone else got it. He had plenty of huge shows in the past. I’m sure the Superbowl officials had plenty of acts on the list to perform in case Springsteen dropped out, but he’s in of course.

Give a different artist or band a chance at that opportunity.

I actually would rather see Metallica or Ac/Dc doing the Superbowl this year instead of Springsteen.

We’ve heard all of Springsteen’s music, he’s performed on TV too much too.

What about John Mellencamp, Phish, Pearl Jam, the Dave Matthews Band, Radiohead, or Neil Young?

I like Springsteen, I feel he is a little too overrated, I’ve always said I ain’t much of a fan of the E Street Band, I’m more of a fan of Springsteen’s solo acoustic work more.

Give other artists a chance at this opportunity instead of having has beens that already had opportunities like this. Of course, the Superbowl always have legendary artists every year as a ratings ploy for TV.

Kev

Thought: About Springsteen performing Superbowl halftime…I don’t agree with it…

Does anybody feel a little weird about Springsteen doing the Superbowl this year? While I’m a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen’s music, I really don’t agree with Springsteen doing Superbowl half time. He’s too much of a legend and too huge of a star. Springsteen just had to jump at this opportunity before anyone else got it. He had plenty of huge shows in the past. I’m sure the Superbowl officials had plenty of acts on the list to perform in case Springsteen dropped out, but he’s in of course.

Give a different artist or band a chance at that opportunity.

I actually would rather see Metallica or Ac/Dc doing the Superbowl this year instead of Springsteen.

We’ve heard all of Springsteen’s music, he’s performed on TV too much too.

What about John Mellencamp, Phish, Pearl Jam, the Dave Matthews Band, Radiohead, or Neil Young?

I like Springsteen, I feel he is a little too overrated, I’ve always said I ain’t much of a fan of the E Street Band, I’m more of a fan of Springsteen’s solo acoustic work more.

Give other artists a chance at this opportunity instead of having has beens that already had opportunities like this. Of course, the Superbowl always have legendary artists every year as a ratings ploy for TV.

Kev

Thought: What songs will Springsteen and the E Street band perform at the Superbowl?

My predictions in order: The show kicks off with the song “Radio Nowhere” (from the album Magic), “Into the Fire” (from the album The Rising), Working On the Highway (the song has a Florida theme to it, Born In the USA), Dancing In the Dark (Born In the USA), and the performance will end with “Born In the USA” the song title track of the album to give the show a political feeling.

Listen to “Working On the Highway” below and see why it would be appropriate if they did this song. Feel free to make your predictions.

Kev

 

BREAKING NEWS: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band confirmed for Superbowl Halftime performance this year…

Last year, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers rocked the Superbowl half time, this year it’s gonna Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band!!! Earlier in the year, it was already reported that Springsteen is in negotiations to perform for this year’s Superbowl, look like the deal is confirmed.

Springsteen and the E Street band just finished a really long tour which is why they are able to do the Superbowl. Other than playing a few songs from the album “Magic”, I expect to hear Springsteen and the E Street Band playing mostly their greatest hits with songs such as “Born in the USA”, “Dancing the Dark”, “Murder Inc.”, “Glory Days”, etc.

Billboard reports:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003855898

Bruce fuckin’ rules. He is probably going to be playing his most popular hits though, I don’t see him playing songs that are not played on the radio. The Superbowl officials would want fans to do dancing and go crazy.

Kev

Report: Bruce Springsteen writes new song for a film, and also gets a cameo in a comedy…

Bruce Springsteen the boss of rock n’ roll have written songs strictly for movies in Hollywood before. One song is “Streets of Philadelphia” for the film “Philadelphia”, and the other one is “Secret Garden” for the film “Jerry Maguire”. Both of those tunes became major hits even though they weren’t included on any of Springsteen’s albums, just for the soundtracks alone.

Springsteen wrote an original song for Darren Aronofsky’s next film “The Wrestler” for the closing credits, Springsteen wrote a song for the film under the same title of the movie.

In other movie projects, Springsteen lands his first acting role for a small cameo in a film titled “Funny People” which is a comedy film. The screen writer written Springsteen in the film for a hilarious scene. Springsteen never had an acting role before.

More on it here:

http://chud.com/articles/articles/16171/1/SPRINGSTEEN-GOES-TO-THE-MOVIES-FOR-APATOW-AND-ARONOFSKY/Page1.html

Looking forward to hearing the new Springsteen tune. I always look forward to hearing new stuff by him.

Kev

The Listening Room: Tony Scozzaro performs Springsteen cover “Born To Run” on acoustic at Tim Russert Memorial…

Tony Scozzaro the brother in law of Tim Russert is a musician, looks to be a classical guitarist. Hear him perform “Born To Run” on acoustic guitar here. Pretty impressive guitar skills I may say, I’m blown away by this performance.

I believe Tim Russert was a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen’s music, that’s why the Memorial was mostly Springsteen.

Kev

RIP: Danny Federici 1950 – 2008

The longtime keyboardist for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Danny Federici died yesterday at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after a three year battle with melanoma. Federici has been a member of the E Street Band for over 40 years. Other than the keyboards, he also played the accordian.

From Springsteen’s official website:

http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html

Kev

 

Report: Bruce Springsteen endorses Obama on his website…

Bruce Springsteen, the boss himself, wrote on his official website that he and the rest of the E Street Band support Barack Obama 100%. Springsteen wrote some insightful thoughts about Obama on his website.

Read about it here:

http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html

To be honest, I’m not liking either Clinton or Obama. I used to like Obama but his feud with Clinton is a turn off. Everyone thinks Clinton or Obama will be President, but I disagree, I’m rooting for McCain all the way. I’ve been liking McCain a lot more these days.

McCain seems to know what he’s doing while Clinton and Obama is wasting time showing their negative hatred against each other. I wish both of them would shut the hell up already. McCain has been getting out of the political picture lately ’cause of the Clinton/Obama hype, and I like that. McCain is powerful and intelligent. Clinton/Obama are a couple of pussies.

Kev

 

Report: Rap star Nelly is dying to collaborate with Springsteen…

Rap star Nelly was desperately trying to ask rock legend Bruce Springsteen to collaborate on a song with Nelly on his new album. Nelly already asked the Boss, but the Boss is already stuck on his world tour in support of his new album “Magic”. Nelly is dissapointed that he couldn’t get Bruce, however, Bruce did say he was interested in doing it. They may save the collaboration in the future, they might do it around the Holidays.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iCuKlsdaVFd_ibtS6l_qmj1j0aFQD8VNFNL01

Hmmm, interesting. Wonder how Bruce is gonna pull off a rap song? I don’t see Bruce rapping in the song, he’ll probably just provide backup vocals and lead guitar solos maybe.

Kev