The Boss!

[Govangirl]

Thank you Bill. I'm possibly going wrong because I don't click the 'share' button - I just cut and paste the address so I will definitely do it your way the next time. I like learning new things!

I also like being called gorgeous! The release date is 6th March Frosty so like you, I'll know all the songs well enough to sing loudly at HRC!

[Mod8]

Govangirl - click the youtube button in the toolbar, which will create something in your post that looks like this:

[youtube][/youtube]

From youtube, copy the link for the video you want to share e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarmRLa2p9Q and then paste the link in between [youtube] and [/youtube] so you end up with something that looks like this:

[ youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarmRLa2p9Q [/youtube]

If you hit preview you should then be able to see how it will appear, which should look like this:



If you've made a mistake it won't display correctly.

I've made a deliberate mistake at the bit in red above (or it would have just displayed the video) so don't copy that bit!

Hope this helps.

...... and I thought Springsteen fans were supposed to be clever

[Ags]

Cheers Frosty, have you heard of Specsavers !
6th March as GG says, and I see the album also includes Land of hope and dreams which is one of Mr Ags favourites! I will try and suss out the youtube instructions from Bill and Mod8 and add a wee link to it over the weekend

[Govangirl]

I love that too Ags! It's one I play on a loop.

Mod8, I really did do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Despite my superSpringsteenfan intellect, only the link came up and not the picture. I tried this with Bill's 'share' thingy but that wouldn't work but then just did what I always do (what you said to do) and it worked!





And the lyrics are fab - We are carried on that train Ags! (Just don't know which category we're in!!!! ):

Now, I tried to upload the one with lyrics here and it just wouldn't work! It's very temperamental just like some mods

[Mod8]

Hmmmm not sure what the problem could be? Can you make sure at the bottom of your post the "Disable BBCode" option is NOT ticked.

If you cut and paste the following:

[you tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia3rFa3rPwc[/youtube]

but remove the space in the [first bracket] it should work.



I'm going to have to delete my browsing history now, imagine the embarrassment if someone discovered I'd been scouring youtube for Springsteen videos!!! Right, I can now get back to searching for images of sheep in lingerie!

[Sweltered]

He's playing here in March with tickets starting at $145 in the nosebleeds, I guess I'll have to try win some

[Ags]

That's a lot of dollars Sweltered! Good luck with every competition around

[Martin]

I'm not a big fan of Springsteen but I like the new album. A bit Pogues in parts (I think) but as far as I'm concerned it's one of his better efforts.
I particularly like Death To My Hometown and Shackled & Drawn.

[LANDROVER ROGER]

I note that the new album is called "Wrecking Ball".Must be all those years wearing tight denim jeans.

[Govangirl]

I'm a big fan of Elvis's but I think he should have left this song alone.

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/elvis-costello-brilliant-disguise3112/1388606/

[Govangirl]

Bluddy great album!!! The message from his eulogy about Big Clarence is beautiful:


… Standing together we were badass, on any given night, on our turf, some of the baddest on the planet. We were united, we were strong, we were righteous, we were unmovable, we were funny, we were corny as hell and as serious as death itself. And we were coming to your town to shake you and to wake you up. Together, we told an older, richer story about
the possibilities of friendship that transcended those I’d written in my songs and in my music. Clarence carried it in his heart. It was a story where the Scooter and the Big Man not only bustedthe city in half, but we kicked ass and remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship would not be such an anomaly.

…. I’ll miss my friend, his sax, and the force of nature that was his sound. But his love and his story — the story that he gave to me, that he whispered in my ear, and that he gave to you — is going to carry on.

Clarence was big and he made me feel, think, love, and dream big.

How big was the Big Man? Too fu**ing big to die.

You can put it on his gravestone, you can tattoo it over your heart.

Clarence doesn’t leave the E Street Band when he dies, he leaves when we die.

Very moving and a bit like a Brucie song, don't you think?

[Frosty]

The special edition, with two extra tracks, arrived on Friday afternoon and I have been listening through each track with amazement since then.
This will be classed among his greatest albums, especially Bruce's vocals they are '' loud and proud''. The Boss was definitely very fired up when he laid these tracks down for final pressing! The music is his most innovative in recent years and the lyrics are some of the best he has put on paper for a long time.

The words he used in the eulogy, as Govangirl stated and quoted, to '' The Big Man '' are so strong that everyone who reads them can be in no doubt how much Clarence meant to him, both professionally and personally!
Clarence's saxaphone solos on this album will serve as a great epitaph to him.

I hope that I can ''arrange '' my work schedule to allow me to be in the Newcastle area in June?

fROSTY

[Ags]

Tesco Campeltown possibly didn't quite get the message that the Springsteen album was due for release on the 6th March ......we picked it up on the afternoon of the 5th
The eulogy to Clarence is just amazing and had Mr Ags in bits as he read it aloud to me. What a wonderful personal and professional relationship these guys had!!
I'm sure there will be many t-shirts this tour stating "too ****** big to die"!!
I haven't had time to listen to all the tunes this week yet but look forward to a blast in the car over the weekend.

[Govangirl]

I totally agree with Frosty about the lyrics. I know someone earlier said it was easy for Springsteen with all his millions to sing about poverty and I certainly acknowledge it's impossible for a rich man to pretend he has a blue collar but I would defy anyone to argue that he can't articulate about injustice and hard times. And it's not just America that the wrecking ball hits. His anger is palpable:
"...Send the robber barons straight to hell -
Greedy thieves who came around
And ate the flesh of everything they found
Whose crimes have gone unpunished now
Who walk the streets as free men now
And brought death to my hometown."

and "If I had me a gun, I'd find the bastards and shoot 'em on sight,"
He could just as easily be singing about MY hometown and I know who that song reminds me of. He's harking back on this album to earlier questions:
"Where's the work that sets my hands and soul free?"
I can't believe his voice is as strong as it was 30 years ago and you can hear Seeger and Cash and Guthrie on this album.
I'm not sure it will go down as one of his best because nothing can surpass the early classics but it is way better than the last few albums and I loved them. I have to be honest and say I didn't like the rap and I could have done with less 'Seeger Sessions' stuff I Know that I'll never like 'Rocky Ground' and I was disappointed by both the production at times and Tom Morello's guitar solo but I cannot wait for the live version of 'Wrecking Ball' and 'We Take Care of our Own' and especially, so especially, 'Death to my Hometown' - Roll on July when we'll be jumping along to those Ags!!!!! - I've always loved the classic, 'Land of Hopes and Dreams' with not only one but two beautiful Clemons solos and it's something else live. I've got a ticket to board on that metaphorical train Brucie!!!!!!!
Again, the lyrics are something else - kind of a much better, stomping Tom Joad version, a Tom Joad that's even more bitter at being betrayed and beaten - I've never heard him so angry and despairing.

Here's a clip of him this week - great stuff!

http://brucespringsteen.net/home/2012/live-from-the-apollo-theater

[Sheik Yir Erse]

Must say I'm enjoying the new album.

Have you guys got any arrangements made for Hyde Park? Could we meet up for a small refreshment beforehand?

I've still got a spare ticket if anyone is interested (before I put it on Ebay)