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Ronnie Spector with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Be My Baby

Recorded November 4th, 1976, Palladium, New York City, NY

OH SHIT. 

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More photos of Bruce Springsteen and Carter Bernhard in Boston. via here: TDGarden

Via MyFoxBoston, who has video on the story:

A 5-year-old Mansfield boy who has spina bifida got his wish on Monday night: the chance to meet his idol Bruce Springsteen. 

The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island fulfilled Carter Bernhard’s dream of meeting “The Boss.” 

Carter’s family traveled to Boston in “rock star” style by limousine for a celebratory VIP dinner at the Hard Rock Café Boston before a meet-and-greet with the star. 

After his rock-inspired dinner, Carter met with Springsteen for an hour while backstage and then enjoyed the show at the TD Garden from VIP seating.

Prior to the show at the TD Garden, which was packed with 20,000 fans, Springsteen signed a guitar and played a private concert for Carter. [FYTB note: Bruce played “Waitin’ On A Sunny Day”—Carter’s favorite song—and “Tougher Than The Rest.”]

Carter as born with spina bifida and recently suffered some complications. As a result, he was forced to spend more than two months in the hospital.

“Bruce Springsteen, that’s all he talks about actually. It was so overwhelming to him. He probably just couldn’t believe it,” Stephen Bernhard, Carter’s father, told FOX 25.

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oh my goodness.

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Robert DeNiro, Bruce Springsteen, and Barack Obama

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fuckyeahtheboss: AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — They call him The Boss for a reason. Showing there’s no need for a backing band to bring out his outsized charisma on stage, Bruce Springsteen took a rapt audience on a personal music history journey. He also gave young rockers insightful advice in an often hilarious tour-de-forcekeynote speech that was one of the most anticipated events at the South By Southwest Music Conference and Festival this year. “Good morning, good morning, good morning,” Springsteen said after taking the stage at 12:30 p.m. “Why are we up so (expletive) early. How important is this speech if we’re giving it at noon? Every musician in town is asleep, or they will be by the time I finish this speech.” The Boss on Thursday takes over Austin. Besides the speech, he’s putting on an exclusive show later in the evening. He got off to an often riotous start as he name-checked all the musicians that have inspired him over the years from Elvis to James Brown and Woody Guthrie to Johnny Rotten. He marveled at the unfathomable diversity at SXSW and led a sing-a-long of “This Land is Your Land.” About 1,000 SXSW attendees filled a ballroom in the Austin Convention Center for the 50-minute speech and NPR carried it live via Internet stream. Springsteen is hot with his new album, “Wrecking Ball,” debuting at No. 1 in 14 countries after its release last week and with a world tour scheduled. It’s the first step in his career without the late saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who died last year. Those musicians who managed to wake up and catch the speech got a lesson in how to approach your career and a long list of influences to check out. He marveled at the diversity in 21st century pop music, almost rapping a long list of genres that would have boggled the mind of that young boy in New Jersey in the 1960s who had just 10 years of rock ‘n’ roll history to draw his influences from. “Just add neo- and post- to everything and mention them all again. Oh, yeah,” he said as an afterthought, “and rock ‘n’ roll.” He talked about first seeing Elvis and his pelvis on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the exquisite agony of Roy Orbison, the way The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Animals set music free, and the rise of punk rock and soul music as forces of change in the 1970s. He related often hilarious and poignant personal stories about each along the way. Springsteen also talked about the profound importance of Guthrie and his personal idol Pete Seeger before leading the audience in a sing-a-long of a rare verse from “This Land is Your Land.” Though Springsteen talked of their significance both to him and American history, he stayed away from discussing the social concerns that fill his new album. In closing, he urged all “10,000 bands” in Austin to bring it hard every night. That, he said, is the key to success. “Here we are in this town, young and old, celebrating each perhaps in our own way a sense of freedom that was Woody’s legacy,” Springsteen said. “So rumble, young musicians, rumble. Open your ears and open your hearts. Don’t take yourself too seriously and take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have ironclad confidence, but doubt. It keeps you awake and alert. … And when you walk on stage tonight to bring the noise, treat it like it’s all we have. And then remember it’s only rock ‘n’ roll. I think I’m going to go out and catch a little black death metal.” Springsteen gives music history lesson at SXSW - Yahoo! News View high resolution

fuckyeahtheboss:

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — They call him The Boss for a reason.

Showing there’s no need for a backing band to bring out his outsized charisma on stage, Bruce Springsteen took a rapt audience on a personal music history journey. He also gave young rockers insightful advice in an often hilarious tour-de-forcekeynote speech that was one of the most anticipated events at the South By Southwest Music Conference and Festival this year.

“Good morning, good morning, good morning,” Springsteen said after taking the stage at 12:30 p.m. “Why are we up so (expletive) early. How important is this speech if we’re giving it at noon? Every musician in town is asleep, or they will be by the time I finish this speech.”

The Boss on Thursday takes over Austin. Besides the speech, he’s putting on an exclusive show later in the evening. He got off to an often riotous start as he name-checked all the musicians that have inspired him over the years from Elvis to James Brown and Woody Guthrie to Johnny Rotten. He marveled at the unfathomable diversity at SXSW and led a sing-a-long of “This Land is Your Land.”

About 1,000 SXSW attendees filled a ballroom in the Austin Convention Center for the 50-minute speech and NPR carried it live via Internet stream.

Springsteen is hot with his new album, “Wrecking Ball,” debuting at No. 1 in 14 countries after its release last week and with a world tour scheduled. It’s the first step in his career without the late saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who died last year.

Those musicians who managed to wake up and catch the speech got a lesson in how to approach your career and a long list of influences to check out.

He marveled at the diversity in 21st century pop music, almost rapping a long list of genres that would have boggled the mind of that young boy in New Jersey in the 1960s who had just 10 years of rock ‘n’ roll history to draw his influences from.

“Just add neo- and post- to everything and mention them all again. Oh, yeah,” he said as an afterthought, “and rock ‘n’ roll.”

He talked about first seeing Elvis and his pelvis on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the exquisite agony of Roy Orbison, the way The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Animals set music free, and the rise of punk rock and soul music as forces of change in the 1970s. He related often hilarious and poignant personal stories about each along the way.

Springsteen also talked about the profound importance of Guthrie and his personal idol Pete Seeger before leading the audience in a sing-a-long of a rare verse from “This Land is Your Land.” Though Springsteen talked of their significance both to him and American history, he stayed away from discussing the social concerns that fill his new album.

In closing, he urged all “10,000 bands” in Austin to bring it hard every night. That, he said, is the key to success.

“Here we are in this town, young and old, celebrating each perhaps in our own way a sense of freedom that was Woody’s legacy,” Springsteen said. “So rumble, young musicians, rumble. Open your ears and open your hearts. Don’t take yourself too seriously and take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have ironclad confidence, but doubt. It keeps you awake and alert. … And when you walk on stage tonight to bring the noise, treat it like it’s all we have. And then remember it’s only rock ‘n’ roll. I think I’m going to go out and catch a little black death metal.”

Springsteen gives music history lesson at SXSW - Yahoo! News

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buzzfeed: latenightjimmy: If you missed this epic performance of “E Street Shuffle” from Bruce, The E Street Band and The Roots, you HAVE to watch it here. (SPOILER ALERT: the studio audience joined Bruce on stage.) This was amazing. Bruce Springsteen is the best. View high resolution

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latenightjimmy:

If you missed this epic performance of “E Street Shuffle” from Bruce, The E Street Band and The Roots, you HAVE to watch it here. (SPOILER ALERT: the studio audience joined Bruce on stage.)

This was amazing. Bruce Springsteen is the best.

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Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born To Run’ revisited

Eric Meola has published a book of his snaps from his session for the cover of Bruce Springsteen’s 1976 album ‘Born To Run’. It’s called Born To Run Revisited and here are some selected highlights.

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“American Slang” (live at Asbury Park) - Gaslight Anthem & Bruce Springsteen

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Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) - Bruce Springsteen

I’m comin’ to liberate you, confiscate you, I want to be your man
Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny

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fuckyeahtheboss:

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - We Take Care Of Our Own

World premiere performance, Grammys 2012

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fuckyeahtheboss:

Bruce Springsteen - We Take Care Of Our Own (Official video via BruceSpringsteenVevo)

I kind of wish the video were angrier? Because the song is pretty angry.

I don’t know what’s up with the lyrics flashing onscreen, unless it’s to make superduper sure no Republican candidates try to co-opt it like they did with “Born in the USA,” where clearly no one had ever actually listened to the verses (idiots).

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The Vinyl Diaries: Bruce Springsteen, "Tunnel of Love" | by Rob Smith - Popdose

fuckyeahtheboss:

I was 17 the year Tunnel of Love was released; Bruce Springsteen was 38 and intent on ruminating, on taking stock, on running down a list of decisions and regrets, looking backward and around himself, because he was unable to see the way forward. I missed that then. To me, the album was just good; I simply didn’t know enough to recognize the pain and confusion that was quite real, quite apparent, had I known what to look for. Everything, it seems, was fair game, fodder for the music—his marriage, his sense of self-worth, his confidence in his ability to get even one thing right. What comes off the groove is not quite an emotional breakdown, but the tears are not far from the edge of his eyelids as he unloads some of the most trenchant, inward-looking lyrics he’d ever write, in a voice that is by turns soft/yearning and brash/cocky, set to music made almost entirely on his own. Tunnel of Love is an album-length meditation on the possibilities of love, as well as its limitations.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Tunnel of Love is one of those things that make more and more sense as you get older. Like mortgages or whiskey.

Read more of Rob Smith’s brilliant reappraisal of the album at Popdose.

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Heroes? I’d have to say Bruce Springsteen. Because to me, Bruce represents integrity and always staying true to yourself. I’ve created a couple of wrongs and I’ve always tried to go back [and fix them], and when I went back, I would say, “What would Bruce think?” - filmmaker Chris Columbus View high resolution

Heroes? I’d have to say Bruce Springsteen. Because to me, Bruce represents integrity and always staying true to yourself. I’ve created a couple of wrongs and I’ve always tried to go back [and fix them], and when I went back, I would say, “What would Bruce think?”

- filmmaker Chris Columbus

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