Bruce Springsteen

[Wooderson]

Reckon so yeah. I'll be giving Dublin the swerve. The 200 notes that day will cost me will take care of return flights and a hotel in a city with a half decent volume limit.

My ears were ringing after Limerick and Belfast. I had to wear earplugs at the last RDS show he did.

[The Nal]

My ears were ringing after Limerick and Belfast. I had to wear earplugs at the last RDS show he did.

Kilkenny wasn't anywhere near loud enough. Being able to hear people talk in the crowd over the band is bullshit.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

Outside stadium venues are just different degrees of shit sound. Might not be quite as bad at some - but it still doesnt compare to any decent indoor place. Even the big caverns like the o2 are better than Wembley etc.

Only way to get it without the echo is in the pit.

Might come back slightly later of course and play the arenas say September/ October. Whats the sound at the o2 in Dublin like? Sound at the old Point seemed alright to me the few times I was there.

[The Nal]

Might come back slightly later of course and play the arenas say September/ October. Whats the sound at the o2 in Dublin like?

Really nice and clean and shit. The old Point was filthy but the sound was great.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

Havent been to Wembley Arena in probably 20 years (that might have been Bruce as well) but the sound was bloody awful in those days at the back. Which was why I stopped going there. We werent in the pit at Wembley - it wasnt great further back in GA.
Sound at Hard Rock in Hyde Park in 2012 even before the great switch off fiasco was as bad as I've ever heard at an outdoor gig.

[Wooderson]

Think Kilkenny was done on the cheap Nal. Limerick and Belshaft both had central speaker towers.

Wembley Arena sound was ok(ish) when I was there. Hyde Park as bad as it gets. Don't think anything will beat the Tempodrome in Berlin for sound quality for me. Absolutely immaculate.

Thought Heaton Park last summer was really good in fairness. Weighty and crisp.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

And on a completely unconnected unnecessary and almost completely inappropriate twist. Warren Zevon - 10 years gone in a couple of weeks. Good article from Grauniad: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/01/warren-zevon-werewolves-of-london-demons

Edited August 15, 2013 by Ted Dansons Wig

[The Nal]

Bruce sounds like Dolly! Or Stevie Nicks.

Edited August 19, 2013 by The Nal

[The Nal]

ok... now we need to know if Dolly, slowed down, sounds like Bruce

Nah. Sounds like Merle Haggard or someone like that.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

too weird

Edited August 19, 2013 by Ted Dansons Wig

[The Nal]

Ballsy. Really ballsy.

Cover of a Victor Jara song who was kidnapped, beaten and killed in the 73 coup - a coup sponsored by the US government. This week is the 40th anniversary of the coup.

Edited September 13, 2013 by The Nal

[The Nal]

Its so good. You got a special gig there Tonyo.

Edited November 13, 2013 by The Nal

[zero000]

Great videos! Has anyone got the tracks boxset that has recently been re-released? It's about £20 on Amazon compared to the 90's version which was going for £100+ .

[The Nal]

"High Hopes" out January 13th.

1. High Hopes

2. Harry's Place

3. American Skin (41 Shots)

4. Just Like Fire Would

5. Down In The Hole

6. Heaven's Wall

7. Frankie Fell In Love

8. This Is Your Sword

9. Hunter Of Invisible Game

10. The Ghost of Tom Joad

11.The Wall

12. Dream Baby Dream

[The Nal]

a bit of 'Tracks' type mixed bag..?

Looks like it yeah. Tom Morello all over the album.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

Doesnt quite do it for me - but game try

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkQpxOs6K6w

[The Nal]

Anyone heard the new album? A very mixed bag. Interesting though.

[DomDom1984]

Much like on the last album, good to hear one of the live favourites on there. The version of The Ghost of Tom Joad is excellent too I reckon.

[sifi]

Down in the Hole?

As in the wire?

[Ted Dansons Wig]

Three or four good ones (and those the ones he's been doing for a while and have been available on bootlegs or YouTube) and a bunch of filler Gary US Bonds or Southside would have rejected a few years back. And over-wrought production to a ridiculous level. And Morello's wailing guitar all over it.

Meh...

[Ted Dansons Wig]

Down in the Hole?

As in the wire?

Dont think so. This ones kinda I'm on Fire with different lyrics

Edited January 6, 2014 by Ted Dansons Wig

[Ted Dansons Wig]

Setlist from Capetown:

Still doing Sunny Day...

[The Nal]

Setlist from Capetown:

Still doing Sunny Day...

Yeah average enough setlist alright.

[big joe]

Got a bit of time to kill so thought i'd have a go at a setlist i'd like to see. Not necessarily saying these are his best but here we go. He has tended to do 27-33 songs recently so it'll end up somewhere in there, encores after 20/21 songs.

Venue - Madison Square Garden

1- Devils & Dust - solo

2 - Adam Raised A Cain

3 - Youngstown

4 - Murder Incorporated

5 - We Take Care Of Our Own

6 - Shackled and Drawn

7 - Kittys Back

8 - Radio Nowhere

9 - Girls In Their Summer Clothes

10 - Atlantic City

11 - She's The One

12 - I'm Goin' Down

13 - Because The Night

14 - Fire

15 - War

16 - High Hopes

17 - Brilliant Disguise

18 - You're Missing

19 - The River

20 - Old Dan Tucker

21 - Glory Days

22 - Born To Run

Encore 1

23 - Land Of Hope And Dreams

24 - The Ghost Of Tom Joad

25 - Lonesome Day

26 - Seeds

27 - Badlands

28 - Darkness On The Edge Of Town

29 - Wild Billy's Circus Story

30 - Thunder Road

Encore 2

31 - New York City Serenade

32 - Born In The USA

Edited January 28, 2014 by big joe

[Wooderson]

"This Hard Land" to finish another show. I wouldve been levelled. Again.